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Eye On Design: Soundsuit #2 China Plate By Nick Cave

soundsuit china plate photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

Nick Cave is an American artist, educator, and messenger working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the LA police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgement. They serve as a visual embodiment of social justice that represents both brutality and empowerment.
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Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Come Alive in Times Square Subway Corridor

each one every one equal all photo by gail worley
All Photos By Gail

I doubt I ever would have seen some very cool subway art if I hadn’t gotten confused and walked west instead of east out of the Bryant Park station. My errant sense of direction lead me down the transit corridor that connects Sixth Avenue with Times Square station, and that’s where this exciting art installation by Nick Cave — entitled Each One, Every One, Equal All — can be found.

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New Soundsuits By Nick Cave at Jack Shainman Gallery

I stopped by the Jack Shainman Gallery on 20th Street yesterday to check out their new exhibit of Nick Cave’s elaborate Soundsuits! Very impressive! Please take a minute to follow me on Instagram for more photos from my adventures in NYC and beyond!

Beverly Fishman: Dose at CUE Art Foundation

Untitled Anxiety
Untitled (Anxiety), 2017 By Beverly Fishman (All Photos By Gail)

CUE Art Foundation is currently hosting Dose, an exhibition of paintings by Beverly Fishman, curated by Soundsuits artist Nick Cave. The show is comprised of a series of luminescent, geometric forms that resemble the shapes of common pharmaceuticals. Straddling the line between sculpture and post-painterly abstraction, Fishman’s optically intense work functions as an avenue for social critique, probing the pharmaceutical industry’s aesthetic decisions and branding strategies.

Untitled Opioid Addiction
Untitled (Opioid Addiction)
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Soundsuit By Nick Cave

Sound Suit by Nick Cave
Photos By Gail

This Soundsuit (2008), embellished with fake flowers and leaves, transforms the human body into an ornate still life. Nick Cave took a traditional genre of painting and reshaped it into a contemporary sculpture with the potential to come to life. Cave has been fabricating these sculptures since the early 1990s. Continue reading Soundsuit By Nick Cave