David Diao, Black and White with Chair, 1984
Top: Black and White with Chair, 1984–88 Bottom: Glissement, 1984 Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas;213 x 274 cm (Black and White with Chair) Acrylic on canvas; 178 x 254 cm (Glissement) Description: “Based on a renowned […]
Sandra Gamarra, Soft Modernity, 2015
Artist Sandra Gamarra (b.1972, Peru; lives and works in Madrid) Material Paintings, poster, installation. Painting LiMac Miami Bordes Blandos II, 2015, oil on canvas, 17 7/10 × 17 7/10 inches Description Artist-curated exhibition Modernidad blanda (Soft modernity), shown at Art Basel Miami in 2015. Gamarra was invited by Galeria Leme (Sao Paulo) to design its booth […]
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Total Transformation, 2019
Artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen). Materials Exhibition at Galleri Møller Witt, Copenhagen. Paintings, oil on canvas, various sizes. Above: installation view; Deserting Desert Land (2019), 146 x 231 cm; Total Work of Art (2019), 140 x 184 cm; Mood Machine (2018). Description An exhibition of paintings depicting modernist […]
Juan Araujo, Prometheus II, 2007
Artist: Juan Araujo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm Description: “Since moving to Portugal from Venezuela, Araujo has become fascinated with the genesis of modern and postmodern architecture in Europe and how these ideals later travelled across the Atlantic to influence the […]
Ian Kiaer, Melnikov Project, 2011
Artist: Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London) Description: Installation of paintings and sculpture. One sculpture is a model of Melnikov’s Cylindrical House Studio (1929), an architectural design for a house in which Melnikov lived and worked. “Kiaer’s exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, his first one-person presentation in the United States, […]
Juan Araujo, Canoas 6, 2007
Artist: Juan Araújo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil and wax on wood; 25.3 x 37. 5 cm. Description: “Since 1998 Araujo has been dedicated to artistic appropriations. He began by creating paintings which investigated the history of art by reproducing artists’ work found in books, catalogues and […]
Enoc Perez, Seagram Building [after a photograph by Ezra Stoller], 2006
![<b>Enoc Perez, <i>Seagram Building [after a photograph by Ezra Stoller]</i>, 2006</b>](https://clairebishop.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2547/files/2017/06/EnocPerez_SeagramBuildingNewYork-700x868-700x220.jpg "<b>Enoc Perez, <i>Seagram Building [after a photograph by Ezra Stoller]</i>, 2006</b>")
Artist: Enoc Perez (born 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Oil on canvas; 267 x 218 cm. Description: A painting of the Seagram Building. “Perez is best known for his paintings of modernist buildings that nostalgically capture the utopian ambitions and optimism that inspired their construction. […]
David Diao, “Sitting the Glass House” series, 2003-05
Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas; variable dimensions. Sitting in the Glass House 2 shown above. Description: Two paintings that shows the artists in Philip Johnson’s Glass House. “In Sitting in the Glass House, he made himself at home […]
Angelina Gualdoni, Praça dos Tres Poderes, Noon, 2005
Artist: Angelina Gualdoni (born 1975 in San Francisco, USA; lives and works in Brooklyn, USA). Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas; 122 x 183 cm. Description: “Praça dos Tres Poderes is a large, imposing square at the heart of Brasilia, the political capital of Brazil. Constructed between 1956 and 1960 to a design by visionary […]
Sherrie Levine, Salubra no. 2, 2009
Artist: Sherrie Levine (born 1947 in Hazleton, USA; lives and works in New York City and Santa Fe, USA). Materials: Acrylic on mahogany Description: “Inspired by the color charts Le Corbusier conceived for Swiss wallpaper company Salubra in 1931, Sherrie Levine’s Salubra 2 is a tour de force of contemporary conceptual art. For the architect […]
