Indoor Installations (575)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Tamara Albaitis - Artist Statement I create objects, sounds and installations that are derived from observations in daily life. I'm particularly interested in daily rituals, routines, and everyday objects, with emphasis on temporal progression. Naturally, these things lead to unpredictability, fluctuation, and the inevitability of change which drives my work intuitively. I'm sensitive to details and intrigued by the contradictions they embrace. All this makes it permissible for me to be nurturing, ironic, and hypocritical, bringing me closer to obscuring our perceived boundaries between art and life. In this current body of work, I'm investigating Acousmatics - this is when we rupture the representational characteristics of sound and delve deeper into the sensations and personal meanings of sounds. I'm particularly interested in our relationships with common natural sounds, and how they are re-produced through unnatural technology. Using raw speakers and audio wire as sculptural objects, I intend to provide a space where we can appreciate natural and implied systems that make up our world, posing questions as to how far technology can actually benefit and enrich our daily lives. The spaces where these experiments exist are taken into consideration; they play a key part in the sculptural and conditional ...

Tirzo Martha - The material doesn't need to be filled with words. It speaks for itself. It is our consciousness that has to translate it for us. My work is a loyal mirror of our societies, a reflection of a fragment from the thin line between fiction and reality. Tirzo Martha 2004...

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Gligor Stefanov - The work of interventions, installations, and objects are site-specific and many of them do not exist any more. Visual documentation through photographs communicates the finished work on site and often the process as well. The used materials are exclusively natural (straw, mud, grass, hay, pine needle, cotton, wood) as an attempt to analyze their features in their pure state of existence (structure, color, smell, texture, warmth). Work divided in cycles where the themes were a "vehicle" of exploration, starting points and possibilities for research. In the early, cycle of "linear interventions", the material as the dominant element of value replaced by space in order to mould it into a living organism - a new biological environment. The cycle of "angels" demonstrated the intention to enter metaphysical sphere. Those winged objects move within the sphere of the accumulation of natural material and energy with spiritual energy inside it. My work currently focuses on a variety of building nest structures, where egg becomes for a moment the center of the entire universe, the evidence of a cosmic situation. Every peace of art is a story of rhythms, tensions, conflicts, meditations and prayers. Each line of straw, in the dynamic and linearity of ...

Serge Podrez - Serg Podrez graduated Stroganoff Institute in 1981 ,Moscow.Living betveen Moscow and beutiful South town Novorosisk,named Russian France near Black See.Worked in metall sculpture, ,cinema,photo,painting.Serg is fantastick modern master of art.His father was wellknouwn sculptor .Every summer Serg with friends camping in forest on shore of the Black See.This spring(2007) Serg and friends visited Russian Gold Ring -Suzdal,Jaroslavl,Vladimir.In August of this2007 Sintez have plan to stay in July on shore of Black Sea for month-clear deep water,fishing,fire cooking...some dance under stars! 2007 Group SINTEZ visited Italy Rome ,it was honymooners Serg and Nick with Ksucha and Anna.2March 2008 Group Sintez reunion in NYC USA, after 15 years Nick and Serg meet Natasha personally! Summer 2008 Serg, Nick Vostrikov ,Gasha ,Tata,...had long trip to SIBIRIA ,river Swan. May 2009 Serg and Nick with friends visiting Salvador Dali house in Spain,our old friend Pasha Lukianov-lovly Russian poet living in Barselona....

Moustafa Al Hatter - Artist Statement The important change of my pictorial background took place In the Caribbean, I found myself immersed in the tropical light, which suggested an approximation and rediscovering of color, but the big change happened in Egypt I was touched by its great ancient civilizations. Maybe the transformation in Egypt and in the Caribbean was due to the accumulation of remembrances of my travels to different countries all over the world that were finally settled and allowed the technical and stylistic turn of my painting. Moreover I began to capture those magical and mysterious moments of life, from the obvious that can be seen by my eyes, to the visionary that is perceived by my heart and soul. In my work of art, I abandon the representation of reality, and Stay away from mundane affairs. There is an intention to paint from my memory, which gathers and molds the remembrance of travels, promenades in mysterious old civilizations, and in tropical latitudes. The conventional means of expression is put aside, thus allowing spontaneity with the intention of preserving directness and originality of the living experience. I have placed my art into compartments, while maintaining a sense of unity. The small painted ...

