Ninja November 11th, 2009
Airan Kang’s installation, 109 Lighting Books, was part of the recent Textual Landscapes group exhibition at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.
The colorful, glowing books were made from fiber optics encased in plastic and represent the writers that have influenced Kang.
Ninja October 7th, 2009
Martin Soby brings color and life to the typically unnoticed, little nooks and cracks of NYC with his unique brand of street art. You can see more of his installations here.
Via Good
Related postsNinja June 3rd, 2009
Following a successful exhibition at Shepard Fairey’s LA Subliminal Gallery, House Industries’ Letters & Ligatures returns to the East Coast. Hosted by 222gallery in Philadelphia, Letters & Ligatures features the type foundry’s prints, patterns, installations and sculptures. The Letters & Ligatures show opens this Friday, June 5 and runs through July 31, 2009.
When
Opening reception: Friday June 5, 6-9 PM
Letters & Ligatures runs through July 31, 2009
Where
222gallery
222 Vine Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
open Mon – Fri, 9-6p
or by appointment
All photos by House Industries
Related postsNinja May 20th, 2009
Language comes to life in Ebon Heath’s beautiful, kinetic typographic ballet, Stereo.type.
Heath’s intricately hand-cut mobile sculptures (the more recent pieces are laser-cut) feature Tupac and Rakim lyrics, Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, advertising slogans, and religious texts. His cascading tyvec and bristol letters are strung on fine wire and dance in the air. Heath cites Alexander Calder as a strong influence on his work.
Brooklyn-based Ebon Heath is an artist, graphic designer, and a Professor in graphic design at Lehman College (he holds a bachelor’s degree from RISD). He is also the co-founder and partner of Cell Out.
Ninja May 12th, 2009
Last month, UK artist, HUSH, painted this mural for his recent solo exhibition, Hymn To Beauty, at Carmichael Gallery!
Hush is stimulated, influenced and driven by his cross cultural experiences. Having trained as a graphic designer and illustrator at Newcastle School of Art and Design, his work has taken him across Asia and Europe, whilst simultaneously developing his prominence as a contemporary artist. His fascination with Asian graphic novels is juxtaposed with inspiration from the likes of Mimmo Rotella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Sir Peter Blake, creating a unique style that has led to worldwide acclamation.
Here are some pieces from his show, Hymn To Beauty.
Ninja February 26th, 2009
It seems that I’ve got a thing for crayons this week.
More than just pixel art with haunting stares, Christian Faur’s crayon installations have everything to do with codes and sequence. He went as far as developing a color alphabet system where each letter of the alphabet corresponds with a specific color. Hidden in Christian’s Forgotten Children series are hundreds of children’s names in each panel.
Taking a cue from Phoenicians, what I have done is to map a subset 26 distinct colors to a standardized set of signs (English alphabet or graphemes) that will allow me to construct meaning out of color directly and unambiguously using the English system of language that I am already familiar with. These 26 colors are to be housed in a set of handmade glyphs that allow a reader to more clearly navigate through the color data (although the use of these glyphs are irrelevant as long as the colors are distinct, standardized and the reader is given a direction for reading). The addition of unique set of “punctuation symbols” developed in the font, allow the more accurate mapping of meaning from a standard “glyph” based set of symbols into the color.
– Christian Faur
The Color Purple, 2009
Hand cast encaustic crayons
21 x 21 inches
Experiment 5, 2008
Hand cast encaustic crayons
12 x 12 inches
Experiment 5 detail
Where the sidewalk end, 2008
Hand cast encaustic crayons
21 x 21 inches
Popies, 2007
4773 Hand cast encaustic crayons
19.5in x 19.5 in.
Porcelain Womb, 2007
Hand cast encaustic crayons
19.5 in x 19.5 in.
Related link
+ Christian Faur’s website and portfolio
Ninja February 23rd, 2009
Happy Monday, everyone!
I’m really loving Diem Chau’s crayon sculptures. Chau often uses common, every day objects (she has a miniature series constructed from toothpicks) to create her delicate narratives.
Girl and Dog
Carved crayons & wood base
3″ W x 3.5″ H x 2″ D
Boy and Girl
Carved crayons & wood base
3″ W x 3.5″ H x 3″D
Storytelling Crayons installation view
Boy in Blue, commissioned work
Crayon commissions are available upon request. Please contact Diem at diem@diemchau.com for more information.
Related link
+ Diem Chau’s online gallery
Ninja December 29th, 2008
Penguin is a Tetris addict and has worn out the buttons on his Nintendo DS
Photos by Justin Sachtleben via sleeps to dream
Related postsPenguin September 11th, 2008
This is an amazing body of work, visualizing statistics. I especially appreciate the meta-ness of making a larger image based on the smaller ones, such as the Barbie Dolls below.
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.
Cans Seurat
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
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Penguin June 27th, 2008
Paul McCarthy’s “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films” at the Whitney:
The show focuses on a core strand of McCarthy’s work: the use of architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space.
the show of about 22 works dating from 1966 to the present includes three major sculptures, two early short films and assorted drawings, photographs and videos.
Two basic motifs connect the various pieces: the room and rotational movement, or spinning.
[...]
“Spinning Camera, Walking, Mike Cram Walking” that Mr. McCarthy made by rotating a camera on a tripod in a mostly empty room. The view goes round and round, alternating bright windows and dark walls and occasionally giving a glimpse of a man walking in circles in the room.“Mad House”… consists of a large steel-framed wooden box mounted on a powerful motor. A door in the box reveals a room with a padded seat inside. (There are also three square windows.) When turned on, the room rotates at high speed while inside the chair rotates too, though not necessarily in the same direction or at the same velocity.
[In] “Couple”,… Mr. McCarthy set the focus on his camera at two feet and then roamed around a room with it, creating a blurry, aimless tour. Two naked people, a man and a woman, appear intermittently.
In “Spinning Room,”… [f]our video cameras rotate on a gleaming high-tech machine within a square, walk-in enclosure made of rear-projection screens. Images recorded by the cameras pass through computers and then to projectors stationed outside the enclosure. The projectors direct streaming video pictures of people inside onto the screens.
- NYTimes
The show runs through Oct 12 at the Whitney.
In July, the Whitney will open “Paul McCarthy: Film List”:
McCarthy began making films as a student in the 1960s, and his current exhibition on the Whitney’s third floor includes two rare 16mm films screening for the first time in decades. In conjunction with his exhibition, McCarthy has curated a film program that brings together works by, among others, Stan VanDerBeek, Francis Picabia, Walt Disney, Kurt Kren, Yves Klein, and Bruce Conner.
This portion runs from July 11 through Sept 28.
-Penguin
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