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If you’ve been here before, you know repetition and meditative art is one of my favorite themes. Hadieh Shafie’s work therefore falls right in my sweetspot of interests as her pieces require patience and time to craft the scrolls covered in handwritten Farsi and roll them into the amazing sculptures that they become. I also […]

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Rare is it that I’m not writing about sculpture here on the blog but when I saw Jonathan Delafield Cook’s charcoal drawings I was blown away. When I saw their scale I was even more impressed! The above is from his Nest series and is 78×82 centimeters – that’s huge! And it’s all charcoal. Some […]

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Treehugger posted about an amazing paper artist yesterday – I had to share her here as well – I hope you like Valerie Buess, a Swedish artist, as much as I do! She takes books, disassembles them and twists and shapes them to create sea-forms, a favorite here. I also love the photography on her site […]

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It seems like everyone else knows all about Petah Coyne, she has an amazingly informational Wikipedia page and tons of images on Google – I love it.  Her sculptures include tons of different regular and not so regular materials as well as taxidermy animals, wax, repetitive patterns, etc. You can see in this close up […]

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Neil is once again in for a win with the article he sent me on his recent trip back to America, to Rochester – Memorial Art Gallery has a phenomenal show up it appears, Extreme Materials 2, and many of the artists included in the show are using techniques and materials I’m digging. Once of […]

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Happy November! I can’t believe how fast the last 10 days have gone by – Halloween, our friends’ wedding, NYC for work, Esplanade benefit, houseguests – now we’re at November 6th – crazy! It was nice to get an extra hour of sleep last night and I’m pretty sure I spent that hour banging around […]

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I love spiky weird things and Ikuko Iwamoto’s ceramics fit the bill both in her functional pieces as well as her sculptures like the ones below that look like growths. Ikuko works in porcelain, a favorite material of mine for its lightness. How cool are her wall installations? They look like they’re growing and alive, […]

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Every so often everyone has one of “those” days – today was one of them for me and as a treat to me I’m salvaging it with an end of day post of beautiful porcelain work by Valeria Nascimento who self-describes her work as, “about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural […]

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Wow. I literally don’t know how I found Pia Männikkö online today but I think it had something to do with looking at things like honeycombs. Pia lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and recently graduated from The Glasgow School of Art, which put up a few of her pieces online – she also keeps a […]

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After nearly a week of being under the weather, I’m feeling marginally alive again. I can almost breath through my nose! In the spirit of the laziest four days of my life being behind me I’m posting about a young woman who seems to be doing a LOT with her time, Bethany Mitchell. I’m pretty […]