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Turquoise: Grids & Movement




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Summer’s on the mind, particularly leading into July 4th, and many of you are on vacation, attempting to peel yourself from work and the daily grind. If you have a creative eye, though, you’re still finding inspiration, only this week it’s literal, as opposed to online. Be it shadows and shells at the beach, lines and sand textures on the boardwalk or wavy grids in and around the pool. I’m in Fire Island this week, working in the morning and cooking/beaching/biking in evening and thought a turq story would be relevant- particularly one that incorporates water and movement. These pieces transition from art and technique to photography and social media. It’s interesting to see the overlap between the imagery, style and form.

1. Art by Kathy Leeloo 2. Archival Pigment Print (artist unknown) 3. Pool photo from SwissMiss’s instagram feed 4|5|6: Artwork made with paste and paper by Ellen Golla

 

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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We’re celebrating the Fourth of July by looking at America through time and space in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. . As children, Damian Stamer and his identical twin brother would explore the woods around his home. Within his work are the memories and images of ruined buildings from a time and way of life in the South that was and is coming to an end at Zane Bennett Gallery
2. Rhode Island-based Steven Coyle’s new beach series at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
3. No doubt we are living in the future, but is it the place we imagined ourselves growing up into when we were young? at Gauntlet Gallery
4. Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1973) is a series of strange and compelling photographs that reveal the complexities of the American middle-class landscape.at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
5.Having spent a great deal of time in the Southwestern United States, John Oteri is inspired by those areas and uses them as backdrops for the majority of his work. at Joe Wade Fine Art
6. Robert Weingarten describes Pentimento, his recent body of work, as “a re-affirmation of the power of photographic memory.” Beginning with historic photographs that document major events of the last hundred years, Weingarten re-visits the original locations of these pictures and then makes photographs of the site as it exists today at Craig Krull Gallery

 

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Dreaming of running away to Morocco via Honestly WTF
2. Gelatin mold inspired planters via Trendland
3. Loving Justina Blakeney’s captivating foliage portraits via Miss Moss
4. Gorgeous reclaimed wood walls via design-milk
5. Adoring the colors in Niels Strøyer Christophersen’s home via The Artful Desperado
6. Patrick Weder’s honeycomb light sculptures via design*sponge
7. JR tuned the Panthèon inside out! via Yatzer
8. Fifty Soviet objects from both work and play via Present & Correct
9. A look at the art of Japanese Parquetry via Colossal
10. Interview with painter Laura Jones via The Design Files
11. B.A. Lampman’s beautifully bizzarre collages via The Jealous Curator
12. Yuko Nishimura transforms single white sheets of paper into wall reliefs via booooooom

Contributed by Emily Gup

Getting Expressive & Colorful




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At a quick glance, these works seem inline with one another. They’re expressive/perfect messes, fit within the confines of crisp design and modern layout. The balance feels forward, yet nostalgic, reminding us of our youth. Remember the time when line drawings, finger paintings and a simple please and thank you, were the only things expected of us?

Whether we’re trying to emulate art from childhood or simply  finding inspiration in it, it’s a style I admire and enjoy. This men’s shirt is a collaboration between New York artist, Robin Cameron and Études Studio. This book is a parent’s personal project, compiling and archiving their child’s artwork. Both are beautifully executed and a reminder of the uninhibited markings of youth. What do you think?

 

Trend: Textural & Tonal Blush




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It seems like a funny thing to write that blush is everywhere these days…but in all honesty, it kind of is. The color (also known to many as rose gold) has transcended gender lines and is making it’s way through the fashion, art, home and beauty worlds this summer.

Stylists are putting male models in blush colored t-shirts for insurance ads, just as beauty brands are decorating eyelids in high-end campaigns. Cut collages, ribbed packaging, shimmering surfaces and natural patterns are the markers of variation, and it’s almost fun spotting new interpretations. Here are a few examples that hop between continents and genres, proving the sophisticated seasonal staying power of this minimalist hue.

1. Maison & Object Asia Print Advertisement 2. & 3. Collage: Absence and Rediscovery by Anthony Gerace 4. Brit Rhythm Fragrance by Burberry  5. Volcano Keepsake from Ya Wen Chau’s Heirlooms Collection 6. 3D Printed Housewears by David Steiner of The Royal Academy of Art 7. Plaid floral appliqués for Carven 8. Rose gold Tattoo Eyeshadow by Maybelline for Marie Claire

 

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists integrate photography into their process.

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1. In Luke Butler’s series “The End”, he paints THE END as a figure in a landscape. Removed from its narrative role, it is both familiar and strange. As a static image, it seems contradictory, absurd, and poignant – an anti-picture at Charlie James Gallery
2. Lee Jeonglok’s Palette of Light at Kwanhoon Gallery
3. The word Se means fate, fortune and destiny. Within this theme, El Antsui explores three states of mind: affirmation, intimation, and revelation through the form of hundreds of liquor bottle tops woven into a tapestry-like sculpture at Axel Vervoordt
4. Emerson Cooper relentlessly collects vintage photographs and Victorian cabinet cards. He transforms them into meticulously constructed, psychologically charged artworks by using a mix of thread, paint, collage or digital manipulation at Muriel Guépin Gallery
5. The six artists in Frameshift collide with and attempt to negotiate the technical image as encoded by the camera at Denny Gallery
6. The photographs of Tim Parchikov’s series “Burning News” show the problem of how the human consciousness reacts to the flow of information – being constantly bombarded by the ‘hot news’ until it reaches a critical point at | PRISKA PASQUER

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