For six weeks Dawn Kasper performed a site-specific durational performance at Honor Fraser Gallery.  The performances took place nightly after the gallery closed when the front doors facing La Cienega Boulevard were locked.  From the hours of 6pm-10am Kasper transformed the quiet gallery space into a laboratory of experimentation, a site of imaginative, uninhibited performance […]

I am not trained as a potter.  I have taken lots of classes over the years, but always for pleasure and never as a real ceramics student.  My training is in architecture, in the context of art and design school, so I do not have the expertise to know where “traditional techniques” and “experimental techniques” […]

[columns_row width=”half”] [column]Having your head in the clouds connotes a sort of dreamlike, fantasy state.  With this playlist, Los Angeles based photographer and music curator Maria Schriber aka DJ Mom Genes begins with a whimsical 60’s hit about a woman whose head is above the clouds.  As the mix progresses the music becomes more atmospheric in […]

CLOUD is a whimsical, interactive sculpture created by Canadian artists Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett.  Conceived as a light-hearted contraption to encourage casual collaboration and play, the sculpture is built from 6,000 incandescent light bulbs, hand-bent steel, electronics, pull chain, and internal compact fluorescent light bulbs. The second edition of CLOUD was recently shipped to […]

In conjunction with Italian Press Skira Editore and Rizzoli Books, Installation previews some of their finest and most beautifully designed picks for this week’s Collect, ranging from the Design and Applied Arts to Photography and Fashion.   Adam Silverman Ceramics Foreword by Shepard Fairey, Texts by Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Brooke Hodge, Julie Lazar, and Kulapat Yantrasast This debut edition […]

Illustrator Mario Wagner best known for his Sci-Fi fantasy and cinematic images shares his latest work with Installation.   Wagner documented the creation of his mural Living Collage at The Standard Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.  He utilizes his usual tools, scalpel blade, scissors, glue, and acrylic in a larger scale to become part of the ever-changing landscape of Downtown […]