Louis Comfort Tiffany
Candle lamp and shade
mold-blown and hand-formed, Favrile glass
circa 1900
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blank projects: Kerim Seiler - Creature Comfort
Inspired by some remarkable South African fauna, Seiler proposes a group of ridiculous offspring reminiscent of the inbreeding inherent to South African game-culture. The title "Creature Comfort" does not reflect on South Africa specifically but r...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: God and my Right - logo series: Juliet Lea and Cube - Cold Comfort: Waratah Lahy
God and my Right - logo series
Juliet Lea
A five meter floor installation of the British Empire logo Dieu et mon Droit made from agar agar jelly, blood, dough, objects and text. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, as the work g...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Private Garden: The Jack and Elaine Folline Collection of the Works Of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Born in New York City to the founder of Tiffany & Co., Louis Comfort Tiffany began his career by studying painting with George Inness and Samuel Colman. Prompted by his fathers chief designer Edward C. Moore, Tiffany traveled throughout the Medite...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: THE FUTURE OF COMFORT: International Artists Search for Place in a Virtual World
As art critic Johnathan Crary explains, One of the crucial paradoxes of ‘globalization’ is this: the greater the technological capacity for connection, for speed, for exchange and circulation of information, the more fragmented and compartmentaliz...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Milestones of
Modernism 1880-1940:
Selections from the
Norwest Collection
More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics,
glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of
the major movements of the period: A...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: FEAR OF THE CITY: UNTITLED - Collaboration of Milica Topalovic, Bas Princen and Office, Kersten Geers, David van Severen
UNTITLED is founded in an intention to make architecture, to try and tackle (any given) topic with an architectural project.
At odds with the contemporary architectural discourse, Untitled tests whether architectural design can still be poignant ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Experimental Design Award 2001
All three winners build on a tradition of craft and exhibit a strong knowledge of the material native to their discipline--whether it is wood, typography and two-dimensional composition, or constituent elements of the built environment--and elabor...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Last Week! Milestones of
Modernism 1880-1940:
Selections from the
Norwest Collection
More than 200 objects are included in the exhibition—furniture, metalwork, ceramics,
glass and works on paper. Created between 1880 and 1940, they represent a survey of
the major movements of the period: Arts...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: The Swimmer
It is a space where oppression and depression which are continually swept under the carpet in favour of a more acceptable outward appearance. Doreen details the pathologies and symptoms that attend this denial. Symptom relieving drugs domestic cra...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: Primal Instinct: Tony Sweeting
Such knowledge comes from images of comfort relating to our first safe experiences – homes in caves, holes and other naturally wet or cellular places.
Tony Sweeting is a recent graduate of the National Institute of the Arts’ painting worksho...
Fuller Museum of Art: Almost Home: New England Area Photographers
The basic need to understand and feel comfort with the places we call 'home' is turned upside down in this work. These photographers closely examine the traces we leave, making spaces both anonymous and intricately personal. In presenting this cro...
Dallas Museum of Art: Circa 1900: Design at the Turn of the Century
Included in the exhibition will be furniture by the American arts and crafts master Gustav
Stickley, as well as the French art nouveau designer Louis Majorelle. Frank Lloyd Wright designs,
Louis Comfort tiffany glass, George Jensen silver, and...
Museum of New Art: At the Edge of the World: New Work from Japan
Kenzu Nagawa combines film and photography to create a dark but sensual world of swirls and chiaroscuro. His work is narrative without a story. Or, at the least, without resolution. There is a tension in his work that is relentless, never allowing...
Artspace New Haven: Soft: Curated by Debbie Hesse
Featuring works by: James Clark, Eric Conrad, Joseph Fucigna, Anne George,
Sarah Gjertson, Ron Janowich, Clint Jukkala, Jane Miller, Amy Punckak, Orit
Raff, Janice Redman, Mary Temple, Leo Villareal and Dina Weiss James Clark, Leo Villareal, ...
BildMuseet, Umeå: Safe & Sexy - Personas and Codes of Public Space
She has asked the women a list of standard questions for the interview, such as, “Do you think about what you’re wearing when you walk out the doorNULL How do you modify your appearance for different occasions and locationsNULL When does sexy beco...
Centre of Attention: Featuring...Curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer
Al+Al
Oreet Ashery
estate of H.W Auden
Simeon Banner
Benedict Carpenter
Rosie Cooper
Greg Daville
Eveleigh and Evans
Nooshin Farhid
A.M. Hanson ('alexcalledsimon')
Jasper Joffe
Tina Keane
...
Deluxe-Arts Gallery and Creative Space: Baumschlager-Eberle Architekten, Lochau: 'Of regional and international' Constructions / Projects 1996-2002
Baumschlager-Eberle understand to combine the cultural continuity of cities and landscapes with the highest level of quality and comfort.They manage to close the ever present gap between architectural language, the structure of citylandscape an...
Ridley Gallery, Sierra College: Michael Robert Pollard: Moments of Life Defined Through Sets of Expressive Marks and Tags
Pollard states, “As an artist I balance emotion and intense color through improvisation and gesture. Refiguring the human form into an expressive set of marks and tags. My work has been a way to channel my emotion and document life. Last year m...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed
This exhibition features five works created by the artist in 2002, in response to the horrific unfolding of evidence around the serial killing of women from Vancouver's skid row. Many of the women were of First Nations heritage, and Belmore uses ...
