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Do Ho Suh, Floor, 1997-2000

From the Indianapolis Museum of Art:

Floor is a sculptural installation commissioned for the IMA contemporary collection. The piece is scaled to fit in this gallery in a grid of 32 individual squares. Upon entering the gallery, viewers are invited to step up onto an expansive platform covered with thick glass plates.

Beneath the glass platform, small specks of color are visible. On closer examination, these are revealed to be the small palms of figures assembled below the floor. Hundreds of multicolored men and women crowd together with heads upturned and arms aloft. The collective strength of this Lilliputian group supports the weight of individual visitors who step up onto the floor grid.

Floor demonstrates many characteristic elements of Do-Ho Suh’s broader body of work. The artist uses installations to integrate his artwork with the architecture of a gallery or public space. He has engaged the tensions between collective action and individual identity in other pieces, using his miniature figures to support a heavy stone pedestal or to form a tremendous screen with their interlocking bodies. With residences in Seoul, Korea and New York City, the artist also has considered ideas of “home” or displacement in his works, including reconstructing 1:1 scale models of his apartment out of nylon in gallery spaces. Do-Ho Suh uses Floor’s subtle occupation of this gallery, and scale displacement, to present a cross-cultural exploration of personal and communal space.

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The SciArt Series is a collection of art that celebrates the scientific breakthroughs To celebrate innovations that have the potential to solve global problems, Intel paired artists with high school students at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to create original pieces of art based on scientific breakthroughs. Illustrators, graphic designers and sculptors collaborated with high school students from the fair to artistically bring their breakthroughs to life and increase scientific awareness across the globe. Intel is proud to support both the arts and young scientists who are shaping the future of technological progress.

The SciArt Series is a collection of art that celebrates the scientific breakthroughs

To celebrate innovations that have the potential to solve global problems, Intel paired artists with high school students at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to create original pieces of art based on scientific breakthroughs.

Illustrators, graphic designers and sculptors collaborated with high school students from the fair to artistically bring their breakthroughs to life and increase scientific awareness across the globe. Intel is proud to support both the arts and young scientists who are shaping the future of technological progress.

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Is That A Starfish On My Face? Sculptors and weavers, unappointed, spontaneously in their different ways, artists from all over the world are trying to remind us that reefs are in trouble and keep us from making things worse. They can’t solve the fundamental problem (oceans are extraordinarily complex ecosystems), but their ideas are creepily, astonishingly beautiful and clever. For example, take a look at this man, sculpted from real life by Jason deCaires Taylor.

Is That A Starfish On My Face?

Sculptors and weavers, unappointed, spontaneously in their different ways, artists from all over the world are trying to remind us that reefs are in trouble and keep us from making things worse.

They can’t solve the fundamental problem (oceans are extraordinarily complex ecosystems), but their ideas are creepily, astonishingly beautiful and clever.

For example, take a look at this man, sculpted from real life by Jason deCaires Taylor.

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   Leaders of the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist Church have repeatedly skirted the law by maintaining a legal distance while picketing military funerals. This weekend, a New York artist attempted to beat the church at its own game by creating a satirical painting of Pastor Fred Phelps Sr. across the street from the organization’s headquarters in Kansas.    Scott LoBaido traveled to the church’s compound in Topeka, where he parked his truck across the street and painted a portrait depicting Phelps in a carnal embrace with the devil. The painting also lampoons Phelps’ daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper. (The story was first reported in the Topeka Capital-Journal.)    A native of Staten Island, LoBaido said in a phone interview Monday that he wanted to use the church’s own tactics against it by maintaining a legal distance from the property. “I’m trying to alert the creative masses to use their 1st Amendment rights,” he said.

   Leaders of the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist Church have repeatedly skirted the law by maintaining a legal distance while picketing military funerals. This weekend, a New York artist attempted to beat the church at its own game by creating a satirical painting of Pastor Fred Phelps Sr. across the street from the organization’s headquarters in Kansas.

   Scott LoBaido traveled to the church’s compound in Topeka, where he parked his truck across the street and painted a portrait depicting Phelps in a carnal embrace with the devil. The painting also lampoons Phelps’ daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper. (The story was first reported in the Topeka Capital-Journal.)

   A native of Staten Island, LoBaido said in a phone interview Monday that he wanted to use the church’s own tactics against it by maintaining a legal distance from the property. “I’m trying to alert the creative masses to use their 1st Amendment rights,” he said.

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