Kirstine Roepstorff belongs to a young generation of artists who are working in a novel way with the technique of collage. Using this medium she has developed an unusual visual language, which she transposes into space-consuming installations, objects and sculptures in order to investigate cultural contexts and trigger new narratives. In a manner that is [...]
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career as a teenager, writing and directing plays. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in [...]
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“Creating a Sense of Oneness” by Louise Buyo and Jim Hall
In the mid-nineties, Dahlsen was gathering driftwood on the Victorian Coastline for a furniture project when he found huge amounts of plastic litter washed up along the shore. The artist accumulated 80 bags of the garbage and dragged them to his studio to begin his [...]
The married duo of eclectic crafting together make up the team of ‘Something’s Hiding in Here’. From kitschy paint-by-numbers on wood cut-outs of North America to plaster animal busts covered in floral fabrics, their art is both accessible, funny, and design savvy.
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Franko B was born in Milan and has lived in London since 1979. He has been creating work across video, photography, performance, painting, installation, sculpture and mixed media since 1990. He has performed at the Tate Modern, ICA, South London Gallery and Beaconsfield. He has presented work internationally in Zagreb, Mexico City, Milan, Amsterdam, Antwerp, [...]
I adore this work…I rate it as one the top 100 sculptures of all time (in my mind) because it transformed (for me) what it means to “look” at art. For years I have followed Mr. Holler’s work and have made every attempt to view it in person when his works have appeared in galleries [...]
Rachel Rosenthal by Annie Leibowitz
Rachel Rosenthal is the grande dame of the West Coast performance art scene. She is best known for her solo performances and her DbD (“Do by Doing”) training technique. Her span of her work stretches from early training with Hans Hoffmann, Merce Cunningham, Erwin Piscator, and Jean-Louis Barrault to the continuing output [...]
Susan Hiller b. 1940, Tallahassee, Florida
Lives and works in London and Berlin
The work of Susan Hiller has long been recognized for its excavation of everyday phenomena that lie within the recesses, byways and blind spots of our cultural surround. In a distinguished career of more than 30 years, Hiller has drawn upon sources as diverse [...]