Preservation Is Life

Bryan McCormack's Parisian installation uses colorful condoms to raise AIDS awareness

Starting at the facade of Paris’ Centre Pompidou and continuing up the six-floor escalator, Bryan McCormack‘s installation creates a monumental tunnel of colored light bulbs for a mesmerizing effect. The hue changes on every floor to create a dynamic rainbow of cylindrical bulbs, which are covered in glass-like plastic condoms. A grand total of 80,000 bulbs comprise the condom tapestry of the Pompidou’s moving staircase, …

Mark Gonzales Paintings and Poems

Selected untitled works from skateboarding's favorite eccentric artist

Wielding pen, paint brush and skateboard, Mark Gonzales has been creating art in many forms for more than 20 years. Gonzales has graced each of his various disciplines with one of the most unique personalities around, gaining recognition within the skateboard community for his endless influence, free-flowing style and unconventional drawings captured on Krooked Skateboards. A presence in the fine art world since the early …

Kamran Sadeghi

Sculpting with sound, an artist crafts multi-sensoral experiences

Sponsored content: Navigating the strata of sound, composer and visual artist Kamran Sadeghi maneuvers a digital diving bell that harmoniously discovers new territories forged between art and music. Culling sounds from eclectic sources such as found objects, a grand piano and the chamber of a nuclear cooling tower, Sadeghi weaves together an electronic topography that is both hypnotic and haunting. Sadeghi explains, “I would take …