Tag: digital

Michel Majerus at Matthew Marks Gallery

Before his untimely death in 2002 at age 35, Berlin-based artist Michel Majerus was hailed as a quintessential information age artist, mixing images and info from unrelated sources to suggest a stew of influences more than a coherent statement. Here, Andy Warhol’s discount Raphael abuts an ecstatic youth from an ad, suggesting two takes on transcendent experiences. (At Matthew Marks Gallery‘s 522 West 22nd Street location).

Michel Majerus, o.T. (69), acrylic on cotton, two panels, each: 119 ¼ x 93 ¼ inches, 1994.

Jonas Wood at Anton Kern Gallery

LA-based artist Jonas Wood builds his paintings from photos, sourcing them in the digital.  At the same time, his memories supply more details as in this painting of his father’s house in Boston in which the bird and flower paintings are depicted as Wood remembered them from childhood rather than how they actually are.  (At Chelesa’s Anton Kern Gallery through Oct 19th).  

Jonas Wood, Yellow Front Hall, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2013.

James Angus in ‘Lightness of Being’ at City Hall Park

One of the city’s best exhibitions of the moment isn’t in a gallery…the Public Art Fund’s exhibition ‘Lightness of Being’ at City Hall Park brings together an outstanding array of sculpture that surprises with its materials, sizes or concepts.  This week, we’ll check it out, starting with this distorted tractor by Australian-American artist James Angus, which not only looks odd in its über urban environment, but is given another twist by digital distortions in the manufacturing process.  (Through December 13th).   

James Angus, ‘John Deere Model D,’ painted steel, painted cast iron, 2013.