ARTISTS
Sharpening New Talent in Miami
At Miami Pulse this year, Okay Mountain, an outfit of young artists from Austin, won the emerging artist prize. The artists, who band together to make their work, presented an delightful spoof on a convenience store, with every last detail re-created by hand, from the items for sale to the atm machine. They sold out of their fabricated cans of Texas gravy. Youthful hopefulness permeated the fairs across the board, even at Art Basel Miami, with a plethora of eye-catching work by promising emerging artists. Showcasing fresh names seemed to be the signature of young gallerists eager to wow collectors on the hunt.
Editorial / 黑料不打烊
10 Dec, 2009
At Miami Pulse this year, Okay Mountain, an outfit of young artists from Austin, won the emerging artist prize. The artists, who band together to make their work, presented an delightful spoof on a convenience store, with every last detail re-created by hand, from the items for sale to the atm machine. They sold out of their fabricated cans of Texas gravy.
Youthful hopefulness permeated the fairs across the board, even at Art Basel Miami, with a plethora of eye-catching work by promising emerging artists. Showcasing fresh names seemed to be the signature of young gallerists eager to wow collectors on the hunt.
Recurring themes seen throughout the fairs were sincere approaches to dilapidation of cities and objects; and using organic materials like marble and stone. At Kopeikin Gallery, Rebecca Bird, who lives in Brooklyn and has background in Japanese pigment painting, paints surreal images of garbage and disaster scenes and wonders when 鈥溾�檙efuse鈥� becomes 鈥榥ature鈥欌��.
Youthful hopefulness permeated the fairs across the board, even at Art Basel Miami, with a plethora of eye-catching work by promising emerging artists. Showcasing fresh names seemed to be the signature of young gallerists eager to wow collectors on the hunt.
Recurring themes seen throughout the fairs were sincere approaches to dilapidation of cities and objects; and using organic materials like marble and stone. At Kopeikin Gallery, Rebecca Bird, who lives in Brooklyn and has background in Japanese pigment painting, paints surreal images of garbage and disaster scenes and wonders when 鈥溾�檙efuse鈥� becomes 鈥榥ature鈥欌��.
At Pierogi and Hale鈥檚 special exhibition in Wynwood, a very impressive array of one-person shows included a video and sound piece one can walk on top of by Douglas Henderson. 鈥橫usic for 100 Carpenters鈥� is a performance by workers in a sweatshop environment who tap out a sophisticated musical score with their tools under the direction of a work supervisor.
Grant Barnhart is a young self-taught artist whose work solo show 鈥楤eg for it鈥� opens this Saturday in at Seattle鈥檚 Ambach & Rice. Exhibiting for the first time at NADA, his paintings sold well and demonstrated immersive and imaginative painterly talent at hand.
Notably large works by Yukiko Suto, a 31 year old artist from Kanagawa in Japan are quiet and magnetic. Suto draws intricately on plaster that she spreads out on the canvas, giving the surface a wonderfully chalky effect decorated by the slightest touches of watercolor.
Grant Barnhart is a young self-taught artist whose work solo show 鈥楤eg for it鈥� opens this Saturday in at Seattle鈥檚 Ambach & Rice. Exhibiting for the first time at NADA, his paintings sold well and demonstrated immersive and imaginative painterly talent at hand.
Notably large works by Yukiko Suto, a 31 year old artist from Kanagawa in Japan are quiet and magnetic. Suto draws intricately on plaster that she spreads out on the canvas, giving the surface a wonderfully chalky effect decorated by the slightest touches of watercolor.
