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Victoria Fu’s Works at Zona MACO
You can find visual artist Victoria Fu’s works in Zona MACO‘s main section. Boston based gallery Samsøn is presenting Fu’s drawings, video and photographic works. Featured video: Victoria Fu, Belle Captive II, digital video and audio, 6 min., ed. of 8, 2013 All images © Samsøn
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Enrique Martínez Celaya – The Self Regained
Enrique Martínez Celaya took over Fredric Snitzer Gallery in November 2013 with his installation Burning as It Were a Lamp. The installation created an environment that questioned identity, memories, and our relationship to loss. Enrique’s poetic works transformed the white cube into a meditative space that morphed a feeling of isolation into a sense of hope. Today at the tip […]
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Alejandro Cartagena: The Other Side of Prosperity
Alejandro Cartagena waited patiently along the highways that bisect the economic classes of Mexico. The series Car Poolers encapsulates a moment in time but reflects an ongoing dialogue of a culture chasing dreams of prosperity and progress in the back of pickup trucks. Car Poolers was shot in one of the highways […]
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Transfuse Inspiration Curated by New Blood Art
Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut With a nod to Bacon, Agat Czeremuszkin-Chrut concerns herself with the life that paint can breathe into the human form. Vividly painted figures that twist and float, the forms are reminiscent of Clemente or Chagall. As the identities of her subjects fade beneath a primordial cocktail of colour and line, Agata reveals herself […]
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Tait Hawes: A Little Book of Nudies
Tait Hawes is the Managing Art Director at Vans. While the culture of Vans embraces Hawes’ sensibility, he still looks to his own practice as a creative outlet, thus giving life to January. Hawes has a motto, “Shut up and make shit. Forget about the results.” It seems to be working out well for him. […]
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Chandler McWilliams: Reconsidering the Critique
A recent MFA graduate of CalArts, artist Chandler McWilliams examines the scrutiny that every art student endures- the critique. The group critique has taken on a nearly mythological status as the centerpiece of the contemporary MFA program. As such it is occasionally attacked as pompous, ineffective, or futile. Its detractors suggest that a crit is […]