Art

It’s probably a good thing that the ingenious setup of Totalities, the new Chris Johanson installation at SoHo’s Deitch Projects, first sends attendees inside the wooden dome structure that forms the exhibit’s centerpiece before spurting them out into the gallery proper. If visitors saw the worryingly jerry-built construction from the outside first, they might be wary of exploring its interior. Like the other, smaller sculptures in the mixed-media showcase (September 4 – October 25), the haphazardly nailed “space temple” is made of recycled wood, mostly salvaged from Brooklyn dumpsters. Johanson’s abstract, bold-colored paintings are also daubed, in great textured swaths, onto odd-shaped slabs of refuse timber. Continue…

Some artists sit for portraits. Others paint themselves. For Kate O’Donovan-Cook, she’s her own best subject – and as her latest work attests, her image is one that never grows tired. From ankle-deep tides to hazy hotel rooms, the shutterbug photographs herself dressed as different characters in a single scene, each with its own story embedded within its clean, crisp shot. Continue…

What if we were to take a portion of Time Square’s advertisement screens and apply them toward something that’s not consumer-driven but culture-driven, an effort that supports a broader and more intelligent experience of New York City? Continue…

Inevitably the spirit world was going to catch on to the art/fashion love-fest and try to ride the wave, but Absolut, no doubt, has done it in its full grandeur. On September 30^th, Absolut will take designer Helmut Lang’s first institutional solo art exhibition Continue…

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