NEW YORK — The beautiful and experiential installations of Teresita Fernández allude to landscapes — historical, geological, internal, all in a heady mix. Her “Island Universe,” for example, a stunning wall-sized mosaic composed of smoky chunks of charcoal at the Ford Foundation in New York, renders the seven continents as a horizontal daisy-chain of land masses. It suggests the ancient footpath of humankind, a time long before nations and borders.
When Claes Oldenburg, widely recognized as the father of pop art, heard that a visitor to his studio at the western edge of SoHo, in New York City, wanted to see drawings of the fictional land he invented as a child, he said, playfully, “At last!”
NEW YORK — When the rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle was shot to death in March outside his clothing store near Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, the world lost a Grammy Award-nominated artist and his community lost an activist and mentor. “He was South Central’s superhero,” said artist Lauren Halsey, a 31-year-old native of South Los Angeles who knew and admired the musician, born Ermias Joseph Asghedom, two years her senior.
McArthur Binion had been creating art almost completely under the radar for four decades, handling his own occasional sales and raising two children in Chicago on a teaching salary.
At least nine exhibitions on the Dutch artist are in the works at museums around the world, including three opening this month in Houston, London and Amsterdam.
It will erect three new buildings to support the chapel’s ongoing social justice programming and is replacing the building’s ceiling apparatus with a new skylight and digital lighting system.
The works, from countries across modern-day Latin America including Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru and dating from the late 1600s to the early 1800s, are valued at approximately $2.5 million.
Steir allowed the random shower from each brush stroke to determine the composition without further intervention. “In some way, the paintings paint themselves,” she said.
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