Water tank exterior, future site of James Turrell s Skyspace Will McLaughlin
More than three decades ago, the American artist James Turrell, a pioneer of the Light and Space movement, visited the vacant campus of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass Moca) in North Adams and envisioned how he would create a Skyspace there, one of his signature coloured chambers with apertures opened to the sky. The notion was to install it within a concrete water tank that had been used as an emergency fire extinguisher when the museum complex housed factory buildings.
Turrell’s vision will be finally realised this spring when the inoperative outdoor water tank, which has remained on site as Mass Moca developed, is transformed. The work will join the long-term exhibition of nine immersive works in a multi-decade retrospective devoted to Turrell at the museum titled
Cornell attended secondary school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for four years, beginning in 1917, the year in which his father died of leukemia. Cornell’s formal education ended when he graduated from Andover in 1921, at which time he returned to live with his mother, who had moved from Nyack, New York, with Cornell’s younger brother, Robert, to Queens. In 1929 the Cornell family moved into a home at 3708 Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, where Cornell would remain, rather reclusively, for the rest of his life.
From 1921 to 1931 Cornell worked in Manhattan as a salesman for a textile company in order to help support his family. After hearing about Christian Science from a coworker, Cornell began to read the works of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, ultimately converted to the religion in 1925, and regularly attended services at a local church. His job in the city also exposed him to a new range of possibilities in the arts. Working in Manhattan gave him the oppo
Karen Carson s first solo show at Gavlak Los Angeles explores her expansive five-decade career
Karen Carson, Untitled #20, 2018.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-GAVLAK Los Angeles is presenting Karen Carson: Middle Ground, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery running from January 9 through March 6, 2021. Centered around her current bas relief works and her early zipper series, both bodies of work deploy geometric configurations to explore the convergence of gender, nature and the material world. The exhibitions title refers to the interplay between these two series; both operate as key historical markers that speak to Carsons artistic importance for the past five decades, creating work with an expansive visual language that has engaged contemporary issues and political culture in myriad ways.
John Outterbridge, Who Turned Castoffs Into Sculpture, Dies at 87
Leftover wood, rags, rusted metal all were his materials, and pieced together as assemblages, they told stories about history, about culture and about him.
John Outterbridge outside the Watts Towers Art Center in Los Angeles in 1991. He was a leading practitioner of the pieced-together mixed-medium sculpture known as assemblage.Credit.Bart Bartholomew for The New York Times
Jan. 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES John Outterbridge, a Los Angeles cultural leader and artist who made powerful sculptures from what is usually dismissed as junk or castoffs a means of exploring loaded social issues as well as celebrating a history of African-American resourcefulness died here on Nov. 12. He was 87.