ARTES MAGAZINE

 The work of Massachusetts-based artist, Jonathan Prince, is currently on view until November 18th, at the Sculpture Garden in the atrium of the old IBM building, in New York City. Shown under the title Torn Steel, the work—like the artist, himself, who resembles Julian Schnabel—is big, bold and undeniably ambitious. But underneath the swagger of [...]

The Utopian desire of 1970s ‘Land’ artists, who broke away from the stranglehold of the art market by producing earthworks far removed from cities, has given way to new projects that demonstrate a global ecological awareness through cross-disciplinary investigations concerning environmental sustainability. artes fine arts magazine

The tone of the 2011 Venice Biennale seems different from Biennales past. The political bludgeoning of the viewer is milder this year, and the curatorial mystification less extreme. A lot of thinking out loud is in evidence instead, as if the Biennale were puzzling over the proposition of a world exposition of contemporary art in [...]

This summer the Delaware Art Museum takes a concise look at the trend of illusion in today’s art world, through an exhibition titled Perception/Deception. This show is a contemporary approach to the Museum’s tradition of trompe-l’œil, or “fooling the eye.” Featuring the work of four internationally recognized contemporary artists Chul Hyun Ahn, Larry Kagan, Robert Lazzarini, [...]

The chairs tell everything. Worn to threads, or lashed, two of them in Whitfield Lovell’s Ode are victims equally of both violence and time. Only their permanent ghost is intact, trapped upon the wall with the young man who has otherwise vanished, like one of those shadows permanently imprinted upon the pavement by the photo [...]

One of the most fascinating sculptors, active in late-gothic Germany, was Nicolaus (Niklaus or Niklas) Gerhaert, from Leyden. Despite the short period of his activity in Strasbourg, where he resided from 1463 to 1467, the works he created there proved influential, inspiring the sculptors of Southern Germany, up to the Reformation. Veit Stoß, Tilman Riemenschneider [...]

Anne Ferrer’s new series of colorful cloth sculptures, curated by Edward Rubin, is reminiscent of inflatable, shaped balloons that wink and bob in a kind of rhythmic modern dance. Up-down movements mingle with in-out ‘breathing’, as air slowly and randomly inflates and deflates each work. The seven pieces are composed as a tightly-clustered group. But [...]

How can you explain the allure of silver? Like its rich cousin, gold, silver is one of those rare earth elements that has served the imagination and creative hand of artisans over the ages- often with breathtakingly beautiful results. Silver in its purest form is soft and pliable, reflective and lustrous when polished to a [...]

Jasper Johns said, “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Do something else to it.” He encourages each artist to embrace the act of creating something that enthralls, the moment it is perceived. Enhance the work by pushing its boundaries to a new level, he seems to be saying. Expand [...]

 While the title of Santa Fe-based artist Joyce Melander-Dayton’s current outing at the June Kelly Gallery in New York City reads Extravagant Constructions—an apt title, especially when you are standing up close, studying the artist’s intricately bejeweled craftsmanship and her use of materials and patterning (think Faberge Egg or the Gobelin Tapestries )—it could just [...]