Monthly Archives: September 2014

Checkout Nick van Woert’s website here!

Informed by his background in architecture and driven by a fascination with antiquity, Nick van Woert claims to “hijack” the art historical past to create his striking, wry sculptures. A strong sense of history—both natural and human—unites his prolific output. He cites Vitruvius, the early Roman architect who was inspired by nature, as a significant influence. Like an urban archaeologist, van Woert combs through the convenience stores, factories, and dumpsters in Brooklyn to source materials for his sculptures, which he then re-presents in elegant works like Home and Garden (2011). In this work, van Woert fills transparent rectangular containers with a colorful assortment of consumer and industrial products—including Kool-Aid, a Dunkin Donuts billboard, salt, and hair gel—and stacks the containers to form two perpendicular walls that look like exposed geological strata.

Nick van Woert (born 1979) is an American artist from Reno, Nevada. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He studied architecture (BArch) at the University of Oregon and Fine Arts (MFA) at Parsons the New School for Design in New York.

All-Star Cast: Up-And-Comer Nick Van Woert’s Sculptures Get Inside Your Head

Now Showing | Nick van Woert’s ‘No Man’s Land’

Faux-Finished to the Core: Q+A With Nick Van Woert

Jenny Cho and Ektor Garcia won the studio visit lottery, congrats y’all!

Gina Beavers is an artist based in New York known for her sculptural paintings that respond to images from social media. She currently has a solo exhibition, The Re-Animator, on view at Clifton Benevento in New York. Beavers has had recent solo exhibitions at Retrospective in Hudson, NY, James Fuentes in New York City, and Nudashank in Baltimore, Maryland. Beavers received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000) and her BA from the University of Virginia (1996).  

See Gina Beavers PS1 Studio Visit here.

Read more about Gina Beaver’s work at Blouin Art Info here.

Tomas Vu-Daniel

Tomas Vu-Daniel received a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso and an M.F.A. from Yale University. His work has recently been exhibited in “Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York; “Boston High Tea: Master Print Series” at the Sunshine Museum in Songzhuang, China; and “Organische Abstraction” at the Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Black Ice in New York, Flatlands I and Flatlands II in Milan and Rome, and Opium Dreams at the Museum Haus Kasuya in Yokuska, Japan. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship award in 2001.

http://san-art.org/producer/tomas-vu-daniel/

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, his exhibition there consisted of a pirate radio (with instructions on how to make one for yourself). Tiravanija
was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/rirkrit-tiravanija/