Daniel Gordon

-Daniel Gordon is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York. The work that I am most interested that he did was a series of photographs of himself flying. He made these works from 2001-2004 and they have sparked an idea in my head and inspired me for a project that I would like to do. Here is a link to see more of his work, but here are just a few of my favorites.
http://www.danielgordonstudio.com/projects/flying-pictures

Cornelia Konrads

-Above is a sculpture by Cornelia Konrads who is a German artist that did a lot of mind bending and gravity-defying installations that were sight specific. A lot of her installations also utilize the materials that were from that area. I have never seen anything like this work before and am so intrigued in the way that she makes an interaction between man and nature seem mind blowing and "other-worldly". Below are a couple more of my favorite installations by Konrads.

Erwin Wurm

-Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist born in 1954, who does a lot of really interesting sculptural works. His work is produced almost with no thought beforehand and are mostly about his depictions of everyday life. He thinks that it is very important for his works to provoke humor in them as well, which was something that really brought me into wanting to look at his work. For example, the piece I have selected below is called Idiot I.

 

-I have also attached a link to a short video about Erwin Wurm below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RW9pwJfI

Richard Artschwager

-Above is a piece (Table with Pink Tablecloth) by Richard Artschwager, a painter and sculptor who created pieces that ranged from forms of tables, chairs and doors. All of these objects were made very geometrically and had a sort of distortion added to them. One piece by him in particular that I like is the one below because he starts to incorporate the wall into adding an element of dimension to the piece and give it a sense of illusion to actually look like a chair. 



-Below is a link to a New York Times article written about Artschwager after he passed away. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/arts/design/richard-artschwager-painter-and-sculptor-dies-at-89.html?_r=0 

A Language of Exposures (my exhibit review)

 -Above is a photograph I took at the Wallspace Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. This piece titled, The Man in the White Hat Dropped It, was part of the Shannon Ebner exhibition, A Language of Exposures. Ebner is an artist working from Los Angeles who has an interest in photography and how it can address space outside of their frames as well as generate symbolic visuals. The whole gallery consisted of 7 complete pieces; 1 being a type of video that flashed through a number of photographs (of rotating human torso), and the others being a mix of framed objects to photographs. The work is spaced sporadically throughout the gallery, and 1 piece being in a separate room completely isolated from the rest. The piece above with the letters is what the viewer first notices when they enter into the gallery. When approaching this piece, you want to read it right away however, it is not so easy. The way that Ebner put it together is not how we are used to. There are no clear spacing between each words, they aren't put together correctly, the sentences and words are divided strangely between the frame themselves and the frames that proceed them. All of this makes it harder to read and it is as if we have to decode the message for a couple minutes and then go back and think about what it just said. Ebner seems to find these letters or words out in the world and then using them to create some type of her own language, in which isn't easily explainable. Moreover, the way she displays this new language is intriguing and makes the viewer want to figure out what she is trying to say, rather than just giving up. Her other pieces in the exhibit include photographs of tools from auto-body shops. In these, she seems to be adding to her creation of language as well, although it is not as obvious as the piece above. Below are some more photographs I took of the work at the gallery. 

Sol Lewitt

-This is a photo of an installation of wall drawings by Sol Lewitt at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2000. His sculptures and drawings were considered 'colorful, jazzy, geometric and simple.' Although these wall paintings may seem simple, they took a lot a time and sometimes he would have help from teams of people that still took weeks to complete the works. Sometimes I find myself uninterested in minimalist art or abstract expressionism, but Lewitts work (his sculptures especially) leave me far from uninterested and wanting to look at for hours. 



-Here is a link to a New York Times article written about Lewitt after he died. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html?pagewanted=all

Richard Serra

-Above is a piece by Richard Serra, who is an American sculptor. His works are known for their physicality and their massive size, as you can see from the image I have posted. Not only are his works extremely large, but their weights are massive too due to the fact his sculptures are mostly steel and sheet metal. Something that really amazes me about Serra's work is how he gets them into their locations because his work is site specific as well. Below is also a link to a brief video about Serra's work.

http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/14