This former stained glass technician’s work features contemporary designs in blown glass, solid glass and fusion with hand-painted enamel. Quebec artist Karine Demers says she is “hypnotized by the flamboyant movement of glass.” (Above: Patched vases, blown glass with enamel. 2011) . -Paperweight, solid glass with enamel. 2011 […]
British artist Jennifer Collier remakes household objects in unusual paper fabrics constructed by bonding, waxing, trapping and stitching. -Letter Dress, 50 x 50cm “The papers are treated as if cloth, with the main technique employed being stitch; a contemporary twist on traditional textiles,” Collier says. –Map SLR Camera, […]
Transplanted Canadian Robert Polidori has a photographer’s fixation on le Château de Versailles, which he has shot in decay and then in restoration for 25 years. His large format color photos of that royal palace outside Paris form part of Polidori’s new exhibition in Berlin. (Above: Versailles, Salle […]
Jonathan Lasker is in his 60s now and so well established for a unique combination of sophistication and playfulness that his paintings easily command six figures plus. (Below: Pride of Being, 1993. $300,000, at the Armory Show, Cheim and Read. Above: When Dreams Work, 1992.) “Lasker doesn’t waste […]
Peter Gentenaar’s Street Baroque (above) is one of his lyrical works in hand-made paper that defy definition. More than 100 of the ephemeral sculptures were hung in an abbey church at Saint-Riquier, France, in an exhibition that drew significant attention. Gentenaar, based in The Netherlands, has a comprehensive […]
Alberta artist Barbara Hirst has been absorbed by water all her life. Her fixation on reflective illusion is present in all her works, often painted in far-flung locales from Ireland to Venice. -Liquid State, 2010 -Burano, 2011 – From a series painted in Venice To gaze at a […]
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