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Friday Quick Links!




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1. Kyra Schmidt’s beautifully peaceful “Transcriptions” series via The Jealous Curator
2. Heath Ceramics explores the world of wallpaper via design-milk
3. DIY embroidered art via design*sponge
4. Wallpapers that will make it feel like summer all year round via Poppytalk
5. A day in the life of Ken Done via The Design Files
6. In love with Michelle Morin’s watercolors via Design Crush
7. Swooning over Tigmi Trading’s textiles via Honestly WTF
8. Designtex Bespoke Surfaces turn your walls into art via Sight Unseen
9. Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber’s awesome miniatures and dioramas via Trendland
10. Digging this DIY painted leather hanging planter project via Brit+Co
11. Loving Caitlin She’s patterns via Miss Moss
12.Dreamy botanical wall art via My Modern Met

Contributed by Emily Gup

June 17, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Our artists are focusing on adventure and leisure time in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Focusing on informal moments shared by friends and lovers,Nicole Eisenman’s paintings concentrate on interior spaces and those casual situations that occur only behind closed doors, be that of the studio, a New York apartment or a train compartment at Anton Kern Gallery
2. Marcel Dzama presents new film works, sculpture, and large format drawings alongside a walk-in installation at Sies + Höke
3. As a member of a generation of artists noted for their “return” to figurative painting, Jocelyn Hobbie has honed a formal inventiveness in which neoclassical figures with pensive expressions are depicted amid bold and striking patterns. Her heightened naturalism and enhanced degree of saturated color reveal an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly root these unusually psychological paintings in the age of post abstraction at Fredericks & Freiser
4. As life in America continues to distance itself from the countryside, vacations and travel are a time to reintroduce the self to nature. As summer approaches in America, this idolized time of year brings thoughts of travel, escape, and road trips. With individual freeways that stretch over 3,000 miles, taking the car across country reveals America’s boundless diverse landscapes, as travelers immerse themselves in America’s ever changing personality at Joshua Liner Gallery
5. In the party game Who’s Coming to Dinner? participants are asked to choose any number of dinner guests, famous or not, from any period in time, and imagine what the party would be like. Annelie McKenzie’s exhibition is her personal variation of that game, except that she has imagined a museum exhibition, choosing artists—famous or not, from any period in time–and they become her “Old Masters” at CB1 Gallery
6. When we think of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, it is often the names like Frazetta and Hildebrandt that come first to mind. However, all along through the art history of the genre you have women such as Kinuko Craft, Mary Blair, Julie Bell, and many more who have been creating their own visual worlds and illustrating the worlds of authors, filmmakers, and game designers. For the first time, the work of women in this genre will be exhibited together in Point of Vision: Celebrating Women Artists in Fantasy and Science Fiction at Society of Illustrators

June 15, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links!




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1. House of Hackney’s fabulous wallpapers via Trendland
2. Pieter Hugo’s 1994 photographic series via Miss Moss
3. Digging Clair Bremmer’s dreamy forests via The Jealous Curator
4. Jongjin Park’s layered ceramics via Sight Unseen
5. Make your own floral hair comb via design*sponge
6. Askov Finlayson & Hygge & West’s wallpaper collaboration via Design Crush
7. Thoroughly intriguing vases via Creative Boom
8. Talking with textile artist Tammy Kanat via Poppytalk
9. Tiffanie Turner’s huge paper flowers via Colossal
10. DIY hair accessories with vintage jewelry via Honestly WTF
11. Carla McRae’s bright murals via The Design Files
12. Jorge Penadés’ Structural Skin series uses leftover leather via Yellowtrace

Contributed by Emily Gup

June 10, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists focus on shapes and patterns to explore their points.

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1. Fred Tomaselli and Carl Boutard will discuss their work, nature, site-specificity, adaptation, and making ephemeral materials permanent at The International Studio & Curatorial Program
2. Jeff Kahm describes his work as being “rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics” at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art
3. Maneuvering between painting and photography, realism and abstraction, Don Suggs explores the role imagery plays in our perception of nature. As the basis for this conceptual inquiry, Suggs returns to his familiar circular abstractions and landscape photograph at La Louver
4. Stephanie Syjuco employs unlikely materials with ingenious vision—found 3-D models, publicly-sourced audio files, “ethnic” carpets downloaded from eBay, photo shoots staged with mass-produced fashion garments, and a large scale “still life” installation—to create a perceptual clash that bridges historical representation with contemporary forms at Catharine Clark Gallery
5. As visual reflections on identity and consciousness, these abstract paintings by John Mills illuminate how perception is shaped by the subjectivity of the mind and its fleeting memories and experiences at Rosamund Felson
6. Søren Behncke entered, deconstructed and re-painted Van Gogh’s La Chambre à Arles again and again during the course of a year. In 20 works on canvas, cardboard, and paper Søren Behncke engages the iconic image of the room in Arles and various artistic profiles including Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, Albert Mertz, and Roy Lichtenstein, while challenging his own craft and style of painting at V1 Gallery

June 4, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Scott Listfield on art, dinosaurs and astronauts via The Jealous Curator
2. Inside the studio of Bharat Tiles via design*sponge
3. Maisie Broadhead critiques the historical symbolism of the pearls via AnOther Mag
4. Furniture made with yarn and resin via design-milk
5. Talking with Vera Panichewskaja about her Salominka series via Sight Unseen
6. Interview with accessory designer Amanda Briskin-Rettig via The Design Files
7. Lindsay Stripling’s beautiful dreamscape paintings via Hi-Fructose
8. The lovely effect of Breeze Blocks via Honestly WTF
9. Digging these new nature inspired paint colors from Spruce Collective via Poppytalk
10. Lush, melancholy paintings from Clara Adolph via Miss Moss
11. Swooning over Pernille Snedker’s modern marbled wood via Trendland
12. Hine Mizushima’s adorable felted creatures via Colossal

Contributed by Emily Gup

June 3, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




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Explorations of shape and abstraction abound in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. A showcase of Etel Adnan’s work from across her career including paintings, drawings, poetry, film and tapestry. at Serpentine Gallery
2. A historical survey exhibition of works from the 1950s by Lygia Clark. Clark’s groundbreaking work radically innovated the relationship between the art object and audience and has become a reference point for generations of artists pushing the limits of sculpture today at Alison Jacques Gallery
3. Jaro’s paintings feature non-objective, geometric forms in a colorful mélange called geometric abstraction at Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association
4. The line is at once a road and a horizon. Between the Lines considers the space in between. Bringing together an international group of artists, it surveys the landscape of a movement that started in the grimy backstreets of Paris, London, New York, and LA but has since exploded to become a worldwide phenomenon at The Mine
5. Judy Ledgerwood’s Pussy Poppin’ Power explores and confronts the history of abstraction, as well as artistic domestic work created by women across generations at Tracy Williams Ltd
6. Stanley Whitney presents a series of oil paintings and gouache on paper works made over the last few months in response to global events, literature and music, among other sources of inspiration. Whitney’s unique ordering system revolves around his use of a loosely painted grid, which he has experimented with in various ways over the course of almost three decades at Lisson Gallery

May 30, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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