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Tag: Zaria Forman

  • Don’t Miss Artsiness 6.19.14

    Don’t Miss Artsiness 6.19.14

    Gallery Shows You Should Know About!

    In this week’s round up of gallery shows and museum exhibitions, I am so bummed that I’m nowhere near any of these spots because each of these shows looks amazing!

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    north | Party Over, Joe Wardwell at LaMontagne Gallery

    south | Beauty Reigns, group exhibition at The McNay Art Museum

    west | Ice to Island, Zaria Forman & In Memoriam, Rena Bass Forman, at Winston Wachter

    east | Variations on a Theme, Andrew Salgado solo exhibition, at One Art Space

    Click through the gallery links above for more information about each show.  If you check ‘em out, tag me ( @artsyforager ) on Instagram with the hashtag #dontmissartsiness!  If you go I’ll be totally jealous!

    Images via gallery/museum websites linked above.

  • Chasing the Light: Zaria Forman

    Do you ever think about what kind of legacy you will leave behind?  I’m not thinking of material wealth or possessions, but the impact that your life will have had on the people who’ve known you?  It’s a sobering thought, to be sure, to contemplate what your impact will have been.  Brooklyn artist Zaria Forman ‘s series Chasing the Light is the culmination of the impact of a mother’s dream on her daughter.

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    The artist’s mother originally conceived the idea to lead an art expedition up the Northwest Coast of Greenland, the only other expedition here of this kind not done since 1869.  Illness overtook her mother and the daughter kept her promise to carry on with the expedition.

    The hyperreal pastel drawings of the disappearing glacial landscape remind us that we are continually impacting the world around us, whether we are aware of it or not.  These monumental mountains of ice are slowly melting away, perhaps forever.  We are losing a loved one, gradually, reluctantly.

    To see more of Zaria Forman‘s work, please visit her website.

    All images via the artist’s website.