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This past weekend, Conny Dietzschold Gallery opened a new exhibit of works by Lisa Jones and Daniel Goettin.
Untitled acrylic, 2010
Lisa Jones is a UK artist living in Australia who reimagines medical imaging and photographs unusual objects from the everyday domestic world, juxtaposing them with images from the Antipodean natural world or the human skeleton.
No, you haven’t landed on another planet!
These Golly Pods are a new collaboration between Tend Living — my favorite place for modern and stylish plants — and Jason Xavier Lane of Bells & Whistles. They look like space-age creatures, except that they’re really modern sculptural planters and terrariums. These wood prototypes will eventually be cast in ceramic. Aren’t they awesome?
This Thursday, August 12, IKEA will be unveiling their SURREALISTIKA kitchen sculpture, a piece created by home furnishings experts IKEA that celebrates creativity in design. The sculpture will take center stage as part of The Surreal House exhibition at the Barbican, London.
Bringing fantasy and imagination to life, the sculpture incorporates the natural beauty of the Silver Birch tree intertwined with elements of an everyday kitchen. It depicts a surreal vision of the future when environmental concerns will be ever more at the core of kitchen design.
Jean-Pierre (J.P.) Canlis, known for his serene interpretations of nature in glass, has just crossed a new boundary. His Wheat Installation translates the mundane into elegance through a unique display of glass. Each stalk of wheat is hand made by the glass artist who resides in Seattle, Washington and runs his studio and gallery space in downtown Seattle. The Wheat can be scaled down to run down the center of a dining room table or fill a niche as tall as seven feet in height!
Vital Steel NYC sent over their beautiful art pieces, modern steel and hand-blown glass room dividers and screens. They currently have two products, Una and Andra.
Andra is a graceful three panel free-standing room divider.
“Every step you take, every move you make,” 2010, detail
Megan Geckler is a Los Angeles-based installation artist who creates site-specific one-of-a-kind installations using flagging tape. Flagging tape, which Megan discovered in graduate school, is a plastic ribbon typically used by construction workers on sites to mark space. Megan’s creations are a part of the space, and she uses the architecture as not only a construction to work from and tie into, but also as inspiration for the form of the piece. Each piece appears so precise and machine-made that it is hard to fathom that each is constructed by hand.
Droog is presenting some pieces at Design Miami/Basel including:
The Darwin Chair designed by Stefan Sagmeister and produced by Grenswerk exclusively for Droog; Photos by Johannes van Assem
David Clarke’s unique metalwork made me rethink how I might use a spoon.
Katie Niewodowski’s cellular sculptures are both amazing and thought-provoking. She writes in her artist statement:
“I am fascinated with the paradoxical similarities of the cancer cell and the healthy human egg. Both have the potential for extraordinary growth. Yet while the cancer cell grows, it naively destroys… the effect is both seductive and disquieting.”
Oshibe mean “stamen” in Japanese, and was what inspired Tomomi Sayuda to create this nest/music box/lamp/creative plaything. Also inspired by eggs, plants, light, and the moon, Sayuda created an interactive sculpture for both children and adults. When you place the eggs on the stamens, the eggs light up and music is played. Each stamen plays a different sound, and the sounds change according to the number and position of the eggs.
