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ARTmonday: Mario Rossi’s Geometrically Deconstructed Photos

Having made a quick trip to Manhattan over the weekend for a friend’s BIG birthday, I’m definitely in a city state-of-mind.

While all of Naples-born, Rome-based photographer Mario Rossi‘s photographs aren’t necessarily taken smack in the middle of a city, the deconstructed, cubist compositions echo the framework of a skyscraper. Rossi indeed cites geometry as integral to his photography, putting forth that his forms are repeated with an attention to mathematics and music, as though viewed through a kaleidoscope.

Here are 12 examples of Mario Rossi’s colorful, geometrically deconstructed photos.

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Palaexpò • Saatchi Art

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Labyrinths of Mind 4 • Saatchi Art

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Muse 2 • Saatchi Art

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Swimming Pool 4 • Saatchi Art

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Expò Mirrors 1 • Saatchi Art

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Sunbathers • Saatchi Art

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3×5 • Saatchi Art

ARTmonday: $100 Minted Fall Art Print Giveaway

Minted, a favorite StyleCarrot affordable art resource and partner is offering one StyleCarrot reader a code for an art print of his/her choosing worth up to $100. For a chance to win leave a comment at the bottom of this post about which room in your home needs art. If you have a whole wall to tackle, I’m now offering art wall customization services. For $150 (up to three hours) I will help you choose, frame and arrange affordable artwork for your empty walls. (Email me at stylecarrot [at] gmail [dot] com.)

Here’s a look at limited edition affordable art prints from Minted in an autumnal color palette, from abstracts to landscapes to animal artworks in a variety of mediums. You can choose paper quality, multiple sizes, and ten different framing options. I almost always prefer simple frames, as you’ll see below. So scroll through, think about whether you have a room with a blank space that needs filling, and leave a comment.

One winner will be chosen at random for the $100 Minted art print giveaway, which ends next Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 at midnight ET.

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Art wall inspiration board created on Minted.
Clockwise from top left:Unearthed, Dessert Diptych, Lonny, Eccentric Leaves, Read Between The Lines, Troy Boston.

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Into Hills by Lesley Smith

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Red Loops by Kirsta Niemie Benedetti

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Of Land And Sea No.3 by Kiana Mosley

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Leaf by Stellax Creative

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Natura by trbdesign

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Form by Lauren Packard

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Wild Fennel Study No.2 by Kamala Nahas

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Eccentric Leaves by aticnomar

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Family Reunion (Aunt Ada) by Betty Hatchett

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Carolina by Angela Marizuki

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Falling Flora by Jenni Kupelian

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Fiesta Turtleneck by Moglea

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Opus (Creation) by Daryn Kinney

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Rusty Patina by Artsy Canvas Girl Designs

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Hexagon Cluster by Yao Cheng

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Up Down And Back Around by Christina Flowers

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by Kanika Mathur

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Some Things Take Time by Monica Tuazon

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Unearthed by Josh McClendon

Minted $100 Art Print Giveaway

Read Between The Lines by Cecelia Hospers

W I N an A R T P R I N T from M I N T E D

Leave a comment below for your chance to win.

ARTmonday: Apple Artworks

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the Jewish New Year. One of the traditions Jews observe is to dip apples into honey to signify the sweetness of a new year. In celebration of the new year, here are 14 apple artworks.

Included are self portraits by two of my favorite Boston photographers (I don’t think either is Jewish), Japanese sculpture, a young Mick Jagger (not Jewish), and more traditional apple still lifes. Shana Tovah!

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Apples • Ella Moss • Society6

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All of Eden’s Apples • Elle Hanley • Saatchi Art

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A red apple and so on • Kaoru Ishikawa • Rise Art

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Stephen Sheffield

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Apple • Yulia Luchkina • Saatchi Art

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Apples • Abigail Moffat • Saatchi Art

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Apples • Paula Bieninicka • Society6

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Juicy Apple • Lindsay Megahed • Minted

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The Apple • Gintaras Zubrys • Saatchi Art

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An Apple House • Ceslovas Cesnakevicius • Saatchi Art

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Destinations series • Alicia Savage

One can’t consider of apple artwork without Rene Magritte.
I saw the Magritte retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in 1992; a total treat.

ARTmonday: Andy Mattern

I spotted this series of remote control photographs by Andy Mattern recently. I find them quite appealing, although in real life I can’t stand remote controls. Our television setup includes five remote controls, each with 50 buttons. That means an infinite number of combinations and no hope of my ever being able to watch TV.

Mattern, who was born and is based in Albuquerque says, “Remote is a series of five photographs that considers the problem of needing several remote controls to complete a single task. To invert the power relationship between operator and machine, the remotes hover and point directly at the viewer.”

Mattern’s remote control still lifes, shot on plain colored backgrounds date from 2009. They’re available as 22″x17″ archival pigment ink prints in editions of 10 for $850 framed through Uprise Art.

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DVD Remote Control

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Surround Sound Remote Control

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TV Remote Control

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Universal Remote Control

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AC Remote Control

Remote Control Illustrations By Andy Mattern

Remote Installation

ARTmonday: Geometric Abstract Paintings By Boston Artist John Guthrie at Room68

MassArt graduate John Guthrie, who previously studied aerospace engineering, has a fantastic show mounted at Room68 in Provincetown, a contemporary design shop cum gallery on Commercial Street. I stopped in last week and was wowed. I never made it to owner Brent Refsland’s original space in Jamaica Plain, though I feature pieces from the shop in my roundups for the Boston Globe all the time.

Refsland has a great eye and appreciation for contemporary design that doesn’t sacrifice useability. His shop could just as easily be at the ICA or MoMA (without the incessant branding), with furniture, accessories, and jewelry by designers who include Tina Fey, Black+Blum, and De La Espada, as well as local stars Debra Folz and Nervous System. He plans to stay put in Ptown for a while, after having transformed a tired women’s clothing retail store into an airy gallery space with white walls, track lighting, and pale wood floors last year.

An exhibition of Boston-based painter John Guthrie’s geometric abstract paintings is currently hanging. (According to Guthrie’s resume, in 2009 I wrote something in the Globe that included an image of his work—I’m guessing it was a decor story about a home with one of his paintings—but I can’t find it in my archives.) Guthrie’s work is crisp and delicious. The precise geometric forms in clear colors and perfectly shaded partner tones pop off the earthy tree trunk backgrounds, a sublime blend of mathematics and the natural world.

The geometric abstract paintings on tree trunk slices are available for sale at Room68; the canvases are also available online; prints on Etsy.

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