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On a beautiful Caribbean Island, we celebrate Marc Quinn’s birthday with his wonderful pinks all blurring into one super-sloo-moo creation
A wonderful sloo-moo moment
Then Miami - and of course straight to Don Jason and Mera Rubell to see the latest hang. Work by Joseph Geagan looks interesting
It was lovely to see a whole wall of work by young new yorker Lorenzo Amos - I loved the work ‘Lily by the Wall’
Lovely to see the 2011 residency work by Sterling Ruby. They were always so big! This one is 6 by 4 meters
Great sculpture by Karon Davis - staring out at us from the library window. ‘Qurantini’ 2020 which brings to our attention those unforgettable Covid times
A great retrospective of five rooms of Thomas Houseago - showing the depth of the Rubell Collection, here is his ‘Standing Figure 1’ from 2007
Meanwhile, my lovely art heroes Jill Bernstein and Ellen Susman - amazing Jill has created her own art space open to friends and family
What was once a BFAMI auction lot: Joel Mesler’s brilliant work already up and on show at Jill’s
Then on to NYC and first stop is Central Park and ‘First Sun’ by Monira Al Qadiri from Dakar, is a painted aluminium sculpture exploring the divide of humans and the natural world
New York art comes in all shapes and sizes, even down to Building Cladding at Louis Vuitton. This is definitely worth a mention
White Cube hosted a wonderful dinner for us all at the French Institute for Marguerite Humeau. Her show is entitled ‘scintilla’ inspired by her and her relationship to the primordial dark of the cave in West Papua, where boundaries between lifeforms appear to dissolve: she said ‘Everything is part of the same flowing exchange of matter and energy, where life proceeds at its own pace.’
The experience was clearly transformative and awe inspiring, here is one of her wonderful glass works entitled “The Guardian of the Solution Pocket: protecting the secret hollows where the vulnerable hide, maintaining safe spaces in the rock that remember the shape of those who need shelter…”
We head to Anton Kern Gallery and ‘Swan Song’ by Stephanie Temma Hier and her wonderful oil paintings in ceramic frames, ‘Hold this Position’
Temma is stretching our minds about the between boundary and object
One more artist I want you to see courtesy of Anton Kern – this sculpture by David Byrd an obscure artist who spent much of his life working in a mental institution but in his spare time painted and made art
He was a master of tension and mystery here is ‘Man with Doll’ 2009, sadly David passed in 2013 at the good age of 87
Over on Instagram is an obsession with where we were 10 years ago - where were you in 2016? We were definitely on the cusp of something great and Donna Huanca’s Scar Cymbals was an incredible moment for us. It was a precursor of so much to touch the (art) world
Throughout the show there were live models as art works in their own right -each day their body stockings were hung on this evolving work
Drawing attention to the body and particular the skin as a permeable membrane - Donna supported by Curator Maitreyi and Muse Richie Shazam -
- designed a three-story sculpture structure responding to architecture that was a space for the performers to be viewed and to view us
