After a mini-hiatus, we are back with Sara from Brown Paper Bag for Time Travel Tuesday! This week she wrote about Viola Frey, a Bay Area artist who explored gender power & dynamics in her expressive, figural ceramic sculptures. Don’t forget to visit BPB for my post on Jean Charlot, a French muralist whose...
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not sure if i want to take brooklyn-based artist julia dault‘s paintings too seriously or not. with titles like “rowdy cats,” “bunga bunga,” and “skull crusher,” it seems like julia’s not asking us to ponder silently about abstraction, but rather wants to engage the viewer with color and roller-coaster-rides along her lines. her sculptures...
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just thought i’d take a minute to congratulate my partner, nico, on his graduation from the california college of the arts last week! it’s been quite busy the past few months for both of us, but i am so proud of all the work he has done over the past few years. his studies...
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anyone who grew up in the nineties can relate to the basketball frenzy that swept the world with the success of the chicago bulls and michael jordan’s tongue-wagging, air-getting and hyper fame. in chicago, there wasn’t a single kid’s room that didn’t have a jordan poster and even now, when i travel and tell...
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richard long‘s work revolutionized the sculpture world in the 60s and 70s with one single radical idea- taking long walks in nature. rearranging stones, walking repeatedly over his paths, and trampling down grass, long exchanges with his surroundings in a poetically minimal way. utilizing lines and circles, he subtly integrates symbols of his presence...
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playgrounds in the states are so predictable- kid and baby swingsets, monkey bars, a single plastic spiral slide and a tire swing, if you’re lucky. but those living in atlanta are lucky to play on something a bit different- the piedmont park playscape, designed by isamu noguchi, a japanese-american artist. built in 1976 with sponsorship from...
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we can’t really talk about dirt and art without mentioning the land artists of the 60s and 70s. walter de maria is often put into this category, utilizing the great expanses of land in the west for his infamous work, the lightning field (which we visited this summer, i’ll write more about that soon)....
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nico’s GLOW IN THE DARK show was a bubbly success! plenty of visitors & friends came out to explore the soon-to-be-garden decorated with light and sound sculptures. those who could see helped those who couldn’t navigate the gravelly slope into the lot to see the tv-sets glowing with yule-log videos; a glowing tent; and...
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the cca and the lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired are teaming up for a one-night public art show tomorrow night called GLOW IN THE DARK. cca students nicolas colon, elliott de aratanha, david elder, ian garrison, yoojin kim, fred kolouch, blaz pirnat, robin tilby, ping zhang, and gareth spor created works to...
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who would have thought that googling “pencils” would lead me to the incredible geometric work of george hart?! professor, engineer, writer, sculptor, puzzlemaker, and all-around awesome dude, george hart has credentials under his belt to knock any rocket scientist into space. but what’s even more impressive is his love and enthusiasm for math, shapes,...
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