Exhibits We Love :: Yuri Shimojo, Edifice Cache
This is the final week of the evolving Edifice Cache exhibit featuring Yuri Shimojo, one of our favorite artists & friends at the Morono Kiang Gallery. While Yuri has been working non-stop on her pieces this week, we have been busy editing a short profile we shot with her a few months ago. We are very pleased to share her many talents, inspiration and fascinating life story with you, so look out for it in the next few days.
Last week, artist Favianna Rodriguez added her beautiful and colorful pieces, which was documented in the time lapse below. We will definitely be there to witness the culmination of this month-long show. Join us if you can! – Moni Vargas
Time Lapses We Love :: Blaine Fontana & Zach Johnsen
Thankfully live painting has been making it’s way into more and more venues over the past decade. I’ve always been so inspired by an artist in the process of creation. Observing their set-up, their approach, their timing, etc.
Events We Love :: Art Barter New York
As both an artist and occasional buyer, I get excited at new possibilities to alternate the norms on how art is made, and especially sold. Art Barter New York, sounds like a step in the right direction where the buyer can create a unique desire in the artist in order to be chosen. If you’re out and about in the Lower East Side, go check it out…
Xiaoqing Ding :: Off the Hook
We visit Brooklyn-based artist Xiaoqing Ding in her studio. While preparing for her solo exhibition At the End of a Rainbow, the artist discusses works in this show as being her first foray into the medium of oils and the Chinese symbology of foxes, a featured motif in her new series of paintings.
Videos We Love :: Mochilla’s Roc Raida Tribute
A heartfelt beautifully crafted tribute to a true pioneer of hip-hop culture, ROC RAIDA, by the good folks at MOCHILLA.. Interviews with fellow turntablists from the Beat Junkies + The Executioners round out the portrait of a extremely focused artist who passed way too soon. Tear jerker alert: At the tribute Roc’s daughter, NyRaida gets on the 1′s + 2′s and picks up Daddy’s torch and “rocks the bells”. What a freaking beautiful moment! Her smile is worth a thousand scratches… ROC RAIDA FOREVER!
Exhibits We Love :: Aakash Nihalani @ Bose Pacia
Our talented friend Aakash Nihalani is exhibiting new works at Brooklyn’s Bose Pacia gallery with an opening reception on Thursday, November 4, 2010. This show will include many facets of his conceptual geometric expression – sculpture, photography, tape installation, painting and interactive digital imagery. Although he was initially known for his public works around NYC, in the last couple of years Aakash has transformed and transgressed the limits of “street art” into a solid exploration of his themes within a gallery setting while retaining the vibrant energy and playfulness of his earlier works. – Moni Pineda
Installations We Love :: Enigmatica by Kit Webster
To embrace the current 3D craze sweeping the nation I thought it would be fitting to feature an artist whose work bridges the gap between digital and analog worlds.
I was first introduced to the mind-blowing digital sculptures of Australian multimedia artist Kit Webster through a video of his first installation, DATAFLUX. The piece consisted of sound activated squares of light mapped onto 7 pillars. Enigmatica is the next iteration of this piece.
Kit Websters description of the installation: “Enigmatica acts as an experimental platform for the combination of light, sound, and space.
A series of suspended frames diminish in size down the length of the gallery acting as a canvas for the display of surface specific projected visual sequences.
Within this constructed inter-dimensionality and through the development of abstract visual and sonic sequences I aim to juxtapose expression with conformity, whilst demonstrating the potential for new forms of digital sculpture.”
More of his work can be found at http://kitwebster.com.au/. Definitely check out his TEXTAVISION piece.
-Phillip Allen
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