ART BASEL: Miami 2006

Here's a selection of artwork from December 2006 at the art fairs in Miami.

(sorry- if a photo has no caption, I don't remember the artist)

This is the Miami Convention Center- looks like an art factory doesnt it?

Marcel Dzama

Rex Ray wallpaper

This was a lady who I saw twice this weekend. She sort of did this guerilla performance piece where she blew up a huge balloon...but then I got bored and walked away.

But then I saw her again the next day somewhere else. She had blown up the balloon and had gotten her whole body inside it! Something like back into the womb I guess?

Then she popped herself out of it and everyone clapped. Yay.

Damien Hirst

Takashi Murakami

Kehinde Wiley

Jacob Hashimoto

Lynn Aldrich

Lynn Aldrich uses materials you can find at the hardware store or the 99 cent store to create really beautiful surprising art pieces. They just make you smile...

serpentine rain collector... where does the water go?

colorful string strung from floor to ceiling

what is this blue ethereal thing?

oh- it's a lamp shade!

a colorful three-dimensional painting

made of garden hoses

downspouts that remind me of a pipe organ

a disney tide pool

made of cleaning products

Lynn Aldrich's work is up at the Biola University art gallery until April 1st.

MOCA's First Thirty Years: 1980 to NOW

This is a large sketch of auditorium seating without the context of the auditorium or theatre.

It takes up a small amount of space on these 4 wide pieces of paper. Can you imagine what would take up the rest of the space?

A detail...

This piece is called 'Big Wheel' by Chris Burden. To get the sculpture moving, a woman got on the motorcycle and revved the motor to about 50mph which then propelled the movement of the 3,200 lb metal wheel. Click here to see video of this performance.

Jeff Koons' "Three Puppies"... so cute.

Collages by Christian Holstad.

Liz Larner's "2 as 3 and Some, Too"

R&R: Welcome Stranger

This a group of photos of what looks like a zoo in China. It's so bizarre cuz it feel like a modern office campus that someone retrofitted to accomodate a zoo. Notice the "dog house."

This video piece was my favorite. It was projected right over the doorway. The artist asked several conductors to "conduct" a piece of music in their mind. It was awesome to read the music on each conductor's face.

R&R is a gallery/studio started by the cool people at Roger (a design company). This show is open until 2.28.10.

Art LA Contemporary

January must be art fair season. There were 3 in LA last month- one of which is Art LA Contemporary.

There were some nice things here but the nicest find was this artist Matt Lipps. Here are 2 images from his HOME series. He cut out Ansel Adams elements and created these table-top dioramas against images of his childhood home. They feel like little stages for a play.

Click here to see the rest of this series.

Other things I liked....