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Marela Zacarías – Tiffany

Post By Tiffany Brady

Marela Zacarías is an artist from Mexico City, Mexico, specializing in the merging of sculpture and paint in a rather flowing way. Zacarías’s work embodies the challenge of making a sculpture fold and fall in the same way fabric may, while also filling her pallets full of color and vibrancy. Along with a large amount of pigment Zacarías uses, she also fills her winding sculptures with geometric shapes and designs.

According to Zacarías’s profile written on Art21, most of her works are, “built from window screens, joint compound, and polymer before being painted in bold, geometric, abstract patterns.”

As you would assume, Zacarías’s process for making these intricately wound pieces is “labor- and research-intensive,” as claimed on her own artist site. Most of her pieces are even designed for the exhibit she is working for at the time.

Art21 said, “Zacarías’s works are often inspired by the sites for which they are planned, such as Works Progress Administration murals in the Brooklyn Museum, Mayan textile colors for an installation in Mexico, and a map of Brooklyn for a new hotel in the borough.”

Not only has Zacarías taken part in numerous exhibitions, but she has also held solo exhibits and even commissioned large-scale permanent pieces for “Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Facebook, the William Vale in Brooklyn, and the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico,” according to her site.

The Brooklyn Paper also looked into these lively sculptures, saying, “Like much of Zacarias’s work, the sculptures are meant to interact with the architecture of a specific communal space — the pieces, resembling huge, living blankets, seem to have just finished crawling the walls and balconies of the museum’s cavernous entrance lobby.”

Zacarías’s way of breathing life into her sculptures translates with every twist and turn of the surprisingly harden sculptures she manifests.

Coatlicue’s Return: Solo Exhibition at Wasserman Projects in Detroit

Mark Whalen – Timia Knott

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Mark Whalen is an Australian-born, Los Angeles based artist. His artwork exhibits dark humor and vibrancy. The figures he puts in his pieces interact with space, time and narratives through his paintings and ceramic works.

“Grab Bag” Miniature collection and “Ramble Ramble”

Whalen is inspired to create these pieces based on his ongoing interest that he describes as “Life’s puzzling duality”. The overall feeling of his pieces gives the effect of discomfort or struggle. All of the characters are seen to be in states of work, play, pleasure or pain.

“3 men, 1 net”

In this piece, Each pastel male or female interacts with the objects around them as if they are struggling to get away or that they feel trapped.

In 2016, Mark Whalen’s work filled Australia’s Chalk Horse gallery. Each piece gives emotion to tension and anxiety based on how the characters react to the objects around them. His paintings, sculptures, and ceramics have been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. His work is held in the National Gallery of Austalia, Artbank, and numerous other private art collections.

The Chalk Horse Gallery offers insight into Whalen’s pieces by commenting, “The exhibition sums up contemporary anxiety, that you see not only in art but also in fashionable dressing or other activities connected to our identities.” The pieces speak to people because they make people feel as if the characters are struggling with self-exploration which each person has dealt with sometime in there lives.

“Double Knot” and “Tied Up”

In the first piece, the two characters are sandwiched between three objects held together between a rope. This shows that you shouldn’t feel alone in situations.
In the second piece, the character is tangled between two ropes and seems to struggle while he looks down at himself. This shows the struggles of anxiety and finding balance in oneself.

“Squeeze” Miniature collection and A picture of Mark Whalen

Jeff Koons – Kelby Fischer

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Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania 1955. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. He had his first solo exhibition in 1980 but has been showcased internationally and holds three spots in the top-ten list of most expensive artwork by living artists. He is most known visually by his larger-than-life colorful, reflective balloon animal depictions. Labeled in the art community as a Neo-pop or post-pop artist, Koons dislikes labels and the idea of his artwork having hidden meanings and wants the view to make their own judgement based on first glance perceptions.

His notable works are Rabbit (1986) which in May 2019 sold for $91.1 million and became the record holder for most expensive artwork by living artists, followed by Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994-2000) one of a five-part series, sold for $58.4 million in November 2013, and then Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) (1994-2006) which sold for $23.6 million in November of 2007.

(Rabbit (1986), stainless steel, 41 x 19 x 12 inches. Photo © Jeff Koons)

(Balloon Dog (Orange) (1993-2000), mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 121 x 143 x 45 in.)

(Hanging Heart, (Magenta/Gold) (1994-2006), mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 114 5/8 x 110 1/4 x 40 inches, height of ribbon varies. Photo © ABC News)

My personal favorite is a piece of Koon’s titled Puppy (1992), a standalone piece that stands permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in Bilbao Spain, made of stainless steel, wood, soil, mesh, an internal irrigation system, and of course living, blooming flowers.

(Puppy (1992), stainless steel, wood (at Arolsen only), soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants, 486 x 486 x 256 inches. Photo © Jeff Koons)

My favorite couple of sculptures of his are in a series called “Antiquity” and convey traditional figures in that “neo-pop” way of bright colors and reflective material.

(Ballerinas (2010-2014), mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 100 x 70 x 62 inches. Photo © Jeff Koons)

(Pluto and Proserpina (2010-2013), mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, live flowering plants,129 x 65 3/4 x 56 5/8 inches. Photo © Jeff Koons.)

(Woman Reclining (2010-2014),granite, live flowering plants, 84 x 88 1/2 x 46 1/4 inches. Photo © Jeff Koons)

The reason I chose Jeff Koons is my love for his living sculpture Puppy, and it’s wild nature. No artist can predict how nature is going to grown or change, flourish or die, which makes the essence of the piece uncontrollable beyond the boundaries of the very skeleton of the sculpture. My reasoning behind the selections of statues from the Antiquity series shows the diversity of his sculptures, living flowers incorporated often, from solid granite to shiny metallic figures.