art show at north hollywood

artist spotlight #13

NINA LINDGREN

is one of those lovely inspirational finds the internet waves my way...

CARDBOARD SCULPTURE_exhibition

Floating City

Cardboard Heaven

artist spotlight #12

Olafur Eliasson

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YOUR HOUSE 

is-

-a slow materialization of walking through a building

-a book of space, dimension & materiality

-a documentation of the physical world while also

a disorienting illusion of the inhabitable home

artist spotlight #11 / space in stone

Mathew Simmonds

"...the sculptures give the viewer a different perspective on space.

...you long to be in them,

and they seem almost more meaningful for that..."-Merete Prydes Helle.

artist spotlight #10

Daisuke Ueno

"The day became white and everything in the town separated. Houses sailed off like ships onto unknown seas. The people had new hope to discover freedom on their voyage.?" 
images from Mark Moore Gallery, 2005

ship in the air 01, 2005

ship in the air 02, 2005

ship in the air 34, 2005

Frame 35, 2005

artist spotlight # 5-9

the work I selected reflects some of the themes I am interested in exploring this semester: 

Space making; the drama between man & nature, specifically the decay or loss of life; and the overlaying of old systems with new ones. 

#5

Auguries, 2010

Julie Mehretu (b. 1970-)

Ethiopia

-Mark making becomes a tectonic system for space making: heavy marks & thin lines work as layers to envelop a kinetic composition, and a sense of flow in space. the composition is like controlled chaos- a melange of various energies overlaying each other creating a complex kaleidoscope of architecture, space and time. 

#6

Barn with Crucifix, 1912

Gustav Klimt (b. 1862-1918)

Austria

-Space is defined by a cacophony of color. The colors texture wistfully hints of a sacred artifact who does not fight for light or attention, but rather accepts the embrace of nature while still peaking through - as if to say, " I'm still here, but not for long, you might find me in another time..." 

#7

Sea of Ice/the Wreck of Hope, 1824

Caspar David Friedrich (b.1774-1840)

Deutschland

-a dynamic relationship between architecture and landscape, man versus nature. Of fearsome monumentality, the triangular composition displays no sign of life-only the aftermath of a shipwreck who dramatically died into ice.

#8

Great Life, 2002

Matthew Ritchie (b. 1964-)

USA, british decent

-pulling from a variety of sources, the artist yields a new universe before us: weaving mythology, religion, physics, linguistics, biology and architecture, the painting integrates, assimilates and then proliferates new forms over old ones. 

#9

Artificial Wonderland, 2010

Yang Yongliang (b. 1980-)

China

-intricate Chinese inspired landscapes actually render modern cityscapes with a hint of dystopia and a dash of apocalypse. What seems beautiful from afar transforms upon attention to detail / new techniques playing with old art forms.

artist spotlight #4

Hans-Christian Schink
precision exposure, negative + light space


overcast skies, polarized rays, hover in my direction

artist spotlight #3

Ricky Allman
mormon architecture +geographic tectonics


rendering landforms into apocalyptic geometries / graphic surreal

artist spotlight #2

Philip Govedare
landscape paintings

constructed/ altered conditions - carving ownership of natural spaces

artist spotlight #1

Laurie Frick: 
experiments in self tracking**

transcribes human data as patterns / collected sensor data:
Installation: " Walking, Eating, Sleeping" at Oklahoma Contemporary

Silent City

Yang Yongliang

...work that appears to be Chinese Landscape

but is in fact an industrialised megalopolis

/ digitally modified infrastructure / 

/density-calamity/

underground berlin

Lebbeus Woods

Werner Knaupp

"Natur ohne menschliches Maß"

Points of Contention

artist : Jonathan Latiano

check it out

GIOBERTO NORO

temporal dimension / a mysterious past

memory activation: ambiguous / enigmatic

an interplay between:  mass + void