L'art pour l'art

Thesis Show installation views, Columbia University Neiman Gallery, April 2012

Exhibition Opening, April 12, 2012:

3rd event, eventually:

The images used to make these drawings are taken from the Japanese film “Departures”, 2011. The original images were taken live by visitors to my studio during the third studio event (Dec 16, 2011), when the movie was screening and viewers were asked to capture single memorable moments from the ongoing narrative. Then, the captured still images were sent as the movie continued and were projected on a screen alongside the moving image. The best of the still images were made into pastel drawings and arranged again in a movie sequence, which lacks the coherence of the original story but gains a disjunctive, atmospheric, emotional way of telling a story.

4 poses in 1 sitting

installation view:

latest

Based on 3-minute drawings:

2nd sculpture project — steel

urban navigation device

brain external memory device

enhanced vision device

protective back armor

spirit transporter device

nice work eveyone!

floor blob/drawing and wood block

latest round of studio visits

MARTIN BASHER/Greenpoint

JON KESSLER/Williamsburg

ceiling kinetic sculptures and mechanisms

functioning skeleton jazz troupe

communication “web” mechanism

Kessler doubles

JILL PANGALLO/Williamsburg

work as herself and as some alter-egos: http://vimeo.com/turnitloose

recommended pick: love song from nancy to her next-door neighbor: http://vimeo.com/14767410

Try thinking in 3D

First assignment for sculpture (and first sculpture in a very long time)

industrial designers’ studio tour, Jaffa

And, we’re back!

Proudly joining the time-honored tradition of neglecting your blog during the summer.. but no more!

Yesterday I got a peek into some designers’ studios working in Jaffa, independent businesses run by their owners’ different ideas of where art/design meet.

Aqua Creations

these huge organic blobs are built from iron, covered with raw silk and make huge centerpieces for dramatic homes..

Designer Ayala Sarfati spins raw wool..

into amorphic soft felt creatures you can sit on..

SOMA makes light fixtures that remind you of salt or ice formations:

This weird esthetic isn’t for everyone’s living room and is also shown in museums as installations: http://www.aquagallery.com/#/Soma/Studio%20Pieces

In Pini Leibovich’s studio an inspiration wall with design mantras helps him focus and rearrange his thoughts:

In Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow’s studio, some projects are utilitarian and green, such as their light fixtures made of discarded headlights from their neighborhood’s garages: