Embraceable You
Embraceable You
Embraceable You
Embraceable You

Steve Bishop

Embraceable You, 2020149 x 48.2 x 43cmSign in to view price
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melamine covered chipboard, lamp, journals, glass, ceramic, muesli, spoon, pvc, modified radio with playlist: marian mcpartland - in the days of our love barney kessel - misty jessica williams - embraceable you chet baker & paul bley - if i should lose you toshiko akiyoshi - deep river dave brubeck - koto song ike quebec - blue and sentimental joe pass - i can't get started buster williams, kenny barron and ben riley - someday my prince will come miguel burney - the wishing wellCarlos/Ishikawa
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary art piece features a minimalist composition, with a lone individual standing against a stark white background. The subject matter is evocative, inviting the viewer to contemplate the individual's solitary presence and the subtle lighting that draws attention to a simple table lamp. The artist's style is characterized by a spare, conceptual approach, emphasizing the emotional resonance of the scene through its careful framing and use of negative space. The work likely aims to explore themes of isolation, contemplation, and the human condition within a modern, stripped-down aesthetic. ...

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Embraceable You
Artist
Steve Bishop
B.1983, Canadian

Steve Bishop works with fabricated and found materials and objects to articulate the poignancy and humour in sentimentality. His installations, such as little statues, a bowl of milk and cereal, an unmade bed, a half-eaten cake, or a screenshot of a Facebook chat, point to both the importance and futility of time and of a human life. Experiencing his installations produces an eerie feeling of entering into domestic settings but finding their inhabitants missing. Bishop’s video works feature touching amateur and found footage, like karaoke performances and cover songs. His works, to put it in the artist’s words, are “containers for something”, that “something” being evermore personal. Thus, the artist’s objectively everyday representations carry a subjective substance of serenity of human existence and cosiness of a regular life. ...

Steve Bishop: Artworks
An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs
Steve Bishop
An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs, 2013
125 x 200 x 90cm
Untitled
Steve Bishop
Untitled, 2015
80 x 20 x 15cm
A Thousand Signals
Steve Bishop
A Thousand Signals, 2020
Chutchie (small business loan)
Steve Bishop
Chutchie (small business loan), 2016
30 x 40cm
Deliquescing
Hello, How May I Help You?
Steve Bishop
Hello, How May I Help You?, 2017
107 x 46 x 41cm
I'll Be Around
Steve Bishop
I'll Be Around, 2017
106 x 89 x 40cm
Standard Ballad
Subscribers (‘86-‘88)
Steve Bishop
Subscribers (‘86-‘88), 2021
10 x 28 x 22cm
Thank You
Steve Bishop
Thank You, 2019
138 x 45 x 72cm
The Caretaker
Embraceable You
Steve Bishop
Embraceable You, 2020
149 x 48.2 x 43cm
Subscribers (’01 – ’02)
Steve Bishop
Subscribers (’01 – ’02), 2024
8.5 x 28 x 22cm
Carlos/Ishikawa
Gallery
Carlos/Ishikawa
London

Founded in 2011, Carlos/Ishikawa’s program is dedicated to considered and ambitious exhibitions that offer diverse artists’ perspectives on structural, socio-cultural, and political questions. The program focuses on international artists with often wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary and experimental practices. There is an interest within the program of challenging the aesthetic conventions of conceptual art, and a focus on art that is able to operate on an affective, emotional level as well as a rigorous intellectual one. The gallery has offered many artists their first solo show, many of whom have gone on to receive recognition internationally. ...

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