Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
SOFTlab was invited by curators Christina Vasallo and Adam Henry to the show System:System, opening this coming Friday at 21 Monitor Street in Brooklyn. The show, in the words of the curators:
A failing economy has decided the recent fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Formerly a nun’s convent, the grand three-story house now stands uninhabited due to the declining membership of St. Cecilia parish and its sister school. Rather than let the building fall into disrepair the parish has found ways to breathe new life into it through a rotating schedule of film shoots, screenings, dance performances, and art exhibitions.
So many thanks to Brandt Graves and Carrie McKnelly for the invaluable help putting the show together.
Read more info on the show here.
A few more images, courtesy of Alan Tansey, after the jump below.
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Tags: installation, parametric
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
We were invited to the group show “Overlap” at the Elga Wimmer Gallery in Chelsea, opening tonight.
From the press release:
Art and architecture are often portrayed as distinct, even opposing fields, though they share many material and conceptual practices. The invited artists and architecturally trained designers share common interests in generating forms, pattern, and geometries through tactile material processes -whether hand crafted or through the use of computational technology. They often incorporate an awareness of codes or conceptual layers in their work as well as new generative methods and modes of production. The intent of OVERLAP was to begin with these commonalities, and provide space for indefinable qualities to emerge, hinting at something new.
Read the full release here.
Tags: cool, nyc, opening
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
This evening is the opening of the show Wild Child in the Bridge Gallery down in the LES. The show is curated by Bridge Gallery + Peter Macapia. SOFTlab made the exhibition’s site, featuring a cellular war between East Coast and West Coast. Check it out here.
The list of people include:
THEVERYMANY,
Kokkugia,
KolMac,
SOFTlab,
Emergent,
Aranda/Lasch,
p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s
among others.
Tags: cool, nyc, opening
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
This past weekend Mara and I made it to the Storm King Art Center in upstate. The center is a 500 acre estate with an incredible collection of large format art, from Noguchi’s to Calder’s to Serra’s… among many many more. It is WELL worth the trip.
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
We made it on Thursday to the opening of the show Darkness Descends: Scandinavian Art Now curated by Christina Vassallo. Our friend Marius Watz had three of his pieces in the show and performed with/vs Alexander Rishaug. His responsive visuals were absolutely stunning.
View more images and short clips after the jump.
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Gabe pointed me to Christoph Niemann’s lego constructs of New York, they’re just awesome.
View the rest in his NYT blog here.
You can also read the thread on his bathroom tile saga from his blog here.
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