Installation

The first time I heard Sonic Youth, I felt as if a kindred, angry sister was singing directly to me. Decades later, I now see her in a new light – as a visual artist. Design Office: The City Is A Garden is her new installation at 303 Gallery that features large-scale works on paper.

Bansky's Dismaland opened this month and I wish I could fly across the pond to visit. They released a commercial for the artistic theme park this week that does it much more justice than the still images and GIFs that have been populating my social media lately.

I am crowning Myriam Dion as the reigning goddess of the xacto knife! She takes newspapers, one of the most disposable and forgotten of objects, and turns them into lace. Intricate, insanely detailed patterns emerge from the pulpy pages of the daily news. Although many individual pages stand on their own as beautiful works of art, it is her large scale installation pieces that take my breath away.

Do Ho Suh is a brilliant conceptual artist working with large scale sculptural installations. His bio describes his works as "site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity." His work is intimate and personal while exploring modern concerns with privacy and sharing.

Isaad Cordal describes his piece, Follow the Leaders, as "a critical reflection on our inertia as a social mass. Representing a social stereotype associated with power compound businessmen who run the global social spectrum… [The pices] represent a kind of city in ruins: a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism and the side effects of progress." I really love the size and scale of the work.

I love this surreal installation by Yasunari Izaki. Two ways to reach towards the clouds and stars combined in this gravity defying piece. via Hyperallergic

Filled With the brilliance of Life is a infinity room created by the great Yayoi Kusama. I can only hope that one day I'll get to stand in one of these breathtaking environments! via dbanaza's Tumblr