The VIEWS: Future Worlds Apart - June 4 - 10

the slant from Worldwide Jun 5th, 2012 (David Phillips, I'm Forever Gonna Hold Onto You, 2012, mixed media, 8 x 10 in. ArtSlant Showcase Winner.) Spaceships and spirit worlds... ...hover over imagined planes of existence. Sharona Eliassaf creates her own sublime in paintings of star-specked skies and floating ships, signs and stages, twisted into a fantastic new world. Nicole Eisenman's figures likewise seem to exist in their own world: a world of line, color and humor. Extraterrestrial beings and alternate universes shed light on the human condition in Rashid Johnson and Cauleen Smith's afrofuturist visions. And Delhi's modernist architecture shares an affinity with centuries-old astronomical structures in the photographs of Madan Mahatta. In the RACKROOM A chaotic conversation of propositions, images, and video between Courtney R. Thompson and Dana DeGiulio. In the EDITIONS Next week we travel to Basel! In the SHOWCASE Our Top 10 artists have been selected for Round #3. Say hi!

PICKS AND PERSPECTIVES THIS WEEK Skeletons In Our Shared Closet Tennessee State Museum

INTERVIEW WITH DANA DEGIULIO Chicago, Jun 2012: I have been reading a lot of artist interviews as of late. The construction of call and response can be meaningful, but more often than not, I am drawn to the intangible. I read Ital...[more]

THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities Los Angeles Robert Overby New York Tom Sachs, Nicole Eisenman London Amsterdam Matthew Barney, Melanie Bonajo , more... Paris Benjamin Sabatier Chicago Rashid Johnson San Francisco Mitzi Pederson India Madan Mahatta Miami Shoshanna Weinberger China Olafur Eliasson