THOMAS KELLNER’S MOSAIC-LIKE PHOTOMONTAGES
German artist Thomas Kellner’s photomontages are created by taking a series of pictures with a film camera step-by-step and layer-by-layer so that the final result is a de-constructed mosaic of a distorted building.
Fit for the Future: The 2016 Eyeo Festival
At a time when employers incentivize workers to don wearable health trackers, artists Tega Brain and Surya Mattu offer a solution:Unfit Bits, household objects, from drills to metronomes, retrofitted to fool a Fitbit into thinking you’ve completed a triathlon. “Does your lifestyle prevent you from qualifying for insurance discounts?” asks the narrator of the infomercial […]
SUPERCHIEF GALLERY SOHO
“The edge of the world has never been more everywhere,” states Superchief Gallery Soho of the widening eye cast upon the world by the photographic mind. In the first in a series of annual exhibitions, Superchief is proud to present their vision of the most influential contemporary photographers coming into the field today. ‘We welcome this further […]
A Dialogue with Nature: Dennis Oppenheim at Storm King
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for artists, and landscape remains a favored subject for many. In the late 1960s, a group of artists, including Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria,Michael Heizer, and Dennis Oppenheim, among others, came up with the revolutionary idea to consider land itself as a medium, inherently laden as it […]
Iran Art Festival First Call For Summer
Iran Art Festival First Call For Summer The first event of Iran Art Festival with the aim of introducing artistic elite to art communities inside and abroad officially began its work during a ceremony to announce the call for summer courses. In the first call the Festival is gathering artworks in painting and photography, and […]
YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK
Fresh on the heels and current run of KAWS’s beautiful show, Yorkshire Sculpture Park just opened another stunning show by Not Vital, the first major UK show of the Swiss and China and Rio de Janeiro and Niger-based artist.
NEON SCULPTURES BY MERYL PATAKY
Meryl Pataky is an alchemist of many mediums; she applies her passion for bending neon to an ever-progressive range of materials to create sculptures that relate to her concept of universal connectedness. From silver and copper to neon, iron and carbon, Meryl’s work utilizes its own materiality to make a statement about the material of […]
Art in the Mountains – “Premier Destination Workshops!” Since 1983
Art in the Mountains has 10-15 fine art painting classes each year, including studio and plein air classes. Our instructors are internationally known and published artists who enjoy sharing their knowledge and techniques in their workshops. We offer instruction in most media and genres. Art workshops include daily demonstrations, unique curriculum and one-on-one support. Class sizes […]
Tala Madani at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Painter Tala Madani’s show in St. Louis provided a concise primer on her work, featuring her hallmark subject: men, nude or almost so, perhaps Middle Eastern and probably middle-aged, in situations both abject and humorous. The small exhibition drew from a single body of work by the Iranian-born artist, one depicting individual protagonists against black […]
Arab Art in Tehran
A major fault line hugs the coast of the Persian Gulf, where the Arabian plate grinds up against Eurasia. The historic rivalry between Iran and the Arab nations across the Gulf underwrites today’s increasingly tense jostling for territory, religious influence, and geopolitical dominance. New fissures have emerged in the proxy wars currently playing out in […]