SFA Advisory opens its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime
Exterior, SFA Advisory, Ridiculous Sublime. Photo by Erik Bardin.
NEW YORK, NY
.-SFA Advisory, Lisa Schiffs Tribeca outpost, announces its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime, running through Labor Day. Featuring 50 international artists, Schiff transformed her permanent ground-floor office at 45 White Street into a temporary exhibition space as part of her commitment to exploring nascent tendencies which appear across the globe.
In 1757, Edmund Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful wherein he defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. Elsewhere, the sublime has been used to describe a natural event that inspires awe and terror through sheer immensity. Beauty and awe are where the sublime in art usually lands, and often it consists of representations of Mother Nature wi
New Exhibition Opens at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
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The Consumerism of Art and Fashion Converge at the VAG s Pictures and Promises
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Exhibition features a broad selection of lens-based works by local and international artists
Vikky Alexander, Obsession, 1983, silver gelatin print, vinyl type, coloured Plexiglas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the artist.
VANCOUVER
.-The Vancouver Art Gallery opened Pictures and Promises in collaboration with Capture Photography Festival. Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallerys rich photographic holdings. Pictures and Promises, focuses on lens-based works that employ the structures, conventions and formal qualities used in commercial culture, mass media, fashion and advertising. The works then deploy these strategies to play on collective understandings of the world around us and to investigate the iconography of consumerism.
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O Zhang, We are all the Future of the Earth, 2008, inkjet print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist.
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A new exhibition featuring a wide array of lens-based works by local and international artists is opening this weekend at Vancouver Art Gallery.