E. St. Laurent

Ian Burns

estlaurent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:06:36 +0000

Ian Burns’ rudimentary motorized contraptions display roughly made mechanical motors, wires, fans and lights in their ramshackle supporting apparatuses. The unexpected materials squeak, hum, and evoke primitive experiences of the cinematic.

Ian Burns

John Chamberlain

estlaurent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:03:49 +0000

John Chamberlain’s totemic welded constructions of smashed and twisted automotive metal from crumpled Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles evoke the mythology of the American car and elevate color to a position equal to form.

“Kline gave me the structure. De Kooning gave me the color.”

John Chamberlian

Leonor Antunes

estlaurent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:50:05 +0000

Portuguese sculptor Leonor Antunes’ geometric hanging sculptures communicate systems of measurement in lengths of copper, brass, leather, and rubber. The sculptures articulate the distinctively human impulse to make form from formless, to delineate space and to measure time.

Leonor Antunes | Kunstverein Dusseldorf

Paul Lee

estlaurent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:47:11 +0000

Paul Lee uses debased objects as his primary materials to create small minimalist assemblages layered with meanings. Primitive material forms, immediate art historical references, and erotically charged props combine to produce intimately coded iconography.

Paul Lee at Modern Art

Mikala Dwyer | I.O.U.

estlaurent — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:37:57 +0000

Mikala Dwyer’s mirrored letters have solid sculptural volume, yet articulate empty space, suggesting something inside of or beyond their basic materiality. The mirrors ambiguous status as a void or a parallel dimension opens a space where visitors can be “slightly badly behaved.”

Mikala Dwyer | I.O.U.

Sanford Biggers | Cosmic Voodoo Circus

estlaurent — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:45:48 +0000

Under the big top of Sanford Biggers Cosmic Voodoo Circus, fetish sculptures, found objects and professionally fabricated items combine to create a spectacle of allegories. Trapeze bars swing overhead, a glowing marquee smiles a broken toothy grin of lights, constellations of fractured stars mirror stellar shapes onto the wall, and towering fetish objects entertain, all the while pointing to something darker and more mischievous.

Sanford Biggers | Cosmic Voodoo Circus

Jeppe Hein | Spiral Labyrinth

estlaurent — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:58:14 +0000

Conceptual artist Jeppe Hein flips the traditional viewer-art object relationship in Spiral Labyrinth, a large-scale theatrical installation that frames the viewer’s physical presence within its minimalist structure. Once inside, a sequence of visual events take place between the viewer, the sculpture, and other visitors to create a distinctly social aspect to the art work.

Jeppe Hein | Spiral Labyrinth

Carsten Höller’s | Experience

estlaurent — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:30:02 +0000

Carsten Höller’s Experience is a minimalist carnival of relational aesthetics. As Höller acts as the artistic engineer of his novelty-driven amusement park, the visitor assumes the role of lab rat within the panoply of his consciousness altering stimulus experiments.

Carsten Höller’s | Experience

Robert Smithson

estlaurent — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:20:34 +0000

Robert Smithson’s geological abstractions feature groupings of mirrors partially buried in earth or concealed behind vegetation. At first, they are sightless eyes mirroring the earth, flora and sky, but then, seem to form a second pictorial dimension to the landscape, creating conjoined opposites of foreground and background.

Robert Smithson

Jacob Dahlgren

estlaurent — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:15:48 +0000

The elements of Jacob Dahlgren’s art come from the most quotidian of sources, accumulations of mass produced items like canned goods, plastic coffee mugs, and striped shirts celebrate the geometric patterns of art within the flow of daily life.

Jacob Dahlgren