November 15, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
We Make Carpets is a 3-person artist group weaving temporary contemporary carpet installations from anything but thread. Using objects such as forks, clothespins, and pasta, We Make Carpets define their work as a critique on our consumer driven society.
October 31, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Who says nail polish is just for dressing up your digits. Mia Christopher uses non-traditional pigments like nail polish and latex with traditional ones such as watercolors and gouaches to create these extravagant textural pieces. Plus we get to peek inside her sketchbook.
October 25, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Debra Baxter creates the most awe-inspiring, surrealist sculptures; transforming alabaster into soft cloth-like forms and then bonding them to rigid pyrite or porous concrete. Playing with different materials and textures Debra creates objects almost alien as if unearthed from some foreign landscape.
October 18, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Photographer and graphic designer Jane Rovers combines her talents to create these awe-inspiring images of nature implanted with Art Deco-style link work and overlapping triangles while enhancing the colors of the landscape with an antique palette. Buy her work over at Etsy.
October 18, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Artist Anne ten Donkelaar uses a lovely mix of materials: colored and grayscale printed floral images, embroidery floss, twigs and butterfly wings to create complex floral constructions and mended butterflies. Through collage Anne gives life to various exotic plants and lands aid to butterflies with broken wings through assorted means of flight.
October 11, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
In this series simply titled Bears artist Kent Rogowski turns the beloved, iconic stuffed bear into a raggedy, misshapen monster. Turning them inside out and posing them in a slumped and silly manner, each creature peers out with a curious soul through backwards plastic eyes.
October 10, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
In her series Satellite Collections, artist Jenny Odell collects like images of man-made structures and landscapes that have been scattered throughout our planet and assembles them side by side in a single digital print. Taken from satellite imagery, these collections reveal the impact of our human footprint in a way only made possible through aerial photography.
October 4, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
There are so many wonderfully happy things happening in the world of Ginette Lapalme. Bright colors, child-like doodles, diamonds and cats. So many cats! I have quite a soft spot in my heart for the fury little creatures, mainly due to my affections towards my own felines, Peru and Lima. I have no idea what is going on with her art and sometimes that is a good thing.
I recently received my own cat amulet from Ginette’s Etsy shop. To my surprise I received my necklace in a mint colored box decorated by hand with marker and butterfly stickers, sealed with pink cat motif tape. In addition to my fabulous new necklace, I also received 2 itty bitty artist books and a yellow strawberry eraser (just like the ones I use to collect as a kid).
October 3, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
In the series Armed/Luminous artist Jennifer Mehigan engulfs found images of burning buildings with layers of paint; at the base of each building, vibrant colors spring upward creating a visual distraction from tragedy. Taking an image that can bring forth unpleasant memories, Jennifer transforms it into a beautiful, abstract scene.
The following series is Various Kinds of Fire:
September 26, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
This eccentric couple, Frédérique Morrel and Aaron Levin (with their three children and two Jack Russels), have created the most unusual collection of taxidermic creatures. Playing upon several themes (beauty vs. ugly; man vs. animal; art vs. decoration) this peculiar pair stitch together scraps of vintage and contemporary tapestries creating a new luxurious hunting trophy complete with real antlers and fur.
