• RxArt TV: Will Cotton

    09 April 2012 by Catherine Kim

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    Artist Talk is a series in which RxArt visits our favorite artists and collaborators to talk about their work and inspirations.

    In this installment of Artist Talk, RxArt visits painter Will Cotton at his Manhattan studio. We talk about his process, inspirations, and what it was like to work with Katy Perry on her video for "California Gurls"! Click the video to watch!

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  • RxArt Visits Maurizio Pellegrin

    23 February 2012 by Heidi Sanders

    Last Friday, RxArt visited the sunlit studio space of Venetian-born artist Maurizio Pellegrin, who graciously showed us around. During our visit, we got a glimpse of several current projects as well as a fascinating tour of his source materials, which have included vintage top hats, photographs, canes, suitcases, and Japanese obis.

    Combining groupings of cultural artifacts and remnants with systems of numerology and textiles, Pellegrin seeks to manipulate and build on the “energy”, or the accrued history, ownership and contextual details, of these personal effects.  Much like the city of Rome's construction atop a foundation of Etruscan ruins, Pellegrin's objects become layered with historicity as he uses older items to form his own new visual vocabulary. His site-specific installations have been placed on walls, floors, and furniture in museums and locations throughout the world, including Peggy Guggenheim’s Collection in Venice, mosques and cultural centers throughout Istanbul, the Fort Wayne Museum of Modern Art in Indiana, and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. We'll be featuring more of Pellegrin's studio, work, and discussion with RxArt in an Artist Talk video feature soon.

     See below for some shots of Pellegrin's studio and some of the fantastic objects we found there!

  • RxArt TV | Artist Talk: Evan Gruzis

    02 February 2012 by Catherine Kim

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    RxArt is excited to announce the launch of RxArt TV, the newest edition to our blog. 

    For our first installment RxArt went to Brooklyn to visit artist and friend Evan Gruzis at his Red Hook studio.

    Thank you to our photographer and camera operator Aileen Son and Andrew Sadoway for his music.

    Click Below for more studio shots!

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  • Artist Talk: Ben Blatt

    14 November 2011 by Catherine Kim

    The first time I saw Ben Blatt's lush watercolor paintings of life within overgrown terrariums, I was struck by his exquisite detail and unique visual vocabulary. Inspired by Indian miniatures, botanical cross sections, and man-made recreations of nature, Blatt creates fantastic worlds reminiscent of lost paradises. I had the great pleasure of asking Ben a few questions about his work and inspirations.

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  • Artist Talk: Andrew Kuo

    08 November 2011 by Catherine Kim

    When I first saw Andrew Kuo's work, I instantly took a liking to his personal yet universal story-telling. Andrew is known for documenting personal life, emotional experiences and the minutiae of everyday life, translating them into colorful "infographics" that incorporate both image and text. His work brings together his experience as a painter, graphic designer, and art history student, referencing postmodern artists such as Josef Albers and Frank Stella. With titles such as "Some Things I am Scared of in November 2007"; "A Late Hangover On February 17, 2009"; "Being Accused of Being an Asshole (Via Instant Messenger) on June 21, 2009" his work reads like a comprehensive diary that is funny, witty, and insightful. I had a chance to talk to the New York-based designer and artist at his gallery, Taxter and Spengemann.

    Your charts are like a diary - very personal and honest, and very relatable. When did you start making them?
    Hm - at this point I've been making them for maybe 6 years? Or 7? I could find out but it might be depressing to know.

    What about the chart format appeals to you?
    It's a way for me to talk about more than one thing at once, literally plotting one idea against the other within the same eyeshot. I wear glasses so I am inclined to be X-, Y- and Z-axis-obsessed. And also, this may sound really weird, but I think about the idea of paint a lot and these charts let me talk about that.

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