Shayne Dark

Interlace – Purple

2012

At first glance, the fields of art and science may seem like two incompatible subjects that exist on opposite sides of a spectrum, though historically speaking they have shared an in...

At first glance, the fields of art and science may seem like two incompatible subjects that exist on opposite sides of a spectrum, though historicall...

At first glance, the fields of art and science may seem like two incompatible subjects that exist on opposite sides of a spectrum, though historicall...

Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous ...

Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry. Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...

Challenger consists of a replica of the escape hatch from the NASA space shuttle installed as if it has fallen from the sky and flattened a Canada P...

In this intriguing new contemporary sculpture by Quebec’s Phillipe Pallafray six bright white cubes appear as if suspended in space. Each cube is attached at just one corner emphasizing the delicate and fragile nature of balance. Pallafray uses industrial components that he cuts, shapes, folds, and welds to create work designed to represent the duality of nature and the industrial world. “My geometrically shaped sculptures...

Central structure is a contemporary metallic sculpture, realized in 1998 by the Italian artist Claudio Palmieri. Original Title: Struttura Centrale In excellent conditions, this o...

Composition is an original decorative object realized by Nino Franchina in the second half of the XX century. Original iron and wood. Iron sculpture c...

Silver Composition is an original decorative object realized by Nino Franchina in 1960. Original sculpture realized in silvered bronze. Bronze patinated silver sculpture. Signed a...

Expressive and lyrical, Stefan Duerst’s dynamic wall sculptures are visually arresting contemporary pieces. Hand forged from ribbons of steel and coated in black, several ribbons und...

"Family of Whales" Abstract Bronze Sculpture (3 Pieces) by Eman Barakat 3 pieces: 5" x 13" x 6" inch Eman Barakat is an Egyptian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1988...