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Juan Francisco Elso: Por América Exhibition at El Museo del Barrio

Juan Francisco Elso: Por América investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988). Based in Havana, Elso was part of the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba, who gained international recognition in the early 1980’s. Created mostly using natural, organic materials, his sculptural practice examines the complex forms of contemporary Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American identities, as inflected by the cultural influences of Indigenous traditions, Afro-Caribbean religious beliefs, as well as the traumas of colonial oppression. 

Juan Francisco Elso: Por América was exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York City from October 27, 2022 – March 26, 2023

2019 Whitney Biennial - Set 1 of 2

Set 1 of 2 of photographs by Blair Prentice from the 2019 Whitney Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

With the 2019 Biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art continues its commitment to understanding the current state of art in America today. The 79th installation is no exception, including the work of seventy-five artists and collectives working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance and sound.

In a nation experiencing the opposing forces of a booming economy and deep political polarization, curators Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley began to hear a chorus of voices seeking out ways to channel their confusion and anger into productive pursuits that might help to reconstitute a sense of community and equity.

Exhibition runs until September 22nd, 2019.

Photography by Blair Prentice of iheartmyart.com

Also see Set 2 of 2 of the photographs from the 2019 Whitney Biennial exhibition.

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2019 Whitney Biennial - Set 2 of 2

Set 2 of 2 of photographs by Blair Prentice from the 2019 Whitney Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

With the 2019 Biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art continues its commitment to understanding the current state of art in America today. The 79th installation is no exception, including the work of seventy-five artists and collectives working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance and sound.

In a nation experiencing the opposing forces of a booming economy and deep political polarization, curators Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley began to hear a chorus of voices seeking out ways to channel their confusion and anger into productive pursuits that might help to reconstitute a sense of community and equity.

Exhibition runs until September 22nd, 2019.

Photography by Blair Prentice of iheartmyart.com

Also see Set 1 of 2 of the photographs from the 2019 Whitney Biennial exhibition.

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4heads Governor’s Island Art Fair - 2018 - Part 1 of 2

Among the endless amazing experiences that New York City has to offer throughout the year, it is always a pleasure to escape on a short ferry ride to visit the annual Governors Island Art Fair (GIAF) presented by the arts organization, 4heads. 

In its eleventh year, the annual arts festival is immersing visitors in art which has been distributed throughout the abandoned living spaces of historic military residences on the island.

Photography from the exhibition by Blair Prentice for iheartmyart.

Artist work in photographs:

Etty Yaniv

Jake Scharbach

Motomichi Nakamura, Mush Marsh, 2018, projection mapping installation

Samuelle Green, installation of the paper caves (Governor’s Island), 2018

Jeila Gueramian

Guangyu Wu, Seen/NotSeen, 2018

The Lower East Side Girls Club

DARNstudio, Another Country: A Quilt Cycle, 2018

Blair Prentice

Tim Fite

See Part 2 of the pictures from the Governors Island Art Fair. 

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Daniel Arsham’s Exhibition 3018 at Perrotin NYC

In his latest exhibition at Perrotin in New York City, artist Daniel Arsham transports the visitor to the year 3018. A dystopian future, in which humans have disappeared from the earth and all that remains are the calcified artifacts of cultural and material importance from recent western history. Cloaked in a deceptively appealing aesthetic veneer, Arsham nudges the visitor to look deeper. Underneath lies the dark truth that in the larger context of time, these objects of consumptive excess are meaningless and could lead to the extinction of the human race if it remains unchecked.

The exhibition, Daniel Arsham: 3018, is on at the Perrotin NYC at 130 Orchard St. until October 21, 2018.

Photography from the exhibition by Blair Prentice for iheartmyart.

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Blair Prentice

Having spent many years exploring painting and drawing, artist and creator of iheartmyart.com Blair Prentice, has recently been compelled to explore new work in three-dimensions. It was with clay that he found the surge of creative potential. The resulting ceramics are a collection of playful porcelain sculptural forms that have even have function. Some highlights include a High Top planter, tumbling cube vases and gravity defying figurines that delicately balance on their bases.

Blair will be selling his ceramics at Made in Clay 2018 at the Greenwich House Pottery in New York City, Saturday, December 1st, 2018 from 12-6 PM. 16 Jones St., NYC.

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Tumbling Cube with Gold Luster + Delicate Balance Figure with Gold Luster, 2018

High Top, gold luster, porcelain ceramic, 2018

Red, Blue + Clear Ombre, Black, White, Gold and Silver High Top ceramic planter collection, porcelain ceramic, 2018

Delicate Balance, figurine in Spotted Shino + Byrd Matte glaze, 2018

Fallen Angel planter, porcelain ceramic, 2018

Tumbling Cube - Celadon drip glaze, porcelain ceramic

Bol protégé, 2018, porcelain ceramic

Delicate Balance figures - Don Reitz Green, Chinese White, Charlie D Black, 2018

Blue Canopy, porcelain drinking glasses, 2018

Fallen Angel vase, mother of pearl, porcelain ceramic, 2018

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Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life exhibition at David Zwirner NYC

In recent years, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has skyrocketed into international stardom with the widespread dissemination of images of mainly her infinity rooms through social media. In 2017, several of these installations have been making their way across the USA from LA to DC and now to New York City. 

This week, in New York City the David Zwirner Gallery opened the Festival of Life exhibition which is composed of two concurrent exhibitions that include several new infinity rooms, sculptures and paintings.

Alongside the popular Infinity Rooms are rooms filled with the richly colored painted works that are laced with Kusama’s recognizable repetitive pattern work. Instead of the iconic dots that speckled her works for years, Kusuma’s new preoccupation seems to be with eyes and faces. One could perhaps connect this new aesthetic as a reflection upon the growing fame and the pressure applied upon her to meet the demand for pieces on the art market. 

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Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life at the David Zwirner Gallery NYC runs until November 2—December 16, 2017

Photography by Blair Prentice of iheartmyart.com

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Peter Saul: Fake News at Mary Boone Gallery

In our current period of history, where rational dialogue has taken a backseat to sensationalism and outright bigotry, Peter Saul’s approach to understanding our world through his politically inspired pop paintings seems particularly apt. Central to his new works is the leader of this absurd new world, commander in chief of “fake news”, Trump. 

Rejecting the established notions of what is considered good taste and political correctness as prescribed by the art world elite, Saul ridicules the president’s blatant disregard for the reality of the important political issues he toys with. In effect, Saul gives us a glimpse of the clash of the humorous yet grotesque historical events that we deserve. 

Exhibition, Peter Saul: Fake News is showing at Mary Boone Gallery, 541 West 24th St. in NYC until October 28th, 2017

Photography by Blair Prentice of iheartmyart.com

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