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Over the past several years, Josh Keyes has developed an iconic and complex personal vocabulary of imagery, creating a unique juxtaposition between the natural world and man-made landscapes.[...]

Myeongbeom Kim is a creator of sculptures and installations, where man made objects such as balloons, candles and glass are combined with nature to instill life into every object he constructs.[...]

Painting for a Specific Floor is a collaborative work that explores the ideas of horizontality and fluidity, as well as surfaces and topography. The work defies the preconception of the work of art as an object meant solely to be looked at. It also challenges the supremacy of the visual sense over other senses, betting on a direct experience with the work; an encounter between the spectator and the work, the piece and the place it inhabits.[...]

Who in the world goes to a sweltering Nevada desert for seven days to an event that boasts of an anything goes mentality? Well, approximately 50,000 thousand people. You can catch a glimpse of the Burning Man festival at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, with Michael Smith and Mike Kelley’s first collaborative project, A Voyage of Growth and Discovery.[...]

On the occasion of his personal exhibition entitled How to proceed with crabs, beetles, ants, lizards, birds and mice? Michel Blazy invites the viewer to look at the everyday life of a gallery converted to an experimental space. Such a precise statement literally announces the content and the main issue of the project. The title evokes the chapter of a natural sciences manual training as well as it echoes the unpredictability and the absurdity of a title such as Umberto Eco’s book: How to travel with a salmon?[...]

A combination of painting and drawing, Omero Leyva creates large format installations where he takes on popular Mexican culture, legends and iconographic religious images to develop his visual practice.[...]

Opening on September 13th until November 30th, SculptureCenter in New York presents a video installation entitled A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, the first collaborative project between Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. A six-channel video and a 30-foot tall junk sculpture is included in the installation, both featuring Baby IKKI, a character Michael Smith has been performing for more than 30 years.[...]

Organic perishable materials such as food, liquids and other everyday products are the construct of Michel Blazy’s body of work. His installations are living sculptures that transform and mutate with the passage of time, decomposing, growing and destroying themselves in the process. It is a reflection on time that seeks to explore the relationship between the environment, the work and the spectator’s reaction.[...]

Hand drawn animations and large format sumi ink drawings are some of the elements that comprise Karla Cott’s most recent installations. These animations are shown on screens or as contained projections inside wooden modules constructed according to the piece.[...]

For Mexican artist Bayrol Jiménez, drawing has no spatial limits. Explosive lines and mysterious beings create eerie scenarios, where an alternate and at times nightmarish reality is constructed. According to Bayrol, his work is like “a perpetual mutation. Neither the limitations of the support or the architectural forms are trouble; I like to play transgressing the envelopes where I can negotiate with the space.”[...]