Nocturne Halifax

ryandonato: Feipel Bechameil

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:45:44 -0400

Feipel Bechameil

artandsciencejournal: Diana Beltran Herrera Diana Beltran...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:47:07 -0400

Diana Beltran Herrera

Diana Beltran Herrera’s works are founded in a curiosity for this world we live in. As she states, “I feel inspired about everything. There is a lot of information everywhere, in each thing that exists, in nature, animals, humans, everything that has a life, a shape, a colour.” The work above mimics how birds interact with one another. There is a confusion in the death of another animal. Along with this look into the psychology of birds, we also see into their physical body.

The materials in Herrera’s work are also significant, and are used to show her theme of the temporality and fragility of life, “Temporality and change, all the process that is hidden in the creation. As an artist I recreate the process of nature, this experience teaches me the time that it takes for life to form, to grow, to find its own place and way in the universe. To work with paper is important in that it is temporal and fragil. It contains a life and a process of transformation. I am concerned about how little interest we have in nature, and with my work I hope i can help in the reflexion of those things that will dissapear soon.”

For more of Herrera’s work, click here.

- Lee Jones

alecshao: Rob Mulholland - Vestiges (2012) This would look...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:11:34 -0400

alecshao:

Rob Mulholland - Vestiges (2012)

This would look amazing in Point Pleasant Park!

thingsthathug: What have you learned in this life? #Halifax...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:35:12 -0400

thingsthathug:

What have you learned in this life? #Halifax #life #learn live #love (Taken with Instagram)

slowartday: Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:25:21 -0400

slowartday:

Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991

The visual cacophony that Parker creates in this mixed media installation is stunning; we particularly like her use of light and shadow to expand the piece’s boundaries past their physical edges. If you stumbled across this work in a museum, how long do you think you’d spend looking at it?

Which do you like better—-installation or the shadows?

farewell-kingdom: Barbara Holmes I want to make a small...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:33:56 -0400

farewell-kingdom:

Barbara Holmes

I want to make a small version of this with popsicle sticks!

shinyslingback: Gene Davis Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 – April...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:23:47 -0400

shinyslingback:

Gene Davis

Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 – April 6, 1985) was an American painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color, and was a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s known as the Washington Color School.

Take your art to the streets!

bluejayjazz: Gay Pride Parade 2012 in Halifax, Nova...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:22:41 -0400

bluejayjazz:

Gay Pride Parade 2012 in Halifax, Nova Scotia!

Happy Pride, Halifax!

By taking it out into the streets, Rose Zack is making art and culture more accessible to everyone

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:37:00 -0400

By taking it out into the streets, Rose Zack is making art and culture more accessible to everyone

Nocturne Crowdfunding Campaign 2012

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:21:39 -0400

Nocturne Crowdfunding Campaign 2012

East Coast Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibit at the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art until Aug. 17. A long time coming, you should go!

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:10:47 -0400

East Coast Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibit at the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art until Aug. 17. A long time coming, you should go!

kateordie: A (tentative) image for one of our fair city’s many...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:03:30 -0400

kateordie:

A (tentative) image for one of our fair city’s many Pride guides. I kind of hope an angry mom gets soooo miffed about it!

danceabletragedy: Origin, Chinese Spirit Money by Beili...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:28:37 -0400

danceabletragedy:

Origin, Chinese Spirit Money by Beili Liu

In Chinese tradition, spirit money is burnt for ancestors and spirits in the afterworld as an offering. Origin is made from hundreds of rolls of spirit money; half of these rolls are with the rich and warm texture of the spirit money, shimmers of silver and gold, the other half charred black. The circle brings together the solid and the void, the present and the absent into one complete whole, and alludes to the balance and linkage between the current world and the afterworld.

prostheticknowledge: Voice Array 2011 audio / visual...

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:03:19 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

Voice Array

2011 audio / visual installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer stores 288 samples from public, replayed as a stack with blinking lights:

As a participant speaks into an intercom, their voice is automatically translated into flashes of light and then this unique blinking pattern is stored as a loop in the first light of the array. Each new recording pushes all previous recordings one position down and gradually one can hear the cumulative sound of the 288 previous recordings. The voice that was pushed out of the array can then be heard by itself.

More Here

artruby: Michael Beitz

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:56:54 -0400

artruby:

Michael Beitz

myampgoesto11: ARTIST MAKES REAL RAINBOWS (photos: A successful...

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:05:36 -0400

myampgoesto11:

ARTIST MAKES REAL RAINBOWS

(photos: A successful test of McKean’s rainbow over the Bemis Center (all images courtesy the Bemis Center)/Rendering of the rainbow production system.)

“Well, here’s something we didn’t think could be done: homemade rainbows. Artist Michael Jones McKean has figured out how to create colorful arcs of light in the sky, and he’ll be making them this summer above the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. It’s like instant happiness.

McKean’s project, titledThe Rainbow: Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms, has been underway for a decade — understandably, since a rainbow can’t be an easy thing to produce. The artist enlisted the help of irrigation and rainwater-harvesting experts, atmosphere scientists, plumbing and electrical experts and Bemis Center staff to devise a rainwater and renewable energy system at the museum. The whole thing works on a massive scale: Rainwater is filtered and collected in six 10,500-gallon waters tanks. A custom-designed pump in the gallery then sends pressurized water to nine nozzles mounted on the museum’s roof, and twice a day, a wall of water rushes up above the building. Rainbows emerge within the walls of water, lasting for about 20 minutes each.”

[via Hyperallergic]