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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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There’s an underlying importance of line and layers in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Focusing on systems and patterns, Joe Lloyd’s paintings appear highly composed; however, the choices he makes are spontaneous and experimental at Western Project
2. Providing a fresh narrative to the exhibition space, Summer Mixer artists present traditional and new-media works, featuring painting, weaving, collage, and digital art techniques at Joshua Liner Gallery
3. Hand pulled prints by creators from Latin America who have left their mark on the international arena at Praxis
4.The works that constitute the core visual component of the Vita E Morte are images of nature (or images of man’s representation of nature) that have been databent at Subliminal Projects
5. Soojung Park creates luminous linear abstractions that play on contrasts of various textures, flatness and space, buoyancy and heft at Ruth Bachofner Gallery
6. Cycles and Spires explores the cyclical nature of life and death through continual motion in different mediums at galerie102

Celebrating John Venn with Google




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Who else loves Google’s celebratory search designs? Today they’re highlighting John Venn‘s 180th birthday with adorable textures and vector patterns reminiscent of his influential work. Venn was an English logician and philosopher noted for introducing the Venn diagram, used in the fields of set theory, probability, logic, statistics and computer science. Before you hit enter on the tab bar today, explore and enjoy learning  about this important historical figure!

 

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Swoon-worthy color via Oh Joy!
2. Dudi Ben Simon’s fun optical illusions via Trendland
3. DIY a watercolor mug via Poppytalk
4. Digging Vulantri’s striking jewelry via Design Crush
5. Art inspired by the relationship between women & birds via Honestly WTF
6. Super summery art by Lisa Golightly via The Jealous Curator
7. How about hair weaving via Style Bubble
8. Carl Hansen & Søn’s collaboration with Paul Smith and Maharam via design-milk
9. Gorgeous Japanese hair ornaments via Colossal
10. Interview with James Gordon via The Design Files
11. Cacti that won’t hurt you when you walk into it via design*sponge
12. Pin-up models in decaying sugary sweet settings via Miss Moss

Contributed by Emily Gup

Making Moodboards




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Today, I was in a zone. Once the basics were complete, I threw a few ink drawings together, collaged it up, and tinkered around with photoshop to see what would come. This is what happened. There’s lots of texture, overlap and some quiet storytelling.

 

Fused Geometry & Floating Shapes




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Trends are a funny thing to track. You can say that once they’ve gain momentum, they’re technically uncool and tacky (thank you Karl Lagerfeld for the insight), or that they’re simply an overarching theme hitting several sensory points. When you’re observing the things vibrating through culture, it’s important to look beyond the magazine headlines, as we all know that editors have word counts to fill and advertisers to please. It’s their job to sell quick digestible bites of content to keep us shopping…

When I wrap my head around a visual theme, I make sure to link as many worlds as possible…ranging from art and product to design, marketing and geography. Prisms have been an active element in the creative world for quite some time…they’ve gone from 3D to 2D and back again. This roundup highlights a mostly pink, red, mustard and blue palette of adjoined and floating shapes. Please have a look and share a few favorites of your own!

1. Elk Miracle Classic Pant 2. Work from Judy Kaufmann’s new website, Hello Pattern  3. Teva throwback, a collaboration by Bernhard Willhelm and Camper 4. Handmade prism kilm rug by Elk 5. Pretty pastel rings by Kenichi Kondo 6. Playful typographic art by Esther Tielemans 7. Expressive colorscapes by Melissa Thomson 8. Installation art by Sophie Smallhorn

 

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Get lost in the landscape with this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Val Britton’s massive installation of her hand cut assorted papers in her thematic series of cartography inspired landscapes at Gallery Wendi Norris
2. The works in Samuel Denoncour’s This Land Is speak specifically to the comfort and beauty of self realization that comes only after allowing yourself to be lost at GRIN
3. Elizabeth Glaessner’s most recent paintings depict a highly detailed mythology of post-human existence on earth that features anthropomorphic, gelatinous figures in familiar, yet toxic, landscapes at P.P.O.W
4. Leif Podhajsky’s work explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic experience. By utilizing these subjects he attempts to inspire the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings at Galerie Hors-Champs
5. Ryan Molenkamp’s Fear of Volcanoes at Linda Hodges Gallery
6. This group exhibition explores the seasonal rhythms of natural systems, the human disruptions of these once-balanced cycles, and the increasing alarms of global climate change at James Cohan Gallery

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