Bowers’ Radical Hospitality (2015) is a sculptural contradiction: its red and blue neon letters proclaim the words of the title, signaling openness and generosity, while the barbed wires that encircle the words give another message entirely. Meant to hang from the ceiling, Bowers’ neon is further weighed down by long wind chimes made of aluminum pipes and wooden wind catchers that drip unsteadily from their anchors. Poetic but frantic in its juxtapositions, Bowers’ work captures a certain paradoxical energy that echoes the current political climate—it is hopeful but hindered, cacophonous but well intentioned, uncertain but ominous.
Socially engaged and politically outspoken, Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Bowers builds her work around issues of social justice and advocacy. Her artistic practice often uses political protests and movements as sources of inspiration and content, as she draws isolated figures holding picket signs with delicate attention, or replicates the archive of a cause in the space of the gallery. Labor movements, women’s rights rallies, anti-war protests, and immigration demonstrations, past and present, are among the myriad moments of political action that Bowers draws upon in her works.
                                    
                                    In True Red Ruin (Elmina Castle) , Danielle Dean uses archival documents to re-imagine colonial history from the 1400s, while also referencing her own personal history...
                                    
                                    Hexafluorosilicic acid is a type of sodium fluoride waste product that can be found in a large amount of widely available products such as cleaning fluids, toothpaste, rat poison, and drinking water...
                                    
                                    Untitled (Wheelchair Drawing) is a ten-foot photo transfer of the image of a wheelchair with burning embers in its seat...
                                    
                                    Towhead n’Ganga, enclosed in darkness, lorded over by the sexualized folded high priestless form reflects many of Kelley’s works, in both its compositional and semantic qualities...
                                    
                                    Although best known as a provocateur and portraitist, Opie also photographs landscapes, cityscapes, and architecture...
                                    
                                    In this work, a woman sits on a couch with her shirt pulled up to expose her pierced nipples, which are connected by a chain...
                                    
                                    Video: Catherine Opie on photographing leading British artists | Blog | Royal Academy of Arts Catherine Opie in the RA Collection Gallery Video: Catherine Opie on photographing leading British artists Read more Become a Friend Video: Catherine Opie on photographing leading British artists Published 8 September 2023 Catherine Opie discusses her portraits of David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Gillian Wearing, Isaac Julien and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, featured in our free display in the Collection Gallery...
                                    
                                    The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights...
                                    
                                    Although best known as a provocateur and portraitist, Opie also photographs landscapes, cityscapes, and architecture...
                                    
                                    In this work, a woman sits on a couch with her shirt pulled up to expose her pierced nipples, which are connected by a chain...
                                    
                                    Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title...
                                    
                                    Nicolas Daubanes — Du béton, de l’acier et de la viande — La Maréchalerie, centre d’art contemporain — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Nicolas Daubanes — Du béton, de l’acier et de la viande — La Maréchalerie, centre d’art contemporain — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Nicolas Daubanes — Du béton, de l’acier et de la viande Exhibition Architecture, installation Closing Nicolas Daubanes, La grâce présidentielle, à la galerie Territoires Partagés, Marseille PAC 2022 © JC Lett Nicolas Daubanes Du béton, de l’acier et de la viande Ends in 6 days: September 22 → December 17, 2023 La pratique artistique de Nicolas Daubanes se déploie à travers le dessin, la sculpture, la vidéo et l’installation...
                                    
                                    Brian Eno, musician and producer, on AI-driven documentary Eno and why he doesn’t trust Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg with the technology | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Sundance Film Festival + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Brian Eno, influential musician and producer who worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo and U2, in a still from the documentary “Eno” about his life and career...
                                    
                                    MUM , the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication...
                                    
                                    While his works can function as abstract, they are very much rooted in physicality and the possibilities that are inherent in the materials themselves...
                                    
                                    Clarissa Tossin’s film Ch’u Mayaa responds to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House (constructed 1919–21) in Los Angeles, an example of Mayan Revival architecture...
                                    
                                    Will Rogan’s video Eraser (2014) shows a hearse parked in a clearing amidst leaf barren trees...
                                    
                                    The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights...
                                    
                                    San Pedro is a seaside city, part of the Los Angeles Harbor, sitting on the edge of a channel...
                                    
                                    Calle’s drawings all inhabit received forms but alter them to call attention to specific qualities...
                                    
                                    Johanna Calle’s Abece “K” (2011) is part of a series of drawings (compiled into an artist book called Abece ) based on the alphabet...
                                    
                                    The American War , which takes its title from the Vietnamese term for what Americans call the Vietnam War, has toured the United States extensively with the goal of presenting a Vietnamese perspective of that history...
                                    
                                    Head Box by J ean-Luc Moulène i s not the representation of a space but a real space that remains in the domain of sculpture which the artist develops in parallel with his photographic practice...
                                    
                                    Noémie Goudal’s short film, Below the Deep South , is based on the work of palaeoclimatologist James Bendle who, while drilling in Antarctica, discovered coal beneath the ice...