Artist and architect Tomás Saraceno explores the world we inhibit through his experiments in art and sustainability.
For the 14 Billions (Working Title) exhibition Saraceno collaborated with astrophysicists, engineers, and spider researchers to create a large scale model of a black widow’s web. Inspired by the scientific study of spiders’ webs to understand the origin [...]
Tomás Saraceno – 14 Billions (Working Title) 2010
Audrey Kawasaki
Audrey Kawasaki is a painter and illustrator living in Los Angeles, California. Paintings stylistically reflect art nouveau and Japanese manga, creating tension between innocence and seduction. Her work is distinct: young girls with transparent features and evocative wide set eyes. Oil paint is spread thinly on wood allowing for the grain to show through.
With [...]
MOT-Space For Your Future
Space For Your Future is the current exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The exhibition features multidisciplinary work categorized into four groups: Body-Inner Space, Metaphor, Body Sensation, and Memory/Data. Together they propose how we will live and communicate in the future.
My favorite spaces are Body-Inner and Memory/Data:
Body-Inner Space features Cosmic Wonder’s Magic [...]
Nikki S. Lee, Subcultural Chameleon
Nikki S. Lee is known for studying subcultures by introducing herself as an artist and participating in their activities. She then portrays them by posing for photographs. Her various projects include: the Hispanic project, skateboarders project, lesbian project, yuppie project, punk project, seniors project, etc. GAK is currently running an exhibit of her [...]
Dutch Design Love: Kiki van Eijk
Kiki van Eijk is a dutch designer with a kick-ass portfolio of work. I first saw her work posted on core77 for dutch design week 2005. Upon visiting her website kikiworld.nl, I recognized Modern Dutch Tile Chair. I love how this design invokes dutch tradition with a twist by adding in some [...]
