Tag Archives: Artists

Interior Design: 3 Artists Remodel A New York Cafe

Architectural Digest (October 31, 2023) – We gave interior designers Laura Hodges, Patrick Mele, and Xavier Donnelly a photo of the same empty NYC cafe—then asked each of them to transform the space in their particular style, however they pleased with no restrictions.

Video timeline: 00:00 Meet the Designers 01:04 The Plan 01:55 Flooring 03:20 Walls 05:50 Ceiling 06:31 Windows 08:21 Furniture & Fixtures 12:27 Lighting 13:59 Decor 15:56 Final Thoughts 16:46 Reveal

Three artists, one canvas, each bringing something different to the space. Which coffee shop do you see yourself cozying up in with a hot drink this fall?

The Arts: The ‘Etchings’ Of A Master Printer (MoMA)

The Museum of Modern Art (October 17, 2023) – What makes a 500-year-old printing process new? Master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has brought etchings—prints created by transferring ink from a metal plate to paper—into the 21st century through collaborations with more than 60 contemporary artists. In this video, we filmed Samuel making his last print.

As he inks, hand wipes, and rolls his final print through the press, he reflects on his philosophy. “My goal is to leave no fingerprints,” he says. All you see is the artist’s work. I’m just another pencil. I’m just another brush. But I want the pencil to be sharpened really well. I want the brush to be sable. And to do that and be completely spontaneous, I trust the materials.”

Views: ‘Midnight Movers’ – French-American Painter Jules De Balincourt’s Art

Pace Gallery (September 14, 2023) – From his studio in Brooklyn, New York, Jules de Balincourt discusses his new suite of paintings on view as part of “Midnight Movers,” his debut exhibition with our gallery in New York and his first solo show in the city in a decade.

Working spontaneously, de Balincourt develops his expressive paintings through an improvisational approach that borders on abstraction. In this new interview, the artist dissects his process and the ways that he explores the natural world, globalization, technology, and psychology in his works.

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Art Profiles: California Painter Jodi Bonassi’s “Spectacular” Bird Series

ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILM (September 3, 2023) – Jodi Bonassi is a Los Angeles native and a professional artist who for over 3 decades has explored nature and the environment. The works often include animals so the transition to the bird series was a smooth one. 

The Museum of Modern Art and HIstory in the MOAH Cedar Annex gave her a solo exhibit “Bird By Bird”  in February 2022. The birds have led to many other exhibition opportunities. 

“I think of myself as a drawing informed painter.  This means that I mainly draw my images  beforehand and during the painting process.  My desire to contribute to society on a deeper level  drives me in the nature series to create narrative stories around my birds.  I wish to connect humans to nature and to each other.  Even in nature I desire to record history and people and how we all connect to nature.  It is important to preserve our wildlife  and question the environment that humans create.”

Jodi Bonassi: ‘Bird Series 2019 – 2023’ 

Profiles: Japanese Painter Setsuko – “Into Nature” Exhibition In Switzerland

Gagosian Gallery Films (September 1, 2023) Into Nature is an exhibition of new and recent ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by Setsuko at the gallery in Gstaad.

Setsuko: Into Nature at Gagosian

SETSUKO – Into Nature

July 1–September 10, 2023
Gstaad

Setsuko: Into Nature, Gstaad, July 1–September 10, 2023 | Gagosian

Since 1977, Setsuko has resided in the Grand Chalet of Rossinière, close to Gstaad, making this an opportunity for her to exhibit within reach of her Swiss home. Into Nature furthers the bodies of work presented in Into the Trees, Setsuko’s debut exhibition at Gagosian Paris in 2019, and Into the Trees II, a solo presentation at Gagosian Rome in 2022.

On view in Gstaad are new ceramic sculptures, produced at Astier de Villatte’s Paris workshop and made of terra-cotta glazed in white enamel. Setsuko’s renderings of trees, with their delicately modeled representations of acorns, blooms, foliage, and fruit, emphasize the rooted solidity of their trunks to convey lasting strength and emergent growth. Reminiscent of Japanese ceramics dating back to the age of Jōmon earthenware (c. 10,500–300 BCE), these works also refer to the animistic Japanese religion Shintō, to which trees are of central symbolic importance.

Art Books: ‘Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now’

Forthcoming: Latin American Artists – Ellen Mara De Wachter

The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America

BOOK: Latin American Artists:From 1785 to Now, Phaidon Publications –  dreamideamachine ART VIEW

Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area’s extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made.

BOOK: Latin American Artists:From 1785 to Now, Phaidon Publications –  dreamideamachine ART VIEW

Artists featured include: Allora and Calzadilla, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Francis Alÿs, Olga de Amaral, Fernando Botero, Leonora Carrington, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leonor Fini, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Carmen Herrera, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Jaar, Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Teresa Margolles, Marisol, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Zilia Sánchez, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cecilia Vicuña, Adrián Villar Rojas and Faith Wilding.

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Exhibitions: Artist Frida Kahlo In South Australia

ABC News In-depth (August 17, 2023) – She’s one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, known for her colourful self-portraits. But what else do you know about Frida Kahlo? We visit an exhibition to find out more about her artwork and learn about her interesting life.

Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution

THE ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

24 Jun – 17 Sep 2023

Art Gallery of SA exhibition to explore the enduring allure of Frida Kahlo  - InReview

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colors. She is celebrated in Mexico for her attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and by feminists for her depiction of the female experience and form.

2023 Exhibitions: ‘Banksy – Cut & Run’ In Glasgow

CBS Sunday Morning (August 13, 2023) – Putting together the first authorized exhibition in 14 years of works by the anonymous street artist Banksy required extensive planning and a cover story to hide its true identity until it opened, unannounced, in Glasgow this summer.

Photo Credit Banksy

The show will feature work from across his career titled CUT & RUN: 25 years card labour! Stencils from 2008 until 2023 are on display at this historic event.

Correspondent Seth Doane explores the art and the mysteries of Banksy’s world, including the continued speculation about the artist’s true identity, a closely-held secret for decades.

Artist Profiles: American Painter Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes was born 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Shara Hughes, Hard Hats, 2021
Shara Hughes – Hard Hats – 2021

She describes her lush, vibrantly chromatic images of hills, rivers, trees and shorelines, often framed by abstract patterning, as “invented landscapes.” Full of gestural effect, surface tactility and possessing a fairytale mood of reverie, these paintings, as the New Yorker described them, “use every trick in the book to seduce, but still manage to come off as guileless visions of not-so-far-away worlds.”

Shara Hughes, Soft and Strong, 2021
Shara Hughes – Soft and Strong – 2021

Bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives manifest into dream-like landscapes that push and pull the eye across the canvas, challenging conventions of space. Rather than depicting true to life landscapes, Hughes invites us into a fantastical world offered as a portal for psychological discovery and reflection.

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