Alcoa Aluminium Sculpture Award recipient signals hope on the horizon at Sculpture by the Sea
Alcoa Australia President Michael Gollschewski with Ben Jones, Tony Jones and Angela McHarrie at MJ+J Studios Fremantle studio. Photo credit: Jess Wyld.
PERTH
.- The recipient of this years Alcoa Aluminium Sculpture Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe is being seen as a shining light of hope during the turbulent times associated with the coronavirus pandemic.
The sculpture, Lite House, by Perth-based art collective MJ+J Studio is a 3m-tall structure made from aluminium and LED lighting. It will sit on the groyne on Cottesloe Beach during this years exhibition providing a sparkling beacon after sundown.
Lightning strikes twice: Another lost painting by Jacob Lawrence surfaces
A Jacob Lawrence painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, awaits placement as part of an exhibition. The panel by the renowned Black artist, part of his American Struggle series, was last seen in 1960. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
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.- When a nurse living on the Upper West Side of New York City checked an app for neighborhood bulletins in the fall, she learned about the recent discovery of a Jacob Lawrence painting in an apartment a few blocks away. It had turned out to be one of five panels long missing from the artists groundbreaking 30-panel series Struggle: From the History of the American People, which was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right across Central Park.
Jane Lombard Gallery opens its first solo exhibition with new media artist Kristin McIver
Kristin McIver, 12.076042, -68.879741, 2020. Acrylic, video, tablet, 10.5 x 10.5 x 29 inches. Ed. 1/1.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Impressions, its first solo exhibition with new media artist Kristin McIver, and her first solo exhibition in New York. The Australian-born, New York-based artist is known for her use of emotive language, light, and hyper-gloss materials to unmask the impact of consumerism on our identity, culture and environment. This new series examines post-truth in the face of climate change. Impressions is on view through April 3rd, 2021.
McIver focuses on the element of water as rising sea levels is a significant climatic effect of global warming on the Eastern Seaboard. She uses water as a narrative device exploring different aspects of it in her videos, sculptures, and installation works. In tandem, by embedding the moving images with environment