Filling the gallery
with handmade objects and contraptions, Smith has made qualified proposals for the asterisk, and later the beard, as the basic atom for everything worth thinking about.
The 8 cabins are beautifully decorated
with handmade objects which very well represent Indonesia's rich culture.
A craft store across the way was filled
with handmade objects, clothing, wool and eco conscious Christmas decorations.
Not exact matches
she offers a really excellent selection of new and emerging designers
with a focus on quality craftsmanship and
handmade objects.
BEDROOM SOURCES bed frame, Ikea full length mirror
with storage, Ikea planters, Ikea nightstands, DIY on Sugar & Cloth lamps, Ikea and Home Goods antlers, Uncommon
Objects candle, Urban Outfitters artwork,
handmade by Ashley Rose ikat pillow, Ikea
Huge spring and fall crafts fairs, along
with smaller ones during the year, offer the finest in
handmade objects.
This making process — along
with the idiosyncrasies, imperfections, and errors of the
handmade — is vitrified and sealed into distinctive functional ceramic
objects.
Although I trade in ephemera often (paper goods
with a short lifespan) and that's reminiscent of transient digital media, I do believe there's something special about a
handmade object.
Helen Marten, also exhibiting in this year's Turner prize, creates intense, playful and highly detailed sculptures and installations that mix the readymade
with the
handmade, exploring how we build and use relationships
with objects.
Her work is interdisciplinary
with a creative process that often involves photographing
handmade objects of her creation.
Canada (New York, main) returns to the fair
with another immersive interior, curated by the New York - based artist Marc Hundley to mirror the artist's actual home at 220 Roebling in Brooklyn, including
objects and artworks hung salon - style amidst
handmade furniture, books and records.
For this new commission they have created a display of industrial ceramic production and
handmade objects developed
with Granby Workshop as part of their community - led rebuilding of a Liverpool neighbourhood.
Chronologically, this exploration begins
with Marcel Duchamp, whose invention of the readymade in 1913 gave birth to the separation of found or
handmade objects from the more limited world of sculpture, usually confined to plaster, bronze, marble and occasionally carved wood that had previously represented, exclusively, in the realm of the third dimension in art.It continues through Arp, Man Ray (
with an assortment of works from his New York, Paris and California periods), Dalí (represented by two works of major importance: Objet escatalogique de fonctionnement symbolique (Le soulier de Gala) and Vénus de Milo aux Tiroirs)
This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement
with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and
objects; drawings; paintings;
handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal
with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.
Alexandra Bircken is an artist who has attracted interest for her sculptures and installations that combine knitted elements
with organic and lowly materials such as hair, leather, dried grass, latex and twigs, creating amulet - like
objects with an arts and crafts aesthetic that reflect her background in fashion design and an interest in the radical aspects of
handmade culture.
In this new exhibition, Peet continues his «Stilifes» series, mixing his
handmade ceramics of handheld devices
with found
objects to create quirky assemblages that are ripe
with meaning.
Those lamenting the disappearance of the Polaroid camera and relishing the banjo's reappearance have something in common
with Kiel Johnson: a love for the sounds and
objects of a bygone era, and nostalgic affections for the
handmade.
Every
object is then
handmade — Marten works
with ceramicists, metalworkers, carpenters and embroiderers to create the strange components that form her art.
McElheny creates finely crafted,
handmade glass
objects that he combines
with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory.
Original photography along
with found images,
objects, and historical detritus, are assembled and mounted on
handmade, sculptural forms; these devices operate as boundaries that create relationships and divisions between pictures, texts, ideas, and natural and abstract forms.
Skoglund's concept - based work typically deals
with repetitive, process - oriented art production that includes the
handmade object as well as kitsch subject matter.
Combining these images
with handmade ceramic
objects, and other items evocative of human innovation, Rogan's Project Space installation presents a confrontation between the austere and rugged environments of wild nature and human ideals of
objects, community, and function.
Jay Kelly constructs
handmade mixed - media
objects with delicately welded metal, painted wood, and Japanese paper.
Honestly, it did come from holding up a cracker and realizing it was an interesting shape
with similar repetitive patterns, curves and angles that a
handmade object might have (like a rug or basket, which were previous series of mine).
