Archive for June, 2010
By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Vietnamese-born, Seattle-based rising talent Diem Chau%26#8217;s work bridges art and design, combining such unlikely materials as porcelain, organza, thread and toothpicks to create sculptural vignettes that suggest poignant domestic moments. Chau%26#8217;s latest material can be traced back to childhood:%26nbsp; the good ole, prosaic box of Crayolas. In 2006, she began hand-carving basic... |
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By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Vietnamese-born, Seattle-based rising talent Diem Chau%26#8217;s work bridges art and design, combining such unlikely materials as porcelain, organza, thread and toothpicks to create sculptural vignettes that suggest poignant domestic moments. Chau%26#8217;s latest material can be traced back to childhood:%26nbsp; the good ole, prosaic box of Crayolas. In 2006, she began hand-carving basic... |
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By: Paper City on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Vietnamese-born, Seattle-based rising talent Diem Chau%26#8217;s work bridges art and design, combining such unlikely materials as porcelain, organza, thread and toothpicks to create sculptural vignettes that suggest poignant domestic moments. Chau%26#8217;s latest material can be traced back to childhood:%26nbsp; the good ole, prosaic box of Crayolas. In 2006, she began hand-carving basic... |
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By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 12:59 am
One of the masters of postwar photography, Ishimoto Yasuhiro (born 1921), gets a new look when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston%26#8217;s assistant curator of photography, Yasufumi Nakamori, mounts %26#8220;Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro.%26#8221; The exhibition will be a revelation for those unfamiliar with Ishimoto%26#8217;s work and... |
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By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 12:59 am
One of the masters of postwar photography, Ishimoto Yasuhiro (born 1921), gets a new look when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston%26#8217;s assistant curator of photography, Yasufumi Nakamori, mounts %26#8220;Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro.%26#8221; The exhibition will be a revelation for those unfamiliar with Ishimoto%26#8217;s work and... |
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By: Paper City on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 12:59 am
One of the masters of postwar photography, Ishimoto Yasuhiro (born 1921), gets a new look when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston%26#8217;s assistant curator of photography, Yasufumi Nakamori, mounts %26#8220;Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro.%26#8221; The exhibition will be a revelation for those unfamiliar with Ishimoto%26#8217;s work and... |
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By: Paper City on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Crafts have now infiltrated the mainstream museum world, sparked by the guerrilla tactics of performance. One of summer%26#8217;s must-see exhibitions in this direction is %26#8220;Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft,%26#8221; a topical view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. The lively, even raucous group show encompasses insouciant attitudes... |
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By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Crafts have now infiltrated the mainstream museum world, sparked by the guerrilla tactics of performance. One of summer%26#8217;s must-see exhibitions in this direction is %26#8220;Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft,%26#8221; a topical view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. The lively, even raucous group show encompasses insouciant attitudes... |
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By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Crafts have now infiltrated the mainstream museum world, sparked by the guerrilla tactics of performance. One of summer%26#8217;s must-see exhibitions in this direction is %26#8220;Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft,%26#8221; a topical view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. The lively, even raucous group show encompasses insouciant attitudes... |
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By: Dallas Art Dealers Association on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Among the ArtHouston offerings, one standout show by a promising Texan melds minimalist metal with a little shadow play. %26#8220;Jay Shinn: Refuge%26#8221; opens Saturday, July 10, at Barbara Davis Gallery, marking the artist%26#8217;s Houston debut. Keep Shinn on your radar: His projected beams of light are redolent of early James Turrell, while his eloquent steel rods recall the precise... |
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