Joshua DiFabio

Artist-In-Progress

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Adriana Varejao artist from Brazil, Karma, 2002 Contemporary-Art-Blog

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Vertical House Miró Rivera Architects

Characterized by clean lines, sheer glass walls, and sculptural sun shades, this sharply-detailed house offers an intriguing counterpoint to the tropical ambiance of its forest-like setting.

Starting at the lowest level, two 60-foot-tall exterior screen walls surge upward on both sides of the house, providing the home’s primary structural support as well as offering shade and privacy to spaces within. Moving vertically through the house from the entrance, every major space is immediately accessible from a glass-enclosed stairwell. Views outward become ever more impressive as the ground below falls away, and a palpable sense of suspension takes hold. The subdued material palette throughout the interior consists of white walls and polished concrete floors, with a continuous accent wall of bookmatched Carrara marble that runs the height of the stair connecting all the floors.

The progression terminates at an inviting open-air roof terrace, which offers breathtaking 360-degree views. A mechanical skylight provides access from inside, and the terrace is shaded from the afternoon sun by an extension of the screen wall, which turns 90 degrees to form an airy pergola.

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An exhibition at the Tokyo museum highlights traditional architecture's critical role and explores Modernism's deep roots in Japan.

Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is like taking the entire country and its architectural history and putting it in a nutshell—well, not exactly a nutshell, since it comprises 100 separate displays, from a 3rd-century terra-cotta model found in a burial site to the present, with an emphasis on the last 150 years since the Meiji Restoration. 

Much has been made over time about how Japanese architects responded to Western Modernist styles, but here the curators show how the essence of Japan’s traditional, even classical, architecture, along with vernacular forms and natural settings, maintains a presence in the most contemporary of forms, which in turn have been exported elsewhere.

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Malia Jensen, Unmade Bed, carved soap, 2010

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Hiroshi Sambuichi

Hiroshi Sambuichi’s approach to a site entails long-term study and reflection upon the qualities and forces of nature embedded within. His understanding is “deeper and with a finer grain,” explains American architect and member of The Daylight Award jury James Carpenter as one of several reasons why Sambuichi was recently announced as the latest laureate of the nearly 50-year-old Daylight Award in 2018. In Sambuichi’s hands, “light becomes timeless, fluid and rich.”

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“Batsy” by: Kelly Blevins 24" x 20", charcoal on paper, 2014 www.kblevins.com

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10″x18″ oil painting on canvas. 

I’ve been wanting to do more on the topic of intimacy

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April 26th, 2018 Liisa Nelson’s incredible show The Regular Unnamables from this weekend. I love the amount of work with such dynamic pieces and cohesive colors, as well as the thematic references to the ancient like the “forbidden fruit” and breastplates.

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Ja Soon Kim’s Compositions of Flowers and Botanical Arrangements

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April 26th, 2018

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Daniel Arsham, Hourglass, 2016

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April 23rd, 2018

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Supercaelestia

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Inspiration

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April 23rd, 2018 Personal work from the week - box frames complete!

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April 16th, 2018 Boxes on boxes this week!

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April 15th, 2018

I greatly enjoyed Wanying Liang’s graduate exhibition “I Do Not Know I Am a Guest When I Dream” due to her use of anthropomorphic forms in combination with botanical visual language. Her juxtaposition of the light graceful paper and heavy ceramic sculpture were quite lovely as well

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April 16th, 2018

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor who creates ephemeral works from natural materials such as raw clay, leaves, ice, and loose stones. His forms generally follow a geometric, Modernist visual language, juxtaposing the assembled form with the naturally occurring. This emphasis through formal difference is precisely what makes so many of his forms so elegant. His work makes brief contact with the natural world around it and proceeds to melt, rot, or disassemble itself, disappearing as naturally as the creation of the materials that make them up. Goldsworthy’s documentation through photography and drawings are the only relics of the works that remain after their physical form has coalesced into their landscapes.

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April 15th, 2018 I greatly enjoyed Wanying Liang’s graduate exhibition due to her use of anthropomorphic forms in combination with botanical visual language. Her juxtaposition of the light graceful paper and heavy ceramic sculpture were quite lovely as well

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Métamorphose d’impact #2 (Impact Metamorphosis #2) - Les Frères Chapuisat (The Chapuisat Brothers)

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April 15th, 2018