scott avery: Contemporary Art

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Monumental Nature

Three artists who work with nature in personal and momentous fashion.

Thierry De Cordier
http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/thierry-de-cordier

Patrick van Caeckenbergh

http://www.insituparis.fr/en/artistes/presentation/4982/van_caeckenbergh_patrick#oeuv-1

Berlinde de Bruyckere
http://rolandwegerer.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/berlinde-de-bruyckere/

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Dawn Clements

"Draw everyday, draw everywhere" said Dawn Clements when asked, What advice to give students?

Dawn Clements’ works use drawing as a way to document and describe durational experiences: watching a film, for instance. Employing a painstaking precision of description and often writing notes directly onto the paper, Clements uses the act of drawing as a parallel to remembering: these are aides-memoires, attempts to hold transient things in the mind. Like the tracking shots of cinema, they sweep through interiors, gathering visual information, but by eliding the human presence, abstract place and setting from their narrative contexts.

http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/dawn_clements_movie2.htm

Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold - Table of Work: a Collaboration (Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold) - 2011, Mixed media (including sumi ink on paper, porcelain, stoneware, wood), 303 x 126 x 30 inches (with table & sculptures) - Courtesy of Pierogi Gallery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-couillaud/dawn-clements_b_1207546.html

Travels with Myra Hudson 2004, Sumi ink on paper, 3 x 1.4 m

detail

Monday, May 6, 2013

Sarah Sze

I have just finished reading Sarah Sze Infinite Line. A book about her exhibition at Asia Society Museum, New York back in 2011.

Sarah is an artist well known for her amazing installation works made out of a huge range of eclectic materials and objects.

The Art of Losing 2004
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Detail of Untitled (Tokyo) 2008

360 (Portable Planetarium) 2012

I was most interested in her drawings and paper works some of which I have posted below.

Untitled 2011 Paper & mixed media

Sarah describes her work
"I've been thinking about drawings that shift between perspectives and many ways of seeing - all in one experience"
p. 21

Checks and Balances 2011
Stone, string and ink on paper
190 x 46cm

Guggenheim as a Ruin 2009
Ink, string and collage on paper
127 x 81 cm

http://www.sarahsze.com
http://youtu.be/xk1597J5g50
http://youtu.be/fnndiUK01kU

Sarah will represent USA at the 2013 Venice Biennial

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Sopheap Pich

Some years ago I was travelling in Cambodia and caught a river ferry from Battambang to Siem Reap. As I journeyed past floating villages and numerous communities on the river banks I saw some amazing sights, to say nothing of the people themselves, so hard working, happy and friendly. Their homes were all designed to cope with massive changes in water levels as seasonal flows back filled from the Tonle Sap lake and river systems.

Fishing is a form of livelihood and so with elaborately crafted nets families would cleverly seek out food sources. (Amongst which is small fish to make the ubiquitous Cambodian version of fish sauce)

Fish nets could be on a grand scale, like monumental sculpture.

So when I saw the work of Sopheap Pich and read that he came from Battambang it was an instant connection as to his likely influences.

Upstream 2005 Bamboo, rattan & wire

Morning Glory 2011

Cycle 2 2008 Rattan & wire

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/sopheap-pich
http://sopheappich.com

Monday, March 18, 2013

Nicola Moss

I was impressed with Nicola's exhibition at SGAR gallery in Spring Hill. Meticulous paper cuts using evocative stained papers ... beautiful!

Nicola's blog http://nicolamoss.blogspot.com.au
SGAR gallery http://sgar.com.au/exhibit/now

Monday, January 28, 2013

Ane Graff

Norwegian artist working across many different media, drawing, painting, sculpture.

A Plain Rotunda
2011

http://anegraff.com
Scroll to bottom of web page for very interesting artist statement.

The Wing's Wax
2012

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Thomas Hauri

Interesting mixed media works on paper and canvas from Swiss artist Thomas Hauri http://thomashauri.ch

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Amy Commins

Amy goes global! Art and Science Journal
http://www.artandsciencejournal.com/tagged/amy-commins

Really interesting work. Also http://amycommins.com

Friday, September 14, 2012

18th Biennale of Sydney

2012

Peter Robinson NZ

Polystyrene
http://bos18.com/artist?id=91

Sachiko Abe - Japan

Cut Papers #13

Mesmerising performance of ultra fine paper cutting.

http://bos18.com/artist?id=13

Adam Cvijanovic - USA
The River

http://bos18.com/artist?id=34

Nipan Oranniwesna - Thailand

Numerous maps cut and placed over one another.
Also a work with talcum powder, see weblink below

http://bos18.com/artist?id=35

Binh Danh - Vietnam/USA

Chlorophyll prints of archival images from the Vietnam-American War on tropical leaves

http://bos18.com/artist?id=38

Lyndal Jones - Australia

Rehearsing Catastrophe: The Ark in Sydney

This work was contained within a large building where you could not go in, only walk around the outside. Also you could not see in past the boat like bow but the sounds of construction could be heard.

http://bos18.com/artist?id=64

Gao Rong - China

The static eternity

What appears as an interior with ordinary furniture etc is in fact a life size construction of fabric over wire with colour, pattern, photographs, stains, text, cracks etc all being meticulous embroidery.

http://bos18.com/artist?id=49

Philip Beesley - Canada

Hylozoic Series: Sibyl

Interactive, kinetic light sculptures

http://bos18.com/artist?id=22

Yuken Teruga - Japan/USA

Notice - Forest: Japanese McDonald's, 2005

Packaging with paper cut and constructed forms

http://bos18.com/artist?id=112