Monthly Featured Artist: Julie Pamkowski
1 Op Collective has their eye on JULIE PAMKOWSKI. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. My work explores the female body as a functional, sexual, psychological and political space. My fleshy, feminine sculptures are influenced by universal experiences shared by women, the demented standard of … Read more
Spotlight Artist: Sara Pruiksma
1 Op Collective has their eye on SARA PRUIKSMA! The Best And Worst of What Was (2011) 17.5” x 18” x 14” Plastic, pine cones, spray paint, fabric, lace, yarn, thread, pins, wire, and hot glue Q. Tell us about your work. A. I can recall so … Read more
Spotlight Artist: Helena Slosar
1 Op Collective has their eye on HELENA SLOSAR. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. I am interested in engaging the public at various scales in order to redirect their consciousness and encourage new relationships between themselves, the … Read more
Spotlight Artist: Susannah Mira
1 Op Collective has their eye on SUSANNAH MIRA. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. To mark the consequence ascribed to the year 2012 and to acknowledge in some way the impact of an altering … Read more
Spotlight Emerging Artist: Naoko Okabe
1 Op Collective has their eye on Naoko Okabe. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. Can the act of art making redeem guilt? Yes. My creatures create an iridescent effect on my feelings for them. While I torture them by skinning, gutting or cremating, I apologize to … Read more
June Featured Artist: Lauren Smith
Lauren Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose past work has incorporated installation, video, sound, photography, public performance, community interaction and the internet. She is most interested in exploring the urban environment … Read more
Spotlight Emerging Artist: Sung Eun Park
1 Op Collective has their eye on SUNG EUN PARK. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. Simply having the desire to achieve an ideal world would never actually empower us to escape from reality since we have already reached our limits in attempting … Read more
Spotlight Emerging Artist: Christina Coleman
1 Op Collective has their eye on CHRISTINA COLEMAN. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. For the past three years I have been concentrating on hair care products traditionally associated with young black girls. I use hair ball ties, Blue Magic hair grease, and synthetic braiding hair, … Read more
Spotlight Emerging Artist: Elissa Turnbull
1 Op Collective has their eye on ELISSA TURNBULL. Here are some examples of her work: Q. Tell us about your work. A. I started this body of work at a recent artsits residency. I had been wanting to make photographs of arrangements for a while. Originally my idea for making images from still-lifes came … Read more
Richard Serra: Two new sculptures, Junction and Cycle, on view at the Gagosian Gallery
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50668 Richard Serra: Two new sculptures, Junction and Cycle, on view at the Gagosian Gallery Richard Serra, Junction (2011). Weatherproof steel, 13’ 1 1/2“ x 75’ ½” x 75’ ½’ x 49’ 9 15/16” (4 x 22.87 x 15.19 m). Photo: Lorenz Kienzle. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery © Richard Serra, 2011. NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian … Read more
Monumental new sculpture project transforms Governors Island: Man in the City sculpture by John Sauve
Sauvé is known for using steel to make monumental forms. NEW YORK, N.Y.- Governors Island received a significant addition to their public art collection. Since August 22, the artist John Sauvé has been on site at the island to supervise the installation of “Man in the City”; one of his monumental new works. “Man in … Read more
LACMA Displays First Major Public Sculpture by Chinese Contemporary Artist Ai Weiwei
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49995 File photo of a journalist looking at a bronze animal head that forms part of an installation, entitled Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. EPA/KERIM OKTEN LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is displaying the first major public sculpture by Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, … Read more
What’s your opinion on the GIANT Marilyn Monroe Sculpture?
Multiple Thumbs Down for Chicago’s Giant Marilyn Monroe Sculpture Posted Jul 18, 2011 at 04:15 PMBy Whet Moser There aren’t a lot of fans of the enormous Marilyn Monroe sculpture next to Tribune Tower. Mary Schmich: So what that men were standing dwarfed between the giant legs of the fake Marilyn, shooting photos of her … Read more
Ai Wei Wei’s Zodiac Heads from Hi Frusctose
http://hifructose.com/the-blog/1542-ai-wei-weis-zodiac-heads.html Currently on display at Grand Army Plaza near Central Park in New York City, is “Zodiac Heads”, a public sculpture by imprisoned Chinese artist Wei Wei. Standing in the Pulitizer Fountain, each of the 12 animals of the chinese zodiac is playfully reinterpreted in four foot bronze sculptures. The installation is inspired by an … Read more
Alfa Art Gallery Submission for Solo Show
Alfa Art Gallery welcomes submissions from all over the world, in the fields of contemporary fine art, sculpture and photography. Alfa Art Gallery is located at a strategic position in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey and has approximately 1,000 square feet of exhibiting space. Solo and Group exhibition Alfa Art gallery works as an open … Read more
October Featured Artist: Emily François
“Ride On, New York is a series of plates documenting and honoring NYC’s kiddie rides. You know them. They sit outside your neighborhood bodega, offering rides to nowhere for the reasonable price of 25 to 75 cents. Often vandalized or ignored, I felt it was time to give them their due, in the form of … Read more
This artist is blowing my mind right now: Justin Beckman
Beckman creates installations and site specific works that reflect on how most of America has come to relate to one another: through technology. From his artist statement: “Through a variety of visual media, including photo-based works, film/video, sculpture, installation, and new-media, my work explores convergent methods of art-making, while questioning the effects that technology, urban … Read more
Studio Projects #1 From Life
I am hosting an Open Studio Hours class, which started on Sept 7 at 7:30 – 10: 30 Pm. This class will have a live model. The first class is free and after that every class costs 10$. There are some materials for use in the class. There will also be food and drinks!!! It … Read more
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