Tina Kohlmann’s artistic practice integrates installation, sculpture, performance and the use of objects. Her work is influenced by an interest in ethnological artifacts, nature and science, as well as costumes and fashion. Through her work, she moves between object and metaphor and playfully undermines aesthetic value systems. Kohlmann’s installations engage with various working methods and …
Liliya Lifánova’s (American, born in Kyrgyzstan, 1983) paintings, sculptural installations and wearables for participatory videos and performances are positioned at the intersection of fine arts and experimental theater/performance. Lifanova’s work is the struggle for abstraction as the artist grapples with notions of identity within tradition, and the cultural memory of a political system destroying itself …
Mei-Ling Liu collects local packing and recycled materials to express her internal and external changing thinking patterns related to, on the one hand, the material link with the surrounding environment and landscape, and on the other hand with the spiritual link to the present. Using the concept of movable type, Mei-Ling cuts the recycled material into …
In her diverse practice (photography, sculpture, drawing and installation), HsiangLu Meng examines the existing relationships between the individual and the collective. She investigates the balance between individual identity and the collective mindset, between the idealistic and imaginative that she aspires to and the realistic and logical thinking mindset that derives from her earlier educational training in chemical engineering. …
Currently based in Berlin, Japanese artist Akiyasu Shimizu works in different media, such as photography, painting and installation which he fuses together under the term “associativity.” In light of his Japanese background, his practice exercises simplicity, abstraction and space. In his artistic approach, Shimizu modifies the perspective in his works to create either illusion or …
Presented as part of the Workspace 2015 series, featuring the work of LES Studio Program artists-in-residence. Borrowed from Chapter Seventeen of Edwin A. Abbott’s 1884 novel “Flatland,” How the sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds, introduces the work of four artists–Constantin Hartenstein, Kate Stone, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, Holly Veselka–whose practices both reveal and manipulate the tensions between concepts …
Tuo Wang employs various mediums to create multi-narrative spectacles, whilst layering painting, photography, sculptural objects and text amongst video installations. Serving as the core of his narrative, Wang’s video installations often alternate between performance and documentary. The artist has developed a process that combines interview, reality show-style montage and the theatre of absurd to construct a …
Tamar Ettun and Jessica Robbins Curated by Natasha Marie Llorens, with Natasha Hoskins Exhibition Dates: May 2 – May 31, 2015 Viewing Hours: M-Sa 8a-7p, Su 10a-6p Location: 120 Essex Street NY, NY 10002 Two commissioned installations mounted within Essex Street Market in disparate vendor stalls Artists Alliance Inc. is very pleased to present vois-tu-pas … que je brûle? (do …
#power #masculinity #newmaterials #video #installation #blackandwhiteandblueandsilver #alphabehavior #print #neon #metal #post-feminism #ubersexual #acrylicglassstructures #rodsrodsrods #objectsmultiplied #meshing #3d #latinofirefighters #ritesofpassage #fit #subliminal #fratboys #post-soviet-existence #vodkamartini #outerlimits #projection #surfaces #corporate #architecture #phillycheesesteaks Constantin Hartenstein is a German artist based in New York. He studied “Art and Media” at University of the Arts Berlin; and graduated with honors …
Mostly comprised of site-specific projects and environmental installations, my work considers humanity’s cultural heritage in tandem with an evolving, physical world. Specifically exploring the subject of cosmology, I use scientific, historical, and literary documents to research, manipulate, and re-contextualize visual representations of our world and the cosmos. Presenting this imagery as multi-disciplinary conceptual or sculptural …
