PS1: a couple of tings.

PS1 Contemporary Art Center is my favorite museum in NYC. They are always changing it up so that every visit offers something new and exciting. Right now they have on view, Arctic Hysteria – a multi-gallery exhibition of 16 Finnish artists. Each one was so exciting; they all seemed to focus on psychedelia, utopias/environmental destruction, and surreal environments. It’s all over the 1st floor, including the cafe and boiler room. I love how PS1 uses every single nook and cranny of the space to exhibit art.

Check out: Stiina Saaristo

“Mommy’s Little Angels”, pencil on paper, 68 x 90 cm

I couldn’t find a good image to insert of the HUGE piece, “A Party”, which was 305 x 300cm, but if you can, you should check it out, http://www.salvadordiaz.net/stiina2007.html

Way to use one medium to its fullest extent (pencil on paper). These drawings are so wonderfully huge and detailed, and are full of humor and surprises.

Also, a ginormous 60 foot wallpaper installation by Tea Makipaa, “A World of Plenty” was a piece to remember. I copied this from her website:

“Thirty metres long and three metres high, comprised of three panels, World of Plenty was adapted from the byobu, a Japanese folding screen. It was designed in such a way that viewers saw completely different worlds in the work depending on whether they approached it from the left or the right. Created as a photocollage using the latest computer graphics technology, World of Plenty depicts an ideal world where humans co-exist peacefully and lovingly with nature. The question Tea Mäkiää asks in her work is, “How much benefit do humans really bring to the world?”