Cosmic Microwave Background Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks to Grief Story By Timothy Yanick Hunter & Robert Bolton For this issue, Newest invited several artists to compose speculative interviews in conversation with the past. Of course, art is always in dialogue with the past, drawing on the unbroken flow of existence. Our brief was an invitation to take this tacit process and make it explicit: to notate—via Q&A—how time flows through …
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Who is Geoff McFetridge? You’ve seen this Calgary artist’s work, even if you’ve never heard his name By Leah Collins You know his work. It’s staring back at you from the face of an Apple Watch, or maybe you’ve seen one of his brand collabs with Nike or Uniqlo — or Hermes, if you’re fancy. He’s the designer who created every OS interface for Spike Jonze’s prescient film Her (2013). In Ottawa, commuters pass by one of …
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SARA CWYNAR BY SOFIA COPPOLA Filmmaker Sofia Coppola visited the Brooklyn studio of artist Sara Cwynar to see her newest works and to take photographs. After their meeting, Coppola engaged Cwynar in a series of questions by email, covering her techniques, aspirations, and inspirations. By Sofia Coppola To view the full interview visit Gagosian Quarterly. For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000
What’s On at Art Toronto This Weekend By Robb Jamieson To view the full post visit Elle Canada. For more information about Maureen Gruben please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000
The Best Shows to See During Art Toronto By Neil Price In Maureen Gruben’s soundless video Nuna (2023) – meaning ‘land’ in Inuvialuktun – people from Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories, draw a massive, blood-red broadcloth from Arctic snow. It is a gruelling, collective performance: multiple pairs of hands pull at once from different corners of the fabric. The cloth, seen from both close-up and aerial perspectives, eventually takes the shape of …
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Maureen Gruben at COOPER COLE To view the full post visit Art Viewer. For more information about Maureen Gruben please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000
8 Canadian Artists to Check Out This Fall Canada has a rich creative history and boasts some of the most exciting artists in the world today. By Robb Jamieson An Afghan-Canadian artist who works mainly in mixed-media textiles, Hangama Amiri layers fabric, carefully sews all the details and uses acrylic paint and inkjet printed chiffon to create pictorial scenes. Amiri’s attraction to these materials is thanks to members of her …
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Sami Tsang’s Rule-Breaking Sculptures By Elia Essen “Breaking rules is a huge element in my work,” says Sami Tsang, whose development as an artist has been marked by unleashing her own creativity from the conservative Chinese household she was raised in. As a child, she studied traditional Chinese painting, copying every minute detail in other artists’ work, but it did little to encourage self-expression—replication over creativity and realism over imagination. “I …
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Geoff McFetridge: the Organic Interface Geoff McFetridge’s new body of work in The Organic Interface explores a concept that has been a constant source of inspiration and contemplation for the artist: How can images explain and communicate thoughts that are in between our understandings. On their way to some destination, traveling, transforming, evolving, becoming. […] To view the full text visit Artfacts. For more information about Geoff McFetridge please contact …
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On the Hudson, Visions for a New Native American Art By Holland Cotter Big stand-alone sculptures are inherently dramatic. “Deer Woman’s New Certificate-of-Indian-Blood-Skin” by Natalie Ball, which suggests a kind of quilted explosion, certainly has presence. So, in a spooky way, does Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill’s “Counterblaste,” a life-size nude female figure, part human, part animal, made from pantyhose stuffed with tobacco, street debris and wildflowers. Larger than either are fiber …
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