Tag: plants

Yuken Teruya at Josee Bienvenu Gallery

New York artist Yuken Teruya continues to craft amazingly meticulous works on paper from unlikely materials, including a series of floral growths from the front pages of the New York Times in his latest solo show. Here, a plant rises from a photo accompanying an article about illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. (At Josee Bienvenu Gallery through April 11th.)

Yuken Teruya, Minding My Own Business (The New York Times, October 19, 2013), 9 newspapers, wire, glue, 2 x 12.5 x 12.5 inches, 2013-2015.

Daniel Gordon at Wallspace

Reconstructed images from the Internet form the basis for Brooklyn artist Daniel Gordon’s riotous digital still life collages at Chelsea’s Wallspace Gallery. Vivid color and abundant patterns rival Matisse’s most energetic interiors in this delightfully wacky artistic accumulation of imagery. (Through Dec 20th).

Daniel Gordon, Root Vegetables and Avocado Plant, chromogenic print, 60 x 50 inches, 2014.

Carlito Carvalhosa at Sonnabend Gallery

Known for artwork inspired by and interacting with architecture, Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa fills two rooms of Chelsea’s Sonnabend Gallery with an installation of fluorescent lights, telephone poles and glassware that suggests a field of ungainly plants or delicately balanced, deconstructed architecture.

Carlito Carvalhosa, Possibility Matters, Poles, glasses, fluorescent lights, dimensions variable, 2014.

Jonas Woods on the High Line

New residential buildings are springing up on 10th Ave like weeds, making this billboard-sized domestic scene by LA artist Jonas Woods strangely appropriate.  The personality of each plant is enhanced by quirky pots – most of which resemble creations by Wood’s wife, ceramic artist Shio Kusaka.  (On the High Line at 18th Street through Feb 3rd.)  

Jonas Woods, Shelf Still Life, print on vinyl, 25 x 75 feet, 2013.

Jonas Wood at Lever House Art Collection

On the heels of a well-received show at Anton Kern Gallery, LA-based painter Jonas Wood presents giant plant paintings against a wallpaper of basketballs at Lever House this fall.  This juxtaposition of sports and plants (each of which has been sampled from another source, including his own earlier paintings) brings together two of Wood’s interests and pits a speedy sport against the slower pleasures of horticulture.  (At Lever House between 53rd and 54th Streets on Park Ave through Jan 4th).