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Ball-Nogues installation

This is an image of an incredible temporary outdoor installation that the Californian duo Ball-Nogues Studio had installed in the courtyard of Materials & Applications in Los Angeles.

It is titled Maximilian's Schell.  They have an amazing beautiful array of installations you can view on their website ball-nogues.com.

re-blog from: we-make-money-not-art.com

Constructed in tinted Mylar resembling stained glass, the vortex functioned as a shade structure, swirling overhead for the entire summer of 2005. The interior of the immersive installation created a space for social interaction and contemplation by changing the volume, color, and sound of the courtyard gallery. During the day, the canopy cast colored fractal light patterns onto the ground while a sound installation by composer James Lumb lightly rumbled below the feet of visitors. When standing in the center or "singularity" of the piece and gazing upward, the visitor could see only infinite sky. In the evening when viewed from the exterior, the vortex glowed warmly. The piece paid homage to a character played by actor Maximilian Schell in 1979 sci-fi movie The Black Hole.

Mildred Howard

This is the artist who created Salty Peanuts installation in the SF airport.  I looked her up online tonight and this below was the piece I liked best from the gallery website that represents her.. gallerypauleanglim.com

Dustin Yellin

On my trip in SF, I went into the Haines Gallery and saw the work of Dustin Yellin.  He is a Brooklyn based artist who is quite prolific.. from the looks of his website.. dustinyellin.com

He has a show here in NYC in April
Dust in the Brain Attic   Robert Miller Gallery
Opens: 23 Apr 2009, 06:00 PM, Closes: 23 May 2009
524 West 26th Street , New York , NY,
212 366 4774 , rmg@robertmilergallery.com

I like these ones below..  he draws and paints and places objects on layers of resin.

SFO art

My airport observations of current art and large spaces at SFO. 
Very soon I will superimpose an installation of scissors (confiscated weapons of mass construction) on the empty space below!

 I liked this one one below... probably because it uses recycled materials.

A sister city projection on the floor... simple set up.

 

Installation on the way to Bart Station ... twinkling circular metallic experience.

gun temples by AL FARROW

Many years ago, in a Juxtapoz magazine article, I saw these temples.  I have looked numerous times online and I have typed into google:  guns, temples, churches and bullets.. to no avail.  On a gallery walk through South of Market area in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon I entered the Catherine Clark art gallery and saw his catalog on the table! Allelujah!  This has made my trip even more satifying and inspiring.

Al Farrow bio from Catharine Clark website

Al Farrow was born in Brooklyn, NY and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than thirty years. An accomplished sculptor in a wide variety of media from bronze to clay to assemblage, Farrow generally adopts the language of an historical period in his work, updating the imagery or materials to make cogent observations about contemporary society. Past projects have included bowls created in the style of the Mimbres culture, an indigenous people who lived in what is now the southwest and northern Mexico, and painted in their traditional single reed brush style with images of B-1 bombers, radiation symbols, tanks and other military images. In recent years he has used munitions—bullets, guns, hand grenades, bombs—to make three-dimensional projects that resemble Christian reliquaries, Islamic mosques and Jewish menorah. His work has been collected, reviewed and exhibited throughout the United States.

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