Collin Allen - These are a set of 12 artistic lights with differing shades and glass insulators. These lights are made from salvaged materials and the glass isolators are around a hundred years old. They were on the telegraph pole when they cut them down. There is one blue that has a small chip on the side and a small imperfection on the bottom. They aren't noticeable when installed. ...

Jason Messinger - Jason Messinger creates ceramic art that straddles the cool allure of pure abstraction and the hot recognition of representation. His art explores the fuzzy borders between representation and abstraction, identity and design, meaning and beauty. Sculptures that are abstract in shape but with a figurative sensibility, and tile murals with symbolic imagery that tease the viewer into becoming complicit in their meaning. The sculptures are solidly present while expressly fluid. They change appearance with the viewers' perspective, transforming in shape and direction. Each face of the work functions like movements of a dance, with unexpected turns. Different perspectives on the work converse with each other, creating a circular narrative of motion and stillness, form and emotion. The artist approaches ceramic tile with a painter's concerns and a sculptor's experience. The idea of abstraction on the edge of identification permeates the work. Images often hint at language, symbol, map, comic strip, or hieroglyph; but only hint, as the symbols remain undefined, transitional. His multi-tile works are modular, allowing any configuration and sequence of the tiles. The murals exhibit a circular narrative, open-ended to interpretation. The viewer becomes complicit in constructing the meaning. Mounting systems allows one to ...

Seyo Cizmic - My current body of work is focused on creating artwork that will both inform and entertain the viewer through images of our everyday experiences. I believe every person has a story to tell, and I attempt to capture that story in the space all stories reveal themselves. My work is playful yet serious - it is influenced by the images and iconography from popular, contemporary culture, including advertising, music, television and magazines. I have a compelling drive to create images which explore, illustrate and express my personal thoughts and feelings. My work embodies a passionate response to the human condition: the comedies and tragedies of life and all of the wonderful experiences in between. The titles I give to my work tell a story that allows the artwork to be manipulated. My aim is not to answer the questions; it is to raise questions and to make a commentary on aspects of our everyday life. ...

Seyo Cizmic - Carly Munro - Growing, feeding, and sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host, fungus that produces a growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter. Super seeding and reproduced we consume enabling societies to survive yet damage is done as we the professional dinner guests do not benefit our host yet harm it by association. Undermining and decaying the fabric of its existence. Infiltration and assimilation! In our short existence we exploit and expose the need to consume. Our tacky and superficial exteriors entice parasites which aid the state of our surroundings. We are concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually, here to aid in the renovation and finance of this building like fungi waiting to be nibbled on by some hungry creature while sucking the life out of the organism we survive on. ...

Graf - Zyx - GRAF+ZYX : MUSEUM OF PRIVATE ARTS Already in the late 1970s GRAF+ZYX committed themselves to the ,,aestheticisation of everyday life" in all fields of a cross-culture. Their works with video, computer, laser, web design and programming, photography, graphic design, video sculpture, and music are visually influenced by Pop Art, Constructivism, Futurism, Dadaism and contemporary design, and musically rooted in Beat and Electronic Rock of the 60s and 70s, Free Jazz and classical modern music, whereas the lyrics in English - always composed and interpreted by GRAF+ZYX themselves - resemble obscure, existentialist dialogues. When required, voice modulation transforms the lyrics into a linguistically indefinable echoism. Their conceptual approach and their theoretical texts on their intermedia works can also be understood from these universal aspects. Beauty next to ugliness and complex sophisticated constructions next to stereotypical simplicity, in peaceful co-existence. An intellectually harsh phrase next to an aesthetically disorientating, exuberant emotionality to the point of a ,,comix", which is directed at unsettling the audience in general. As soon as the viewer believes in having fully grasped the artistic intention and relaxes in the certainty of his observation, another subliminally delivered cynical phrasing is guaranteed to foil this idyll. GRAF+ZYX ...

