ARTmonday: Winter Works Show at Bromfield Gallery

Over the weekend I went to First Friday in SoWa, an arts district in Boston.  Mainly I went to meet Sydney Licht, who was in town for her solo show “Canned and Contained,” beautiful contemporary still life paintings at Chase Young Gallery, a top Boston art gallery.  The works are wonderful, and  gallery co-owner Sarah Young is so lovely.

I wandered through a number of other galleries, including Bromfield Gallery which has a very appealing (and crowded) exhibition called Winter Works. It’s a  juried show with lots of small pieces by many artists, all priced from $100 to $1,000. (There are many affordable artworks here.) There were several I was very tempted to purchase, and I may go back for at least one. These are perfect holiday gifts. All the pieces are worth a look and there are enough styles ad mediums (abstract & still life, collage & encaustic) to suit many different types.

Here are 32 artworks from Boston art gallery Bromfield Gallery’s Winter Works show.

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Carol E. Moses

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Sarah B. Shallbetter

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Carol E. Moses

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Naoe Suzuki

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Felipe Miguel

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Susan Coley

bromfield-gallery-joshua-brennan

Joshua Brennan

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Sarah Kahn
bromfield-gallery-tamar-etingen

Tamar Etingen

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Monique Scalfo

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Tim McDonald

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Nancy Marks bromfield-gallery-veronique-latimer

Veronique Latimer

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Ronni Komarow

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Susan Paladino

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Nancy Wood

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Sasja Lucas

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Slavco Sokolovski
bromfield-gallery-scavco-o-socolovski

Slavco Sokolovski

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Slavco Sokolovski

bromfield-gallery-virginia-fresina

Virginia Fresina

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Stephanie Todhunter

bromfield-gallery-stephanie-todhunter-green

StephanieTodhunter

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Ruth Daniels

bromfield-gallery-patricia-busso

Patricia Busso

bromfield-gallery-lisa-cooren

Lisa Goren
bromfield-gallery-nina-earley

Nina Earley

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Otto Laske

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Bredt Handy

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Maggy Allen

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Jonathan Stangroom

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Andrea Sparks

ARTmonday: Architecture in Art

Last night I pulled together 20 examples of architecture in art for today’s post. As I scrolled through Pinterest pinning hundreds of images that appeal, I realized that one of the categories that make my heart flutter most is architecture. (You can look at my Architecture I and Architecture II Pinterest boards and see if you feel similarly.)

Artwork sucks me in, street style compels me to lose weight and dress with more verve, and food photos makes me wish I had more time and energy to really cook, but the architectural images draw me in more profoundly. Sure, it’s the design aspects in part—the corrugated metal, black stained siding, expanses of glass, pointy rooftops, and placement in the surrounding landscape transport me to another place, another time, another life I could have. Or maybe, just a house I might someday build.

So just for that reason, the realization that looking at sublime examples of contemporary dwellings elicits a response deeper than browsing well-designed living rooms and adorable, furry animals, here are occurrences of architecture in art, including photographs, paintings, illustration, sculpture, and collage.

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Classic Bowling Architecture    Vorona Photography
Prints starting at $16 at Society6

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Banco    Luciana Levinton
Prints starting at $124  •  Original $10,000  •  Saatchi Art

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Universal Space    Cécile Van Hanja
Prints starting at $60 at Saatchi Art

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Farewell     Rosalind Davis
$170 at Rise Art

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Architecture    Sannngat
Prints starting at $17.67 at Society6

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Yellow Surfer’s House    Ieva Baklane
Prints starting at $104  •  Original $1,278  •  Saatchi Art

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False Memory  Ricky Allman
Starting at $60 at 20×200

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Look Down    Gail Schechter
Starting at $20 at Minted

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Dreamed Bungalow    Carola Schapals
$8,000 at Saatchi Art

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Icons *2 (Trevi Fountain, Rome)    Nicolas Vionnet
$985 at Saatchi Art

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Woodshed    Andrew McClintock
S
tarting at $22 at Minted

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At the Sea II    Igor Vitomirov
Prints starting at $67  •  Original $1,200  •  Saatchi Art

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Painting Edifico Chrysler y Empire State    Claudia Hernández
Saatchi Art

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Modern Architecture  •  Lemonee on the Hills
Prints starting at $17 at Society6

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Untitled00373  •  Peter Matyasi
Prints starting at $125 / Original $1500  •  Saatchi Art

Giveaway: $150 Certificate to LA Furniture Store

If you’re in the market for furniture (or even if you’re not), enter this giveaway for $150 to LA Furniture Store, a modern and contemporary furniture store with three locations in the Los Angeles area (including an outlet), as well as a Miami showroom and Brooklyn showroom. There are sofas (lots of sectionals, which are the store’s best sellers), bedroom furniture, dining tables and chairs, lighting, and home accessories. I’ve pulled together a few pieces of modern furniture below, all available online at LAFurnitureStore.com. See below for instructions on how to enter.

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ARTmonday: Stephan Alexandr’s Painted Skulls

Portland-based artist and designer, Stephan Alexandr, got in touch recently with photos of his newest work, two-toned zebra skulls, which he  describes as “a modern take on taxidermy.” His uses animal skulls, bones, and other natural materials to create one of a kind wall mounts, decor and functional objects. It’s a natural history lesson for sure!

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Creamsicle Zebra Kkull
Mellow orange and white, two-toned zebra skull and jaw.

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Pink Lemonade Zebra Skull
Bright yellow and hot pink, two-toned zebra skull and jaw.

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Lavender Zebra Skull
Green and lavender, two-toned zebra skull and jaw.

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More Acid Please
Orange, lilac and gold Baltic Roe Deer from Lithuania.

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Holy Buffalo
Massive buffalo. White skull with golden horns.

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Turquoise Candy-Dipped Shark Jaw
Hi-gloss turquoise shark jaw wall mount. 

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Warthog Mount
Bright green hi-gloss African Warthog mount.

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Goat skull
White goat skull.

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Blesbok Skull Plate
Seafoam with gold horns. Regal, regal, regal.

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Elk Skull
 Yellow hi-gloss elk skull.

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Blueberry White Tail Deer
Blueberry hi-gloss whitetail deer skull and antlers.

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Almighty Moose
Alaskan Moose skull plate and antlers, dusted with gold leaf.

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Gold Metal Mouth Shark Jaw
Metalic gold dipped shark jaw.

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Copper Metal Mouth Shark Jaw
Metalic gold dipped shark jaw.

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The Titan
Chrome painted antlers with leather wrapped skull cap.

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