By Danielle Sabalvaro.
We all have the “try something new” resolution written down somewhere… Local pop-up shows and international exhibits await you, so cheers to 2014!
Starting this month, we’re excited to add exhibits and reviews from the wonderful Curated Object, a truly comprehensive resource for decorative arts exhibits around the world. Look for in-depth reviews on a monthly basis.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
FOG Design + Art January 17–19, 2014, San Francisco. Showcasing San Francisco’s position as a center of innovation for art and design, the FOG Design+Art fair will be held from January 17 to January 19, 2014, at the Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion with special preview events on January 15 and 16. Benefiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), FOG Design+Art will feature more than 40 prominent twentieth-century and contemporary design dealers from the Bay Area and across the country; a selection of leading modern and contemporary art galleries; 21POP, a special pop-up shop created by celebrated designer Stanlee Gatti; and a dynamic lineup of lectures and interactive discussions with leaders in the design and art worlds.
Good Food Awards Weekend 2014 January 16–18, 2014, San Francisco. Be among the first to fete this year’s 130 Good Food Award winners alongside culinary luminaries Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, and Nell Newman, and celebrate with great food and drink at the breath-taking Palace of Fine Arts. Then, make sure to head to the Ferry Building on Saturday the 18th to taste and take home award winning products. Get your tickets at www.goodfoodawards.org
Photo Courtesy of Good Food Awards.
Moroso Projects 582 6th Street, San Francisco. Moroso Projects is a new SOMA arts exhibition space, showcasing emerging artists in an informal, alternative context. A venture of the arts enthusiasts at Moroso Construction, the space will feature 3–5 shows annually with the intent of broadening audience for local artists in a dynamic, multi-purpose environment. The programming will be curated by The Popular Workshop through 2014.
Art.com Pop Up | Mario Wagner, January 6, 2014, 117 Post Street San Francisco. Get up close and personal with an in-store, original work of art created by local artist Mario Wagner. Learn what inspires him and this particular work as he’s introduced by one of his fans and co-organizer of the Art.com Now + Juxtapoz partnership, Evan Pricco, Editor-in-Chief of Juxtapoz Magazine. This event is open to the public, but you must RSVP to aberry@art.com.
Art.com Pop Up | Ink Your Resolutions: Justin Kerr, January 14, 2014, 117 Post Street San Francisco. Act on your New Year’s resolutions! Join Justin Kerr, founder of Black Sheep Postal Service, for a hands-on screen-printing workshop. Afterwards, send your handmade resolution cards to friends and family to keep you motivated. This event is open to the public, but you must RSVP to aberry@art.com.
Black Sheep Postal.
Jerry Takigawa: False Food November 9, 2013–January 19, 2014, Museum of Craft Design, San Francisco. This thought-provoking exhibition focuses on discovery, sustainability, action in design, and false food as a metaphor for survival. Presented in the form of fine art photography and text, which is significantly informed by the artist’s profession as a graphic designer, the exhibition asks visitors, “What does responsible design mean?” and “Can photographs be graphic design?”
New West Coast Design 2 October 26,2013–January 5 2014, at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco. Where are the incubators for the designers of our decade? Which of their works will become icons treasured by the next generation? Inspired by our initial 2008 exhibition which highlighted experimental works by artists in California, Oregon and Washington, NWCD2 features over 70 artists chosen for the significant contribution they make to the world of design by expanding on the idea of function, exploiting materials, innovative techniques, or pioneering applications of new technology. From skateboards to furniture, toy houses, and lighting fixtures, NWCD2 focuses on the design process itself and how this impulse is manifested by architects, industrial designers, interior designers, studio craft artists and design groups working with advanced digital technologies.
A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture January 18, 2013–March 23, 2013, at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco. This exhibition of the work of artist William Stoney Lamar includes new and experimental pieces. Crafted primarily through a unique approach to multi-axial lathe work, Lamar’s wood sculptures embody a distinct sense of line and movement. A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar debuted at the Asheville Art Museum and will travel to museums across the country in 2014. Guest curated by Andrew Glasgow, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina. Museum of Craft and Design Exhibition designer: Ted Cohen.
