Tuesday, July 6, 2010

New York - Day 1


Who goes to New York when its 100 degrees? That would be me, my friends. For the next ten days I'll be chronicling a few adventures.

Day One: Museum of Arts + Design's Dead or Alive. The exhibition "showcases
the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures."

My favorite works were Fragile Future by studioDRIFT, an installation constructed of diaphanous dandelion puffs gingerly glued onto lightbulbs, and Flock by new art crush
Susie MacMurray, a room wrapped entirely in black coque feathers.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Yuval Pudik


Victoriana + machine guns in a mash up and exquisitely rendered in graphite = insta-crush. I was smitten with Yuval Pudik's violent loveliness in Coup D'Etat, naturally, standing amongst their baroque rot and scary rusted things. This series, "Enduring Patiently," is represented by the Jessica Silverman Gallery.