ArtBabble: Contemporary Art

Lauren Zoll: Something is

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0000

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Something is features a newly commissioned body of work by Indianapolis-based emerging artist Lauren Zoll that explores the intersections of painting and video. Numerous large-scale paintings, videos, and a collage affixed directly to the gallery wall will form an immersive and variable installation in the Carmen & Mark Holeman Gallery. Something is proposes an open-ended investigation—the title itself is the start of a phrase to be completed by exhibition visitors as they interpret the changing and foreign environment of the installation within the gallery.

Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:09:10 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

This video focuses on Rineke Dijkstra's series of portraits of Almerisa, whom the artist met as a child in a refugee center for Bosnian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Dijkstra and Almerisa each describe the experience of taking their first photograph together and discuss how the series has evolved over the course of Almerisa's life as she grows from a young Bosnian girl into a Dutch woman with her own child.

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

Ann Hamilton

National Gallery of Art, Washington — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:23:27 +0000

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National Gallery of Art, Washington

Ann Hamilton presented a lecture on her nearly 30-year career as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series at the National Gallery of Art on September 16, 2011. Hamilton has made multimedia installations with stunning qualities and quantities of materials: a room lined with small canvas dummies, a table spread with human and animal teeth, the artist herself wearing a man's suit covered in a layer of thousands of toothpicks. Along the way, she has constantly set and reset the course of contemporary art.

Anju, from the Far World (after seven paintings by Fuyuko Matsui)

Asian Art Museum — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:58:54 +0000

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Phantoms Arise!

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Asian Art Museum

Mari L'Esperance reads a poem she wrote in response to seven paintings by Fuyuko Matsui in the exhibition "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" (on view at the Asian Art Museum from May 18-September 2, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/phantoms/ This presentation was part of MATCHA: Phantoms Arise! For more information: http://www.asianart.org/matcha/pastevents.htm#m2012 Co-presented by Litquake.

Floor

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:12:17 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Floor demonstrates many characteristic elements of Do-Ho Suh's broader body of work. The artist uses installations to integrate his artwork with the architecture of a gallery or public space. He has engaged the tensions between collective action and individual identity in other pieces, using his miniature figures to support a heavy stone pedestal or to form a tremendous screen with their interlocking bodies.

Time-lapse: Sun K. Kwak's Untying Space_Asian Art Museum, SF

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:49:47 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

A time-lapse video of artist Sun K. Kwak creating "Untying Space_Asian Art Museum, SF." Experience this work in person at the Asian Art Museum during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/phantoms

Jompet Kuswidananto on "Anno Domini"

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:20:52 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

In his most recent work, Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto explores political and cultural identity, particularly around the people and history of Java. Informed by theories drawn from the field of cultural studies, he connects local history to global movements with a focus on the fragility of changing identities.

Adrian Wong on Phantoms and Geomantic Intervention, I, II

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:20:37 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

Described as "an archaeologist of visual apocrypha," US and Hong Kong-based artist Adrian Wong plays with signifiers of culture and identity, lending objects new life through adjusted interpretations. With his unique background—including an MA in developmental psychology and an MFA in sculpture—Wong makes esotericism accessible and tangible. From performance art to sculptures, video, and other installations, Wong experiments with perception while bringing a rigorously researched approach to art.

Choi Jeong Hwa's "Breathing Flower" Comes to Life in San Francisco

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:20:20 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

A time-lapse video of the installation of Choi Jeong Hwa's "Breathing Flower" in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza. On view during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (May 18--September 2, 2012).