Lori Field

Lori Field

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en Maltz Gallery

A survey of artists who combine hand making and building techniques to create, engineer and hack unique, mostly functional devices, objects, machines and accessories; making either a social/political statement, creating new markets for individual styled products, or creating inventive ways to experience the tactile world, non-virtual, the “real.” Artists in the exhibition: Kim Abeles, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Frau Fiber, Garnet Hertz, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Seth Kinmont, Liza Lou, David Prince, Mark Newport, Alyce Santoro, Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn), Eddo Stern

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Waste Land

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. View Trailer

From Adams to Lace

This exhibition explored the intriguing creations of the Festival Pattern Group - a unique project at the 1951 Festival of Britain involving X-ray crystallographers, designers and manufacturers. At the instigation of Dr Helen Megaw, a leading Cambridge scientist, diagrams of atomic structures inspired an eclectic array of patterns on curtains, wallpapers, carpets, lace, dress fabrics, ties, plates and ashtrays.

Watch Georgina Ferry give a talk on X-ray crystallography.

Darren Waterston

To see more of Darren Waterston's work visit his website.

Lynd Ward

America's First Wordless Novelist

Why are Lynd Ward's amazing woodcut books so bleak?

On the Head of a Pin

1. TOM FRIEDMAN: This teeny sculpture titled, 'Headache' by Tom Friedman is carved out of an aspirin tablet. 
2. Senior from BU talks about her microscopic subject matter WATCH VIDEO.
3. MYKOLA SYADRIS: Mykola Syadris, sculptor from the Ukraine whose little carvings can fit through the eye of a needle.
4. NICHOLAS SISTLER: 
   Nicholas Sistler's little gouache paintings of interiors are massive at three inches in any one direction.
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   JIN. Y. H.: 
   Jin. Y. H. paints micro portraits less than one half inch in length.
6. LAURIE SIMMONS