2014
Self-Portrait
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: powder-coated steel with glass and birdseed Paul Villinski has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, i...
Metal
How The Wind Tells Me (Second Iteration)
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist...
Wood
Empathy
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: found aluminum cans, copper leaf, wire Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit. Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. PAUL VILLINSKI has...
Metal, Wire
12
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954] Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
9, 10
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vases in various sizes. From left to right: 9 - 21h x 5w in 10 - 20h x 5w in [lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954] Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and c...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
The Disremembered II
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her work... Arrested Symphony is an exhibition incorporating sculptures, reliefs, drawings and hanging works that explore the theme of injustice that is at the roots of the predatory gem and mineral excavation industry. While at a residency in Knoxville, Tennessee, I discovered that Oakridge was only 30 miles away. Oakridge played a key role in the development of the Atom Bomb and the Manhattan Project. I began an exploration and comparison of Uranium and Emeralds. These minerals look very much alike, beautiful but dangerous on their effect on civil conflict. Colombia my birthplace, has the finest Emeralds in the world. The mining of Emeralds was an important element in the continued colonization of the region. Emeralds have helped to fund the more than 60-year conflict which has taken over 450,000 lives and displaced about 5.7 million people. Uranium has brought destruction to a level which altered the future of warfare. The developments made during the Manhattan Project led to the death of about 700,000 people and its effects are still felt around the world. I use Colombia as an example, however this situation is repeating itself in many parts of the world. Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are all involved in brutal civil conflicts fueled by Blood Diamonds. This project will make visual the human cost extracted with these minerals, once exposed to the light of day they can never be unearthed. My practice is an ongoing object-based exploration through which I create artworks which are organic and improvisational constructions that are infused with hope and renewal. The hand-crafted artworks are poetically and intricately crafted, creating an intimate repository for the individual and collective memory and implement the human body as a symbol and expression of nature, vulnerability and power. The work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with the aftermath of Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion. ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Metal
Carson
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful figurative female sculpture is by René Romero Schuler. This powerful female figure speaks to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all...
Brass, Steel
"Independent"
By Vasyl Demkiv
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Independent of others. Love for one's neighbor begins with love for oneself, for one's nature, for one's soul. Everything is inside, the whole world. Body position, raised hand, tran...
Metal, Iron, Wire
Charlie II - Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture, 2010s, Engaging Pose
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This remarkable series of contemporary indoor sculptures speaks to Paul Duval’s skill in capturing the human ‘condition’ in simple form. Each paper mache and wire sculpture possesses...
Mixed Media
Uomo Seduto
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures. But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Found Objects
Think II
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says...
Iron, Stainless Steel
Departurer
By Johannes Nielsen
Located in New York, NY
Johannes Nielsen (b.1979) was born in Falkenberg, Sweden. He is an artist who uses bronze sculpture to celebrate life and its beauty. He believes that sculptures of the human body ca...
Bronze
