All photos by Renée DeVoe Mertz, April 22, 2015.
Tag: Photo Essay
Gabriel Dawe’s “Plexus No. 27”
Return to Crystal Bridges
Pink Elephant on Highway 55
Leo Villareal’s “Buckyball”
Leo Villareal, Buckyball, 2012. Aluminum tubing clad with LED lights atop aluminum plinth. 30 ft. x 144 in. x 144 in. (914.4 x 365.8 x 365.8 cm). Installed at Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR. Loaned courtesy of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Gering & Lopez Gallery, and Leo Villareal.
All photos by Renée DeVoe Mertz, November 28, 2014.
I ♡ the Field Museum
Impressions of Dublin
If you’re going to Ireland, chances are you will fly in and out of Dublin. The Republic’s capital is a mostly charming city of manageable size with several museums, impressive cathedrals, and numerous drinking establishments. Travelers can see a lot in a short amount of time without sacrificing the enjoyment of simply wandering in a new city. In two days, we drank some good beer, ate some good (Indian) food, and went to six museums, two crypts, two cathedrals, one church, and one library. Someone in a hurry or lodging in a more central part of the city could probably do more.
Swoon: Submerged Motherlands at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Fusing the aesthetics of an art-school education with the environmental immediacy of street art, Swoon has come to fame in the last few years for her large, intricate, wheat-pasted prints, urban interventions, and community-based projects. Submerged Motherlands brings her practice indoors in order to create a new, immersive environment within the Brooklyn Museum’s 5th floor rotunda gallery. Look up, look down, stand back, plunge in—the installation encourages a thorough investigation of its many nooks and crannies, and rewards the viewer at every angle.
Swoon: Submerged Motherlands will be on view until August 24, 2014. For more information, visit the Brooklyn Museum’s website.
All photos by Renée DeVoe Mertz, May 4, 2014.
New York, May 2014
All photos by Renée DeVoe Mertz, May 2–4, 2014.