Giada Venturino Graphic Designer
No one expects anything from me but in the end I will surprise you allwww.giadaventurino.com
Chris Jones creates sculptures composed of fragmented images from magazines and used books that are beautiful, frightening, and exquisitely detailed: a macabre headless horse, a 19th century stagecoach, a disheveled TV.
For his recent solo show at Marc Straus, Jones worked in New York and was interested in the history of the Lower Eastside and this specific gallery space. Based on his impressions, he created a fantastical trading post replete with sundry items such as shovels, bear heads, and lamps echoing this area’s early 19th century and this building’s evolution from a tenement to a store for varied immigrant trades. It is also an homage to THE STORE that Claes Oldenburg opened nearby in 1961, selling his food-like handmade Paper Mache objects. (by Amir)
Celebrizombies by Ben Brown
Half celebrity! Half zombie! Half undead! Half kind of alive but not really! Ben Brown’s pop art reveals the grisly horror that always lurked beneath the iconic celerbrity exteriors.
