sculpture. art review. review
16
Jan
The Best and The Brightest in Scottsdale
- By Zoe Spiliotis
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We are thrilled that two of Jean Reece Wilkey’s paintings that just exhibited in Unframed’s Exhibition, Nesting Instinct, were chosen to be in the Scottsdale Artists School exhibition, the Best and the Brightest. Dan Caprario, the operations manager, did a wonderful job of hanging the work and Jean was excited her work was hung near other artists whose work she greatly admirers.
Jean was able to be at the opening last Friday, 10 January, and it was attended by a steady flow of several hundred art-lookers from 5 until well after 7 pm.
If you don’t know about Scottsdale Artists School, you can check it out to see their roster of professional artists who come from all over the country to teach there. The level of instruction is excellent, the facilities top-notch, and the staff are wonderfully supportive and very, very friendly.
Several pieces sold the first night and a couple sold before the opening including this one of Jean’s. The new owner? An art lover and artist who works for Plein Air magazine. Jean was able meet her and talk with her. After all, we all love meeting the people who are taking home our work.
The show will be up until the end of March so there’s time to get by and see it. Also for the first time this year you can view the show online so you can check out all the artists’ works. If you’re in Scottsdale, make sure you go by the show! Scottsdale Artists’ School, 3720 N Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ
07
Jan
Entre Les Rangs by KANVA
- By Zoe Spiliotis
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Back in October of 2013 the Monument-National, the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership announced the two winners of the fourth annual Luminothérapie competition. The two works will enhance the Quartier des Spectacles experience for visitors and Montrealers from December 11, 2013 to February 2, 2014.
“The Quartier des spectacles inspires local creative and talented artists who showcase original and daring works as part of design competitions such as Luminothérapie. Luminothérapie helps to promote Montréal’s international reputation as a UNESCO City of Design, by proposing new ways to occupy and use public spaces, and by promoting Montréal know-how in the field of cultural entertainment. I invite Montrealers to discover new talents in the Quartier des spectacles this winter and to marvel at the imagination of the Montréal creative force,” said Élaine Ayotte, member of the Montréal Executive Committee, responsible for culture, heritage and design.
One of the winners was an installation composed of flexible plastic tubs and reflectors, entitled Entre Les Rangs. This installation was designed by a multidisciplinary team led by the KANVA architecture firm. We were lucky enough to stumble upon it in real life. Founded in 2003, Kanva is a multidisciplinary architecture firm that combines architectural design, construction projects and art installations. It approaches every project as an opportunity to tell a story, improve the built environment and broaden the reach of art and architecture.
As a large scale urban metaphor for the traditional wheat fields of rural Quebec it creates an instant dialogue between Quebec’s agricultural history and its current urban reality. Wandering through Entre Les Rangs’ thousands of flexible stems you can’t help but feel a childlike awe and fascination similar to the feelings of being completely engulfed in a wide open, timeless space. You find yourself as part of new type of field, one where everything is man-made, but for a moment you forget they are mass produced plastic sticks and somehow you forget it is winter and -4 degrees. In all honesty, I was actually transported, not something installations usually accomplish which is why Entre Les Rangs is so successful. I actually had a flashback to standing in the tall grass fields outside Denton, Texas watching my dogs run through the stalks, bright blue skies, hot sun and a breeze swaying over the grass making it dance. However here I was in a sea of plastic, in more layers than I could count and surrounded by tall buildings and a grey, yet really bright sky. At night I watched the reflectors from my hotel room, sparkle from the lights nearby and delight other visitors to installation. And I felt that same feeling again.
More information can be found at this site. I encourage a visit there.
http://mtlunescodesign.com/en/project/2013-Installations-for-public-spaces
For fun, below are some pictures of us exploring the installation.
