In the increasingly competitive field of Installation art, having a booth at one of the three incarnations of the Frieze Art Fair (be it Frieze London, Frieze NY, or Frieze Masters) becomes a game of consistent reinvention.  Galleries are faced with the challenge of presenting dynamic, elevated pieces without showing the same work twice.  There […]

It’s Tuesday afternoon and preparation for the WestEdge Design Fair is in full swing next door to Installation Magazine’s headquarters.  A palpable energy resonates through the vast expanse of the Barker Hangar where forklifts make donut figurations as they transport wood crates filled with design gems.  The perpetual sound of hammers and power drills work in […]

PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY OTTAWA, CANADA VOLTA10 / BOOTH #C11 PATRICK MIKHAIL Owner   All images © Patrick Mikhail Gallery Polaroid © Installation Magazine

Installation was first introduced to GalleryLOG upon our arrival in Manhattan as we accepted the tremendous invitation to act as the main media partner for VOLTA NY.  Before the hum drum of the fair began and the doors were officially opened to the public there was a moment of calm before the roar.  As the early […]

The urban structure of Los Angeles illicit curiosity, particularly the series of twenty-seven bridges that run throughout Los Angeles connecting the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.  Since their construction in 1909 the bridges and the LA River that runs beneath it like a labyrinth offers solace to artists like David Eddington, who frequently traverses […]

The viewer’s gaze unhinges the schism between a utopic past and a dystopic present, whose wrath is concealed by an arsenal of exacting moves executed invisibly by the hand of artist Lisa Adams.  By implementing a set of painterly techniques of her own creation, which includes the meticulous use of sponge rollers to create mosaic […]