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Ray K. Metzker 1931- 2014

October 13, 2014 — Leave a comment

The passing of one of the great photographic visual intellects who influenced a generation (and will continue to do so). As a Philadelphia local and international star Ray will be missed by so many.

He once said his goal was “a unique way of seeing,” one in which “new eyes replaced the old.” Ray did this repeatedly over the course of his long and amazing career. No one on the planet has the photographic visual acuity of Ray Metzker. He is completely unique in this respect. This is why so many of his works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (not to mention at least 20 other Museums). In the history of photography he will always remain a singular artist that truly did invent a new way of seeing.

Rest in Peace Ray. Job well done!

(Nice piece today remembering him in the NY Times here).

Ray K. Metzker 1931- 2014

In Art, Photography Art, Photography

The Work of Do Ho Suh

October 6, 2014 — Leave a comment

In Art School they told us to either make the extraordinary ordinary or make the ordinary extraordinary. I will leave you to figure out what Do Ho Suh is up to with these miraculous and luminous objects and environments.

Specimen Series: Stove, 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013 polyester fabric 73.66 x 36.22 x 34.8 inches 187.1 x 92 x 88.4 cm Edition of 3

Specimen Series: Radiator, 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013
polyester fabric
73.66 x 36.22 x 34.8 inches
187.1 x 92 x 88.4 cm
Edition of 3

Specimen Series: Stove, 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013 polyester fabric 73.66 x 36.22 x 34.8 inches 187.1 x 92 x 88.4 cm

Seoul Home/Seoul Home/Kanazawa Home, 2012
silk, metal armature
573.62 x 282.28 x 153.94 inches
1457 x 717 x 391 cm
Edition of 3

Wielandstr.
18, 12159 Berlin, 2011
polyester fabric
138.58 x 82.68 x 258.27 inches
352 x 210 x 656 cm
Edition of 3

All Photos via http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/do-ho-suh

The Work of Do Ho Suh

In Art, Exhibitions Art, Fabric, Sculpture

The Art of Samantha Thomas

September 6, 2014 — Leave a comment

Once upon a time in the art world if you started your career selling your work at a home furnishing chain store it might have been a career killer. In the past year Restoration Hardware has opened an Art Gallery in Manhattan showcasing a large stable of artists. One of them, Samantha Thomas, is doing work far beyond her years and really reminds me of some of the works by the late, great artist Antoni Tapies ( see image below).

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OCRE I NEGRE AMB TELA ENCOLADA (OCHRE AND BLACK WITH PASTED ON CLOTH) by ANTONI TÀPIES (B. 1923). Image via Christies

Samantha Thomas has a more intimate relationship to fabric when sculpting it into bold, undulating abstract works that deftly and powerfully intersect the worlds of painting and sculpture in a series she calls: Landscapification. If she keeps up this type of amazing output my bet is she will not be at RH much longer…

All images via RH Contemporary

The Art of Samantha Thomas

In Art Art, Painting, Sculpture

The Final Art Work of Sigmar Polke

August 7, 2014 — Leave a comment

With his beautiful, crazy, confusing, monumental and must see retrospective winding down at MOMA I could not help thinking about the final project Sigmar Polke spent the most time on. Forget that everyone has found it impossible to decode his enormously confusing body of work (see review links below). It turns out Polke use to be a stained glass artist and he spent the last 3 years of his life designing stained glass windows for the Grossmünster Church in Zurich using a variety of techniques including thinly sliced geodes. Much like the MOMA retrospective that Peter Schjeldahl calls, “the most dramatic (and important) museum show of the century to date”, the final stained glass works are a wonder.