Category: Art
Edward Snowden: traitor to his country, true American hero, or video game protagonist? Pick two out of three. The man who blew the whistle on the NSA is no longer holed up in a Russian airport terminal, washing his hair in the sinks of public restrooms with travel-sized bottles of shampoo. Now he’s the star […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Tristan Perich shows us the beginnings and production of Microtonal Wall, a piece currently on view at the MoMA “Soundings.” Made up of 1,500 tiny speakers, Microtonal Wall emits a texture of sound that changes as you walk along […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Kyle Petreycik talks about his latest, material-centric sculpture “BYOB.” Specifically for this piece, I selected a few objects and then simply put them ‘into play’ within a physical space. I’ve found myself working mostly intuitively at the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, New York graffiti bomber turned fashion designer CLAW talks about her process for designing and installing the window displays at Lord and Taylor on Fifth Avenue. Usually I never work with a sketch or a completely planned out idea, but […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn artist Mike Perry shows us his visual ideas for making the sculpture Oozing Sandwich of Time, and a few other related sketchbook pages. My process is a fluid, ever-growing way of existing. Oozing Sandwich of Time: Artist’s […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, New York artist Matthew “Mattie” Hillock shows us the process behind his new “gradient_stacks” series. This body of work is much more explorative than my work last shown at Outlet gallery in Bushwick, which was very-site specific. I […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist-render LaTurbo Avedon — who exists only as an avatar on the internet — shows us the process behind her New Sculpt series. Her first solo exhibition in the physical space (so-called “IRL”) opens this Saturday at Brooklyn’s […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, net artist Emilie Gervais traces the creation of her “Gendered HTML Collection” w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net, even though most of her production is deleted after its “processed” or “mutated into something else.” My sketchbook is my internet connection =^.^= Most of my notes […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, new media artist Carla Gannis talks about her current collaborative project with poet Justin Petropoulos about “(mis)communications.” I am collaborating with poet Justin Petropoulos on a project entitled <legend> </legend> . The project is rooted in poems written by Justin from […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, London’s Good Wives and Warriors (Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell) show us the inspiration and process behind their Der Anfang des Endes project in Berlin — “an epic apocalyptic, mythical mass of writhing beasts.” We usually have a […]
