Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with Japanese shoe designer Noritaka Tatehana to create a work that challenges and transforms contemporary structure and methods of shoe design. The duo utilized a marriage of traditional handcraft and 3-D printing technology for this strikingly unconventional shoe form. Designed for van Herpen’s 2015 Hacking Infinity collection, the […]
Joyce Pensato was perhaps best known for her paintings based on toys and cartoon characters such as Homer Simpson, Batman, and the subject of this painting, the Disney character Daisy Duck. Pensato’s pop culture subjects are psychologically charged and painted in an aggressively gestural fashion in mostly black, white, and silver which bestow them with […]
Assumptions about abstraction and representation are central in the work of Charline von Heyl. She challenges these assumptions through a combination of pattern, form and spatial illusion in the painting Idolores. The ground is composed of the vertical axis of a grid evoking the work of Agnes Martin (whose work is on view nearby). Atop […]
John Ferren was a sculptor-turned-painter who belonged to the American Abstract Artists (AAA) group from 1938 until 1940. He had apprenticed with an Italian stonecutter, which likely influenced the sculptural quality of his abstract paintings, with their curved planes and flat backgrounds. A typical example of Ferren’s style, Red Space also incorporates clearly delineated colors […]
Born in Germany, Werner Drewes studied art at the Bauhaus before leaving for New York in 1930 under political pressure. A founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), Drewes experimented widely with color and included whimsical and recognizable symbols, such as the green arrows in this piece. Drewes moved between abstraction and figural expressionism […]
