Recycling an art practice
A few years ago, when I still was making and exhibiting sculpture out of Lego pieces, I typically dismantled large-scale works after they were shown so that I could reuse the bricks for new installations. There are a few things that I saved, including a blue pedestal and an irregularly shaped sculpture that people usually say looks like [...]
SHAZAM! – New Paintings by Ruben Nieto at Cris Worley Fine Arts
The beauty of a gallery like Cris Worley Fine Arts is its invitation to view all of the art at once. The space itself requests your slow study over the panorama of work on its walls before you approach any single work (though one painting does greet you at the door). That’s a great stage [...]
Like Legos, but squarer: Shawn Smith gets more press
Austin artist Shawn Smith’s pixelated wood block sculptures were featured on Wired UK‘s blog last week. In case you missed them , Smith’s digitized vultures were on view at Lawndale Art Center in Houston in 2009, his Fuentes Ficticias sculptures are installed on the 10th floor lawn of The Austonian, and he’s also been selected [...]