High Fructose Corn Syrup

Artist Christopher Chiappa lines gallery walls with garbage bags, dresses upside-down, and covers a basketball with corn

NYC-based artist Christopher Chiappa’s first solo show in eight years, “High Fructose Corn Syrup,” boldly explores themes of cultural degradation, anxiety and industrialized sweeteners. Now on view at NYC’s Kate Werble Gallery through 10 April 2010, the show includes a variety of media, including photography, sculpture and video to describe a personal narrative on the loss of innocence. Chiappa notes, “It’s sort of all a …

Lost in the Discovery of What Shapes the Mind

Brooklyn-based artist Mike Perry's imaginative prints, sculpture, and other art objects in a new solo show

Longtime CH fave, artist and designer Mike Perry’s new installation of prints, sculpture, and other objects opens at his Alma Mater, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, on 25 March 2010. Including over 30 prints, a log sculpture with a small galaxy spilling from it, a mobile hanging down from the gallery’s lofted ceiling, and many other surprises “inspired by memory, place, and the …

Bonetti/Kozerski Design Studio

An interview with a Brit and Italian duo marking ten years of elegantly seductive interior architecture

For the past decade NYC-based Bonetti/Kozerski Design Studio have been building an impressive portfolio of work centered on the relationship between the interior and the exterior as one fluid continuum. Founded by Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski, the duo work together to develop effortless spaces, blending the fundamentals of architecture and design with distinct European flair. Kozerski, originally hailing from the U.K., and the Italian-born …