Condom Couture
by Adriana Bertini
Fowler Museum, UCLA

Dress Up Against AIDS, Condom Couture by Adriana Bertini on view at the Fowler Museum at University of California, LA through March 11, features fourteen magnificent garments designed and produced by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini, made entirely of condoms rejected by industry quality tests.
By appropriating an object of protection and […]

Ruth Duckworth
Untitled, 2004 (Archival Inventory # 8561004)
Porcelain wall mural
15.75 x 17 x 4.5
Sold at SOFA NEW YORK 2006 by Bellas Artes/ Thea Burger, New York, NY and Santa Fe, NM

One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement on view through September 3, 2007, features approximately 50 works by 47 artists from The […]

Tom Patti
Compacted Solarized Double Bronze 15, 1987
Glass
5 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 2″
Heller Gallery, New York

Leviev Boymelgreen Marquis Developers of Florida has commissioned artist Tom Patti to create a monumental wall sculpture for the garage façade of the Marquis luxury condominium in Miami’s cultural arts district. Patti is represented by long-time SOFA […]

Akio Takamori
Stoneware
Donna Schneier Fine Arts
Sold at SOFA CHICAGO 2006

Considered one of the most inventive and expressive artists to emerge in contemporary ceramics, Between the Clouds of Memory—Akio Takamori, A Mid Career Survey at the Racine Art Museum (RAM) is the first in-depth analysis of Takamori’s remarkable career, spanning more than twenty-five years. Some […]

Jun Kaneko
Untitled 06-01-02, 2006
Glazed ceramic
26 x 21 x 3″
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Sold at SOFA CHICAGO 2006

Contemporary ceramics are enjoying increasing critical coverage in the arts section of The New York Times. Art critic Michael Kimmelman traveled to meet ceramic sculptor Jun Kaneko at a sewer-pipe factory in Pittsburg, Kansas called Mission […]

Jim Romberg
Signal Light
13 x 8 x 7
Altered ceramic form, raku fired
“Raku: Origins, Impact and Contemporary Expression Ceramics”
ASU Ceramics Research Center

Jim Romberg, director, Eagleheart Center for Art and Inquiry, CO participated in the lively SOFA CHICAGO 2006 Lecture Series panel, Quality Critical Writing on Craft – Who Benefits? Also on the panel […]

Barry Friedman with Michael Glancy sculpture at SOFA NEW YORK 2006.

This summer, SOFA NEW YORK exhibitor Barry Friedman will relocate Barry Friedman, Ltd.—specializing in 20th-century and contemporary design and decorative arts—from the Upper East Side to a 9000 square foot duplex at West 26th Street in Chelsea. In her recent NY Sun article entitled […]

Rudy Autio
Chocolat, 2006
Ceramic, 31 x 25 x 15″
Sold at SOFA CHICAGO 2006 by Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis

Rudy Autio: In the Round on view at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA from January 13 – March 24th, includes fifteen large, free-standing ceramic sculptures by Montana artist, Rudy Autio, created since 1980. […]

Joslyn Tilson
Italian Terracottas
Galerie Besson, London

SOFA CHICAGO exhibitor Galerie Besson, London announces an exhibition of terracottas and weavings by Joslyn Tilson, on view from January 10 – February 1. The gallery reports the artworks “were inspired by the ancient townscapes of Italy, particularly Venice, which Tilson has known well for the past fifty years.”
Tilson […]

Tom Eckert
409
13 x 15 x 16″
Polychrome Wood
Mobilia Gallery,
Cambridge, MA

SOFA exhibitor Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA’s winter exhibition, Trompe l’oeil on view through Jan. 30, explores a technique used since antiquity to achieve illusionistic representation. Translated literally from the French as “deceive the eye,” trompe l’oeil has traditionally been used by painters to blur the boundaries […]

Gio Ponti
Ceiling Light, 1950
Glass and brass
78.7 x 78.7″
Christie’s Important
20th C. Decorative Arts
and Design Auction,
New York

Christie’s achieved a record 23. 7 million at its December 19 Important 20th Century Decorative Art and Design auction in its New York Rockefeller showroom. The event kicked off with the Pinhas Collection: Part 1, featuring 150 of the most […]

Palm Beach County
Convention Center,
site of palmbeach³,
Jan 12 -15

The 10th Anniversary of palmbeach³ features almost 100 dealers in contemporary art, photography and decorative arts, January 12 – 15 at the Palm Beach Convention Center. palmbeach³ incorporates three distinct fairs into one: palmbeach³ Contemporary showcases painting, sculpture, works on paper, video and installations from […]

Melissa Chandon
LA Building with Palms on Left, 2006
Oil on canvas
36 x 48″
John Natsoulas Gallery,
Davis, CA

SOFA exhibitor John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA presents an exhibition by Melissa Chandon and John Weber, January 3 – 27. Chandon’s Landmark paintings feature Americana icons such as roadside diners and gas stations from the 50s and 60s, old lifeguard […]