10 PAINTINGS @ CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE
The artist’s wide-ranging iconography samples genres ranging from 11th-century Chinese landscape painting to Cubism, and draws on sources both high tech and mundane: spam emails, emoji, internet memes, newspaper classified ads, her own photographs, coloring book illustrations, fantasy environments, vintage embroidery patterns, and a host of whimsical plant and animal motifs. Owens has also appropriated […]
“MOUNTAIN FULL” BY ANDREW HEM
Hem elaborates, “I love creating worlds that do not exist. A world where people don’t care about others’ appearance, and nobody has to worry about fitting in or being an outcast. Where everyone is accepted. No necks, long arms, no nose, blue faces are all normal. This is a world that doesn’t exist, and that’s […]
The Wisdom of the Aging Brain
at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival premiere of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, director Woody Allen was asked about aging. He replied with his characteristic, straight-faced pessimism. “I find it a lousy deal. There is no advantage in getting older. I’m 74 now. You don’t get smarter, you don’t get wiser … Your […]
CUBAN ROOTS OF WIRE AND PAPER
Born in 1962 in La Havana, Jorge Mayet is a Cuban expatriate artist living and working in Mallorca, Spain. He says, “I recreate with wires, paper, and other elements my own landscapes which at the same time form part of my culture, my roots, and the identity of my town” From his website: Devoided of […]
HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY
We are always excited to see new works from Gregory Euclide and his unique installation meets sculpture meets painting style. And it gets us thinking about when the next Bon Iver album is going to drop. Greg (can we call you Greg?) has built this work in the heels ofthe artist’s recent exhibit at the […]
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
Inspiring this renovation is the gift of 260 works from the art compilation of Doris and Donald Fisher, who started buying prints and continued to collect seminal pieces of abstract art, as well as Pop, Minimal, Figurative, postwar German and British sculpture. Alexander Calder’s Motion Lab will transport visitors, opening along with the Campaign for […]
PHOTOGRAPHER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The exhibition features 99 photographs made from the 1960s until the present. This is the first exhibition in the United States since 1995 to feature Jäger’s work and the first retrospective of the photographer outside of Europe. Since the beginning of the 60s, Jäger has been investigating topics at the heart of a worldwide resurgence […]
DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES BY THOMAS CIAN
We always enjoy the graphite drawings and sketchbooks of Milan-based Thomas Cian. His more recent work has a translucent, double-exposure effect. Find more of his work here.
DIRTY DIRTY LOVE AND THIS HOUSE OF GLASS
Evolving from the photo-journalistic sensibilities of Dirty Dirty Love, his more recent series, This House of Glass, is an intimate exploration of what we keep hidden from others – and in many cases, what we hide from ourselves. Working with volunteers, I interviewed each model about the relationship between their public lives and personal history; specifically […]
“THE ROBOT SERIES” BY THOMAS JACKSON
Jackson writes: “In this series of photographs, I’ve combined elements of science fiction literature and film with storytelling motifs from Medieval tapestries and altarpieces to create a darkly humorous narrative about a lone robot’s failure to co-exist with the natural world. Against that backdrop, the work explores the uneasy, opposing emotions Mother Nature provokes in […]
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘The Supper at Emmaus’, 1601
Caravaggio’s painting depicts the moment of that recognition – the two disciples are the men on either side of the table. The artist demonstrates that it is through their faith that they recognise Christ. The confused innkeeper standing behind them, in contrast, has failed to recognise Christ because he does not have faith. Although his […]
DANIEL MUÑOZ “TRENCHES AND OTHER CONTRACEPTIVES”
One of the most talented and interesting contemporary Spanish artists, Daniel Muñoz, also known as “SAN,” excels in fine art and illustration as well as a muralist and street artist. Earlier this year, Muñoz completed an expansive illustration on the floor of an exhibition space at CEART in Madrid. Based on personal experiences and memories, the images form a […]
SELFISH
SELFISH is a multi-medium group exhibition that focuses on the existential significance of self-portraiture and the role it plays in an artist’s creative process. Self-portraiture is sometimes viewed as a casually vainglorious practice⎯the conceptual stroking of the artist’s ego, a pretentious selfie. This couldn’t be any more further from the truth. The self-portrait is a […]
NICK GEORGIOU
He installs his work in the urban environment—currently Tucson, though Georgiou hails from New York. Georgiou’s materials are all found and re-used. He relies on newspapers he finds on the street and discarded books. His work, he says, is a “comment on the regeneration of the printed word in contemporary society.”
BALLOON ANIMA
Jason Freeny has wowed us before with his toy series articulating the anatomical insides of Micky, Hello Kitty, Yoshi and other beloved cartoons. Now he’s taken on a balloon animals, creating transparent plastic shells that mimic the sausage-like shapes of a twisted (no pun intended) dog. He’s also created an aesthetically similar take on a […]
