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Part computer scientist, part architect, Marc Fornes is all awesome. He builds “large scale prototypical installations” – my favorite. The pictures don’t do them justice. I’m not sure what these are made of – plastic? I love them – you can really get inside them – the feel like part of a set for a […]

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In just a few short days my mother will be receiving the very first Parks Partners award from the Mayor of Boston. In the spirit of that I thought I’d do a horticulturally inspired post and Susan Benarcik’s work fit the bill. I’m fairly certain those are everyday toothpicks glued to the wall in an irregular pattern. […]

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Oh Pinterest, how I love thee – another day another inspiring piece of installation art! This time the artist is Wendy Wahl, who creates installation art pieces using recycled encyclopedias, world books, and dictionaries. How cool are those? They’re like trees made of paper…how meta is that? Wendy talks about it as a process of […]

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I love art built in nature and on Pinterest the other day I came across Laura Ellen Bacon’s work from the UK. Her “Nests” are made from natural materials set in a way where people can interact with them within their surroundings. I love that you can’t really tell the difference between the leaves and […]

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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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In the last 24 hours I’ve spent time with two friends who are in the contemporary art world – one an old friend and one a new friend. Through the course of conversations with them both I was reminded about where I came from in an educational sense. I went to Skidmore, which I chose […]

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I have a vague memory of being somewhere in Western Massachusetts looking at colleges and walking right into a Patrick Dougherty installation. I have no idea if this is actually true or if in my dreams somewhere there was an amazing sculptor using saplings as construction material but Patrick’s work exists either way. Above, The […]

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When I was at college studying art and art history at Skidmore in upstate New York I spent one semester learning about contemporary works. In reading New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, which my parents gave me for my birthday, I was reminded of Mona Hatoum – the British/Palestinian artist who […]

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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 […]