Maki Na Kamura, the Berlin-based Japanese painter, touches on her interest in patterns of structures and texture, a knowing circumvention of figuration and the magic of painting
SFA Advisory opens its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime
Exterior, SFA Advisory, Ridiculous Sublime. Photo by Erik Bardin.
NEW YORK, NY
.-SFA Advisory, Lisa Schiffs Tribeca outpost, announces its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime, running through Labor Day. Featuring 50 international artists, Schiff transformed her permanent ground-floor office at 45 White Street into a temporary exhibition space as part of her commitment to exploring nascent tendencies which appear across the globe.
In 1757, Edmund Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful wherein he defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. Elsewhere, the sublime has been used to describe a natural event that inspires awe and terror through sheer immensity. Beauty and awe are where the sublime in art usually lands, and often it consists of representations of Mother Nature wi