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Villa Savoy by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jenneret

SUBMISSION: Adam Hillman, Post-It Aesthetics, 2016

Untitled, from the series “Toshi-e”

Monica Rohan’s Whirlpool Of Patterns Consume Girls

Monica Rohan takes a playful turn in her art by portraying young girls hiding and tumbling around in heaps of patterned fabrics, plants and foliage.

The art is dominated by large sheets of brightly patterned fabric and clumps of wild flowers and leaves. The stunning patterned illustrations are heightened by the presence of the emerging girls, which add quirk and interest to each piece. Rohan uses the space of her paintings as a tool to position the female subjects in a variety of physical states. The viewer is drawn to the simple movement of floating bodies, which fall, hide, tumble and emerge from and into the fabrics or floral mass.

The artist’s innocence is reflected in her drawings through careful attention to the way the playful scenes unfold. Subtle hints of loneliness and delicacy break through her work as her gentle figures are consumed by the flowers or decorative fabrics.

Artist Jun Ong has implanted a glowing star within an unfinished five story building in the town of Butter-worth, Malaysia. The awkward confinement of the large luminescent sculpture within the otherwise gaping desolate space offers an air of confusion. Almost as if the star was there by mistake, perhaps stuck. The installation was indeed informed by a notion of error the star seems to mimic a glitch. Metaphorically, this “Glitch Star” represents the state of Butter-worth.

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