Joan Vanitira

O'keefee 3

2023

"In modern society, we will have the freedom to choose whatever we desire, and yet we will all choose the same and be alike." —Javier Cerezo Today the weather is nice, and we’re o...

This is the place where I work. You can't tell me apart from the other workers in the image captured by the room's camera. When I return home, I look out the window and contemplate m...

Ren Wei Heng offers a profound glimpse into the human experience through her unique artistic lens. Her journey, from battling severe health issues and psy...

Ren Wei Heng offers a profound glimpse into the human experience through her unique artistic lens. Her journey, from battling severe health issues and psy...

While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck arrived, but in that moment it was a revolving abstraction of potential, delineation, growth, and destruction. Once filled it was gone: the plywood was stripped away, the earth was backfilled. To suspend that moment he began building models of formworks. Leaving them unfilled, they are perpetually unfinished. From models based directly on architecture, Horstman expanded to forms found in the landscape. Making a formwork that depicts constraint upon the landscape is not exactly a reversal of the formwork’s function, but it asks different questions than a formwork designed for a building would. Why would you make a cement creek? What is the relationship between a flowing creek and poured cement? Is this a barrier or just delineation? For River Woman ODETTA, in addition to several small sculptures in the Flat File, Horstman will install Formwork for the East River, which describes that river’s shape as it flows from Rikers Island to the tip of Manhattan. The 3 x 18 x 7 foot sculpture...

Lovelace’s Tribute 2018 sung by Christina Tsers This installation is in honor of Ada Lovelace, generally recognized as the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of ...

This interactive installation explores the poetics of randomness and the liminal space between intentionality and observation, seeing and hearing, touching and listening. A verticall...

Toxic Love Digital painting / collage Comes framed “Zig” is a contemporary artist whose work crosses the boundaries of classical art and modern technology. Diametrically opposed t...