Pattern Pulp

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?

 

June 27, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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

 

June 25, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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

June 24, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks examine ideas about transcending limitations.

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1. Aside from sculpture, Thomas Campbell is well respected for his sewn works—multicolored pieces of paper, joined together. Campbell was inspired to start sewing paper by his friends Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee and began quilting in 1999 at Joshua Liner Gallery
2. Alec Egan visual language is aggressive and visceral, based in questions of authenticity and art historical myths and clichés at Western Project
3. Spencer Finch’s installation inspired medieval Books of Hours—beautiful, hand-painted works that served as personal prayer books for different times of the day and different periods of the year at The Morgan
4. Kim, Joon’s work explores themes of desire, memory, fragility and obsession using digitally rendered tattoos, porcelain, animal skins and human body parts at Sundaram Tagore
5. Koi No Yokan explores new relationships with artists in flourishing states of practice, either emerging or mid-career at 101/EXHIBIT
6. In  her new series, Colleen Philippi contemplates and addresses how our lives are alternately formed of chaos and our attempts to create order from such  chaos at Newzones

June 17, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Hannah Waldron's Woven Art




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When I see a project like this, my jaw drops. It’s one thing to design an intricate layout in illustrator or photoshop where your planes are 2D and your toolset is smooth and mathematical. It’s another thing to translate that work of art into a 3D woven masterpiece. Behold, Hanna Waldron’s latest creative endeavor, Cloud in Hand.

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Waldron has been studying textiles for the past two years in Sweden, at Konstfack, and has recently presented her Master’s project, a woven poem…bringing Patti Smith’s The Coral Sea to life.

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My Master’s project, an intricate weaving based on the poem The Coral Sea by Patti Smith, is a tapestry for the present. My design celebrates Smith’s luminous crafting of words to convey the physical world and aims to translate the tactile qualities of the poem into the tactile medium of weaving.

I believe that there is a need now in contemporary society for greater material knowledge. This work aims to put value into making and investigate interdisciplinary approaches to sharing material knowledge.

 

June 13, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

The Physics of Pattern Making




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Watch this, I promise it’ll amaze you. It’s the visualization of frequency and sound waves through the use of salt.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that patterns and symmetry lay the foundation of life. This demo’s a nice reminder, simplifying complex equations for everyone to understand.

 

June 11, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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