Hyperallergic says Osman’s care for and attention to his modest materials, the particularities of their identity, is rare in a society where excess is celebrated daily.
#jimosman
Tag: abstractsculpture
Helen Pashgian
Mike Ballard
is a UK-based artist who likes to use an art historical iconography to work through contemporary materiality questions. He also paints. More
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Isamu Noguchi
has his own museum; opened in ’85 by Isamu (1904–1988), it was the first museum in the United States to be established, designed, and installed by a living artist to show their own work. Located in Long Island City, Queens, the Museum itself is widely viewed as among the artist’s greatest achievements.
#isamunoguchi
Vincent Fecteau
is known for making small, bracingly private constructions out of foamcore and collage elements. As much as his inventions, through maquette-like scale and goofily specific found photos (of towels, toilet-paper holders), investigate the sculptural possibilities and erotic atmospherics of decor, the glue that holds Fecteau’s artless-seeming oeuvre together is a quirky querying of what art is and what it does—of how and why and if art differs from craft. (Bruce Hainley at Artforum is referring above to his work at greengrassi; the artist makes his own statements as well in the article).
#vincentfecteau

Keiko Narahashi
Two Coats has (some of the artists’ own) words about Keiko’s show with Erin titled the energy in the room which made me want to read it (you should, too).
#keikonarahashi
Liz Larner
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula’s 3 boxes, below, is featured in the exhibition The Scene Changes: Sculpture from the Collection. In an interview in 2001, von Rydingsvard discussed some of her earliest influences with Dede Young, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Neuberger Museum of Art:
“I come from a long line of Polish peasant farmers, and they were surrounded with wood—wooden homes, fences, domestic implements, wooden tools to farm the land. When you enter any of those houses you’ll see right outside a huge stack of firewood, usually quite beautifully stacked, with smoothly cut ends. There is, I guess, a feeling of familiarity, a feeling of comfort and grace. And at the same time, because of the familiarity, I can really push it around.”
#ursulavonrydingsvard

Saerom Yoon
John Pai
Tina Kim Gallery has let the amazing John Yau curate a show contextualizing John’s work within the teaching part of his practice (and alongside Leo).
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Gustav Metzger
Hyperallergic paired Gustav with Eduardo Chillida, for whom a work was a finished thing. Gustav interests me in his preoccupation with work that has limited temporality.
#gustavmetzger

Megan Reed
Megan Reed is an artist in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Painting from California College of the Arts in San Francisco and is a Hopper Prize finalist.
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