Contemplative Works by Ali Cavanaugh Consider Vulnerability and the Sublime Through Watercolor

   20 Jan 19:00:05  |  ThisIsColossal

Through delicate washes of peach, aqua, and smoky gray, St. Louis-based artist Ali Cavanaugh (previously) renders watercolor portraits that lay her subjects’ spirits bare. “I’m continually searching for something complex in human expression,” she tells Colossal. “Curiosity, sadness, wonder, hesitation, peace, and acceptance all in one glance.”
Cavanaugh paints her dreamlike works on wet clay panels, allowing the bright backdrops to illuminate the translucent pigments. The resulting works are introspective and intimate while simultaneously harnessing the universal experience of the sublime. More

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Diminutive Figures Traverse Vibrant, Post-Climate Disaster Environments by Seonna Hong

   19 Jan 19:00:13  |  ThisIsColossal

In Late Bloomer, Los Angeles-based artist Seonna Hong wades into landscapes filled with amorphous swatches of color and marred by climate disaster. Her acrylic, oil, and pastel works are on view through February 5 at Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles in an introspective solo show that considers her place in an ever-evolving world. Set against abstract, blurred backdrops, Hong’s distinctly rendered animals and anonymous subjects navigate distorted terrains of once-familiar architecture and natural landmarks. More

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Have Your Bread and Read By It Too: PAMPSHADE Turns Leftover Loaves into Offbeat Lamps

   19 Jan 19:00:13  |  ThisIsColossal

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Inscribed Lace Patterns Defy Expectations in Cal Lane?s Plasma-Cut Steel Tools and Industrial Objects

   18 Jan 19:00:05  |  ThisIsColossal

Using car hoods, shovels, and oil drums as her base, Canadian artist Cal Lane cuts generic lace motifs found on the shelves of mass-market retailers. Her quotidian designs adorn tools and commodities typically associated with masculinity, warping both assumptions about gender and the limits of construction and craft. “I am more interested in the dialog between the object and the image, not so much the lace pattern specifically. I didn’t want the work to necessarily be decorative but to be about decoration and the relationship we have with it,” she shares. More

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Introducing London Art & Culture, A Weekly Newsletter Curating Events Around the City

   18 Jan 19:00:06  |  ThisIsColossal

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These Wiggly ?Nervous Chairs? by Wilkinson & Rivera Channel Our Collective Anxiety

   16 Jan 19:00:04  |  ThisIsColossal

If home is a feeling, then the wriggling furniture collection by husband-and-wife Grant Wilkinson and Teresa Rivera are apt representatives of our collective anxieties. The design duo opts for squiggles rather than clean, straight lines in their collection of wooden pieces? the internet dubbed them “nervous chairs” ?that appear to quake with uneasiness. Curved legs and arms offer base structure and coiled rungs back support in the ever-growing line of products by their eponymous brand, which is known for putting updated spins on classic pieces. More

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Imaginative Glass Specimens Are Suspended in Jars in Steffen Dam?s Cabinets of Curiosities

   15 Jan 19:00:14  |  ThisIsColossal

Held in tall, transparent jars are recreations of tiny jellyfish with wispy tentacles, plankton, and other delicate sea creatures by Danish artist Steffen Dam (previously). He sculpts the miniature organisms in glass and displays the exquisite creations in wooden boxes or medicine cases that evoke the 16th Century wunderkammers or cabinets of curiosities. Generally in the possession of aristocrats and monarchs, these encyclopedic collections predated museums and held objects that were valuable for scientific study and their ability to inspire wonder and awe. More

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Teeming with Leaves and Grasses, Oil Paintings Cloaked in Lush Foliage Evoke the Forest Floor

   15 Jan 19:00:14  |  ThisIsColossal

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The House? Is a Mysterious Animated Trilogy Following Three Generations of Stop-Motion Characters

   14 Jan 19:00:04  |  ThisIsColossal

A destitute family, an uneasy property developer, and an unrealistic landlady clinging to the past all find themselves grappling with control when they inhabit The House. The mysterious dwelling is the titular character of Netflix’s new three-part series that brings some of the most promising names of stop-motion animation to the major television platform.
Created at Nexus Studios, the dark comedy is a collaboration between Emma de Swaef and Marc Roels (previously), Niki Lindroth von Bahr, and Paloma Baeza, who each created a different segment of the story. More

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