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Lively Botanicals and Organic Forms Cloak Juz Kitson’s Ceramic Vessels in Dense Topographies

Focused on movement and vitality, artist Juz Kitson sculpts supple vessels that harness the lively qualities of Earth's landscapes. Densely packed with pieces mimicking flowers, fungi, moss, coral, and other organisms, the shapely works "feel like they are pulsating, giving inanimate material a spark of life," Kitson tells Colossal. Medium and subject matter both nod to the natural process of…

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Interview: Nick Cave Unpacks Silence and Compassion Ahead of His First Retrospective at Chicago’s MCA

A portmanteau of forevermore and for others, Forothermore is a prescient title for the first retrospective of artist Nick Cave opening this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Cave discusses the career-spanning exhibition in a new interview supported by Colossal Members, starting with his Soundsuits, the captivating costumes of color and fur…

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DATMA Issues National Call for Public Art Commissions Based on Shelter

Massachusetts Design Art and Technology Institute (DATMA), the non-collecting contemporary art institute, and its partners kicked off a city-wide, collaborative venture called “SHELTER 2022–23.” As part of this initiative, DATMA is issuing a National Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a public outdoor installation on the theme of shelter. New Bedford, Massachusetts will serve as a canvas for art exploring the role of shelter within the histories, communities, and cultures of the SouthCoast region and beyond. DATMA welcomes artists to consider subjects including but not limited to housing, the Underground…

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Symmetric Drawings on Antique Ledgers Balance Energy and Consciousness

Conveying the "texture of a threshold," the mixed-media drawings that comprise Tanya P. Johnson’s ongoing Wisdom Engines series invoke passing between wakefulness and sleep or life and death. Mirrored renderings entwine gears, levers, pulleys, and audio equipment with flowers and geometric motifs in elongated columns, referencing the shape of the human spine.…

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Lively Kinetic Sculptures by Yunchul Kim Pulse with Iridescent Color-Changing Cells

 Seoul-based artist Yunchul Kim echoes the heaving, lively motion of breath in his glimmering kinetic sculptures. Part of the ongoing Chroma series, the mixed-media works are reactive: small motors bend the transparent polymer material and cause an iridescent, color-changing ripple that pulses across the piece. Often suspended in a gallery space, the sculptures are knotted or shaped like a vortex, as in "Chroma V," which references "subjects and symbols of culture and disciplines, such as ancient murals, nature, literature, art, philosophy, and science," Kim says. Alongside aesthetic concerns, engineering and the mechanics of each structure play a crucial role in the…

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Serpentine Coiled Sculptures of Found British Bird Feathers by Kate MccGwire

Kate MccGwire's roiling feather sculptures juxtapose the beautiful, delicate material with discomfiting shapes. Whereas her earlier work tended toward sprawling installations that oozed and slid toward the viewer, MccGwire's more recent pieces are tightly wound and displayed within the confines of frames, cabinets, and bell jars. Although at first glance the feathers' incredible colors and patterns seem exotic, the British MccGwire sources all of her materials from dropped feathers provided by farmers, gamekeepers, and pigeon…

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