Boaz Vaadia in the News

Boaz Vaadia is in the news with a public art installation at the El Paseo Invitational Sculpture Exhibition in Palm Desert, California. The exhibition runs from November 2008 - October 2010. Boaz also had a solo exhibition at Connaught Brown in London this fall. For more installation shots please visit http://www.vaadia.com/exhibitions/c_brown_08.shtmll

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Mathias Kessler in Prefix Photo Magazine

Mathias Kessler's work can be seen in the current issue of Prefix Photo magazine, issue 18. [http://www.prefix.ca] On the e-flux web release, Prefix editor Scott McLeod writes about the issue's theme of technology and the body. "In recent years the body has returned to contemporary art, though it is a body whose reconfiguration by technology has produced unexpected, radical - and sometimes perplexing - forms of representation." We agree - Terminator Salvation, anyone?

Josh Garber Phoenix Commission

Josh Garber has just completed a commission for the city of Phoenix. The piece is titled Lucent and it is 30 x 3 x 3 feet. Made out of Aluminum bar and fiber optics, this piece will provide a constantly changing presence for the residents of Phoenix. All four photos are by James L. Christy © 2008.

Miya Ando

Miya has had a wonderful year. On the heels of her successful solo exhibition at Anne Reed Gallery, Miya has received a number of prestigious commissions. She was selected to produce 144 works for a non-denominational chapel in New York City, and her work has been added to the collection of the former head priest of Daitoku-ji, Japan's most important Zen temple. She has also been commissioned to produce a large work for the Against the Stream Buddist Meditation Society/Dharma Punx in Los Angeles. The work will be unveiled Spring 2009.

You can see Miya in Nylon Magazine's December/January issue in an Element ad and in the television commercial for their Power to the Planet promotion. http://www.powertotheplanet.tv/video/

She was also interviewed for The Epoch Times Newspaper which will be translated into 10 languages.

Congratulations to Miya on such a productive and inspiring year!

Thomas Ostenberg 2008 in Review

2008 has been an exciting year for Thomas Ostenberg. It began with the news that his sculpture was being considered for the 2012 London Olympics. Wilfred Cass, who expects to finance as many as 50 new sculptures for the Olympics, was quoted as saying that London deserves to have great sculpture, yet much of the contemporary public art on display in the English capital was "rubbish". He considers Ostenberg's work to be ideal for the Olympics and will serve to enhance the London Public art scene as well. There is also a proposal being put forward for an Olympics-related exhibition at the Tate museum, with Ostenberg's name and sculpture being specifically mentioned. This group exhibition would occur in the time leading up to the 2012 Olympics, with the work exhibited at the Tate being placed around the city in time for the main events.

In the spring he received an invitation from the prestigious Glyndbourne Opera Festival in southern England to be their featured sculptor for the 2008 season. In previous years sculptors such as Antony Gormley and Tony Cragg had been featured artists.

Back in the States, two large pieces were acquired by the Seven Bridges Foundation, a private art museum located near Greenwich, Connecticut.

In September Ostenberg had two solo exhibitions in London, and also received the news that prestigious art historian and critic, Edward Lucie-Smith was interested in writing a book about him and his sculpture.

Ostenberg's first sculpture was received by the Cass Sculpture Foundation (formerly Sculpture at Goodwood), recognized as the UK’s most important sculpture park dedicated to British Sculpture.

All in all, 2008 was quite a year for Thomas Ostenberg, and we wish him even greater success in the New Year!