Archive for the 'Visual Arts' Category

how to be alone

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the [...]

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

fabuluster: handmade jewelry by brent and jessica williams

I was introduced to Fabuluster {handmade jewelry by Brent and Jessica Williams} while my roommate was browsing engagement and wedding rings for she and her fiancee. I was so impressed by the “fingerprint wedding band” design, which is your fingerprint on your groom’s ring and his fingerprint on your ring {vice versa}. What a beautiful gesture! [...]

Monday, August 16th, 2010

ashley lande

I first came across Ashley Lande‘s striking collaged-portraits on the blog My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses. I was instantly attracted to her psychedelic color palette and the frequent pagan, folky images in her work. She’s self-taught {no art school for this broad} and uses colored pencils, pens, graphite and oil paints. I [...]

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

statues

“If all the statues in the world would turn to flesh with teeth of pearl would they be kind enough to comfort me?” – moloko

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

mimi kirchner art and craft

{this photo taken by moi} A few weeks back, I visited the Renegade Craft Fair here in my town of Brooklyn, NY. There were oodles of craftsmen {and craftswomen} to be in awe of; it was almost too overwhelming to process such an abundance of talent! Anywho, while on my quest, I stumbled upon some [...]

Monday, July 5th, 2010

cristina cojanu

Cristina Cojanu is an Artist whom attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as well as the Royal College of Art. Her Statement: “By means of the pictorial space, of image and paint I am allowing the meaningless and memoryless of repetition of the deja vu, a fall into the state of innocence and naivete. [...]

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

dior & david lynch: lady blue

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

mark ryden “the gay 90s: old tyme art show”

Hello, my long lost lovelies! At long last, I am plugged in and pumped to be back in the blogosphere. I promise to never leave you again- so long as I can help it! So many exclamation points!!! Can you sense my excitement? {I’m turning geekier by each smack of the space bar, I know}. [...]

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

artist spotlight: allison schulnik

Good morning, dear readers! I am so excited to share with you works by an awe-inspiring woman named Allison Schulnik. She is drawn to sad characters, the forlorn reject and the oblivious fool. Like me, she has the attention span of a gnat and does not subscribe to a particular medium. {Hell yeah!}. Her ideas [...]

Friday, May 21st, 2010

sculpture: love letter

{I love this concept.} Piece Title: Love Letter Artist CLR’s Final Statement: Throughout history the commonality of the instruments of nature have linked lovers over vast distances by focusing on the same features in the sky that appear to both at the same time, traversing the spaces between and offering hope for an imminent reunion. This [...]

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