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I don’t know how I found her, but wow is Lilach Lotan’s work amazing. She was trained at the Bezalel Academy is Israel in ceramic design and the pieces she creates in her new home of Canada are phenomenal. For people who read this blog often, you know I’m into porcelain and ocean-inspired art and […]

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Michael, my brother, strikes again with an awesome exhibit that sadly just closed at the Museum of Art and Design called, Dead or Alive? From the show page I learned about some of the awesome artists included and one completely caught my eye, Tracy Heneberger. The above, for example, is amazing. Her use of natural […]

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Another artist that appeared in the Material World exhibit at MassMoCA is Wade Kavanaugh and his collaborator Stephen Nguyen. They make absolutely awesome and massive installation pieces out of craft paper mostly. The above looks like a big red forest! Wade seems to individually work more with building materials like sheet rock, plywood and studs. […]

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I can’t find out too much about Erika from the Erikaceous blog but I do know that I love what she has created out of toilet paper rolls, which I discovered, via my brother, via Neatorama, today! So many people are doing such neat things with papercutting, many of which I’ve written about, but this […]

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This was another find from my brother’s good friend Neil. And he is scary spot on to my interests at this point. I was in awe of every piece of Kate MccGwire’s work but I had to just keep a few pictures and examples. Her use of feathers is out of control — undulating as […]

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This amazing artist came via my brother who was reading the BLDGBLOG a while ago and sent it to me. Last month I was largely in Morocco with a non-profit, Nest, that I volunteer with but now I’m back and have several great artists to post on. Shannon lives and works in Maine, not far […]

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Just down the block from me in New York is the School of Visual Arts — there are constantly art students out on the street working, talking and putting together shows in their various buildings. One former student there recently caught my eye with her work in buttons, Ran Hwang, who I came across on […]

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Clearly I’m getting more and more into lighting. Jeff Zimmerman is a glassblower who makes some amazing works. As a former glassblower myself I can attest that what he does is not easy by any sense of the word. But the coolest thing about Jeff is his life story. Both of his parents were artists […]

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Chris Labrooy seems to focus on graphic design but he made a lamp that I had to share — as it’s out of felt. This lamp is constructed felt over an acrylic dome — so simple but yet so so beautiful. I’m not sure what kind of a house could hold it but I want […]

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Another fabulous female textile designer I learned about today is Carolina Irving who sort of reminds me of John Robshaw in her patterns but her touch is much lighter. Her Andaluz print is on 100% hemp and is hand-printed. Above is in Paprika, below is Lichen, which I also really like. It seems natural that […]