Driven by early training in printmaking, Smith challenges the romantic mythology of the artist by creating mixed - media compositions that combine the
handmade with manufactured and found
objects to examine the value of originality versus facsimile.
One of the founding figures of Italian Arte Povera, Jannis Kounellis had spent the past 50 years creating works about everyday life, mixing found
objects with handmade elements.
And several artists are combining mechanical processes, like 3 - D printing,
with handmade work, like carved or sculpted
objects, in a way that blurs the boundary between simulation and original.
The foundation of this
handmade aesthetic, however, lies in the rigor and fastidiousness
with which the artist and his high - functioning studio construct both the
objects themselves and the conceptual and intellectual benchmarks that guide Sachs's life and practice.
2017 Builders, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX Fantastic Facade, LVL3, Chicago, IL Deconstructed, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD 2016 Helter Skelter, Launch F18, New York, NY Water Work, Soho House curated by Patrick Muhundro and Andrea Bergart, New York, NY Transaction, Knockdown Center curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom, Queens, NY Knife Hits, Spring / Break Art Show, New York, NY Faulted Valley Fog, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY Painting Reassembled, SUNY Westchester Community College curated by Erika Mahr, Westchester, NY 2015 Surface Matters, Knockdown Center curated by Holly Shen and Sam Katz, Queens, NY
Handmade Abstract, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Object» hood, Lesley Heller Workspace curated by Inna Babaeva and Gelah Penn, New York, NY 2014 Ultra Deep Field, Rockford University Art Gallery, Rockford, IL Site Lab, Old Morton Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI BRIC Biennial, BRIC Arts in partnership
with LIU University, Brooklyn, NY Insider Joke, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2013 Rushgrove House, Rushgrove House in conjunction
with the Royal College of Art, London, UK Limber: Spatial Painting Practices, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury UK and the Grandes Galleries de L'Erba, Rouen, France Material, Storefront Bushwick, curated by Liz Dimmitt, Brooklyn, NY Middle Zone, Projekt 722, curated by Corydon Cowansage, Brooklyn, NY No Longer Preseidents But Prophets, Delicious Spectacle, Washington DC Inside Voices, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Drawing Today, Fort Worth Drawing Center, Fort Worth, TX Paint Things, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2012 Bleach Blue, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Primary, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD Masculinisms, Garden Party / ARTS, Brooklyn, NY Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Fakin It, Meyer Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH 2011 Living Arrangements, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO Off the Wall, Visceglia Gallery at Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ Small Crowd, Mixed Greens, New York, NY Out of Practice, Art Blog Art Blog curated by Nudashank, New York, NY RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI New Insights, Art Chicago
with NEXT cuarted by Suzanne Ghetz, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL 2010 Interriuer / Exterieur, Dubois Galerie, Pont - Aven School of Contemporary Art, France Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University Totemic, The Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Well - known for his massive installations of multiple
objects, all nearly but not quite identical, all
handmade, he has only gotten better
with time.
This portion of the exhibition — there are three, each
with its own curator — was organized by the Chicago artist - gallerist Michelle Grabner, and includes the show's visual and material high point: a central gallery crammed
with colorful painting, sculpture, and
handmade objects as well as ceramics and textiles.
He rejects conceptual art as the sole claimant of «ideas» and champions the decorative and intimate qualities of
handmade objects with stories to tell.
To end the year 2000 in a most unsettling way, visit the Serpentine Gallery's exhibition of strange
handmade objects that don't move or speak or have anything to do
with electronics but are...
Utilizing a number of different supports including canvas or linen, fiberboard and marble dust panel, Olson plays
with the notion of surface and framing as constructs in his work, at times, employing
handmade frames and thick borders of unpainted surface around a central painted field that act as both a physical edge to the painting and call attention to its nature as both an image and an
object.
The paintings are characteristically
handmade objects, roughly painted and asymmetric,
with angular lines and varying textures, yet they are balanced by curves and soft colours that fade into the harsher greens and browns.
All
handmade, the accessories juxtapose «battered discarded
objects with pristine new materials».