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Carey Denniston

Carey Denniston is a photographer and installation artist based in Brooklyn. In her current show she constructed frames touching face to face so that only fragments of an image are visible. The obstruction allows the stark image originally photographed to become unfamiliar and transform into a different perceived image. These economical moves mixed with minimalist images allows for a poetic experience while engaging with her everyday encounters she has photographed.

This work is on view as part of the Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition at 450 W. 41 St, NYC, through June 16.

Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs’ new installation Space Program: Mars, opened last week at the Park Avenue Armory. Sachs has filled the entire 55,000 square foot hall with sculptures that transport you on a mission to outer space. The sculptures are all life size, ranging from a Hasselblad camera (made out of a Canon, painted white) to a giant replica of the spacecraft that landed on Mars. It’s a mind-blowing, ambitious and exciting show.

Space Program: Mars is on view at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave., NYC, through June 17.

By Skye Parrott | Posted in Installation, Sculpture | Tagged Park Avenue Armory, Space Program: Mars, Tom Sachs | Comments (0)

Holton Rower

These paintings by Holton Rower are created by pouring a specially developed paint onto wood and allowing gravity to do these rest. Nineteen of the artist’s pour paintings are on view at The Hole, 312 Bowery, NYC, through May 27.

By Skye Parrott | Posted in Painting | Tagged Holton Rower, The Hole | Comments (0)

Jason Nocito

These photos are taken from Jason Nocito’s new book, I Heart Transylvania, co-published by Dashwood Books, which is a sort of love letter to his wife, Megan, set in Vancouver.

By Skye Parrott | Posted in Photography | Tagged Dashwood Books, I Heart Transylvania, Jason Nocito | Comments (0)

Hunt : @_Metal_Mouth_

A scavenger hunt is a game in which an organizer prepares a list defining specific items which the participants (as either individuals or teams) seek to gather. The goal is most often to be the first to complete the list, although in a variation on the game players can also be challenged to complete the tasks on the list in the most creative manner. Not unlike a scavenger hunt, Instagram is a portal where images are shared from our lives with a vast social network via mobil technology but where there is no list of specific things to be found. Or is it?

Always curious as to the interconnectivity of things, (for example, but not limited to how people meet and communicate) “Hunt” is a project that was recently conceived by me and Francesca Fondevila after having established a friendship thru this simple application a few months prior. It’s all about chaos vs. order, voyeurism and how we can curate from unlimited visual stimuli.

Choice blindness refers to ways in which people are blind to their own choices and preferences. The Hawthorne effect is the process where human subjects of an experiment change their behavior, simply because they are being studied. In selective group perception, people tend to actively filter information they think is irrelevant. Perhaps by introducing a control we can further investigate this phenomena in a visual landscape.

Once a month Francesca and I will contact an instagram user that is outside of our circle of friends with a list of 30 items. They will have one day to find, photograph and upload in realtime using the hash tag “#dossierhunt”. The images will then be displayed here using the same layout each time. The first of this series will be from @_metal_mouth_ whom is the aforementioned co creator for this project.

Above dead bug : string

scissors (all metal) : colored or printed sock

something broken: puddle of liquid

a heart : an alive bug

a secret : something cold

a scar : something stolen

up : down

a pencil : fruit

shaped rock : page 67 from a book

something that makes you smile : something hot

favorite word : index of a book

a fork : a cd

poem : a bruise

water : monster

something torn : a number

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Sandy Kim

Sandy Kim is a photographer who lives in San Francisco. She will be signing copies of her new book, Sky High, at the Family Temporary Bookstore at MOCA Geffen, 152 N. Central Ave, Los Angeles, on Monday, April 23, from 5-6 pm.

By Skye Parrott | Posted in Photography | Tagged Family Bookstore, MOCA Geffen, Sandy Kim, Sky High | Comments (0)

Dimitri Tsykalov

Dimitri Tsykalov is a Russian-born artist who lives in Paris. Images from this series of knit credit cards are courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion. I also recommend checking out his series of skulls.

By Skye Parrott | Posted in Art | Tagged Dimitri Tsykalov, Galerie Rabouan Moussion | Comments (0)

Hackney Kisses

London-based photographer Stephen Gill bought a lot of 9000 images off Ebay two years ago, marked as documenting London’s East End. They turned out to be thousands upon thousands of wedding photographs. Taken by an unknown photographer in the late 50′s, they document couples wedding in post-WWII London, and have a lovely sameness to them. They will be published in an upcoming book called Hackney Kisses.

via NYTimes

By Skye Parrott | Posted in Photography | Tagged Hackney Kisses, Stephen Gill | Comments (0)

Tony Cederteg

While never really working on his first short film Fikon Tony Cederteg made these short little films with his cell phone – mostly for the music of Jony but obviously in some restlessness.

By Alec Friedman | Posted in Art, Etcetera, Film, Video | Tagged Art Director, Fukt [ f ], Jony, Our Legacy, Tony Cederteg | Comments (0)

Sanya Kantarovsky

Russian-born, LA-based artist Sanya Kantarovsky’s first solo show at Marc Foxx, Blue Notebook No.10, broadens his practice of painting with the inclusion of arching, whimsical sculptures and video. The title is borrowed from a 1930′s poem by the Soviet-era surrealist, Daniil Kharm, written a few years before his execution. Silhouettes of men reminiscent of a 1950′s cartoons. Sweeping brushstrokes of gray, black and blue in the palette of a northeastern winter or a Soviet memory. A pedestal with two shoes, perched on the toes, too precarious to suggest a place of honor. Perhaps an image of instability, a momentary balance before a fall. The show runs through March 24 at Marc Foxx, 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.