Anchorage, Alaska born Kate Carr is an amazing sculptor who is all about her materials, which oftentimes is textiles, fabric, felt and other materials I love. Felt Coils, above is cut felt sewn together onto a plywood backing. It looks to me like rings of a tree, which I’ve seen people wet felt before in […]
I’m writing today from Chicago. We’re here for the Thanksgiving holiday with my boyfriend’s family and boy is it cold. It’s got me thinking about crochet, knitwear, felting, and anything that would warm my feet! I had sent myself an email last week of links to artists’ pages I found somewhere along the way (and […]
Emily Dvorin is a self-defined sculptural basketmaker. She works in vessel format but uses recycled, upcycled materials that are commonly thought of as commercial products, including but not limited to wire, fabric, plastics, etc. She uses these materials to discuss overconsumption, “societal excess, and throwaway consumerism.” In using the vessel shape she ends up creating […]
I work in a business where people are often rude to me and my colleagues – they think we’re an unnecessary cog in the wheel, and I get treated as such, not often – but enough. When I get to come home, blog about the beautiful and obscure, I not only feel better about myself but everything […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thanks to Pinterest and it randomly making me follow strangers I learned about the work of Sonya Philip! Gotta love random algorithms. Sonya is a knitter and says of herself that her work is born in patience, which it’s so true of many of the artists I write about here – their work takes patience, […]