Tag: found materials

Jon Pylypchuk at Petzel Gallery

LA’s trash is Jon Pylypchuk’s treasure, transformed via glitter and wood glue into a series of humorous portraits of alien-like creatures now on view at Chelsea’s Petzel Gallery.  The family trio featured in this panel is quirky and cute with their big eyes (actually cue balls) on cartoonishly large heads but also grotesque with their sagging and twisting flesh (composed of pants).  The title, ‘I used to be your internet kids,’ jokingly suggests that the passage of time wears on everyone, human and alien alike as offspring grow up and move on.  (On view through Feb 29th).

Jon Pylypchuk, I used to be your internet kids, fabric, wood glue, watercolor, glitter, black cue balls, polyurethane, wood on linen on panel, 2019.

Fred Wilson in ‘GLASS’ at Pace Gallery

Using found objects, Fred Wilson tells a story of a man – in the form of a classic Greek bust – who lies broken before a stoic young African woman in the artist’s 2005 ‘Love and Loss in the Milky Way.’ Surrounded by glowing white milk glass objects (plates and various vessels) with two motherly figures positioned behind them, their disastrous encounter becomes a racially charged rendition of Romeo and Juliet. (At Pace Gallery on 24th Street in Chelsea through Aug 19th).

Fred Wilson, Love and Loss in the Milky Way (seen in detail), 1 table with 47 milk glass elements, 1 plaster bust, 1 plaster head, 1 standing woman and a ceramic cookie far, 77 ¾ x 92 x 43 7/8 inches, 2005.
Fred Wilson, Love and Loss in the Milky Way (seen in detail), 1 table with 47 milk glass elements, 1 plaster bust, 1 plaster head, 1 standing woman and a ceramic cookie far, 77 ¾ x 92 x 43 7/8 inches, 2005.

Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali Gallery

Though it’s tempting to dismiss New-York based artist Gedi Sibony’s new works – rectangles cut from aluminum semi-trailers – as gimmicky abstraction, scrapes, dents and gashes lend each a certain authenticity. Redacted text, as in the covered up letters ‘ALL,’ suggest a hasty attempt at erasing the past. (At Greene Naftali Gallery through Nov 8th).

Gedi Sibony, All, aluminum semi-trailer, 101 ¾ x 104 ¾ inches, 2014.

Arturo Herrera at Sikkema Jenkins

Found paintings, shopping bags, books and more items gathered from his everyday life in Berlin and New York inspired the abstract collage-paintings in Arturo Herrera’s latest solo show. (At Sikkema Jenkins in Chelsea through Nov 15th).

Arturo Herrera, Untitled (Liebe), mixed media on canvas, 43.25 x 22.5 inches, 2014.