BELLINGHAM, WA (AP).- The idea of the oversized purse has grown to new proportions at Whatcom Museum in the Washington state city of Bellingham. Edison-based industrial artist Ries Niemi has installed his 14-foot-tall “World’s Largest Walk Thru Handbag…
J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction on View at Gerald Peters Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Gerald Peters Gallery presents J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction, an exhibition of roughly thirty c print photographs ranging in size from 50 x 75 to 30 x 45 inches. Each photo, while abstract to the eye contains mysterious hints…
Radical Reinterpretation of Everyday Consumer Images by Penelope Umbrico in New Book
NEW YORK, NY.- Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. As Umbrico describes, she works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the rel…
Paulina Olowska Shows Paintings and Knitted Sweaters at Metro Pictures
NEW YORK, NY.- For her second exhibition at Metro Pictures, Paulina Olowska shows paintings and knitted sweaters adapted from postcards of home knitting patterns from late communist-era Poland. With these works Olowska continues her engagement with com…
From Wasteful to Tasteful at the Racine Art Museum
RACINE, WI.- The Racine Art Museum commissioned internationally recognized glass artist Matt Eskuche to create a new exhibition for its Windows on Fifth Gallery. Open August 6, 2010 through July 24, 2011, Matt Eskuche: Agristocracy uses the colour, lin…
From Wasteful to Tasteful at the Racine Art Museum
RACINE, WI.- The Racine Art Museum commissioned internationally recognized glass artist Matt Eskuche to create a new exhibition for its Windows on Fifth Gallery. Open August 6, 2010 through July 24, 2011, Matt Eskuche: Agristocracy uses the colour, lin…
Museum Ludwig Shows Paintings, Sculptures & Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein
COLOGNE.- The halftone dots used by Pop
maestro
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are world famous. Taking motifs from the
realms of
comics and consumerism, Lichtenstein made paintings by piecing together
dots and
colored surfaces. But a very d…
Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Museum Ludwig
COLOGNE.- The halftone dots used by Pop maestro Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are world famous. Taking motifs from the realms of comics and consumerism, Lichtenstein made paintings by piecing together dots and coloured surfaces. But a very different sid…
Exhibition of the Contemporary Still Life at Galerie Lelong
NEW YORK, NY.- The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life highlights the enduring relevance and resonance of the still life, the often undervalued genre of academic painting. Artists today are using still life to investigate contemporary …
Exhibition of the Fifth Genre of Academic Painting at Galerie Lelong
NEW YORK, NY.- The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life highlights the enduring relevance and resonance of the still life, the often undervalued genre of academic painting. Artists today are using still life to investigate contemporary …