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Pacifico Silano at VOLTA NY 17
Pacifico Silano reworks and collages imagery sourced from vintage gay pornography magazines and preserved in Plexiglas slabs, which thereupon become stand-ins for gay men lost to the AIDS epidemic. Featured in the traveling institutional exhibition Art AIDS America, which was shown locally at the Bronx Museum of Art last year, Silano’s Arrangements project is presented by Rubber Factory (New York, both […]
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Liz Jaff at VOLTA11
Liz Jaff represented by Robert Henry Contemporary instills the sculptural power of paper into her large-scale folded-paper installations. Her hand-cut and folded paper works culminate in the majestic booth-wide installation Plugs and Fuses. Jaff was featured in Behind the White Walls, a group exhibition of Guggenheim, MoMA, and Whitney Museum art handlers, at BFP Creative (Brooklyn) through […]
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THE SERIES at ACE Hotel
LOS ANGELES (August, 2014) — ACE Hotel Downtown LA is set to host THE SERIES, presented by NICOLE DISSON, who has curated an impressive group of LA’s finest in the fields of contemporary dance, music, performance, poetry and visual art to perform original pieces on the hotel’s rooftop. This special performance driven event will by directed […]
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A Psychokinetic Child at Burning Man
Installation: How many years have you being attending Burning Man? David Altair Karave: 2013 was my third year, the first two years I just wondered in absolute Alice in Wonderland amazement. You can walk without sleeping for a week straight and not see the same thing twice. One of the beautiful things about the Man […]
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The Olympic Freeway Murals: Celebrating 30 Years
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 2014 – In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 1984 Olympic Freeway Murals, the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles (MCLA) brought together, for the first time since 1984, the original artists who created these iconic murals. On August 24, the MCLA hosted an afternoon of art, coversation and music at Pico House […]
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Visiting Vasa’s Studio
Over time the configurations of the set would change from leaning towers, to miniature fortresses, pyramids, or stacks. Vasa’s work invites whoever may have been sitting in front of the table to interact with the cubes, move them, hold them in the palm of their hand and admire the intricate prisms contained inside. The […]