Pattern Pulp

Floral Orbs & Good Tunes




DressesBandAlbum Art

I love Songza, It’s constantly serving up new and old in the most organic curated way. Last week, I was introduced to Dresses Band– which ultimately led me down a creative rabbit hole. I ended up listening to their beautiful album while fixating on their album art. The illustrated floral is reminiscent of a psychedelic 70’s print, modernized through a circular orb. Give them a listen, I promise you’ll enjoy.

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Make some cheerful paper plants via The House that Lars Built
2. Portraits in paint & Japanese paper via The Jealous Curator
3. Very tiny paintings by Hasan Kale via We The Urban
4. A look inside the studio of Block Shop Textiles via design*sponge
5. Love this look at encaustic cement tiles via Honestly WTF
6. Digging this hanging garden idea via Poppytalk
7. More than your basic maps via Present & Correct
8. Create and paint with earth pigments via Textile Arts Center
9. Craft a fun fringed pillow via A Beautiful Mess
10. Drawing on shoes with markers via design-milk
11. Caitlyn Carlisle found art inspiration in the latest runway collections via Trendland
12. Veronika Richterová creates new life from repurposed plastic bottles via Colossal

Contributed by Emily Gup

Snail Mail + Analog Data + Art




DearData

There’s something romantic about writing a postcard, even if it’s filled with data points and undecipherable sketches. Dear Data, a project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec really struck a chord, as their UK – US written correspondence is an interesting window into the world of a data thinker.

Both women live parallel lives in that they’re the same age, only children, transplants in a new country and work in data using a hand-crafted illustrative approach. Have a look to explore – the drawings have a beautiful morse code feeling to them and share more than meets the eye. Would you ever correspond with a likeminded pen pal?

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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We love the sumptuous color palettes in this week’s gallery picks- they’re lush, vibrant and full of punch.

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1. Casper Brindle’s work occupies the space where Color Field painting, Light and Space conceptualism and Finish Fetish sensibilities intersect at William Turner Gallery
2. Bill Jensen attempts to create paintings which, like self-contained beings, affect the world around them—a characteristic Jensen refers to as “emotional density.” His new paintings explore these longstanding concerns at Chaim Read
3. Laura Lancaster’s work is extracted from an archive of anonymous thrift store and flea market photographs. In these new paintings, Lancaster has used found home movie reels of super 8 film, the first time that moving images have been incorporated into her work.  Each work is a captured one-second frame, chosen from hundreds of films Lancaster viewed and then reviewed to render in either a domestic or cinematic size at Sargent’s Daughters
4. Drawing on manifestations of home, Ann Agee creates installations that explore notions of interior life, material culture, feminism and personal history. Interested in investigating the limitations of appropriation, mimicry and manufacturing, Agee employs familiar motifs – from household objects to modernist architecture – that she at once subverts, infusing them with her own personal and familial narratives at P.P.O.W
5. Richard Diebenkorn’s seductive color palettes and intricately balanced compositions draw from the light and a sense of the places in which he worked, and define a career that spanned more than four decades at Royal Academy
6. A decade Linda Touby ‘s art in Rare Bird at CK Contemporary

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Naturally dye your Easter eggs via design*sponge
2. Love this look at Beatrix Ost’s farm via Advanced Style
3. Joseba Eskubi surrealistic mixed media paintings via Trendland
4. Lovely DIY eucalyptus and yarn wall hanging via Poppytalk
5. Fabulous new blankets from Matt W. Moore via design-milk
6. Decorate tea tins with tissues paper via Oh Joy!
7. Digging these ceramics by TwoCan via Present & Correct
8. Make beer can vases via Fulltime Fiesta
9. The art and studio of Guy Yanai via Anthology
10. Noël Skrzypczak’s dynamic abstract paintings via The Jealous Curator
11. Gisele Freund’s wonderful photographs of Frida Kahlo via Miss Moss
12. Adorable DIY clay bunny bowls via Alice & Lois

Contributed by Emily Gup

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists display a meticulous methodology in their work.

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1. The new drawings and sculptures of Alex Zecca’s continue the artists obsessive and precise methodology. They are time-intensive, process-oriented works made through a laborious process of accumulating steady inked lines at Gallery 16
2. Breaking Pattern highlights several generations of artists whose works investigate and advance the discourse around pattern, optical, and perceptual abstract painting at Minus Space
3. Mara Held’s energetic yet delicate paintings on linen and paper use swirling organic forms that suggest lyricism and spontaneity, yet her medium of choice requires great dexterity and meticulousness. Held’s ribbon-like, concentric lines in vibrant colors create intricate patterns that evoke varied sources from topography or maritime waves to Japanese Woodcuts and Psychedelic posters at McClain Gallery
4. Aya Uekawa’s Good Girls at Kravets Wehby Gallery
5. Alma Thomas’ original and dynamic style is characterized by large-scale abstractions comprised of rhythmic, repeated marks of vibrant color. Inspired by nature, recent discoveries in the sciences, and her observations of earthly and celestial phenomena, Thomas’ work was devoid of overt political content at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
6. Jaq Chartier’s paintings—matter, vitalized—are the result, not of romantic or expressionist ecstasy, but orderly, almost scientific investigations into the properties of color at Dolby Chadwick Gallery

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