Melting Pop Betsy Enzensberger August 2-31, 2017 Betsy Enzensberger has become quite well known for her realistic, larger than life sculptures of dripping, frozen treats and other sweet-toothed delights. Resin looks like candy. It looks delicious and sweet. The shiny exterior has a wet, melting quality. As with her Dripping series, Melting Pops rely on the child-like...
Caesar Alzate Jr: Objectivism (Red) August 2-31, 2017 Closing Party: Sunday, August 27th 3-6PM Caesar Alzate Jr. makes Objects which are defined simultaneously as painting and sculpture, made from acrylic paint layered hundreds (if not thousands) of times with a heat process that is essential to his process but also embodies the notion of identity...
An exhibition of thought and memory. These paintings might seem out of place in time but that very quality is the entry point to better understand just how fleeting time really is. How we see time is bound up with how we see ourselves. We are nested in the present,...
Lindsey Way was born in Dunoon, Scotland. She attended Pratt Institute, where she studied fine art and illustration. She then worked as a window display artist throughout New York City and assisted the prolific painter Ron English. Her work has been in CBGB’s 32nd Anniversary Art Show, Hung, and the traveling group show, Draw. Lindsey is...
Young Blood: One-Night Pop-Up Show June 3, 2017 Artist Reception: Saturday, June 3rd 6-9PM The Young Blood Collective began as a group of recent Art Center College of Design graduates of different disciplines, under the guidance of principle organizer, Tevy Khou, and has since grown to include the freshest illustrators and artists from the...
Sparked by a recent trip to Belgium during which they immersed themselves in the art and poetry of the region, Dosshaus presents a new House of Cardboard installation entitled In the Country of Marvels. Within its walls, monochromatic cardboard sculptures re-imagine their experience, evoking the spirit of La Fleur en Papier...
Succulents Eric Minh Swenson April 18 – 28, 2017 Eric Minh Swenson (often abbreviated to EMS) is an autodidactic multi-disciplinarian. A product of the Vietnam War, Eric is the son of Army Lt. Colonel, Lou Swenson and Vietnamese national, Trinh Thi Thu Van. The elder Swenson was a fine-art master photographer in the vein of...
Shigeru Idei long ago mastered the art of breaking tradition by combining fundamentals of Gyotaku, Byobu, and Washi to exacerbate the disintegration of nationalism. A country that has wholeheartedly embraced foreign pop culture, Japan has been relatively slow to absorb those elements as tropes of fine art, maintaining a fragile...
Dancing About Architecture (Revisited) Panik Collective The quote “Dancing About Architecture” has been attributed to Laurie Anderson, Steve Martin, Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Thelonius Monk, Clara Schumann, Miles Davis, George Carlin and several other people along the way. The original citation to appear in print was attributed to Martin Mull...