Tuesday, 6 August 2013

cybele young

Using Japanese washi paper – much of it printed with the artist’s copperplate etchings – Young sculpts snippets of domestic life. She is captivated by the fleeting moments of the every day, and manages to bring a childlike whimsy into a body of work that is adult and highly skilled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8pYGAYq_8vE
source: http://www.dailyartmuse.com/2010/07/05/cybele-youngs-miniature-paper-sculptures/

Noriko Ambe

source: http://dailyartmuse.com/page/12/?s=white

A Piece of Flat Globe Vol.9, Yupo, acrylic medium 6 11/16″ x 8″ x 3 9/16″ -

Drawing with an Exacto knife, Japan’s Noriko Ambe laboriously alters thick stacks of Yupo, a white paper made in Japan. The resulting sculptures, rife with snaking curves and rippling lines, are meant to evoke not only the peaks and valleys of the earth’s landscape, but also the wrinkles and folds of the human landscape. - See more at: http://dailyartmuse.com/page/12/?s=white#sthash.1biqeaQb.dpuf

Min Jeong song

In-Betweenness II

2012

furnace worked glass, ceramic enamel transfer

Photo: Ester Segarra

John Singer Sargent

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent, Oil on canvas 1882, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The painting depicts four young girls in the family's Paris apartment. The painting is now prominently displayed in the Boston museum in-between the two tall blue-and-white Japanese vases depicted in the work. The vases, as well as the painting itself, were donated by the Boit family.

The painting's unusual composition was noted at its earliest viewings, but the subject was taken simply as that of girls at play. Henry James, who should have known better, described the painting as representing a "happy play-world....of charming children." Only much later did viewers began to recognize the psychologically unnerving nature of the painting.

The girls (Florence, Jane, Mary Louisa and Julia) appear to be at successive phases of childhood, retreating as they grow older into alienation and loss of innocence. Notice the placement of the two older girls, at the edge of a darkened entryway, perhaps symbolic of maturation into a disturbing isolated future. All of the girls seem uncomfortably stiff and doll like, even the youngest. In retrospect, Sargent was prophetic; none of the girls were to marry, and the two oldest later suffered emotional problems.

Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent,1884 Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: http://www.penhook.org/JSS.htm

Steven Lee

Jar with Butterflies, 2011
Porcelain, cobalt inlay, decals
14 x 12 x 14 in.

Jar with Dragon, 2012
porcelain, cobalt inlay
15" x 15" x 23"

Platter 2012
porcelain, cobalt inlay,
18" x 18" x 3"

Do Ho Suh

DO HO SUH
Public Figures
Installation at the Metrotech Center Commons, Brooklyn, NY, October 1998-May 1999
fiberglass/resin, steel pipes, pipe fittings
120 x 84 x 108 inches
304.8 x 213.4 x 274.3 cm
LM1352

DO HO SUH
Fallen Star, 2012
Installation view, Stuart Collection, UCSD, San Diego, CA
Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittemann

DO HO SUH
Specimen Series: New York City Apartment: 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 (detail), 2011
polyester fabric
dimensions variable
Edition of 3
LM15216