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Highlights
Bravo’s Work of Art Doesn’t work for Anyone
 At some point last winter my mother sent me a link to the BravoTV casting website. She suggested that I audition for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new show “Work of Art”. In my post-college waitressing haze I decided that it seemed like and interesting opportunity...
Review: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
 American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition was concurrently on view with its sister exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection(closed August 1st, 2010). The exhibition focuses...
Review: Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was set to close August 1st of this year, but has been extended to the 15th due to its extreme popularity. Even given the extension, the Picasso exhibit was swarmed with tourists this past Saturday struggling to catch a glimpse (what they believed would...
Review: Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids
 Andy Warhol’s Big Shot Polaroids are currently on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. This show includes roughly 300 Polaroids and 70 gelatin prints taken by Andy Warhol from 1970-1987. The exhibition works come from the permanent collections of three university art museums in...
The Possibility Of A Humatopia
James de Blas has a special way to share with us his psychedelic visions: he cherishes representating half human half animal people- like Ancient Egyptians did to represent their gods- dancing in apocalyptic landscapes which picture the strengh of nature, the mystery of wilderness.
Textures As Life Itself
John Williams gives life to textures on his canvases, like the painter Jean Dubuffet did with his series of Texturologies, creating landscapes where gouache in thick layers was used as an element to create a third dimension. Frottage technique, work on the..
The Surrealistic truth of our bodies
Ansen Seale's photographs play with the limits of our perception, to desorientate us, by body distorsions. As if these bodies were genetically modified, or of an other human reality Ansen Seale roots his art in the contemporary research done on body and the limits of its representation.
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News
Steven Krueger's "The Waiting Place"
 Icosahedron Gallery is pleased to present “The Waiting Place,” a new exhibition of paintings by the New Jersey-born and Argentina-based artist Steven Krueger. Having spent the last three decades traveling and living abroad, Krueger’s art is multicultural in scope, representing a polyphonic...
Joseph Beuys & David Kastner - "Distraction"
 Joseph Beuys is one of the most legendary figures of twentieth century art; his work and ideas continue to impact on artists today. An enigmatic, self-styled 'shaman' who embraced radically democratic artistic and political ideas, he has attained almost mythical status.
- Claudia Mensch
THE WINNER
 Artifactory is proud to announce Jonathon Blake as the winner of the "When Lightning Strikes Contest." Blake will be exhibiting at Ico Gallery this summer. He is a true visionary and also a marketing genius. Blake paints while on stage with renowned musicians from around the country.
Judy Chicago at Ico Gallery
 Since my early days as an undergraduate, I have been interested in studying Feminist artists. Linda Nochlin’s famous essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” has persisted to remain in my mind throughout my career...
"Everything Is Perfect" Diego Jacobson's Solo Chel...
 “Everything Is Perfect.” And the declaration came on a day that was bedlam, a day that was in- between all days, that could go in any and all directions of probability, and there it was, this painting that appeared and not from nowhere, but from a very important somewhere and I was able to...
Ico Gallery & Absolutearts.com
 I am pleased to announce that we will be partnering with Absolutearts.com/World Wide Art Resources in order to provide even more exposure to our artists and writers. Each Month one artist from Ico Gallery will be featured on AbsoluteArts.com. In addition to the featured artwork placement it will...
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