{"id":6524,"date":"2017-05-30T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:33:52","slug":"elias-sime-at-james-cohan-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/elias-sime-at-james-cohan-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elias Sime, Tightrope: Evolution 2 at James Cohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A swirling, starry sky crafted from braided electrical wire hovers over a curving organic landscape made from keyboard keys in this detail from Ethiopian artist Elias Sime\u2019s collaged wall panel at James Cohan Gallery. Abstract yet suggestive of a landscape, this piece is testament to the resourcefulness of turning manmade objects &#8211; discarded electronics &#8211; into objects recalling natural beauty. (On view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/2017-04-28_elias-sime\/thumbnails#artworks\">James Cohan Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea location through June 17<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6525\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/elias-sime-at-james-cohan-gallery-2\/elias_sime\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6525\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/elias_sime-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elias Sime, (detail) Tightrope: Evolution 2, reclaimed electrical wires on panel, 91 x 94 inches, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swirling, starry sky crafted from braided electrical wire hovers over a curving organic landscape made from keyboard keys in this detail from Ethiopian artist Elias Sime\u2019s collaged wall panel at James Cohan Gallery. Abstract yet suggestive of a landscape, this piece is testament to the resourcefulness of turning manmade objects &#8211; discarded electronics &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/elias-sime-at-james-cohan-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elias Sime, Tightrope: Evolution 2 at James Cohan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,117,7149,7154,5209,7148,13,6943,7151,7152,7153,5210,16,7150],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-electrical","tag-electronics","tag-elias-sime","tag-evolution-2","tag-gallery","tag-james-cohan","tag-keyboard","tag-keys","tag-reclaimed","tag-tightrope","tag-tour","tag-wires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1He","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11605,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}