David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition October 26–January 20, 2013, the deYoung Museum, San Francisco. David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition marks the return of the celebrated British artist to California with an exhibition assembled exclusively for the de Young. Expansive in scope and monumental in scale, this show is the first comprehensive survey of his 21st-century work and represents one of the most prolific decades of his career. Renowned for his use of traditional media as well as evolving technologies, Hockney has selected monumental paintings, Photoshop portraits, digital films that track the changing seasons, vivid landscapes created using the iPad, as well as never-before-exhibited charcoal drawings and paintings completed in 2013.
The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond 1950 – 1990 September 21,2013–February 17, 2014, The deYoung Museum, San Francisco. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to announce The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond 1950–1990, an exhibition of approximately 150 pieces created by the renowned Italian jeweler over four decades. This exclusive exhibition will highlight jewelry that defined a pivotal period in Italian design, and will include many pieces from the personal collection of Elizabeth Taylor.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Artifacts of A Life Lived By the Living (To Live) September 29, 2013–January 5, 2014, at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. Curated by artist Chris Johanson, this exhibition celebrates the meditative ritual and necessity of the creative process. The interdisciplinary exhibition brings together a group of artists who feel that they must create in service of bringing order to their lives. Johanson has assembled a group of artists he has admired whose work includes drawing, painting, installation, sound, performance and movement.
Nathalie Miebach: Changing Waters September 29, 2013–January 5, 2014, at Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. The first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles of TED Global Fellow Nathalie Miebach, who translates scientific data related to weather patterns and climate change into musical scores and complex woven sculptures. Her large-scale sculptures and wall pieces draw upon traditional basket weaving techniques and weather pattern data collected from the Gulf of Maine.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
The Tool at Hand October 2, 2013–January 11, 2014, at the MoCC, Portland, OR. The Tool at Hand presents these finished works and the tools used to craft them together with short videos produced by each artist. For a group of artists who are accustomed to working with considerable tool kits in a range of materials including metal, wood, paint, clay, as well as with non-traditional tools such as dental drills and 3D printers, this commission presented a thought-provoking challenge.
Quality is Contagious, John Economaki and Bridge City Tool Works August 16, 2013–February 8 2014, at the MoCC, Portland, OR. Drawing on his background in industrial design and knowledge of construction needs, John Economaki established Bridge City Tool Works in 1983. Using the most contemporary digital technology, Economaki designs tools to stand the test of time. The company’s products, sketches, and tools from the past thirty years will be on view for the first time.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology October 3–January 26, 2014, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Examines the role of gender in technology through the lens of contemporary women artists. In the twenty-first century as digital media increasingly permeates every level of our lives, what is the relationship between gender and technology? Is our period one of utopian embrace of social networks, enabled by technology? What is the relationship of the body to technology? This exhibition continues an examination of gendered frameworks for technology and art in the 21st century, and will include art by women who engage in and ultimately challenge the uncritical celebration of utopian claims for benevolent globalized technologies.
EAST COAST
Metropolitan Vanities: The History of the Dressing Table December 17, 2013–April 13, 2014, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Few pieces of furniture have revealed more about leisure pursuits, popular taste, and changing social customs than the dressing table, or vanity. Metropolitan Vanities: The History of the Dressing Table explores the evolution of the modern dressing table. The age-old impulse to be attractive or fashionable informs and animates much of the dressing table’s lengthy design history, as it does many of the objects associated with the toilette, the ritual in which the dressing table reached new heights of elegance and sophistication. Reviewed by Curated Object here.
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade September 16, 2013–January 5, 2014, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This exhibition that will look at fabric design from a global perspective and attempt to tell a story of international global trade through three centuries of fabric.
Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa November 5, 2013–March 2, 2014, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit is a 300-piece inclusive display of the work that was created during the 15-year period of Scarpa’s collaborations at Venini. It originated in Venice at Le Stanze del Vetro, the new gallery on San Giorgio Maggiore devoted to glass exhibitions. In addition to offering more space for visitors to circumnavigate the vitrines (designed by the architect Annabelle Selldorf who created them for the original exhibit), the Met’s curators also pulled from their museum’s formidable collection and included Asian porcelain, 19th century Italian glass and ancient Roman murrine to help visitors better understand Scarpa’s design inspirations and historic precedents. Reviewed by Curated Object here.
Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk October 25, 2013 – February 23, 2013, Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Museum is the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking French couturier. Playful, poetic, and transformative, Gaultier’s superbly crafted and detailed garments are inspired by the beauty and diversity of global cultures.
Flea Marqueta, Sundays, 12–6pm, 116th & Park, New York, NY. In its heyday, hundreds of pushcart merchants and vendors sold and traded at La Marqueta, making it the community’s economic and social center. The once-bustling marketplace is now home to Flea Marqueta, which will feature dozens of stalls for East Harlem retailers, artists, and craftsman in the space under the Metro North tracks at E. 116th St.
EUROPE
Maison & Objet Paris January 24–28, 2014, Paris Nord Villepinte. More than a trade show, Maison & Objet is the reference event destination for the interior design industry— each year in January and September in Paris, and from March 2014 in Singapore. The international home-fashion show reflects the strategic thinking behind the best brains in the field and unveils promising talents, through appealing special events.
Maison Objet, photo courtesy of David Report.
In the Making January 22–May 4, 2014, The Design Museum, London. The secret life of cricket bats, felt hats, shoes, boots, marbles, light bulbs, marbles, whistles, pencils, coins, horns, lenses and Olympic torches. In The Making, curated for the Design Museum by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, captures over twenty objects mid-manufacture, putting the aesthetic of the unfinished centre stage. Varying from the £2 coin to a cricket bat, a surprising range of objects have been chosen by founders of design studio BarberOsgerby, to be exhibited in an incomplete state, celebrating the intriguing beauty of the production process. Reviewed by Curated Object here.
Hello, My Name Is Paul Smith November 15–March 9, 2014, The Design Museum, London. The Design Museum takes you into the world of fashion designer Paul Smith, a world of creation, inspiration, collaboration, wit and beauty. Celebrating his career to date and exploring future developments, the exhibition references Paul Smith’s influences and fashion designs, charting the rise of this quintessentially English label which has become one of the leading fashion brands in the world.
IMM Cologne January 17, 2014–January 19, 2014, Koelnmesse GmbH, Cologne. The IMM Cologne isn’t just the very first interior design show of the year, it’s the first choice for renowned international exhibitors and decision-making professional visitors from all over the world as well. The IMM Cologne showcases inspiring interior design ideas for trendsetters and provides markets with new impetus. And the major innovation drivers, market leaders and brands will be there.
Azzedine Alaïa September 26, 2013–January 26, 2014, Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris. The Palais Galliera is honouring Azzedine Alaïa with its opening exhibition. This first Paris retrospective, presented in the Palais’s newly renovated galleries and in the Matisse Room at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, comprises a selection of seventy iconic models retracing a unique creative career. Reviewed by Curated Object here.
Patrick Demarchelier, photo courtesy of Musée D’Art Moderne.
Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter October 12, 2013–January 19, 2014, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. IMMA is delighted to present this major retrospective of the work of Eileen Gray, one of the most celebrated and influential designers and architects of the 20th-century. Designed and produced by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with IMMA, this exhibition is a tribute to Gray’s career as a leading member of the modern design movement. The exhibition at IMMA celebrates Gray’s Irish roots and presents a number of previously unseen works that offer new insights into Gray’s extraordinary career. Reviewed by Curated Object here.
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