Fine Art
Breaking Boundaries: Manjari Sharma’s Darshan
Today I’m pulled out of retirement by some really staggering work by Manjari Sharma. It’s rare to see something truly new and groundbreaking, especially as it pertains to the photographic medium itself.
Sarah Wilmer’s Magical World
Sarah Wilmer’s pictures of the prep school set gone dark and the mystical Dutch experience in the field really intrigue me.
Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann’s Conditions
Sometimes the simplest images are the most affecting.
Jamie Stuart’s “Man in a Blizzard” as told by Roger Ebert
Yeah, what did you do that was so productive during the blizzard? I found some old packets of saltines and went to town. Jamie Stuart made a movie that received critical acclaim from Roger Ebert. So I think he wins.
Richard Mosse’s Infra
I’m incredibly taken with Richard Mosse’s project Infra, which I’ve just seen for the first time. He has used a special film to create an otherworldy pink effect to offset the very intense political temperature of the Congo. It feels to me like an incredible way to envision and encapsulate this experience, and is beyond groundbreaking. Not to mention simply beautiful.
F.L.O.A.T. Gallery and Ruiz’s Factory of Dreams.
There’s a new gallery on Atlantic Avenue, F.L.O.A.T., and it wowed folks last Friday with its inaugural exhibition, showing work from crowd-pleaser Stefan Ruiz’s The Factory of Dreams project.
David Chancellor and His Hunters
Photographer David Chancellor has won the Taylor Wessing Photography Prize for his portrait of a huntress. There’s something fabulous about that word. Here’s the winning picture. I do love it, with the matching of the hair to the landscape and the horse, and the way the image feels like it was plucked right out of the Museum of Natural History’s dioramas.
Martine Fougeron and her Boys.
I like a long term project, and Fougeron’s in fascinating. Not least because these kids seem to have grown up rather smoothly; even their awkward phases are pretty aesthetically pleasing. Also they appear to entertain girls in hot tubs and drinks beers with full parental consent.
In The City with Lori Nix
I’m loving Lori Nix’s work from The City, and the copious amounts of detail included in each tableaux.
Jeff Bark’s Woodpecker.
Today I found a two-part interview with Jeff Bark on SPREAD ArtCulture’s blog. If Gregory Crewdson and Bill Henson had a love child, I think the resulting spawn would make work like this.
