Jannick Deslauriers and Joan Linder

Actual size: the sculptural drawings of Jannick Deslauriers and Joan Linder

Jannick Deslauriers’ recent exhibition at Show & Tell Gallery is a study in contrasts. Utilizing the lightest of materials–crinoline, tulle, lace, and organza, she constructs life-sized sculptures of physically and/or politically weighty objects such as a pair of hand grenades, a sewing machine, a typewriter, a tank. Suspended from above, the objects exert a spectral presence on the space, appearing as literal materializations of creative or destructive human impulses. Seen through this lens, an unassuming brick, rendered in terracotta-coloured crinoline and black thread, becomes a symbol of both our collective capacity to build society, and–when taken in hand and thrown through the scapegoat-of-the-moment’s window–to destroy it in turn.

Joshua Allen Harris

In a world of over six billion people, new firsts are almost impossible, but Joshua Allen Harris has managed to eek out one more, being the first person to harness the artistic opportunities offered by subway exhaust. Using only tape and discarded plastic shopping bags, the New York based artist creates giant inflatable animals that he fastens to sidewalk grates and vents. Exhaust air expelled by passing subway trains then fills the bags, causing the creatures to become animated.
A polar bear that some have linked to concerns about global warming is the most famous Joshua Allen Harris creation so far, but he’s made many other animals, creatures and monsters, many of which can be viewed online.

New York-based artist Joshua Harris makes movable sculptural artwork out of plastic bags, harnessing the air from subway grates to give them a sense of life.

Daniel Arsham

An American artist raised in Miami, Daniel Arsham currently lives & works in New York City. Here is a piece relating to my project from Daniel’s collection of three dimensional work, for more please visit his website.

Vent Anomaly (a) | 2006 | Plaster, aluminum, paint | 18 x 20 3/8 x 2 in

Arsham’s work blurs the lines between art, architecture and performance, and explores issues of natural versus manufactured or intention versus happenstance.” “[1] Through sculpture, drawing and performance, Arsham challenges our perceptions of physical space in order to make architecture perform the improbable. The surfaces of walls appear to melt, erode and ripple. Animals contemplate the emergence of floating shapes in nature. Sculptures from antiquity are infused with rigid, geometric forms.

Thomas Heatherwick

This giant piece of sculpture by Thomas Heatherwick can be seen in Bishops Court, an area leading off Paternoster Square. This sculpture is functional as well as decorative, as it protects a cooling vent for electrical transformers, and replaces a plain concrete vent. It has been likened to an angel's wings.

Vent Sculpture

Vent Sculpture in Melbourne by Marcus O’Reilly Architects

Marcus O’Reilly Architects are the creators behind this urban project called Vent Sculpture, located in one of Melbourne’s most populated areas. This sculptural piece was created over a new concrete vent shaft. The splayed planks, sit in the garden area of the urban space. The planks and curved steel recall the railway tracks that were pulled up to make the space available.  The entire project is an excellent case study of how underused and mundane aspects of urban life can be transformed and activated through clever design. The design work was done in conjunction with the client, the City of Melbourne, led by Professor Rob Adams.  The project was awarded the Melbourne Prize and an Urban Design Award by the AIA.”

Pep Ventosa [Photo Montage Trees]

Photomontages of Trees Appear Like Impressionist Paintings

Pep Ventosa gives our cities' trees the attention they deserve in this beautiful series he calls In the Round - Trees. Though they first appear like impressionist paintings, you'd be surprised to find out that they're actually dozens of photographs of the same tree merged into one. Ventosa circles a tree, shooting it multiple times at all different angles. Though he gives each tree center stage, one can make out some faint, ghostly outlines of objects that surround them like cars, other trees and even buildings. As he told Garden Design, "Whatever is around it becomes the spirit of the place, but not the main thing. Somehow it's like [giving] the tree the leading role in those otherwise very complex environments."

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/pep-ventosa-trees-in-the-round

Bodyspace [Antony Gormley]

Sean Kelly announces Bodyspace, an exhibition of new work by Antony Gormley. Bodyspace is the inaugural solo exhibition at Sean Kelly’s new location at 475 Tenth Avenue. This is the first opportunity to see new work by Antony Gormley in New York since his acclaimed Event Horizon installation in and around Madison Square Park in 2010.

http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2012-10-27_antony-gormley/pressrelease/

Paul Strand

Found some Paul Strand photography with similiar shapes.

A bit about Paul strand. . . .

The American artist Paul Strand had a long and productive career with the camera. His pictorialist studies of the 1910s, followed by the coolly seductive machine photographs of the 1920s, like the contemporary work of Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped define the canon of early American modernism and set its premium on the elegant print. Experimenting with Charles Sheeler, Strand then pushed further in describing the movement of the city in the short film Manhatta (1920). In the 1930s, he became seriously involved with documentary film and, from the 1940s until the end of his life, he was committed to making photographic books of the highest quality. After 1950, when he relocated to France, landscape, architecture, and portraiture (the traditional humanist genres) continued to inspire Strand to embody the spirit of his subjects in the very materials of the photographic print. The high regard for his mature work suggests that he succeeded in his goals, and that his standards of excellence and his constancy of subject answered very human needs in a century of radical change.

 

Taken from: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pstd/hd_pstd.htm