WAYNE SORCE – URBAN COLOR

Posted on 2017-11-20

Urban Color will present a remarkable selection Sorce’s large-scale color photographs of urban environments taken in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s in both Chicago and New York City. His urban landscapes describe, with a formal exactitude, the light, structures, and palette of these cities within a certain era.
For Sorce, the urban landscape is both still and transitory; people appear in the photographs as both inhabitants, as well as sculptural forms relating to a larger composed scene.

Opposite – Halsted Street, Chicago, 1978

Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2017

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
92037 CA

www.josephbellows.com

  

PAUL BULTEEL – WASTE NOT

Posted on 2017-11-20

The world is consuming at unprecedented rates. Three and a half million tons of waste is generated globally every day. By 2100, that figure is expected to triple to a daily rate of 11 million. With a directive to mitigate its environmental effects, Bulteel’s home country of Belgium consistently ranks one of the best in the world at recycling, boasting a rate of 62 percent. Comparatively, the US stands at 35 percent.

Waste Not exhibits scenes from the extensive recycling systems working to restore materials for reuse. Since 2013, Bulteel has photographed 50 companies active in collecting, sorting, recycling and reclaiming waste across Western Europe. His work aims to document a variety of waste streams and make viewers aware of the enormous quantities of materials left behind. Waste Not illustrates and encourages efforts to recycle waste on an unprecedented scale.

Opposite – Bales of polypropylene (PP) extrusion waste, obtained when extruding PP filament for weaving or tufting carpet. This material will be cut and unraveled to produce fiber suitable for the felt industry.  Inquire about this image
Bales of polypropylene (PP) extrusion waste, obtained when extruding PP filament for weaving or tufting carpet. This material will be cut and unraveled to produce fiber suitable for the felt industry.

Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2018

Anastasia Photo
143 Ludlow Street
New York
10002 NY

www.anastasia-photo.com

  

DORNITH DOHERTY – ARCHIVING EDEN

Posted on 2017-11-20

Over the decade, North Texas photographer Dornith Doherty has traveled the globe to construct a visual meditation on the planet’s botanical diversity by showcasing the work of international seed banks and sharing the pure aesthetic pleasure of seeds and their transformations into plants. This exhibition celebrates the completion of that project. At a time when some ecologists are suggesting that we are losing more than ten animal and plant species each day, the display provides eloquent confirmation of the close relationship between botany and biophilia.

Opposite – Red Yucca, 2010

Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2018

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth
76107 TX

www.cartermuseum.org

  

PINCH – BRAIN SCAN

Posted on 2017-11-20

LAB018 plays host to Bristol luminary and Tectonic boss Pinch, who delivers three menacing and forward-leaning apocalyptic cuts.

www.aquaticlabrecords.com

  

CALL SUPER – ARPO

Posted on 2017-11-20

Following his acclaimed debut album Suzi Ecto, Call Super returns with LP number two, the equally arresting Arpo. Another mesmerising environment of restless beauty that refuses to conform to much else beyond his own work, it affirms Call Super’s place as one of the most remarkable electronic musicians working today.

store.houndstoothlabel.com

  

DAWN MELLOR – SIRENS

Posted on 2017-11-20

Dawn Mellor presents a new body of paintings, each depicting a British actress portraying a police officer. The title, Sirens, is a triple-entendre, evoking the sounds emitted by cop cars, as well as the vernacular term for a sexually provocative actress and the deadly seductresses of Greek mythology. These paintings are not tributes to the mystical star-power of their celebrity subjects: instead, they highlight the dangers of our lustful projections onto the famous, sounding a loud, dissonant and potentially violent alarm against the passively cannibalistic consumption of mass media.

Mellor works from pre-existing images – in this case, film and TV stills – but always corrupts or mutilates her referents. Here, her subjects appear submerged in water up to their shoulders, their faces partly shrouded by the likes of colorful netting, floral patterning, and eczema. While perhaps not as outright gruesome as some of the artist’s other work, these pictures nonetheless are powerfully, unsettlingly lurid: they practically seethe with sadistic humor, erotic enticement and malevolence.

Opposite – Unnamed Extra (2), 2016

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2017

team (gallery, inc.)
83 Grand Street
10013 New York
USA

www.teamgal.com