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Great van paintings by Kevin Cyr. Also currently has work at Mixed Greens in NY and 941 Geary in SF.

http://www.kevincyr.net/

Playing homage to James Turrell, ITP student Matthew Richard has built this pretty sweet kinetic light sculpture, an area of work that I am really interested in. 80 RGB LEDs create a animated color field painting by letting the light itself mix together on a canvas. The 2 LEDs are placed at the tips of 40 arms that are arranged in a circle and controlled by 40 servos. One LED faces towards the center of the circle and the other faces away from the center. Subtle differences in servo timing and LED values create color patterns resemble wasting sunsets and sunrises melding and disappearing.

Said Richard: “I wanted to create a living color field painting using a mechanical interface instead of a projector.”

Here’s a documentation video:

Via Rhizome.

Relief sculptures using found photographs of the same place taken at different times.
http://www.abigailreynolds.com/ 

Amazing works by Italian sculptor Fabio Viale. Above is the polystyrene-like SOUVENIR GIOCONDA, but also check out the all marble boats, AHGALLA I and II.

http://www.fabioviale.com/html/works.htm

I like the bit about the degradation of the sculptures in the movie:

http://www.jasonhackenwerth.com

Brian Jobe’s installation of plastic zip ties.
http://brianjobe.com/ 

(Top) Zhan Wang’s Urban Landscape – Chicago.
(Bottom) San Francisco cityscape.

From it’s early beginnings, the Festival of Speed’s central display has become one of the most imaginative automotive sculptures, thanks to Jerry Judah.

http://www.judah.co.uk/

Some of the best stuff I’ve seen in a while. New York artist Ebon Heath’s typographic mobiles.

On now at: Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery, Torstrasse 96, 10119 Berlin, Mitte
http://lucascarrieri.com/

Traveling Light is a 13m high column light sculpture sited at Junction 21 on the M5 motorway in the UK.

Consisting of 2000 digitally controlled LEDs which during the week Travelling Light gently scrolls through the primary colours with an electric sparkle, with rainbows on Saturdays and all white on Sundays. On Valentines Day it throws up a river of pink hearts and simulated light fireworks for New Year. Other dates include electric snow for Christmas, cosmic colour patterns for summer and winter solstices, flames on bonfire night and space-invaders on Halloween.

Quite a few other nice pieces of light art at http://www.peterfreeman.co.uk

Superblue presents ‘Skyscopes’, periscopes with a twist, changing your perspective on the architecture and environment of Canary Wharf at Fresh Perspectives as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008, Canary Wharf Jubilee Park. June 26th – 29th.

http://www.superblue.co.uk/archives/news/skyscope_go_live.html

By NIKOLAJ RECKE
http://www.artnode.org/art/recke/work/coastline/index.htm