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In my life my mom was both my mother and a child too – always learning, helping, and admiring other women herself – though almost always from women who were physically closer to her than her own mother. Just this past month the greatest figure that I saw in my mom’s life passed away, Stella […]

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This weekend I was down in Baltimore for my brother’s fiance’s bridal showers. I met my mom on the train from New York to Baltimore as she was down in Philadephia to see various art exhibits with my father and uncle and aunt who were in from San Francisco. She immediately started showing me photos […]

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I couldn’t stop myself from continuing to explore the Fashioning Felt artists – I have to share Ursula Suter’s work. All I can think is that my surface design professor in college would have been blown away by these pieces. All of these pieces are from her Cooper-Hewitt exhibit. Close up – the light behind […]

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There’s a new exhibit here in New York at the Cooper-Hewitt design museum called Fashioning Felt. I anticipate that there will be multiple posts here about various artists that the exhibits awesome site and blog have led me to, especially after I make it up to the exhibit myself but for now I wanted to […]

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Another item from my mom who seems to be my source for all things odd right now is Jim Hodges, whose work she just saw while at the Philadelphia Museum of Art yesterday. As someone who has worked a lot with silk flowers to make me various hair accessories the idea of deconstructing them was […]

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My brother is a huge fan of Google Reader. By the time I wake up in the morning I typically have between 1-3 forwards and some of them are really interesting (many are images of puppies). As my brother lives in Baltimore I was particularly taken by an artist he sent me today, who subsequently […]

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I’m not sure how I found out about Carrie Ungerman the other day but I can’t stop looking at her works. In comparison to the world of Extreme Knitting she utilizes very modest, fluid, delicate lines to create large scale works. I particularly like her use of threads, while again in large quantities, they have […]

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After spending some time at the Danish Design Museum I became interested in tessellated lamps. I came across British artist, Richard Sweeney, somewhere along and adore the patterns he creates, largely out of paper. His paper folding technical skills speak for themselves as pieces of wall art, sculpture, and X-acto tactics. The below would make […]

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Mitra Fabian’s work was directed to me given my interest in Tara Donovan – the works in many ways actually cross Tara Donovan’s and Emily Barletta’s to me both in terms of their materials and their representations. Many of the pieces reflect organisms, both benign and malignant, that they may represent. The use of materials […]

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In looking at additional artists using everyday materials for their art I came upon Mark Khaisman – a Ukraine-born artist who studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Now living and working in Philadelphia, Mark creates arts out of layers of packing tape on plexiglass that appears to be backlit. My favorite series is the one […]