Recent installations by Shimabuku at Kunsthal Bern. The artist lives and works in Berlin. He was born in Japan in 1969. Two years ago his Barcelona installations made a welcome topic on this same endless roll of things that have been noticed.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Shimabuku
Recent installations by Shimabuku at Kunsthal Bern. The artist lives and works in Berlin. He was born in Japan in 1969. Two years ago his Barcelona installations made a welcome topic on this same endless roll of things that have been noticed.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Red Road
After we arranged a big sheet of paper on the kitchen floor and set out all the supplies we could find, Mabel worked on this painting in several stages, using brushes and markers and finger paint. It started out as blobs of color, different blobs made in different ways. Then these blobs little by little came to be connected by a wide red road.
Labels:
children,
children's art,
families,
granddaughter,
Mission,
paintings,
paper,
red,
San Francisco,
summer
Glass
Mabel liked the idea of the washable glass markers I found at Flax. I gave her the step-stool to boost herself up. She used the tray marked THIS IS NOT A STEP to spread out her selection of markers.
The tray marked THIS IS NOT A STEP intrigued Mabel. She asked more than once if I was sure that you could NEVER use it for a step, not even for a minute?
The work on the kitchen windows could only be photographed later, when evening light made Mabel's work more visible.
We played a window-pane version of tic-tac-toe. And collaborated on cartoon-y faces. All the swirls, however, came exclusively from Mabel's hand.
Labels:
blue,
children,
children's art,
granddaughter,
kitchens,
Mission,
San Francisco,
summer,
windows
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Kitchen Art
Labels:
children,
children's art,
granddaughter,
kitchens,
Mission,
paper,
San Francisco,
summer
Friday, June 27, 2014
Double Split Guitar
Double Split Guitar with Drapery - 2013 |
Bronzes with pale monochrome patinations – the formal harmonies of Ricky Swallow.
Skewed Doors - 2013 |
Split Guitar (Horizontal) - 2013 |
Diamond Mask with Paddles - 2013 |
Standing Form (Beige) - 2012 |
Split Guitar with Drapery 1 (Vertical) - 2013 |
Split Guitar with Drapery 1 (Horizontal) - 2013 |
Mask with Paddles - 2012 |
Stacking Cup (Bone) - 2011 |
Split Tankard (Bone) - 2011 |
Standing Mask (Bone) - 2010 |
Standing Mask (Bone) - 2010 (back) |
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Swallow
Another artist chosen by Michelle Grabner for the fourth floor of this year's Whitney Biennial was Australian-born sculptor Ricky Swallow. Though his pieces at first glance look like pottery or cardboard, they are in fact bronzes, with varying patinations.
Stair with Contents - 2014 |
Reversed Pitcher - 2013 |
Skewed Arches / Tall 1 - 2013 |
Z-sculpture with String- 2014 |
Chair Study / Ripple (Soot) - 2013 |
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