Low Profile Bowls

Low Profile Bowls


The silhouettes of a writer/journalist, a ballerina, a native Chief who was an actor and writer, and a popular urbanist and activist are the basis of a new series of bowls. How did you decide on these particular individuals as the subjects for your Low Profile Bowls? I began the project two days after Celia Franca passed away, in February 2007. As I was reading about her, and all the amazing things she'd done (her accomplishments extend far beyond founding the National Ballet of Canada), I couldn't believe that I'd never heard of her. This was not long after the CBC's "Greatest Canadian" contest aired, so I decided to revisit their top 100, out of curiosity (neither Celia nor Jane Jacobs made the list, by the way). I found that although I agreed with most of the choices, there were some unbelievable reaches and unforgivable oversights. So I made my own list-- Canadians who had accomplished great things, and deserved more attention. My criteria required candidates be outstanding, important Canadians with a broad scope to their accomplishments--no single-threats allowed. I ended up with a very long list, and if I ever have the time, I would love to produce a bowl for each name on the list. However, for the initial batch I had to pair down my selection to four, so I chose the candidates who had the best facial profiles: Jane Jacobs, Celia Franca, Pierre Berton and Chief Dan George.

If Cherries Were Raindrops by Dustin Yellin

Dustin Yellin's new sculptures of vivisectionary resin, ink, glass and acrylic will be part of Eden Disorder, an exhibition opening next week. Here's what to expect: "The crux of Yellin's sculpture is pure contradiction: the objects don't exist. Despite what the eye thinks it sees, it's simply not there. No tree, no skull, no branch, no bone. Focus on the front plane and there is no denying the intricate depths of twisting color--although what you see may indeed look like no living thing you've seen before. Walk around to the side and it becomes clear that what you see is not what you thought--the images disappear. Yellin's convoluted brain-children are layered ink and acrylic drawings, frozen in layers of resin or glass, flattened out and brought to full size."

Artist: Dustin Yellin
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Eden Disorder runs from March 20 through May 1, 2010 at Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica, California.



Untitled (Red Tree)



If Cherries Were Raindrops



Joey in the Box

The Melting Chocolate walls and ceilings

Godiva Chocolatier, one of the world's most elegant, hand-crafted chocolates creators, originated in Brussels Belgium in 1926 with Joseph Draps.  As time passed by, and the success of Godiva grew in Belgium, Draps sought to expand the company off to foreign horizons. The first Godiva boutique outside Belgium was opened in 1958 in Paris followed by openings in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and more. Expansion also continued into Asia when the first Godiva chocolates became available in Japan in the prestigious Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Department Store in central Tokyo in 1972.

Core by Devorah Jacoby

Core by Devorah Jacoby

It is interesting to note that abstract/figurative painter Devorah Jacoby has a background as a licensed psychotherapist, as this could well be reflected in her oils. Jacoby's characters, often in flight or poised to take off, inhabit worlds that are somewhere between here and one of dreams. A multiplicity of faces or outlooks still cannot reveal what is at one's core; a girl pitches forward in flight, a creature that is neither fish nor fowl, but somewhere near both; you can hear the "whheeeee!" in the joyous legs of a peaceful cyclist set against a patchwork ground.

Artist: Devorah Jacoby
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Friends, Family and Other Misfits runs through April 15, 2010 at the Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael, California.



Flying Girl



Core



Letting Go

John clang

Clang was born Ang Choon Leng in Singapore. He earned his moniker while in the National Service in Singapore as his badge read C L Ang. At age 17 he enrolled in Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore to study fine art photography but left after six months to assist a noted fine-art photographer named Chua Soo Bin. Later he worked for Willie Tang, a well known photographer/television commercial director in Singapore at the time. By the age of 21 he was exhibiting his photographs at art galleries in Singapore. Clang first exhibited his work as a member of the controversial (and now defunct) Singapore art group 5th Passage Artists. His work has been shown at Proud Galleries, London; Bank Art Gallery, Los Angeles; and Galerie Colette, Paris. "Backs by Clang”, the photographer's first solo exhibition was held in 2001 at the Diane von Furstenberg studio in New York. It featured 10 images and a video installation. Recent solo exhibitions include Jendela Gallery/ The Esplanade, Singapore (2004) and The Substation, Singapore (2007). An installation of his personal work is in the permanent collection at the Singapore Art Museum. In 2009, Clang has joined the global Hopenhagen effort with a beautiful stop-motion short film he created to bring awareness to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference starting December 7 in Copenhagen. In addition to the film, Clang shot and created a series of posters that that bring to life the visual representation of Hopenhagen’s citizens.

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Upside Down Celebrities

" Migraines can cause reversal of vision phenomenon when a person sees everything upside down. In such cases, after migraine attack stops normal vision comes back. Strangely, for human brain it's more difficult to digest the image of a person flipped vertically, rather than the image where the face stays intact while the head and the rest of the body are flipped vertically. No matter how unusual such edit looks the person on the right is usually more recognizable than his unedited copy on the left. " from www.freakingnews,com.

Jean-François Fourtou

Jean-François Fourtou (b. 1964, lives and works in Marrakech and Madrid)
"Mes maisons (My houses)," 2009

Playing with proportion and scale, Jean-François Fourtou's "Houses" includes personal memories of childhood and the fantastical magic of Alice's Wonderland. The installation in Marrakech includes objects from his "Maison du géant" (Giant's House), and the "Maison de poupée" (Doll's house). Fourtou recreates a child's sensation of disorientation in adult spaces in order for it to be re-experienced by a grown viewer.

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