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Having spent the past ten days in New Hampshire talking to shepherds, mill owners, engineers, and others about my next project I can’t stop thinking about how to keep this project local in terms of the sourcing of the materials — not to mention labor too. I’ve been getting lots of advice about blending wools […]

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In keeping with my interest in compulsive, repetitive artwork I somehow came across Nava Lubelski. I can’t remember where I found her work as she was a recent bookmark but regardless I’m glad I did. Nava works largely with thread or paper on canvas or freestanding. Her artist statement does more than most in explaining […]

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As I’ve been in New Hampshire for the last week working on some projects of my own I’ve been going into town to the gallery there ocassionally to poke around. One photographer that I came upon was Jon Olsen in the Sharon Arts Center here in Peterborough. His water shots remind me of Elger Esser […]

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The idea of weaving with unique fibers is one I’m looking forward to exploring more while I’m home for the next few weeks. Marianne Kemp does just that with horsehair. She makes both works of art as well as consumer textiles. Marianne uses fibers from horses tails in the Far East and Mongolia — a […]

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I would say  I’m pretty interested in taxidermy when it’s not the real animals being used — more like feltidermy and now…knitidermy.  When I came upon Rachel Denny I was delighted that she had come up with this new form. This is so fabulous — a deer head as a sweater! The one above even […]

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Today on Design*Sponge I was reading some back-posts and came across information on an upcoming exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design, Slash: Paper Under The Knife featuring Andreas Kocks. Given the scale of Andreas’ work I felt I needed to post these pics as I’m about to go on vacation to work on […]

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For a long time I’ve been interested in encaustic painting — so has my mom. She has dabbled in it a little bit but I’ve never tried, which I think is part of the allure — I’m not quite sure how the wax works and I don’t know the best practices for painting with it […]

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Another amazing artist who, like others I’ve been looking at lately, doesn’t exclusively weave but rather represents weaving as 2D art in of itself is Gail Rothschild. I know, I live in New York City, I shouldn’t be so surprised that great works are being made so nearby but I’m still always pleased — Gail […]

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Sometimes I’m surprised when I come across amazing knitters I’ve never heard of before — that was the case today when I stumbled upon the enormous works of Dave Cole. Dave, I gather from his CV, is from New Hampshire, went to the Putney School in Vermont and then on to Brown. He takes the […]

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Charlotte and I wandered all over lower Manhattan yesterday and on our way to the gym at Astor Place we came upon Gallery 151 on Bowery, which has an exhibit in it I’d been meaning to check out called, Trashion. In the windows I’d seen these amazing dome-y colorful plastic works and wanted to know […]