Dreamy Everything
The past week has felt like a dream, very excited and grateful to share that I’ve been nominated by the CFDA for their Fashion Instagrammer of the Year award. In honor …
Author Archives: paridust
Iconic Spirit
Keith Haring is an artist whose exuberant work is ingrained in our consciousness. On view now at Gladstone Gallery are his iconic painted works on canvas and tarp from the 1980s. …
Enchanted Forest
Swoon is an artist whose work swirls into the realm of fantasy. She goes beyond in her latest site-specific installation at the Brooklyn Museum, Swoon: Submerged Motherlands. Responding to the architecture …
In the Studio: Jason Gringler
A visit to Jason Gringler’s Studio in Bushwick is an eye into the source and cyclic nature of his work. As the light streams through the industrial gridded windows, reflective fractured …
Gradient Dreams
Time, space and color come together then seem to unravel in the atmosphere Pieter Vermeersch has created at Team Gallery. His large painted works on canvas vibrate between photorealism and abstraction, …
Darkness & Light
Klara Kristalova’s glazed stoneware figurines carry a duality of spirit that is contained in one’s own self. In her show Big Girl Now at Lehmann Maupin it’s as if each sculpture …
Woven Geometries
Blurring the lines between art, design, crafts and architecture are Sheila Hicks’s woven forms. Currently on view at The Whitney Biennial is her Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column, what I believe to …
Happy Clouds
Giving us blue skies in a seemingly endless winter is Olaf Breuning’s installation, Clouds. Presented by the Public Art Fund, six flat but fluffy feeling clouds form a new vibrant gateway …
Bright Bohemia
Crashing the birthday party of traditional abstraction is Sarah Cain’s exhibition Burning Bush at Galerie Lelong. Her spirited paintings are marked by the use of unusual materials such as string, balloon, …
Whimsical & A Ball
In honor and in the spirit of the upcoming Brooklyn Artists Ball at the Brooklyn Museum I paid a visit to Wangechi Mutu’s exhibition, A Fantastic Journey. Upon entering Mutu’s fully …
Punk Opulence
Carlos Rolon a.k.a Dzine puts on a show at Paul Kasmin Gallery that seems to memorialize the epoch of an era. The era is his childhood growing up as a first …
New Bloom
In the Persian culture a carpet is more than a decorative element in a space, it may just be its soul. Kour Pour has captured this in his intricately beautiful paintings …