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Not often have I come across twin brothers making amazing, mesmerizing artwork. The last brothers I think I looked at were the incredible Steven & William Ladd. But Ryan & Trevor Oakes are using unique, everyday materials from cardboard to matchsticks to pipe cleaners to make some weird and wonderful pieces. Yes, those are matches. I […]

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Non-woven materials was the phrasing that caught my eye after first seeing Kaori Umeda’s work. What is non-weaving and how does it look so cool. The above is non-woven fabric so I take that to mean that it’s just shaped somehow into this form. In her artist statement Kaori simply says, “When I make my artworks, […]

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Valerie Zimany’s work incorporates many elements that I love – they’re largely made of porcelain, she creates multiples from the same mold and manipulates those repetitions, and she uses her molds til they break down – turning memories into faded ones. You can see where her molds are fused on the pieces, which I also […]

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Holly Senn is really cool. I know, I say that about everyone. But Holly creates her sculptural installations out of discarded library books. It’s funny in part because Holly herself has worked in corporate and academic libraries for much of her career. How many of us haven’t wanted to tear up some of our work […]

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I’ve been writing this blog for a long time – the very first post was January 14, 2009 in fact so it’s been just under four years. The whole time I’ve been hoping that amazing, young artists would come and tell me about their incredible work and several have over the years. A few weeks […]

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I’m not sure what I’ll do here on the blog if Neil leaves the Netherlands. Without him there I never would have heard about the 2012 Paper Biennial Rijswijk at the Museum Rijswijk in The Netherlands. But no need to worry because there were incredible artists there to keep me busy including Georgia Gremouti, a […]

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There is a blog – I think based in France – which I’ve mentioned here before, Murmure Visible. The writer, Marie-Andree Cote and I share a similar taste in artists. I often find new artists on her site and see ones I’ve written about on hers as well. I have no idea if she’s ever […]

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Beili Liu is an artist and a teacher. Today she is an associate professor of art at UT-Austin after coming to the US from Jilin, China and studying in Michigan and Tennessee. Her installation pieces use so many different materials from typical ones like thread and wool to Chinese spirit money. The above is made […]

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A lot of times I bookmark things and then forget I did it. I should just Pin them but sometimes I Pin things I haven’t written about yet and then get confused – I’m sure you’re sensing a trend here! Anna Gunnarsdottir ended up on a “Stickie” on my desktop but all I had was […]

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The weird and wonderful are often the most fun and Stella Zhang’s installation pieces of fabric and what look like giant knitting needles definitely fits into that category. I like how she talks about using white for its flatness, delicacy, ethereal and quiet qualities. I have no idea how those are suspended. They look like […]