Nearly a year after its release, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s Wolfroy Goes to Town stand out track “Time to Be Clear” gets animated video. Art and Production by Dustin Glick. Dustin Glick is a pessimistic cartoonist from Queens. Animation by Nicklaus Deyring. Nicklaus Deyring is an art director in new york who drinks way too much tea.
TweetThese lollipops are edible images of the planets of our Universe. You can choose between strawberry and cotton candy flavor and will get a batch of 10 pieces featuring Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The backs of the pops are black flecked with silver edible glitter that simulates the stars.
All lollipops are individually wrapped and sealed. Pops are poured onto 4.5″ white paper sticks. They stand approximately 4″ inches high in all.
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Lee persistently examines questions of medium and genre through a sensitive and personalized body of work. Medium is the Same employs Lee’s personal economy to create a narrative atmosphere, a space full of lingering tones, endless chatters and moody humor. As an expedition into the complexities of association and narrative, the exhibition comprises two floors with a series of surprises and inversions.
Taking on the dual character of both engine and vehicle, the exhibition allows one to move in and outside the workings of travel and trade. Each individual work espouses a particular approach to fabrication. Chinese Waterfall, Broom, and the altered clapping monkeys within Felicity, investigate the myriad forms of kinetic sculpture, through components such as; custom built gears, bill counters, conveyer belts, and appropriated figurines.
Comparatively, in the basement project space, Lee has created an installation focusing on the journey of a container ship as it dumps toxic waste across the oceans, without a destination or an owner. Within Felicity and Wave Patterns, Lee’s palette acquires a crisp plasticity, mimicking graphic and industrial prototyping. The stylistic differences between the two floors are dismantled in the fragmented debris spotting the wall pieces that double the exhibition’s title, Medium is the Same.
Exhibition runs through to October 14th, 2012
Interstate Projects
66 Knickerbocker Ave
Brooklyn (Bushwick)
New York
NY
11237
Like in his earlier works, everything starts with photographic images. However, in this case Buetti reuses images, which do not derive from fashion magazines but from documentary photography. They tell from terror, war and seemingly insoluble conflicts. Their cruelty and suffer cause dismay. Mostly, these images reach us only via private snapshots along intricate paths. The artist converts these pictures towards abstraction and thereby extinguishes large parts of their information. Through the form of their new presentation and its underlying character, they nearly become icons. As before, Buetti irritates us with a sense for aesthetic arrangements and a
pretended enticing beauty.
The artist transforms the original motives in many production steps on the computer in such a way that their original content seems to disappear behind the aesthetic surface. Parts of the pictures are extracted and substituted with coloured pieces in different sizes. Merely the outlines of the central figures and structures remain rudimentarily recognizable, although they are also segregated into little colour-segments. However, the intervention goes further. The outlines are cut out with a laser contour cut, so that a mosaic-like surface emerges.
In most works, several figures are to be recognised. Without knowledge of the original image, the scenes are not discernible. Only indications remain. In the work „oh boy oh boy_V“, an image of a prisoner tortured by American soldiers from Abu Ghraib in Bagdad remains unambiguously recognizable. As a result, incertitude arises in terms of what we see in all other works of the series. The title of the series pushes this ambivalence even further. As an exclamation of surprise the German correspondence of the series title „oh boy oh boy! “ leaves open whether it is a remark of joy or, nevertheless, desperation.
Opposite – Oh boy oh boy XVIII_A, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 20th, 2012
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art GmbH
Niddastrasse 84, 1st Floor
60329
Frankfurt
Germany
In most instances, the paintings have been executed alla prima. Through these single, sustained sessions, Dufresne animates familiar subjects in unexpected ways, generating “cover” versions of her own as well as a sense of emotional urgency.
What begins as a riff expands, through layered association, to a dense, lushly symphonic scale. In Lady David-Rosemary Angeles in a Golden Swamp, the artist inverts the gender of Bernini’s biblical David, combining portraits of her mother and herself, and isolates the torquing figure against a backdrop inspired by an Albert Bierstadt landscape as well as trees from the Hudson Valley. An exploration of Tiépolo’s The Banquet of Cleopatra turns into Banquette Concerto with Head; the balustrade in the background of the original Baroque painting becomes a rope bridge, the table centerpiece a severed head, an exploratory mark Condoleezza Rice.
Dufresne’s investigations emerge not from fandom or homage but the impulse to inhabit known material and discover unexpected points of connection. In merging contradictory or improbable elements – Buster Keaton at a film screening of John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark, for instance, Dufresne erases the lines between pop vernacular and fine art, spectator and performer, memory and imagination.
Opposite – Shopswine with Hairstyles and Art Storage, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 6th, 2012
CRG Gallery
548 West 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
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