Hooked Needled Dwarf / Marysia szydełkuje: November 2013

Monday 11 November 2013

Laurel Roth

I use art to examine biological ramifications of human behavior and humankind’s drive to modify itself as well as its environment. By playing with the convergence of biology and design to create new cultural artifacts, I try to question social constructions of need, design, and individual desire.

In the last 10 years since quitting my job as a park ranger to focus solely on art, my work has shown in India, London, New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Belgium, the Netherlands, and San Francisco, where I have a studio in the Compound 21 collective. I am currently represented by Schroeder Romero Gallery in New York, Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, and Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago.

http://loloro.com/home.html

http://hifructose.com/2013/09/12/opening-night-laurel-roths-flight-of-the-dodo-at-gallery-wendi-norris/

http://mixingreality.com/2011/11/a-collaborative-process-laurel-roth-andy-diaz-hope/

Together Laurel Roth and Andy Diaz Hope represent an ideal of artistic collaboration. They not only make artwork together, they co-create two artists’ live/work cooperatives (one in San Francisco and one in Sonoma County), raise farm animals, and are life partners. Seeing the work they make, collaboratively and separately, brings a glint of amazement to the eye. Whether a fantastical sculpture or a beautifully placed column of redwood salvaged from their forest property, they have amazing vision and an even more amazing combined work ethic.

Friday 8 November 2013

Jeila Gueramian

Statement

As an artist, I want to inspire exploration. I create alternate worlds and invite people to lose themselves in them: awaken their senses, feel like a kid, be in the moment, laugh or be a little scared, stop and ask a question, get involved in a fantasy, believe in the magical.

The materials I use always have a history, either found or family objects, hand-me downs, or vintage items. The work erupts from those inspirations with the material often dictating the form, shape and story of the piece.