miss.printed
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s celebrate by taking some art out for a walk around the neighborhood… what?! So magical! Can you imagine coming upon any of these tiny masterpieces out in the wild? This Norway based Dutch artist – who goes by the alias Miss.Printed – is “filling the gap between collage, photography and street art”. Ummm, there is nothing I don’t love about this clever work. May your LIFE be filled with adventure, travel, and lovely art in strange places in 2021.
{Found via Kolaj Magazine}
colin roberts
I mean, you really need to see these beauties in action! Go click PLAY on those videos up there, I’ll wait. So gorgeous, right!? The way they catch the light, changing throughout the day. Stunning. I’ve written about LA based artist Colin Roberts before, but these plexi-glass pillows / disco balls could not scream NEW YEAR’S EVE 2020 more! Yep, I’m going to bed early so I can get a jump on this brand new year. Happy New Year to you and yours, see you in 2021.
haegue yang
Okay, I didn’t even know where to begin when it came to sharing the work of Berlin based, Korean artist Haegue Yang. She is so prolific, and has been since forever, therefore I just grabbed a bunch of my favorite pieces from over the years. One of the themes that ties them together, though, is movement… note the wheels, handles, and hit PLAY on that video above. Beautiful! So that’s already impressive enough, now allow me to share this … her work is currently showing at MoMA in New York, the AGO in Toronto, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila. All three of these exhibitions will be up until February 2021. She also has work showing at TATE St.Ives in Cornwall now until May 2021. I think that’s everything at the moment… but don’t quote me on that!
alex anderson
Yessssssss! This is the ceramic work of LA based artist Alex Anderson {and there he is, feeling full of gratitude at a show opening… with pink walls so you KNOW I love it!}. Speaking of shows, most of the work posted above is from his solo show earlier this year, titled “Little Black Boy Makes Imperial Porcelains” at GAVLAK Gallery, Los Angeles. Here’s part of the description:
“At the core of Anderson’s current body of work is a philosophical, existential examination of identity politics; based in Los Angeles, the 30-year old gay, Asian-African American sculptor is an artist working against stereotype and racialism rampant in today’s society. By working in an unexpected medium and channeling methodologies surrounding artistic production in ceramic arts, Anderson manages to create fantastic, multifaceted sculptures that are both subversive and whimsical at the same time. Alex Anderson uses the classical aesthetics of western power, which ironically share space with the aesthetics of queer camp cultural production, to translate the structures that govern his lived experience in society and others’ social perceptions of his identities into form. While his work engages with the ceramic canon and draws from the western art historical canon at large, it primarily operates at the core of Post-Blackness.”
Beautiful and powerful. Read the full statement right here.
{Alex’s work is available via GAVLAK Gallery, LA/Palm Beach}
caitlyn murphy
Sigh. Beautifully boring. I absolutely love work that finds beauty in the everyday. Enter the most recent paintings {gouache on paper} by Toronto based artist Caitlyn Murphy. The plastic bags, all of the detailed fabric patterns, those lovely pink slips of paper… love, love, love! Seriously, transforming a trip into the dry cleaner into, well, this? Clearly I had to write about her again. Yep, I wrote about her beautifully boring cardboard box series way back in 2017. Sigh. Again. Happy Monday. Thank you for your patronage.
jeremy miranda
Ahhhh, the work of American painter Jeremy Miranda always makes me want to build a fire, grab a blanket and watch the snow fall. I love scrolling through his Instagram feed, because you can watch the seasons change with his subject matter. When I saw that colorful Christmas tree a few days ago, I knew it was time to write about Jeremy yet again. And with that, I’m off to spend the next few days with my little family {just my husband and son this year}, but I’ll be back next week with new posts. Happy Holidays to you and yours! ~ Danielle xo
alice walton
Oh. My. This is the mesmerizing ceramic work of UK based artist Alice Walton. All of those calming palettes combined with intricate, dizzying pathways could keep me here all day. Clearly, I had to include those insanely beautiful closeups … they remind me of looking out airplane windows at the fields and rivers below {remember, when we used to go places on planes?}. Here’s a peek into the how and why of Alice’s work:
“With a forensic eye, Walton translates the seemingly familiar into highly complex and multi-layered porcelain objects. Despite featuring intensely textured surfaces and complex colours, Walton’s work is also recognised for its meditative qualities. It is this tension between the repetitive and experimental, the calm and the kinetic that make her objects so compelling.
Walton uses a landscape of objects, crafted from individual components to create abstract scenes. This repetitive nature of mark-making in turn mimics the constant review of familiar objects on daily commutes. As references, she combines collaged photography and drawing from memory which are bought into her studio to work from. This research then pivots her work away from the literal into an imaginary collection of objects.
Her desire to stave off our digital riddled and splintered multi-realities is remedied through a process of intensely tactile moulding technique. Deliberately contemplative, her work creates a time capsule of discovery for the viewer with its intricately detailed markings drawing them in.”
Sigh. This is my kind of meditating.
leonardo benzant
Fabric, beads, leather, semi-precious stones, string… oh my word. This is the painstakingly meticulous work of New York based artist Leonardo Benzant. His artist statement is equally as powerful, so I’ll hand it over to him:
“My practice is driven by my connection to the trans African-Atlantic diaspora. I recognize both my ties and disjunction from an ancestral past by considering the possibilities of genetic imprints, cultural identification, innate and intuitive beliefs and a conscious seeking of links that reveal continuities that are hidden or largely unsuspected by the mainstream. I imagine myself as an Urban Shaman exploring both my familiar visible world and the hidden dimensions of other realms that lurk beneath the surface of daily life. The sense of personal cosmology in my practice grows from both experiencing and observing the details of everyday life and ritual. Artworks emerge out of the crossroads of life, history, memory, and imagination, a place between that suggest multiple layers of meaning. Inspiration is derived, in part, from the various modes of communication that I have studied and encountered in African-derived rituals.”
An ‘Urban Shaman’, indeed. Leonardo is represented by Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, and his work is currently being shown at the Taubman Museum of Art {Virginia} until February 7, 2021.
ian berry
Jeans! Yep, a zillion pieces of cut up denim transformed into installations, “paintings”, and sculpture. This is the jaw-dropping work of London based artist Ian Berry. Using old articles of clothing, scissors and glue, Ian creates everything from News Stands and Living Rooms, to Secret Gardens filled with blue-hued wildlife…
[Denim] is simply his medium for seeing the world, his paint, and what a material to use in this modern world; with all its symbols and dualities, as well as being such a common item of clothing that unites many around the globe.
Okay, this makes me miss wearing jeans. Jeggings don’t count, do they? Anyway, Ian’s work can be seen all over the place these days. Take a peek at the NEWS section on his site for current and upcoming exhibitions. Happy Monday.
abigail brown
Gasp! “Beasts of My Imagination” is the latest series by UK based artist Abigail Brown. I wrote about her paper maché animal heads waaaaaay back in 2014 and, as you can plainly see, her work is just getting more and more fantastical! Who do we have to thank for these latest sculptures, paintings and gigantic animal masks? You guessed it…
“Late March 2020 when the Corona virus pandemic hit, I packed up what I could from my studio and headed home for three months of lockdown.
It’s been a strange strange time and my emotions have been in constant flux… from fear and panic, anxiety and nightmares, to finding joy and delight in a slower more simple pace.
I’ve had time to explore ideas as they came without having to find a reason for them and it’s been an exciting journey to see where they lead me.”
I’m so glad these beasts found their way out of Abigail’s imagination, and into the world. Happy Friday.
