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Rachel Owens at VOLTA13
Consumer culture and environmental concerns imbue the shattered glass and resin sculptures by Rachel Owens (presented by ZieherSmith, New York). As the centerpiece for her recent solo exhibition at the gallery, Owens cast from the Alley Pond Giant, a 130-foot-tall tulip poplar tree in Queens, New York, and considered the tallest and oldest living organism […]
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Champollion by William Corwin
Champollion consists of a series of cast sculptures in plaster, lead, and resin. Some of the sculptures are dyed to provide a consistent color throughout the volume of the piece. The installation consists of a ziggurat and a pedestal representing the Egyptian solar bark of the sky on which the gods reside. Curator David Goodman offers […]
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Pentágono Estudio: String Theory
Rooted in an elementary process, the design studio creates objects of great complexity. Members Salvador Fernández, Rodrigo Guadarrama, Hee Jong Moon, Erick Sauxedo and Luis Velázquez reflect on the evolution of their craft and give Installation a first look inside their new works called The Dark Series from the NODO collection. The NODO collection is […]
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Mark Schoening: Perspectival Shift
Mark Schoening’s works are explosive. The compositions appear as though they were created in one, single effortless gesture. Two-dimensional space is transformed into a three-dimensional optical playground. Shards of confetti, submersed in bleeding black inks glow from beneath a hard-candy resin veneer. Schoening’s works exude a palpable energy and demonstrate a playful manipulation of surface […]