Posts tagged Art
Terrace Bar Seating pods
Mar 10th
I’m lovvving these Terrace Bar Seating pods by Sekhar Roy, a student at the Florence Design Academy.
The swooping arm holds interchangeable light fixtures, and while there’s a chance someone sitting near the center might bump their head on the arm, I’d be willing to watch my guests do that time and again just so I could have this thing in my house.
Santa’s Little Helper – Paul McCarthy
Sep 26th
Over the past four decades, Paul McCarthy’s work has gone from intimate performance videos to spectacular public sculptures — all without sacrificing its unnerving psychosexual tone. While the artist’s recent show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York surprised many with its unornamented structuralism, its restraint was comically upstaged by the unmooring of his giant inflatable dog turd at Switzerland’s Zentrum Paul Klee, which left a trail of downed power lines in its wake. It was as if McCarthy’s art had unleashed on the Swiss countryside the cartoonish extravagance that had been put on the back burner for the Whitney.
Not that McCarthy hasn’t paid tribute to the twisted pop-mythological deities of the American psyche. “I’m interested in caricatures — from Miss Piggy to Popeye to Santa Claus — that are cultural fabrications,” observes the 63-year-old artist from his LA home. “Santa is one that I’ve hung on to longer, that I repeat more. There’s the whole thing of Christmas and consumption and commodity, and its relationship to capitalism and Western culture and Americana. The character itself is this roly-poly patriarch with a beard — almost a godlike figure.” In fact, he notes, one of his earliest childhood drawings is of Santa Claus.
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Sep 25th
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Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark by Dadara & Jesse
Aug 26th
Dadara and Jesse are a veejaying duo from Amsterdam, who together made the movie “Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark”.
The movie is the partially-animated story of the Greymen and their battle against the Fools Ark, a 15 metres long wooden ship built in Holland , transported to the States and burnt in the Nevada desert. Footage from the construction of Dadara’s Fool’s Ark at Burning Man is intertwined into an audio-visual journey through forgotten worlds to tell the tale behind the project. This journey is guided by the music from Lamb.
Dadara is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and installation artist from Amsterdam, who regularely exhibits at the Reflex Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam. He established himself designing flyers, doing live paintings and recordsleeves for the emerging housescene beginning of the nineties. Other projects include the 8 metres high Greyman Statue of No Liberty, baby shaped loudspeakers for B&W, and campaigns for Greenpeace and Absolut Vodka.
Jesse Limmen is an animator, graphics artist, woodcarver and cameraman also from Amsterdam. Limmen started out in commercial business designing websites, but quickly burned out of the corporate world, and moved on to make animations and free work. He has produced large animation projects for national TV, as well as and live concerts. Next to commercial work, woodcarving is one of his strong points.
Luke Chueh
Aug 26th
Born in Philadelphia, but raised in Fresno, Luke Chueh (pronounced CHU) studied graphic design at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obipso where he earned a BS in Art & Design (Graphic Design concentration).
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Jim Horwat is a pop artist
Aug 15th
Jim Horwat is a pop artist with an affinity for line. His artwork is filled with both complex details as well as a fresh sense of humor. He derives his inspiration from the juxtapositions found within the world around him. Influenced by the style and design of 80s toys and video games from his childhood as well as the gritty urban scenes of his life in Philadelphia; his artwork often exposes the lighter side of everyday reality. Jim embarked on two cross-country tours with the non-profit Big Art Show – a life changing experience where art was shown and exchanged freely without restraint. More >