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Markus Linnenbrink’s Installations Flood Interiors with Rainbow Pigments

If there’s anyone whose work could convey the experience of tetrachromacy, it’s Markus Linnenbrink. The multi-disciplinary artist’s trippy installations and paintings might take those with average vision closer to experiencing a condition where the affected see millions more colors on the spectrum than most human beings. However, Linnenbrink’s drips and strips of colors aren’t a result of a biological condition but rather an aesthetic preference (besides, tetrachromacy only affects women).

WASSERSCHEIDE(DESIREALLPUTTOGETHER). Kunsthalle Nuernberg Germany, 2014.

The Germany-born, New York-based Linnenbrink surprisingly entered the art world in monochrome, sticking to his then-typical palette of greys, blacks and whites. Now, however, his use of color marks a signature style in his dry pigment and resin works. He’s poured paints over floors, letting them ooze organically in swirls of tints and hues, and dripped a multitude of colors over canvasses, sculptures and other objects. The optics of all the colors together, whether in a large-scale room installation or quietly streaked across a smaller painting, create a three-dimensional illusion. His process is an experiment in energy as well, as the colors are never planned or imagined prior to being painted.

WASSERSCHEIDE(DESIREALLPUTTOGETHER). Kunsthalle Nuernberg Germany, 2014.

Strom Festival, Cologne, Germany, 2013.

mofo, eight wallpaintings for Morrison Foerster, 2014.

EVERYBODYWILLBEDANCINGIFWE’REDOINGITRIGHT, Ameringer Mcenery Yohe Gallery, New York, 2014.

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installation, Levalet, mural

November 21, 2018

Levalet’s site-specific public drawings use the contours and restrictions of a space to create the unexpected. His absurdist humor appears inside and outside a variety of structures, dangling above passers-by or using objects in disarray to his advantage. Recent pieces have popped up in France and Italy.

On View: Crystal Wagner Creates Two Enormous Installations for Art Prize 2014

Art Prize, Crystal Wagner, installation, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art

September 24, 2014

Officially opening today, Art Prize is a unique art festival and contest — perhaps one of the most democratic iterations of an art fair out there. The unlikely locale of Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes a playground for artists. Any part of downtown is fair game to use as a venue — no gallery endorsement needed — and anyone, regardless of their resume, can qualify as an exhibitor. The art projects are on view for two weeks while the public votes on which artist will be awarded the large cash prize. For her entry, artist Crystal Wagner created two installations in the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts using household items (plastic table cloths and chicken wire are two of her signature materials) to weave two enormous, sprawling sculptures in the venue's entrance and along the south staircase.

Jo Cope’s Hybrid Installations Look Forward in Fashion

fashion, installation, Jo Cope

January 7, 2017

Jo Cope, a conceptual fashion designer, mixes fine art and fashion. The artist intends to create pieces that are “hybrid installations that are perhaps only possible in a gallery but that nonetheless create a wearable garment and suggest alternative futures for fashion design.” Due to this blending of fields, her work has appeared in design stores, boutiques, and galleries across the world.

Studio Visit: Behind the Scenes of Yoskay Yamamoto’s “Rainy Day with a Chance of Sun”

hellion gallery, installation, Toy Art, Yayoi Kusama, Yoskay Yamamoto

September 30, 2014

This Thursday, Yoskay Yamamoto will debut eighteen new paintings and sculptures at Hellion gallery in Portland, "Rainy Day with a Chance of Sun." For this show, Yamamoto chose to explore the balance between joy and melancholy. His paintings vary in style, inspired by artists like Paul Klee, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, and Robert Indiana, to name a few. Images of their art are scattered around his Los Angeles studio where we paid him a visit.

Markus Linnenbrink’s Installations Flood Interiors with Rainbow Pigments

Levalet’s Site-Specific, Absurdist Drawings

On View: Crystal Wagner Creates Two Enormous Installations for Art Prize 2014

Jo Cope’s Hybrid Installations Look Forward in Fashion

Studio Visit: Behind the Scenes of Yoskay Yamamoto’s “Rainy Day with a Chance of Sun”

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