Category
sculpture
From junk to art
Malka Nedivi is known for her huge sculptures — roughly hewn, sometimes eerie figures that can reach up to 10 feet high — and collage paintings that are made of galvanized metal, chicken coop wire, pieces of old clothing, and fabrics and papers.
Brooklyn sculpture says it all in a New York way: ‘Oy’ and ‘yo’
A sculpture installed in a Brooklyn park says it all in an expressly New York way: “oy” and “yo.”
Artist Daniel J. Martinez provokes religion, politics to incite insight
Daniel Joseph Martinez has a question, or, rather, he wants you to have one. Well-known as one of the art world’s favorite provocateurs, the Los Angeles native and resident has brought his unique brand of art-as-conversation-piece to Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton Gallery for his first L.A. gallery exhibition in a decade, “I Am a Verb.” But why is Martinez, a non-Jewish artist, getting coverage in the Jewish Journal? Well that’s simple, really; one of the works he made for the show is a series of photos of a hunchbacked, masked man with the Shema tattooed on his chest, along with a Muslim prayer inscribed in Arabic on one arm and a Catholic prayer in Latin on the other.
Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through Feb. 2009
Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through November 2008
Creativity for a cause
Esther Netter, CEO of the Zimmer Children\’s Museum, speaks with infectious enthusiasm about her museum\’s upcoming exhibition, \”Show & Tell: The Art of Harmony,\” which opens Sunday, May 6.