Joana Vasconcelos

Lady

2014

Renata Daina 'Conscious life of trees,' 2022 Handcoiled cotton fibers 17 x 17 x 4 inches ━━━━ (This piece is part of the exhibition titled 'WORK' on LADI...

Renata Daina 'Reaching limbs below,' 2022 Handcoiled cotton fibers 20 x 15 x 4 inches ━━━━ (This piece is part of the exhibition titled 'WORK' on LADIES'...

"My work, both in painting and sculpture, involve networks of intricately connected, overlapping, and morphing shapes and patterns, reflecting the complex and ever-changing nature of...

Hernan Bas is best known for his narratively rich scenes that feature a wide-range of references spanning art and literature, popular culture, kitsch, the occult, religion, and mythology. Across his works, Bas seeks to defamiliarize everyday experience through humor, revealing the surreal and absurd lurking beneath the mundane. In conceiving this flamingo sculpture series, Bas was inspired specifically by the 19th century novel ‘Against Nature’ by Joris-Karl Huysmans. In the novel, the main character, an astute dandy of epic proportions, decides to cover a pet tortoise's shell with ornate jewels in order to see how the light would glimmer on it as it slowly treaded across his carpets. Bas imagined a fictional character of his own, a "Florida Dandy," who would naturally want bright pink flamingos as pets. The ball and chain keep them from flying away and simultaneously constrain them to a certain territory. . . . Fading pink (#1), 2016-2017 resin, feathers, rug, galvanized metal buoy...

Recycled textiles, thread, batting, wood, chair legs, acrylic paint 40 x 50 x 22 inches Artist Statement I hand-sew compound sculptural forms that are constructed from clothing, fur...

In the eerily beautiful Reserve, Henriksen highlights ecological peril. "Nature is threatened,” she observes. "I hope this is expressed in my image, which at first glance can be seen...