Becca Lowry

The Very Center

2016

John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...

Contemporary head sculpture from John Goodman, whose magnetic sculptures, drawings and paintings are a dichotomy of understated minimalism conveying a subtle, but evident smoldering ...

John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American arts and crafts. He moved to Claremont, California, to attend college at Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont McKenna College.) Following his desire to make things by hand, he enrolled in a weaving class taught by Marion Stewart at Scripps College in 1970. His intrigue with the tools, systems and materials involved in weaving and other textile constructions led him to take other courses with Neda Al-Hilali a year later, also at Scripps. He did graduate work at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Bernard Kester and Vasa. Garrett has exhibited throughout the United States for over thirty years in hundreds of exhibitions, as well as in Europe, Africa and Asia. Garrett has worked simultaneously with two and three-dimensional formats to create his textile forms with a variety of materials. Visually unpredictable, his work may be woven, wrapped, plaited, riveted, painted, rusted, twined, nailed, stitched or tied. With an expansive repertoire of materials, each work of art is meticulously crafted, while achieving an energetic complexity; he moves gracefully from constructing wall pieces to baskets, breathing new life into discarded objects. Currently a full time studio artist, he teaches workshops on creativity and experimental basketry at schools nationwide. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1983 and 1995 as well as elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2010. Selected Museum Collections Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock, AR Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Erie Museum, Erie, PA High Museum, Atlanta, GA Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM Museum of California, Oakland, CA Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Contemporary Installation Sculpture...

Luanne Rimel is an artist, curator, instructor, and currently the Director of Education Programs at Craft Alliance Art Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work is layered with histor...

Born in 1974 in Mexico, Hugo Urrutia is a multidisciplinary artist-designer, interested in the cross-pollination between art and architecture. His artwork challenges the notion of what constitutes a piece of art. As a graduate and active member of the Architectural Association in the United Kingdom, Urrutia's work creates a distinct spatiality located at the interstice of art and architecture. His work explores and uses technology for design and fabrication, with a sensitive and conscious reminder of the creativity of human endeavor. This original artwork is created with oil lacquer paint on carved Baltic birch. This wall sculpture measures 29 inches high by 38 inches wide and has a depth of 5 inches. In this series titled "Flexible Rigids", Urrutia explores sculptural forms that simulate smooth harmonic movements of a flexible surface, initiating the process from a “rigid “surface. The artwork is signed by the artist on the back. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included with this unique artwork. Urrutia graduated from the Architectural Association in 2013, earning a Master of Architecture in the Design & Make programme. In 2000, he graduated from Texas Tech University, with a Bachelor of Architecture and Design and received the 2000 Outstanding Thesis Award. In 2004, he founded Decorazon Gallery in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District where he curated and exhibited numerous art exhibitions for national and international artists. His personal artwork has been exhibited worldwide. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITIONS 2023 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019 JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA 2019 Contemporaneo Ashville, Ashville, USA 2019 Canvas Hotel, Dallas, USA 2019 Decorazon Gallery, New York, USA 2018 George Billis Gallery, New York City, USA 2018 Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, USA 2018 Reveal Art Fair, Saratoga Springs, USA 2018 Aqua Art Fair, December. Miami, USA 2018 Cube Gallery, Winter 2018 London, UK 2018 SORAA, Frankfurt, Germany 2017 Decorazon Gallery, Dallas, USA 2016 Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, Australia 2015 Angela Royo Contemporary Art, Bogota, Colombia 2014 Decorazon Gallery, Dallas, USA 2012 Architectural Association Members’ Room, London 2012 Angela Royo Contemporary Art, Bogota, Colombia 2012 The Delicate Mayhem Gallery, London, UK 2011 Charlotte Jackson...

Susy Hunziker's metal figures are the result of exploring form, colors, and feelings, and reflect a love of life and aesthetics. Rust brown iron wire is wound meticulously in varying thicknesses, creating abstract sculptural figures. Her work is reminiscent of an appreciation for life’s delicacy, human fragility and an aesthetic awareness of change over time. This unique iron wire figure is 18 inches high by 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep. The figure perches atop a wooden base. Size and price include the wooden base. This one-of-a-kind sculpture can be displayed on any flat surface. Convenient local Los Angeles area shipping. Affordable Continental and International shipping are also available. This artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery. Swiss artist Suzy Hunziker pursues a deepened analysis of figurative compositions and expresses an overall curiosity for form and figure. Her sculptures integrate staticity and movement as well as lightness of matter. “What began as a hobby about ten years with papier-mâché has become my passion. Today I create finished sculptures from...