Posts Tagged 'medium'

Shadow & The Light: Barbara Kasten

The medium of Photography has yet to have its Brown vs. Board of Education moment, happy to be separate but equal. What’s refreshing about the photographs of Barbara Kasten is her cultivation of how it can be integrated with other disciplines, such as painting, architecture, or sculptural concerns.

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Shadow & The Light: Barbara Kasten

The medium of Photography has yet to have its Brown vs. Board of Education moment, happy to be separate but equal. What’s refreshing about the photographs of Barbara Kasten is her cultivation of how it can be integrated with other disciplines, such as painting, architecture, or sculptural concerns.

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Wade Guyton: Painting* without Paint

In today’s postmedium age, perhaps the most fascinating ‘paintings’ are being made by artists who don’t even use paint at all. Case in point is artist Wade Guyton, who utilizes the accidents and mishaps of an Epson printer in series of mis-registrations of chance. It may be time to re-frame just what painting means in the 21st century.

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Wade Guyton: Painting* without Paint

In today’s postmedium age, perhaps the most fascinating ‘paintings’ are being made by artists who don’t even use paint at all. Case in point is artist Wade Guyton, who utilizes the accidents and mishaps of an Epson printer in series of mis-registrations of chance. It may be time to re-frame just what painting means in the 21st century.

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The Grass Over Graves

Death & renewal are integral parts of a fascinating creative process. A favorite pastime of modernity is The Grave Dance: a seductive rhythm of destruction whereby the demode & traditional movement is buried, and a new style, celebrated. And yet, despite the demise of our dead styles, they continue to haunt. Ancestral spirits and old forms live on as ghosts.

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The Grass Over Graves

Death & renewal are integral parts of a fascinating creative process. A favorite pastime of modernity is The Grave Dance: a seductive rhythm of destruction whereby the demode & traditional movement is buried, and a new style, celebrated. And yet, despite the demise of our dead styles, they continue to haunt. Ancestral spirits and old forms live on as ghosts.

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Re/Mix! – Innovators, Appropriators & Copyright Criminals

Oft-times an overlooked & misunderstood tradition, the art of sampling historical source material into new works of art and music is a rewarding, sophisticated and ingenious practice rife with departures, ruptures & contradictory possibilities.

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Re/Mix! – Innovators, Appropriators & Copyright Criminals

Oft-times an overlooked & misunderstood tradition, the art of sampling historical source material into new works of art and music is a rewarding, sophisticated and ingenious practice rife with departures, ruptures & contradictory possibilities.

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Skeleton & Flesh

New large installation works are in progress for John D’Agostino’s ongoing series Empire of Glass, found in 2012′s body of work, “Skeleton & Flesh”, based on the forgotten fragments of Favrile glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany rescued in the Great Depression.

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Skeleton & Flesh

New large installation works are in progress for John D’Agostino’s ongoing series Empire of Glass, found in 2012′s body of work, “Skeleton & Flesh”, based on the forgotten fragments of Favrile glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany rescued in the Great Depression.

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The Quest of Beauty

One of America’s most acclaimed artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) embraced virtually every artistic medium, from stained glass windows, lamps and mosaics, to pottery, metalwork, interiors and enamels. Tiffany used the medium of glass to challenge the pre-eminence of painting. In glass, Tiffany found a medium of endless possibilities that expressed his love of light and color.

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The Quest of Beauty

One of America’s most acclaimed artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) embraced virtually every artistic medium, from stained glass windows, lamps and mosaics, to pottery, metalwork, interiors and enamels. Tiffany used the medium of glass to challenge the pre-eminence of painting. In glass, Tiffany found a medium of endless possibilities that expressed his love of light and color.

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