Mark Jenkins: Meaning Is Overrated

Mark Jenkins takes his eye-catching installations from the public realm to an L.A. gallery

Blatantly funny, out of place and eerily real at times, artist Mark Jenkins‘ installations in the public domain are well deserving of the triple takes they get from passerby. In “Meaning Is Overrated,” opening at L.A.’s Carmichael Gallery, we get a dose of his new shenanigans with site-specific works. Focusing on the human body and practical uses in this new solo show, Jenkins successfully interrupts …

Hvass&Hannibal: Losing the Plot

Taking data visualizing to a conceptual level, Danish design studio Hvass&Hannibal's upcoming exhibition "Losing the Plot" at London's Kemistry Gallery engagingly reinterprets info into artworks. (Click on all images for expanded view) The Copenhagen-based duo created silkscreen prints, wooden sculptures and offset posters, beautifully and tangibly expressing data sets such as the probability theory or the registration of natural phenomena. Adding their own sensitivity to …

Valerie Sloan Jewelery

by Fabrice Fortin Before launching her Paris-based couture label Valslo, French jewelry designer Valerie Sloan worked as a sculptor—a background that reveals itself in the masterful play of light, shadow and texture in her designs. Produced by hand in her atelier beneath her new Paris boutique, Sloan uses the ancient technique of “lost-wax casting.†First sculpting a design out of a block of wax, she …