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My work will be auctioned in London this week for International Rescue Committee 

***UPDATE: The print sold at Auction for £2,000 which as agreed with IRC the following 4 prints in the edition will be sold for that amount. I will donate portion of sales after expenses on remaining 4 prints. The print can be purchased on my web site here: http://www.studio-4a.com/-/ttrdp/jobs/international-rescue-committee-print 

Article in Financial Times with links ( and more info below): http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/e95d93dc-6b1f-11e4-be68-00144feabdc0.html#slide25

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International Rescue Committee Print

Nocturne #6 (Special Edition Print)  by Thomas Brummett

17.5×40″ or 44×101 cm Silver Gelatin Fiber Based Print.

This print will be in an edition of 5. The first print will be auctioned off in London which will set the price for the following 4.

With the following 4 prints the artist will donate 50% of all sales (less expenses) to International Rescue Committee.

How to bid

This year bidding will include absentee bids as well as live bids on the evening. Bidding will open at midday (12pm GMT) on Wednesday November 26 and close on 4pm (GMT) on Wednesday December 3.

The highest absentee bid will have a representative who will make a bid on your behalf.

Absentee bids

Bidding is open for absentee bids. To register, please email contactus@rescue-uk.org or 44 (0)20 7692 2751 with your full name, mobile phone number, landline number, email address, lot title and your maximum bid.

We will call you to finalise your registration and payment details if you are the highest bidder.

 

The passing of one of the great photographic visual intellects who influenced a generation (and will continue to do so). As a Philadelphia local and international star Ray will be missed by so many.

He once said his goal was “a unique way of seeing,” one in which “new eyes replaced the old.” Ray did this repeatedly over the course of his long and amazing career. No one on the planet has the photographic visual acuity of Ray Metzker. He is completely unique in this respect.  This is why so many of his works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (not to mention at least 20 other Museums). In the history of photography he will always remain a singular artist that truly did invent a new way of seeing.

Rest in Peace Ray. Job well done!

(Nice piece today remembering him in the NY Times here).


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Ray

Ray K. Metzker 1931- 2014

The Work of Do Ho Suh

October 6, 2014 — Leave a comment

In Art School they told us to either make the extraordinary ordinary or make the ordinary extraordinary. I will leave you to figure out what Do Ho Suh is up to with these miraculous and luminous objects and environments.

 

Specimen Series: Stove, 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013 polyester fabric 73.66 x 36.22 x 34.8 inches 187.1 x 92 x 88.4 cm Edition of 3

Specimen Series: Radiator, 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013
polyester fabric
73.66 x 36.22 x 34.8 inches
187.1 x 92 x 88.4 cm
Edition of 3

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Specimen Series: Stove, 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA, 2013 polyester fabric 73.66 x 36.22 x 34.8 inches 187.1 x 92 x 88.4 cm

 

Seoul Home/Seoul Home/Kanazawa Home, 2012 silk, metal armature 573.62 x 282.28 x 153.94 inches 1457 x 717 x 391 cm Edition of 3

Seoul Home/Seoul Home/Kanazawa Home, 2012
silk, metal armature
573.62 x 282.28 x 153.94 inches
1457 x 717 x 391 cm
Edition of 3

 

Wielandstr.  18, 12159 Berlin, 2011 polyester fabric 138.58 x 82.68 x 258.27 inches 352 x 210 x 656 cm Edition of 3

Wielandstr.
18, 12159 Berlin, 2011
polyester fabric
138.58 x 82.68 x 258.27 inches
352 x 210 x 656 cm
Edition of 3

All Photos via  http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/do-ho-suh

 

 

 

The Work of Do Ho Suh

 

 

Once upon a time in the art world if you started your career selling your work at a home furnishing chain store it might have been a career killer. In the past year Restoration Hardware has opened an Art Gallery in Manhattan showcasing a large stable of artists. One of them, Samantha Thomas, is doing work far beyond her years and really reminds me of some of the works by the late, great artist Antoni Tapies ( see image below).

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OCRE I NEGRE AMB TELA ENCOLADA (OCHRE AND BLACK WITH PASTED ON CLOTH) by ANTONI TÀPIES (B. 1923). Image via Christies

Samantha Thomas has a more intimate relationship to fabric when sculpting it into bold, undulating abstract works that deftly and powerfully intersect the worlds of painting and sculpture in a series she calls: LandscapificationIf she keeps up this type of amazing output my bet is she will not be at RH much longer… 

 

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All images via RH Contemporary

 

The Art of Samantha Thomas

Just caught Brian Sanders’ Junk new work Suspended for the 2014 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. I have not had this much fun since La Fura Dels Baus at BAM years ago. It’s a great show that mixes much humor, art, eroticism, gender bending role playing, trapeze and the politics of violence. I was not bored for one minute.

Just go!!!

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Fringe Arts 2014: Brian Sanders’ Suspended