Benjamin Oppong -Danquah - BENJAMIN OPPONG DANQUAH Producer of collarge art, paintings and wall hangings. Potraits, pet portraits and house potraits,Designs for textile prints,logos,illustrations and a painter/decorator. _____________________________________________________ I was born on the 5th of December 1967 in Accra Ghana. Had my O'level at Nsutaman Catholic Secondary School,Ghana. A'level at Wenchi Methodist Secondary School, Ghana. Finally had Diploma of Art at the University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana. OTHER TRAINING Entrepreneurial courses and workshops in Accra, Ghana and foundation course in export marketing.Entrepreneurial training workshop on business management. WORK EXPERIENCE National Service at Asante Mampong National Service Secretariat on projects.As project person,I produce art works for the secretariat to raise funds.As a teacher I also taught Graphic design (Print Making), Picture making and calabash art at Cambridge Junior Secondary, a Private school in kumasi, Ghana.I also taught some senior secondary school students part-time in picture making. I am a member of Watford Area Art Forum, Watford African Caribbean Association in Watford Britain. I have done few art workshops in drawing and painting in Watford. I have my own registered company in Ghana a small scale company (Ben-Art Enterprise) and...

Matthew Isaacs - I am most interested in evaluating humanity's pursuit of its own value and purpose (religion, philosophy, etc.) in my art as well as through my criticism of art in general. I am currently studying for a Masters degree in Studio Art and then I hope to continue on to a Phd in Humanities. Ultimately, I would like to do research into the structures and fabrications of human purpose in history and contemporary society, teach at a college, stay involved in political and social activism, and continue making art.

Jean Charles Dicharry - DICHARRY & HARPER Original interiors - Exclusive designs Creation of original frescoes, trompe l'oeil architectural decoration, painted furniture & accessories. International atelier dedicated to creating unique environments for residential and commercial applications. For project proposals CD Rom inter-active presentation of portfolio free on request. Web site: www.jean-charles-dicharry.com Publications: Printed: NEW YORK MAGAZINE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE NEWSDAY MAGAZINE MIRABELLA ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST HOUSE & GARDEN (ORIGINAL, NEW & BRITISH VERSIONS) ELLE DECOR (ITALIAN VERSION) CUMHURIYET METROPOLITAN HOME INTERIOR DESIGN ETC. Multi-media: Japanese broadcast about a frescoe in Soho NY japanese broadcast about a collection in Paris France Broadcast about a frescoe on CNN in New York Design Collaborations (Partial Listing): JID JOHNSON JOHN SALADINO JUAN MONTOYA SAMUEL BOTERO JACQUES GRANGE DAVID HICKS NANCY HUANG HILTON MC CONNICO IKE, KLIEGERMAN & BARKLEY M. GROUP Clients (Partial Listing): STEFANO PILATI, DIRECTOR OF CREATION FOR YVES SAINT LAURENT MRS. EMILY FRICK M. & MRS. MICHAEL & DIANDRA DOUGLAS M. JUAN MONTOYA TIFFANY & COMPANY BERGDORF GOODMAN STUART WEITZMAN - FRETTE - LA PERLA M. & MRS. RESNICK, FRANKLIN MINT MRS DIANA BROOKS, PRESIDENT, SOTHEBY'S THE HON. PERETTY, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF NEW JERSEY M. & MRS. MARWAN BOODAI, JAZEERA AIRWAYS Contact: Cel: 33 6 61 88 95 27 NEW ...