Pool Gallery: Amy Stein: New American Fables
New American Fables shows selected works of both series.
Pool Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition of Amy Stein in Germany.
The New York based photographer has built up a successful career since graduating from the School of V...
Lonsdale Gallery: Cambium: Allen Hirsh's Original Wood Constructions
“I’m inspired by borders and boundaries and what happens when you cross that edge,” says Toronto-based Hirsh. “When you get below the surface or go to unfamiliar places, your senses are heightened, and you may be more enthusiastic or cautious and...
PS122 Gallery: Works by Lisa Dahl and Haejae Lee
Lisa Dahl: There Goes the Neighborhood
“In my most recent series of paintings, There Goes the Neighborhood, I have taken either photographs of singular
houses or used images from real estate magazines and obliterated the structures under mu...
Mobius: RELAX!
Shelves on the gallery walls will contain stacks of videotapes, all labeled with one of the verbs
from the live action video. The videotape, however, rather than being securely stored in its
casset...
Plug In, ICA: Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan: Scentbar - Fragrances for Troubled Times
Further extending the potential ambivalence of the experience, the aromatic formula reflects both the wearer and his/her surroundings. More specifically, the comfort, cleanliness and decadence of the service is undermined by the product (which dra...
John Elder Gallery: Tetsuya Yamada, CHANT: Beyond the Ready-made
Never content to ride on past successes, Yamada has broken new ground with a fantastic body of cast and glazed porcelain works. Each form is repeated and then placed in rows of varying length, and placed on simple wooden constructions. When Duch...
Atlanta College o f Art: John Bankston: Temptation and Desire
Bankston appropriates the familiar stylistic language of coloring books to innovative ends: in his hands coloring becomes a metaphor for identity and filling in the lines carries weight as a cultural act. Drawing on a variety of sources -- 19th-ce...
Varley Gallery: Julie Oakes: The Buddha Composed
The context in which the new and the classical are juxtaposed addresses various contemporary social, political, gender, environmental, and philosophical ideas.
Also included are selected paper works which serve as a symbolic completion of th...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: Virgil Marti Opens New Work
Martis Morris Gallery installation will reference the Academys striking decorative program by
building architect Frank Furness, as well as its historic curatorial practice, through the use of dramatic
lighting, flocked wallpaper, and faux ease...
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts: Space Active: Gosia Wlodarczak
Gosia draws her environment as she sees it in real time - tracing and re-tracing the visible. The video documentation of her art-making process forms and important part of this exhibition.
Wlodarczak’s art works are made manifest through the a...
Dolby Chadwick Gallery: Familiar Places, Personal Spaces: New Paintings by Ada Sadler
Sadler's representation of the conventional mid-20th century chair reflects the setting, typically an empty room or office, of which a feeling of isolation persists. although symbolically the empty chair can represent loneliness and even mortality...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: Chair Show 4 and Sitting Pretty: Contemporary Wisconsin Chairs
In honor of this most affable and universal of furniture pieces, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, presents The Chair Show 4 and Sitting Pretty: Contemporary Wisconsin Chairs from February 2 – April 7, 2002. The exhibitions feature the ...
Artium - Basque Museum of Contemporary Art: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
The work of Charles and Ray Eames exhibition has been organized by the Washington DC Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The exhibition has been shown in museums and art centres around Europe and America and ...
Hoxton Distillery: XXX GIRLFRIENDS: Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson - A Relationship with the Sublime
The glut of xxxxxx revolutionary spectators, lurking around galleries
enthusing after art as a 'sign of history' xxxxxx stapled onto their terror
of anonymity xxxxxx will be bereft of the illusional comfort of xxxxxxx
commensurability in the ap...
Uber Gallery: Elisabeth Weissensteiner: Intro-Spectatio
Using symbols from nature such as animals, insects and surreal combinations of both together with figures and photographs works, Weissensteiner creates a unique world that explores the spaces in between interior and exterior, pleasure and pain and...
Queens Museum of Art: Tiffany: Behind the Glass
Tiffany Behind the Glass is displayed in six parts:
Section one offers an overview of the unique raw materials used
in the manufacture of Tiffany glass and exam...
VRT - Vlaams Radio and Television Station: Superstar Neil Diamond is charmed by the Art of a Belgian Action Painter
The selection turned out to be very representative for the works of mr Diamond: from the raw " cherry cherry " performance in 1972 to the sensitive "flight of the Gull" from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, these musical jewels strengthen the efforts ...
Forest City Gallery: Living With Art: JOHANNES ZITS
Johannes's work has evolved out of an attempt to understand the notion of taste, good, bad and acceptable. These paintings implicates taste on many levels and it is the play among these different layers that he is drawing on. For example, the link...
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong: To Enlighten Sentient Beings: Calligraphy by Venerable Master Hsing Yun
Jointly organized with the International Buddhist Progress Society (HK) Ltd
and Buddhas Light International Association of Hong Kong, this exhibition
is a lively interplay of calligraphic art and Buddhist teachings. It
features the Masters c...
Gallery 96: One Touch of Nature: An Environmental Artwork Exhibition
Some artists have created new work for the site at Stratford, while
others adapted previous pieces for this project. The creation,
installation and changes (if any!) of these artworks throughout the
duration of this project will be documented...
Artemide Showroom: Crossroad: The Liminal State of Light and Dark - Work by Fernando Ferreira de Araujo
The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding,...
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