Interstitial seeks to answer this question through the examination of new and recently - created free - standing sculptures by contemporary Los Angeles - based object makers whose work exists in the interstices, the spaces between the historical genres of the decorative arts, still life, and abstraction. (anthonymeierfinearts.com)
«Thanks to the past support from the Irvine Foundation, the Hammer has created an organic way of working with artists — not just in their capacity as object makers but as problem solvers — we are engaging them to help us to be a better, more dynamic institution,» says Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum. (hammer.ucla.edu)
Other highlights include Paul Kos's and William Leavitt's playful and irreverent forms of Conceptual art; diverse interpretations of Pop art by American painter Allan D'Arcangelo, British filmmaker and collage artist Jeff Keen, the Spanish photographer and object maker Darío Villalba; and new and iconoclastic forms of expression in the postwar period by Japanese artists Kazuyo Kinoshita, Atsuko Tanaka, Keiji Uematsu, and Eiji Uematsu. (whitewall.art)