SOFA Chicago 2011

 

SOFA Chicago 2011 (Nov 4-6) at Navy Pier Chicago

The 18th Annual Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair

Silivia Levenson, Strange Little Girl, 2011, 

Kilncast glass, fabric, fiberglass

41.75 x16 x 11.75in

 

Steffen Dam

Small Box 1, 2010

glass/wood/lighting fixture 12x12x9

 

3 (three)

"33.3kg", 2011

110x110x90cm/ 43.3x43.3x35.4in

pvc, stainless steel, wood

above detail

 

Louis Marak

Earthenware, Glazes

Donald Morris

A world of Fallen Heros, 2011

Paper (comic books) on panel

66x66

detail of above

 

Rik Allen

Fuller Fly

Blown glass, silver

11.5x9.5x5

 

Laszlo Lukacsi

Fan, 2010

Cut and laminated glass

21.5x38x8

 

Eugene Andolsek (1921-2008)

untitled, n.d.

ink on graph paper

This piece was at the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art

 

Randall Rosenthal

"Old Money" 

Vermont white pine, acrylic, ink

14x14x10

The entire piece is carved out of one piece of wood!!!

 

Shelly M. Allen

Kairos, 2010

Blown and hot sculpted glass

16x19x12.5in

Chicago

 

At Navy Pier

 

 

 Driving down LSD

Autumn in Midwest

Marshall Arisman at Zadok Art Gallery in Miami

Marshall Arisman at Zadok Art Gallery in Miami

 read more in "What's up Miami"

 

Miami beach

New Murals around Wynwood

Wynwood Art Fair 2011

 

 Should be more appropriately called Wynwood Street Festival, the inaugural Wynwood Art Fair was super cute.  All the art people in the community came out and supported.  The proceeds go to help the Lotus House.  There were some really cool interactive/performance based art activities going on at all times.  The location could be a little bit more desirable.  The cars whizzing by at 80mph on the I95 was unsettling.  I say, bring on the food carts and the vendors and let's really make it street fair worth celebrating.

  

 

 

John Kessler

Desert of the Real, 2009

91x559x46, mixed media

Fred Snitzer Gallery sponsored this wax casting machines that made noses.  I'm very happy to be a proud owner and to add to my collection.  :)

The Challenger Memorial, sculpture by Isamu Noguchi

Challenger Space Shuttle Memorial, Bayfront Park, Downtown, Miami

Long Description:
 

The Challenger Memorial, sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, is located on Southwest corner of Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, Florida. The memorial is white, composed of metal piping, and rises 100 feet, designed with a twisted shaped to symbolize the contrail of the Challenger as it rose on its fateful, final flight.

The triangle shaped plaque at the base, made of concrete, has the following engraved:

O
Ivory
Cinder
Open Petals
Soar the Space Path,
Flesh Spirits, Heroes McAuliffe Onizuka Jarvis
McNair Smith Resnik Scobee

Allerton Park

my alma mater today to visit Jo chen.

798 Misc

Outside of Boers-Li Gallery 

D-Park is an extension of 798.  Much cleaner, spacious and more organized than the older sections of 798.  Still coming along...while I was walking through there, there was some pipe that was hissing some weird steam ...smoke... toxic gas...who knows?

I've seen these sculptures at 798 a million times, but never paid much attention to them.  I've been recently working on a fudog project with Madison Art Consulting and made me stop to snap a shot.  They‘re chasing me!

Boers-Li: Chen Yujun and Chen Yufan

I went to Boers-Li to see XueFeng's painting exhibition.  To my surprise I saw this exhibition in their downstairs Gallery.  Hannah was super nice and showed me all around the exhibition.  

Mulan River Project
Chen Yujun and Chen Yufan

'Mulan River Project' is a comprehensive installation by the artists and brothers Chen Yufan and Chen Yujun, which began to develop over four years ago as a collaborative research project into the history of their cultural heritage. The title refers to the mother river in their home town of Putian, and thus the creative source of their collaboration. Their multi-disciplinary approach to art practice allowed them to navigate their ideas through a variety of mediums with the current installation comprising of intricate abstract painting, sculptures and layered topographical constructions.
The centrepiece of the installation pays homage to the river and navigates the viewer through their interaction with the artists' skillfully assembled works and constructions. The artworks seem to take root in the gallery space: intricate paintings crawl up the walls like vines, hand carved sculptures tower above you on stilted legs, while cardboard and wooden landscapes rise from the floor, as if formed by layers of deposited psychological strata, transforming the gallery space into a new environment reminiscent of the dark innocence and intimacy of a childhood hide-away in a folk storybook.
Originally intended as a process to maintain a visual communication between the two, over time it became evident there was something much more significant and ephemeral occurring as a result of this process. Through a series of discussions about their work the artists saw the project as an exploration of their own lives, processes and history, in both a personal and artistic sense. The reclaiming of natural materials in their structures reflects an authenticity to their hometown, while also highlighting the significance of the intricate handcraft which goes into each piece. The evidence of their process and rapport with the materials is vital to the core value of the work which acts as a physical and psychological archive of their shared history and current collaborations. Architectural references drawn from their youth in their native province remain a strong influence in much of the aesthetics of the work and encapsulate the artists' reverence and nostalgia for a passing time in both their personal and national history.

Chen Yufan and Chen Yujun were born in Putian, and now live and work in Hangzhou.