Rowena Sartin is still on the pillow storyline.
Now a shiny pillowcase tote. Shape reflects a pillowcase. Long and narrow with slight drape from strap placement.
Iridescent navy acetate
HERE: http://store.ikoikospace.com/NEW-ARRIVALS/Shiny-Pillowcase-Tote-p298.html
Dressing up your t-shirt or a whatever. Alternative holiday gear.
Rowena Sartin hand-tacked silk chiffon collar.
Circle shape or Square shape
HERE: http://store.ikoikospace.com/NEW-ARRIVALS/Chiffon-Collar-p297.html
Plant Journal’s Issue #3 is full! So many nice anecdotes and features around plants, life and plantlife.
Friend Daniel Treses’ photo story of Joshua Tree speak for themselves. A accurately abstracted look at the desertscape and the brilliant light. Thank you for letting us sneak in the accompanying text.
See more of Daniel Trese here:
Rowena Sartin selects included in this Lauren Manoogian shop-in-shop at Beautiful Dreamers in Brooklyn.
Runs from Dec. 1-31…
We don’t carry this title, but we read it and couldn’t resist commenting on this issue. It highlights the interiors of some major fashion house designers.
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If you’ve never seen the Marc Camille Chaimowicz book The World of Interiors (2008), find it. A major favorite.
"Looking back over nearly 30 years of work, the artist conceived this publication as a reference monograph and a source catalogue, ranging from his first post-Pop scatter installations to works realized in the 1990s."
http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=779
Blocklace series
by
NANCY STELLA SOTO
Block + Necklace = Blocklace. Another version in this series of a necklace showing an assemblage of process. Re-purposed wood pieces cut from salvaged banister parts treated with homemade shellac (Shellac is a nartural resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.). Adding in some vintage beads and melanin rings for color popping.
One off series
Maple wood blocks (shellacked, dyed, oiled and natural), melanin ring, vintage ceramic beads on hemp cording with brass wire wrap.
HERE: http://store.ikoikospace.com/ACCESSORIES/JEWELRY/Nancy-Stella-Soto-c101/
Totin’ BIG
RS loves tyvek
HERE: http://store.ikoikospace.com/NEW-ARRIVALS/Giant-Square-Tyvek-Tote-p292.html
WAKA WAKA
parallelogram box shelf
Baltic birch plywood
16 x 14 x 11 in
Storage boxes or casual seating. Stacked or for singles.
in store and HERE: http://store.ikoikospace.com/NEW-ARRIVALS/Parallelogram-Box-Shelf-p290.html
We have been quietly waiting to give a fuller perspective on the work of JESSICA SANDERS. These images of pieces we have available for sale at IKO IKO are accompanied by some questions and answers that aim to introduce some of her history, thoughts on her work, on life, on influences and a little more. Enjoy getting to know her with us.
For additional information, please email info@ikoikospace.com or call 323.719.1079.
For more of her work: http://www.jessicasanders.org/
Where are you from, where have you lived and where do you live at present?
I’m from South Florida, and I currently live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.
I have lived in:
Mena, AR
Santa Rosa, CA
Houston, TX
Sana Barbara, CA
Camden, SC
Naples, FL
Miami, FL
Columbus, OH
Brooklyn, NY
Will you provide a brief bio and describe an element of your practice?
I live and work in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, and share a studio with fellow artist and frequent collaborator, Ryan Estep (and an opinionated Boston Terrier). I make sculpture that is derived from conceptual and minimalist forms. Reflecting on personal observations, my work looks at interactions through the filter of materials and physicality, focusing on matter that I find to have a lifespan - wax, sugar, clay, honey, hair, dry wall mud, concrete, sliver leaf.
I received my BFA in ceramics from the University of Miami in 2007 and my MFA from Ohio State University in 2010. I’m currently a participant in the Bronx Museum 2012 Artist in the Marketplace Program, and have recently exhibited at LBi, New York, NY, The Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY, and the Active Space, Brooklyn, NY. I have previously shown throughout New York at spaces including 35 Meadow, Grace Exhibition Space, Nurture Art, and AIR Gallery, and currently have select work for sale at Iko Iko in Los Angeles, CA. I will be in the upcoming Second AIM Biennial, Bronx Calling, at the Bronx Museum of Art, and was recently featured on the New York Art Blog, Art Fag City.
Use three verbs that capture your work:
change, touch, distill
What musician or group would you pair with your work?
Le Tigre covering Phillip Glass, but that hasn’t happened yet, so until then,
KYOKO’S HOUSE, by Philip Glass, from the Mashima Original Music Soundtrack.
What people, places, or things influence you in your practice?
Eva Hesse
Roni Horn
Piero Manzoni
Tehching Hsieh
Anne Truitt
Robert Morris
Chris Burden
Marcia Tucker
Italian Neo Avant Garde of the 1950s and 60s
Emily Jane Bronte
John Irving
Audrey Hepburn
Charles and Ray Eames
traditional American textiles and patterns
Islamic ceramics
celadon porcelain wares
growing up in a place with no seasons
growing up on a horse farm
flat, wide spaces
the ocean
the physical presence of a body with a material
going slow
peeling an orange
The Dia: Beacon
The National History Museum
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Victor Erice’s Lifeline/Ten Minutes Older
Robert Besson
lists
What reading material are you enjoying?
I just finished Joshua Abelow’s book, Painter’s Journal. It’s the six journals from his first year in NY, completely engrossing and irresistible. I couldn’t put it down. Now I’m on to Pulphead, a collection of essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan; Bomb’s Speak Art, edited by Betsy Sussler, which are interviews with artists; and A Short Life of Trouble by Marcia Tucker (which I’ve read so many times I’ve lost count, it just keeps getting better each time).
What is your idea of future?
I think of future as a continuation, a Möbius strip, always looping back around itself. No beginning or end, it’s an investigation of the between.
What is your working uniform in the studio?
Black Japanese Cotton pants or knee length skirt, waist – to – knee apron tied in front, V-neck Tee shirt on top, hoodie, boat shoes, and socks in the winter.
Above images from top to bottom:
JESSICA SANDERS, Accumulation Series, 2011-2012, beeswax on stretched canvas.
JESSICA SANDERS, Chains, 2012; cotton fabric, hand dyed fox fur, sheepskin.