• Xu Bing, A Book From the Sky, 1987. Installation at Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991. Moveable-type prints and books. 

    Xu trained as a printmaker in Beijing. A Book From the Sky, with its invented Chinese woodblock characters, may be a stinging critique of the meaninglessness of contemporary political language. 

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  • Gavin Worth - Wire Sculptures

    “By bending black wire into something resembling freestanding line drawings, I create sculptures that engage the viewer by involving them in their subtle changes. When the light in the room shifts, so does the mood of the piece. A breeze might softly move an arm for example. My wire sculptures tell stories of simple human moments: a woman adjusting her hair, a face gazing from behind tightly wrapped arms, a mother gently cradling her baby. The honest, unguarded moments are those which I find to be the most beautiful.”

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  • The Underwater Project by Mark Tipple is a series of stunning images capturing the tightened faces and the clenching bodies of surfers and swimmers once they have gone under the surface of the water. 

    “Coming from a surfing background I used to  wonder what happens when we’re duck-diving. I always wondered what it looks like from a  different angle than what we can see above the surface.”

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