As part of Art Basel’s “Positions” program, selected galleries are invited to present the work of a single artist. As part of this year’s program, Parisian gallery Gaudel de Stampa presented an ethereal series of photographs by French artist Dove Allouche, who is based in Paris. Allouche’s inspiration evolved from a series of solar flare images made by astrophysicist Jules Janssen in 1903. As with …
In Travis Louie‘s imaginary world strange creatures and humans exist side-by-side—and are even sometimes morphed together into one. While much of his work offers a fictional recreation of the family portraits that do not exist in his superstitious Chinese American family, his new show “Strange Discoveries” was inspired by the “weird things” Louie discovered after his father passed away. “I won’t say exactly what because …
It has been frequently noted that there’s magic in miniature gifts. It’s no different with New York-based artist David Hochbaum‘s “Village in a Can.” A handmade, ornately painted collection of 11 pieces per can, all are born of the remnants of his large-scale paintings and installation work. The artist explains that he “began saving all the scrap and cut off wood from the construction of …
