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While my mom and I were out cruising around Jamaica Plain this weekend we also stopped by The Hallway Gallery, owned by one of the founders of Room 68. The gallery had a show up of paperclip watercolors, literally watercolors of paperclips by Dan Golden, which were amazing. I went on their blog though, when […]

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Everyone knows I love a good sea urchin and today, my brother’s friend Neil (and my friend too) sent me the site of Jennifer Maestre whose sculptures are entirely inspired by “the form and function of the sea urchin.” These are 1 inch sections of pencils, cut, sharpened, drilled and then sewn together like in beading. […]

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We’ve spent the last week here on Nantucket and being on the water everyday has reminded me of a lot of things. One being a picture that my parents have in their house in Back Bay. The artist, a teacher of mine from middle school at BB&N in Cambridge, Kirk Goetchius, is someone who I […]

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Since we moved in together in the Back Bay, R and I have been exploring more and more together. Even though I’ve lived here all my life (our apartment is 5 blocks from my childhood home) and Ross has been here for a few years, it’s fun to get to go to familiar spots together. […]

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A few weeks ago I was up in New Hampshire, once again visiting the Sharon Arts Center, which is regularly a source of favorite painters, pastel artists, etc. I saw a few works by Peter Batchelder and was really taken with his use of color and, of course, the barns and houses he represents through […]

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So many worlds colliding! This weekend I’m heading to Chicago to meet my boyfriend’s parents for the first time. As a result, I was Googling around for cool interior decorating stores we may want to stop into and came across Elements Chicago. Looking around, looking around…I came up Dunes and Duchess’ candelabras. Turns out these […]

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After three days in the woods, today we ventured into town. I went and got a massage and explored the yarn store…then we went to the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough to see what they had up for sale. A lot of artists that I’ve written about I discovered at the SAC but today I […]

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In the last 24 hours I’ve spent time with two friends who are in the contemporary art world – one an old friend and one a new friend. Through the course of conversations with them both I was reminded about where I came from in an educational sense. I went to Skidmore, which I chose […]

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Another artist I really liked while I was at the SoWa Open Market was Heather Pilchard. Both my mom and I seem to have an affinity for anything encaustic and we spotted Heather’s work from afar. The works she had brought with her were relatively small in scale – paintings, photos and pastel works. Heather […]

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Another great find at the SoWa Open Market this past weekend in Boston was Amy Jensen, a Boston-based jeweler who makes her pieces out of found items. At the market she was showing her subway token jewelry elegantly laid out on wood blocks over subway maps from a variety of places. I’m not sure where […]