Entries Tagged as ‘Art’

July 25, 2010

ARTmonday: Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois French-American artist Louise Bourgeois died on May 31st at age 98. Her work is haunting, eerily beautiful, brave, fragile, fierce, sexually explicit and autobiographical. Arch of Hysteria, 1993 – polished bronze              Cell (Glass, spheres and hands) 1990-1993 Janis Fleuri, 1968 – bronze Untitled, Guggenheim, 2004. Untitled, 1996             [...]

July 18, 2010

ARTmonday: MOMA In A Minute

Artwork on display at MOMA on April 10, 2010. Picasso, Pollack, Matisse, Mondrian, Monet, Modigliani, Braque, Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Gaugin, Cezanne, Chagall, Klee, Magritte, Dali, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, Kahlo, Rousseau, Wyeth, Klimt . . . Delectable.

July 11, 2010

ARTmonday: Hadley Holliday

Photo: Style Section L.A. This morning, while reading through clips from L.A. style writers,  I came across a post about Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday by Sierra Feldner-Shaw on Style Section L.A., a site I’ve now bookmarked.  I was immediately taken by Holliday’s work, especially the ones that give off a sort of really loose [...]

July 6, 2010

Design Diary: Asian Infusion

This duplex condo in a 19th century townhouse in Boston’s South End neighborhood is the home of restaurateur Matt Burns, a partner in The Aquitaine Group (Aquitaine, Gaslight, Union Bar & Grille). I visited to write  “The Italian Job” for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. The interiors were designed by Meichi Peng, whose well-balanced work [...]

June 28, 2010

ARTmonday: Puntoos

Looking at various fashion illustration sites tonight I found myself at Traffic Creative Management, where I came across a graphic illustrator from Valencia, Spain (I think, his site’s in Spanish) called Puntoos.

June 20, 2010

ARTmonday: Elephants

The elephant is the season’s “it” animal in interiors and the arts. I’m seeing them everywhere, from the stage to indie films, in shelter mags and in the shops. The elephant is not new to the style scene. Iconic examples of the beast have been around a while. Here’s a quick look at select elephants  [...]

June 16, 2010

ARTmonday: Joe Bagley

I meant to post this on Monday. But no matter, the event isn’t until tomorrow. Papercut artist Joe Bagley will be at ACQUIRE in Boston’s North End on Thursday evening. If you can’t make it, Joe’s work is available at his Etsy shop.

June 1, 2010

Montage: Wall Installations

I’ve been really interested in the idea of wall installations lately; a natural progression after last year’s obsession with wall sculptures. While you can use pretty much anything to create pattern and texture to blank walls, the ones I’m most attracted to are the art works. ( I have an ‘everyday objects as wall art’ [...]

May 31, 2010

ARTmonday: Holly Irwin

Artist Holly Irwin wrote to me last week to say she’s a new Style Carrot fan. I’m now a fan of her paintings, especially these dreamy images of women in full skirts. Irwin lives and paints in a seaside village in Alabama and is represented by Lagerquist Gallery in Atlanta, Loretta Goodwin Gallery in Birmingham, [...]

May 24, 2010

ARTmonday: Susanna Maing

Got an email this morning from Specific, a new design store in L.A. (probably worth its own post) about an exhibitof new works by artist  Susanna Maing, who shows Angles Gallery, which also represents Polly Apfelbaum. Peek 2006. Acrylic and flashe on panel. 60 x 52 inches Snakes and Ladders 2006. Acrylic and flashe on [...]