Museum of Arts and Design Collection Database Virtual reality has been a powerful factor in shaping our social and artistic environment since the 1970s. Today, innovations in digital technology have completely transformed film, video, and television: extraordinary special effects and three-dimensional imaging created using computer-based software are commonplace. However, while the digital world continues to expand into more and more areas of our lives, a profound human need to re-experience the actual and tangible has also arisen. It is not a coincidence that as individuals spend more and more time looking at a monitor interacting with others in cyberspace, the pleasures in making things by hand, engaging with materials and techniques in a direct fashion, also increase. Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities is organized around four themes that provide a context for the works, and offer the viewer a narrative thread that makes the works accessible to our visitors.
Lawrence Yang *UPDATE* - I've been working on a new site so haven't been keeping this up to date -- in the meantime if you'd like to see my latest work, please find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. And as always, you can email me with any questions! Thanks, Lawrence Prices for original work ranges from $200 to $1000. Please email me for more details. "Encounter" - ink and watercolor on paper - 20" x 16" - SOLD "Hydra" - sharpie on bristol- 24" x 17" - not for sale "Aqua Teen Triptych" - ink, watercolor and pastel on paper - each panel is 3" x 12" - SOLD "Tiny Space Ghost" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - SOLD "Tiny Space Ghost" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - $100 "Tiny Zorak" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - SOLD "Tiny Brak" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - SOLD "Rooster Tree" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 9" x 12" - $450 "Walking" - ink and watercolor on paper - 11" x 9" - $450 "Tree LP " - acrylic on LP - SOLD
Jeffrey Deitch | Maneater Aurel Schmidt Maneater October 4–November 1, 2008 76 Grand Street In this new body of work, Aurel Schmidt munches her way through modernist masterpieces, transforming them with graphite and colored pencil into seething masses of interwoven debris. Gravitating toward the most iconic and most macho, she turns the gallery into a sort of Museum of Modern Art gone wrong. Two de Kooning women are fed into the shredder next. Schmidt makes drawings for the urban naturalist. —from the press release
LUCY GLENDINNING Tracey Snelling Maja Wrońska I’m really enjoying the use of structure and color by Poland-based watercolor artist Maja Wrońska who has captured some lovely scenes from Paris, Venice, Prague, and elsewhere. Catch more of her work over on DeviantArt and Behance. (via my darkened eyes) Mademoiselle Cranky Pants
Do Ho Suh, Fallen Star - Stuart Collection - UC San Diego Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star is the 18th permanent sculpture commissioned by UCSD’s Stuart Collection. It reflects Suh’s on-going exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space. His own feelings of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. from Seoul, Korea in 1991 to study led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. He had to physically and mentally readjust. Suh’s small “home” has perhaps been picked up by some mysterious force and appears to have landed or crashed onto the seventh floor of Jacobs Hall at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Do Ho Suh graduated from Seoul National University. Funding has been made possible through private donations and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts’ program for Access to Artistic Excellence.
Kinko White Second only to A Tale of Two Cities, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is the second best selling novel ever written. The popularity of this amazing fairy tale and its predecessor The Hobbit, along with the screen adaptations and action figures has brought about some amazing fan art, like the paintings featured here by deviantARTist Kinko-White. Her watercolor and tea stain paintings capture some of the best characters, bringing the fantasy to life on the paper along side some memorable quotes. See Also Lord of the Rings Visualized: A Timeline of the One Ring Via: geekartgallery.blogspot.com
Apollonia Saintclair A l’occasion de la sortie du livre SKATE ART, les Editions Cercle d’Art et Cedric Melado commissaire-priseur chez FauveParis organisent une vente aux enchères caritative le jeudi 30 novembre à 20h. L’intégralité des produits de cette vente sera remise à skateistan.org, une ONG basée à Berlin qui finance et installe des skate parks dans les zones de conflit ou abandonnées de tous et distribue des skates aux enfants pour leur permettre de jouer, de se détendre, de faire du sport et de mener un semblant de vie normale. C’était un plaisir et un honneur de réaliser l’une des 25 planches originales, en compagnie de Erro, Peter Klasen, Olivier Masmonteil, Kongo, L’Atlas, Benjamin Spark, Christophe Tollemer, Milledollars, Alcmea architectes, Mambo, Maria Giemza, Toxic, Jérôme Bryon, Kraken, Yann Paolozzi, Guillermo S, Daëna Phan Van Song, Pramith, Colorz, ou encore Kouka. LA MAISON DE VENTE: FauveParis, 49 rue Saint-Sabin, PARIS Mise à prix 200 €.