Please click here to read the article By Kathleen Whitney December 2014 Linda Sormin’s work is agile and gymnastic; it vaults from floor to ceiling grasping space and defying gravity. The quantity of parts and pieces is overwhelming, there’s enough detail to produce information overload. Heraclitus said “you can’t wade in the same river twice;” […]
Twenty miles outside of Los Angeles there happens to be one of the best shows of the
season. “Another Thing Coming,” the Torrance Art Museum’s group show of new
sculpture from 15 Los Angeles-based artists is a remarkably successful and compelling
show.
Towering, behemoth sculptures of golden yellow, bubblegum pink, and blood red perch on aluminum pipe next to enigmatic, globular ceramic pieces that shift in form and shade from every perspective.
the latter to fashion crypto-mechanical floral creatures — extols the handmade virtues of ceramics, sculpture’s oldest manifestation, to ruminate on distinctly up-to- date questions. (Miles, perhaps not incidentally, was a co-curator of the Hammer’s “Thing.”)
COOL SCHOOLS 2014 CAN ART SCHOOLS SAVE THE PLANET? Art professors and students lit fires under the civil rights and antiwar movements. Can they do the same for environmentalism? BY AMY WESTERVELT A detail of Pam Longobardi’s 20-foot-long Economies of Scale (2013), made from plastic debris the artist found in oceans from Greece to Alaska. Kim Anno’s […]
In Survey of Southern Art, Place Is the Space Rob ColvinSeptember 5, 2014 Hunter Museum visitors explore works by Alicia Henry and Greg Pond (all images courtesy Hunter Museum of American Art unless otherwise noted) CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Jiha Moon was one of several artists the critic John Yau would like to have seen at […]
EK INTERVIEW: JAMIE VASTA BY THE BLIND ARCHITECT MAY 24, 2014 Jamie Vasta will be bringing her amazing glitter art to the Empty Kingdom Summer Art Show. Her work crosses renaissance fables with modern say subjects, creating entrancing work. Check out her interview: Who are you? Where are you from and where are you currently? I’m a […]
By Humboldt State Now Mar 20, 2014 Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery presents, The Spider and the Fly, a collection of prints and mixed media drawings by artist Gail Wight on display April 1 to May 18. Currently a Professor of Art at Stanford University, Wight’s work has earned her national and international recognition […]
Garth Clark, Chief Editor of CFile 03.17.14 One of the treats of Design Miami in December was seeing Tony Marsh’s new and unexpected work. Yet it has been in development for five years as the artist has slowly and carefully explored a new phase in his art. These works can be seen now at the […]
FOREIGN LOVE TOO / JIHA MOON at RYAN LEE GALLERY March 2014 By Lilly Lampe Questions of cultural appropriation abound in Jiha Moon’s “Foreign Love Too,” her second solo exhibition at Ryan Lee Gallery (formerly Mary Ryan Gallery) in New York. In paintings, works on paper and ceramics, pop culture, art historical references and icons […]