Jonathan Adler—meet eco-sculptor Shari Mendelson. Mendelson is a Brooklyn-based artist and self-proclaimed recycling goddess who constructs translucent vessel forms out of used water bottles and a bit of hot glue. The forms are beautiful, many are bubbly and bear some resemblance to the aforementioned designer’s curvy vases. Several of these pieces are copies of specific glass bottles from the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum. Sometimes, the shape and hue of the found water bottles influence the outcome of the sculpture.
Mendelson’s work is being featured this month of June in an two person show titled: “TRANSLATIONS FROM THE UBIQUITOUS LARGESSE” at the Sideshow Gallery in New York. Click here to read the NYT review from today.
Blue Bubble Bottle, plastic from discarded bottles, hot glue, 10"x8"x8", 2009
The 3rd 01SJ Biennial will take place September 16-19 cialis online, 2010 in San Jose, CA.The theme of the Biennial is “Build Your Own World.” Prior to the Biennial, from September 4-15, ZER01: the Art and Technology Network, in collaboration with partners from around the world, is inviting independent artists, designers, architects, engineers, programmers, and corporate and academic research programs to publicly work in San Jose’s “South Hall” to create projects for exhibition, performance, provocation, and interaction. This innovative platform is titled Out of the Garage cialis online, Into the World and will build on the dynamic histories of garage hacking and citizen science. Cialis online: tied into this idea of public participation and new creations is the first iteration of the 01SJ Green Prix, an “eco-motion” parade, public workshop, family oriented green activities, and a music program. Cialis online: the Green Prix will be an innovative venue for artists to produce and showcase projects that not only celebrate but challenge sustainable locomotion to reach new limits.Sustainable transportation is not only about being “green”, but commenting on how we move about and travel. ZER01 is inviting an artist or artist team to participate in a public workshop for the Green Prix and imagine not just what is next, but work to ensure what’s next matters.
Copy available also at the 01SJ website: http://zero1.org/01sj/greenprix/workshop
Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir who form the collaborative Ecoarttech have a new web art piece that brings the physical cycles of the moon into the electronic realm of the Internet.At sunrise and sunset, fluctuating orbs of light disrupt the “digital landscape,” and the information environment of the website for the Whitney Museum of American Art (whitney.org). The regular museum website is ruptured by ecoarttech’s visual intervention of blurry orbs overpowing the other online information timed to coincide precisely with sunrise and sunset in New York City (EST); viagra online without prescription.The size and speed of the orbs will vary based on the number of visitors to whitney.org since the previous sunrise (for sunset) or sunset (for sunrise); higher visitation results in larger viagra online without prescription, slower-moving orbs.
Ecoarttech’s work has consistently explored relationships between landscape, technology, and culture, and their commissioned work for whitney.org metaphorically explores the museum’s information landscape as it is shaped by its visitors.
I am going to have my classes tune in live in Chicago on January 5 and 6, 2010 to observe this unnatural phenomenon.
Unnatural sunrise by Ecoarttech temporarily disrupts the Whitney's main web portal.
“Where we are now is making work that reflects our own individual sensibilities, an ongoing dialogue that ultimately results in work that challenges us as much as it may challenge a viewer, or an idea about what art is, or what are can be.Is an ice cream truck refitted as a war machine serving ice cream art? Yes, we think so.” —Dufala brothers
Steven Dufala and Billy Blaise Dufala are two artists to watch; accessrx.They just won $25,000 from the West Collection to promote and create new work. I got to see their prize-winning truck retrofitted with guns this past Thursday evening at the art fair opening. The thing that made the truck special is that the artists themselves were handing out free ice cream. Although this blog is mostly dedicated to promoting eco-friendly projects, I think the Dufala brothers are really onto something that we all inherently know. Free food can create a massively enthusiastic audience. Imagine if their truck were retrofitted with solar panels to promote the mission of renewable energy via free ice cream from solar powered freezers…
The West Collection has the mission of discovering young artists who are creating challenging and inventive work and to present an experience of this new art to the public – accessrx. Accessrx: to that end they launched the West Prize here in Chicago this past weekend, where an exhibition of 10 West Prize Acquisition Finalists for 2009 was on show at NEXT ’09 at the Merchandise Mart.
