Ross Hansen/Super Natural

October 27, 2020

 

Luftwerk Total Space at Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland

October 23, 2020

Total Space describes a designed total space experience. The classic distinction between subject and object, between inside and outside, is dissolved. Total Space is also a call for serenity in interesting times. Luftwerk’s Total Space: Landscape is a Composition draws inspiration from the theories of the Italian Renaissance painter and polymath Leon Battista Alberti and applies Alberti’s observations on color and perspective to create an ever-changing, immersive space. Two pigments used in painting that bear the geographical names Naples Yellow and Prussian blue were applied to the high walls of the space in precise geometric patterns. And then the room was flooded with light. With these three components alone, Luftwerk creates a vibrant spatial landscape. Light, color, and form fuse to form a whole that, once illuminated, can be contracted or expanded, going through continuous transformations. Combining the two colors with light generates a harmonious and almost meditative effect that alternately defines or blurs our perception of space. Landscape is a Composition is part of Total Spaces designed by Soft Baroque, Trix & Robert Haussmann, Kueng & Caputo, Suck & Bratwurst. More on this exhibition here.

Christy Matson solo exhibition Never Done at Rebecca Camacho Presents

September 10, 2020

Christy Matson: Never Done
Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
September 10th – October 23rd, 2020
“Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based textile artist Christy Matson. Matson employs a hand-operated, computer-programmable Jacquard loom to create intricate weavings to which she applies unconventional fiber techniques such as paint and layered composition. Through the duality of the machine and the hand, Matson reflects on the history of weaving in conjunction with art historical approaches such as geometric abstraction and collage.” Click here for more information.

Tanya Aguiñiga featured on Art21

September 1, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Tanya Aguiñiga will be featured in an upcoming episode of the highly acclaimed series Art21. Premiering October 2nd at 10PM (check local listing) on PBS. The episode Borderlands will Aguiñiga and will be available for streaming as well. “The landmark tenth season of the Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century television series – the longest-running television series on contemporary art – features twelve artists and one collective are presented across three episodes, charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and regions around the United States-Mexico border.” More on the episode here.

Christy Matson’s Rose Knot Variation recently acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago

July 1, 2020

Rose Knot Variation joins Matson’s I’ve Been Near You, but You’ve Never Noticed Me 2016, which is currently in the Art Institute’s collection. Christy Matson lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Recent exhibitions include the Cranbrook Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Arts Houston, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Knoxville Museum of Art, the Asheville Museum of Art, and The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design. Matson’s work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Art Institute of Chicago and Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Renwick Gallery as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Matson received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2005 and her BFA from the University of Washington in 2001. In 2012 Matson was tenured and appointed Associate Professor of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jennefer Hoffman in A Space Problem at the Elmhurst Art Museum

June 30, 2020

A Space Problem:
Organized by David Salkin
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
June 30th – November 15th, 2020
“One half of the historic McCormick House features mid-century furnishings along with works by local artists and architects. Designer David Salkin organized the exhibit as a home with a range of paintings, patterned rugs, ceramics, photo collages, and design objects. Featured artists include: Marshall Brown, Jennefer Hoffmann, Sterling Lawrence, David Salkin, and Geoffrey Todd Smith. This combination of new and vintage works is organized in conjunction with a full wing dedicated to models, historical photographs, and stories about the McCormick House’s uniqueness as a prefab prototype by the famed modernist Mies van der Rohe.” More on the exhibition here.

 

Ania Jaworska’s Unit 6 (Armchair) recently acquired by SFMOMA

June 26, 2020

Ania is an architect and educator. She currently is a visiting assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Cracow University of Technology in Poland as well as the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Her practice focuses on exploring the connection between art and architecture, and her work explores bold simple forms, humor, and commentary as well as conceptual, historical, and cultural references. Jaworska’s work was exhibited in numerous exhibitions, notably, at the 13th Venice Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She has had a solo exhibition titled BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Ania Jaworska at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and SET at Volume Gallery in Chicago. She designed a bookstore for the Graham Foundation and was a 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist.

Anders Herwald Ruhwald: Century Garden at Newfields in Indianapolis

June 25, 2020

The Garden at Newfields will turn tropical this summer with Century Garden, an installation of five colorful vignettes by ceramic artist Anders Herwald Ruhwald. 2020 marks the 100-year anniversary of the gardens surrounding Lilly House, which were designed by Percival Gallagher of the famed Olmsted Brothers firm. Ruhwald’s installation will investigate this history by interrupting the European-style design of the historic landscape with ceramic sculptures and striking tropical and native plant arrangments. For more on Ruhwald’s installation, click here.

Phillips House Calls: Christy Matson

March 20, 2020

In the first installment of our new Design series, we speak with Los Angeles-based textile artist Christy Matson and learn more about her practice.

Integral to textile artist Christy Matson’s work is her process: beginning with quick sketches or watercolor paintings, she uploads her designs to a photo-imaging application that is then programmed into her Jacquard loom. The loom is computer-programmed yet manually-operated, giving her control over the warp and weft as if she were painting with fibers. Her work often draws on the history of Modernism as well as on textiles from all over the world. Because of both her rigorous process and her inventive manipulation of materials, her work has received critical acclaim and belongs to the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art as well as the Art Institute of Chicago. Among the exhibitions in progress opening this fall, Matson will have a solo exhibition of her work at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Fresh from her recent exhibition Christy Matson: Crossings at the Cranbrook Art Museum, which closed March 15, 2020, Matson walked us through her Los Angeles studio and answered a few questions about her practice. Read the full interview here.

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