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 […]
AN UPDATE WITH MECRO
Over the years Mecro has dominated the panels with his crispy clean beveled type and the work speaks for itself. Today we check out a variety of his work that not only includes just trains. If you say the words beveled letters along with trains, anyone who follows the freight train graffiti scene will most […]
SCENE REPORT: LOS ANGELES
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers. Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye delivers this week’s Los Angeles Scene Report featurin the work of Reck, Fobek, Hearse, Aidz, Hilo, Ozer, Yeahboi, Wolfe and more. […]
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 […]
A NON-SIGN BILLBOARD
Back in 2010, Seattle-based design studio, Lead Pencil Studio, installed a billboard on the US-Canada border in Washington “signifying no advertisement, no traditional information and no navigational direction.” Entitled ‘Non-Sign II,’ the installation is constructed from welded stainless steel rod and “invites contemplation on navigational direction and the prevelance of advertising while on the road.”