All Things Art & Photography
Reading like a 3-D map of Hannibal Lecter’s mind or possibly a allegory for the entire contemporary art world, David Altmejd creates a beautiful installation titled: The Flux and the Puddle at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. Having seen this show in person I can assure you that never has plexiglass been so interesting….
David Altmejd Juices at the Andrea Rosen Gallery
Exhibition: David Altmejd
Photo by Jim Henderson
The International Center of Photography will be closing its Midtown museum. Executive director Mark Lubell confirmed this to artnet News in a statement. Its lease with its landlord, the Durst Organization, is coming to an end in January 2015, and the center has not renegotiated a new lease. Currently the organization, which includes a photography museum, school, and research center, is on the lookout for a new space for its museum.At our request for an interview, Lubell issued the following statement.
“The International Center of Photography has been and continues to be at the center, both nationally and internationally, of the conversation regarding photography and the explosive growth of visual communications. In advancing this conversation, ICP has decided to move its current museum to a new space. This decision reflects the evolution of photography and our role in setting the agenda for visual communications for the 21st century. ICP will announce our future sites this spring. The school will remain at 1114 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.”
The museum, which was founded in 1974, has been at its Midtown location, in the ground floor retail space, since the 1980s. According to Jordan Barowitz, director of external affairs for the Durst Organization, the ICP has been a tenant of the Durst Organization since 1968 when the ICP was known by its earlier name, the International Fund for Concerned Photography. The sum that the ICP pays, he said, is and always has been nominal during the time of institution’s tenancy with Durst. “They only pay operating expenses and don’t pay rent,” Barowitz said, though he refused to go into detail about the terms of the ICP’s current lease.
via International Center of Photography Set To Close Its Midtown Museum – artnet News.
International Center of Photography Will Close 2015
Both Chuck Close and Kiki Smith are making tapestries with the help of Magnolia Editions. While Close’s look mostly like pixelated, textured photographs, Kiki Smith’s “wall rugs” are really incredible. Below are three from 2012 as well as one I captured from the 2014 Pace show here.
via http://blog.magnoliaeditions.com/2012/08/press-release-kiki-smith-tapestries.html
Magnolia Editions Tapestries
Adam Magyar is a brilliant Hungarian photographer who spends his days thinking about visualizing time. He has designed his own scanning cameras as well as working with different ways to capture time and motion with high speed video. He is the Muybridge of our time.
Detail #323 ( 1 minute 55 seconds )
Installation view: http://www.lightwork.org/archive/adam-magyar-kontinuum/
Very interesting talk on his work via poptech.org
Nice article on him here: https://medium.com/p/88aa8a185898
The Photographic Works of Adam Magyar
Exhibition: Kiki Smith at Pace Gallery NYC
Maybe one of the most beautiful and moving art exhibitions I have seen in years… Kiki Smith’s exhibition titled Wonder is indeed just that. Mixing sculpture, tapestry & paintings on handmade glass this installation is really a grand summation of her work and breathtakingly beautiful. Just go…
Kiki Smith
Wonder
Feb 28, 2014 – Mar 29, 2014 @ Pace New York
New York – Pace Gallery is pleased to present Kiki Smith: Wonder, a major exhibition that presents the artist’s investigation of the natural and spiritual worlds through works made of aluminum, bronze, fine silver, textile, stained and hand-blown antique glass, and paint. On view at 510 West 25th Street from February 28 through March 29, 2014, Kiki Smith: Wonder is the artist’s first major New York gallery show in four years and marks the 20th anniversary of the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery.
In a series of works from 2011 to 2014, Smith again explores the rich terrain of expressions of human and animal forms as well as celestial bodies and nature. Decay, rebirth, and eternal cycles of the seasons, nature, and eclipses recur throughout Kiki Smith: Wonder in works that illustrate Smith’s ability to move fluidly between materials with vastly different characteristics and properties.
Among the works in the exhibition are a series of sculptures, up to 13-feet across, of hoarfrost, the cyclically recurring crystallization of water vapor. Where artists for decades have rendered depictions of hoarfrost as decorations of landscape, Smith makes the ephemeral phenomenon the subject of works themselves. Fabricated from fine silver or stainless steel, the interlocking two-dimensional panels are arranged in seemingly random formations and reflect on the passage of winter to spring.
Smith’s current glassworks are seen in several major pieces that extend up to 16 feet across: Prelude, of felled trees, Raptor I and Raptor II, of birds in flight, and Rogue Stars, a series of eight stars made of opal white and antique glass. Although Smith has worked with glass for 20 years, she has refocused on the medium though recent public commissions, including her Art Production Fund installation of 2012, Kiki Smith’s Chorus, and the 16-foot East Window for the Museum at Eldridge Street / Eldridge Street Synagogue, both in New York and from 2012
Exhibition: Kiki Smith at Pace Gallery NYC