Nike: Form Follows Motion
Regardless of your love of sport, Nike’s visual and design impact is engrained in global consciousness. The Swoosh, the Jordan Jumpman, the commercials, the athletes and the pop icons who wear Nike all define a part of modern life. Published in conjunction with the fall 2024 landmark exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Nike: Form Follows Motion explores the design history of the brand, with unseen materials from the earliest years in the late 1960s, to drawings and prototypes, to the most contemporary designs with the likes of Virgil Abloh. At the heart of the catalog is how important design is for this particular brand, and as the…
Miles Johnston “Liminality” @ Harman Projects, NYC
Harman Projects is pleased to announce Liminality, the latest solo exhibition by Miles Johnston. Following his last exhibition over six years ago, this new body of work features drawings in graphite and ink as well as paintings in oil and watercolor, highlighting the artist’s eclectic range.
Jillian Mayer’s “Jerks I Know From the Internet”
Jillian Mayer is a versatile Miami artist making public artworks, film projects, and sculptural oddities with an inventive, serrated edge. Her latest experiment is an Object Shop, where creative tributes to jerks she’s met on the internet are awaiting your company, staring at you in shiny glass visage. We relate to Phill, described as, “Clever, can’t make a decision, and works all the time.” And then there’s Nacho, who is “Quitting smoking and is sucking candy all day. Now his teeth hurt.” Mayer calls them jerks but notes, “It is important in life to have friends, some are flat little weird glass ones.”
David Huffman x Open Editions Blanket
Is it basketball season? Yes it is. And we are just busy painting in the studio and aching to be wrapped in a warm, cozy blanket. Whether watching basketball at home or working in a cold art studio, trying to outrun winter’s fading daylight, this joyful blanket with artwork by Afro-Futurist artist David Huffman will up your game in either situation. Huffman is a Bay Area legend, oscillating between dimensions. This soft 100% cotton blanket features the painting Faciazzle in his signature basketball motif. Proceeds will support the iconic Berkeley Art Center, nestled in Wild Oak Park since 1967 — a great place to visit followed by a picnic on…
