ARTmonday: 8 Affordable Artworks from the Minted Summer 2015 Collection

As anyone who reads my blog knows I have a a great love affair with art. Other women buy shoes, I come home with art. (Longer shelf life, and often less expensive these days). In addition to supporting local organizations like the School of Museum of Fine Arts and MassArt in Boston, and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and Provincetown Art Association & Museum in the summertime, I pick up a lot of appealing affordable artwork from sites like 20×200 and StyleCarrot partner Minted.

You are likely familiar with Minted for its invitations, but they have quite the selection of affordable limited edition art prints as well. There’s even a crowd-sourcing function where you can vote on how much you like the designs that I may be a tiny bit obsessed with. The Minted Summer 2015 Collection is full of colorful affordable art prints by emerging artists that you can purchase framed or unframed. I picked my 8 favorites here, including the framed print they sent which looks cute on the art shelf above my desk.

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Joni Tyrell, Pining for Pineapple from Minted’s Summer 2015 Collection
I love the way this framed pineapple still life photo from Minted looks on the shelf above my desk in Boston, especially beside the little Grass Vase by Normann Copenhagen. I shot this one for my Instagram, but I’ll take others and post when I’m back home this fall. Minted’s Instagram is worth a follow too with tons of cute affordable art in pretty interiors and and stationary vignettes.

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Lady Noble    Pink India  Fly

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Lindsay Megahed    Slice of Summer

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Emily Jeffords    Leave Behind the Shadows

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Jaime Derringer    Composition 4
(Scroll down for the Jaime Derringer I have hanging in our Florida condo.)

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Suwachi  •  Let’s Get Paddles

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Lindsay Megahed    Birds of Different Feathers

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Sylvieceres Designs    Marbled Wake

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Joni Tyrrell    Pining For Pineapple

Jaime Derringer Design Milk Art Available At Minted

I used to work for Jaime Derringer on her contemporary design site Design Milk. So of course, I had to have on of her original watercolors, which I hung in our Florida condo. It’s the drippy vertical abstract in the middle. Here’s what she’s got for sale on Minted.

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ARTmonday: 13 Whale Artworks

Since I’m spending the month on the Outer Cape, curating a collection of whale artwork seems fitting. I’ve never actually been on a whale watch, I’ve never read Moby Dick, and I’ve definitely never worn miniature whales on a belt—not even in the ’80s—but I’ve live in New England long enough to appreciate the whale.

My son spent his entire third grade year learning about whales and whaling, though admittedly I didn’t accompany the class on any whaling museum field trips. I did however buy him Don Carney’s Timid Whale print at 20×20. After the boys broke the glass with a football I moved it to their bathroom, where it lives happily.

Here are 13 not too preppy whale artworks—children’s art and grownup specimens—from a variety of artists and shops, including StyleCarrot partners.

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Whale Watching  •  Land of Nod

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Michael Nowak  •  Whale  •  Society6

Whale Illustration Artwork
Whale Stripe  •  West Elm

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AdaLovesTheRain  •  Whale  •  Society6

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Zach Terrell  •  Whale   •  Society6

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Patrick J. Murphy  •  Whales  •  Saatchi Art

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Emily Lankiewicz  •  Nantucket Whale  •  Society6

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Jae and Matt Springer  •  Whale View  •  Saatchi Art

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Bridget Davison  •  Whale  •  Society6

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Terry Fan  •  The Whale  •  Society6

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Marcos Bernardes  •  Whale  •  Society6

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ARTmonday: 12 Orphaned Artworks from OODE

Two years ago I did an interview with Marleen Kurvers, stylist and proprietor of Dutch Design Year, a design shop in Amsterdam.  Her most recent venture is GALERIE OODE, also in Amsterdam. Kurvers offers a curated selection of orphaned artworksartwork that was left in storage because the museums that owned it closed. Kurvers says, “We want to bring them back to the public so people can adopt them!”

This OODE  is exhibiting the work of Jan de Mug, a Dutch graphic designer and painter from Den Bosch. His work from the Foundation of Disinherited Goods/ Onterfd Goed are abstract, minimalistic paintings and drawings. I know a lot of people who are visiting Amsterdam this summer, so make a point to stop by Galerie Oode to see the orphaned artworks and say hi to Kurvers.

I’ve included one here along with other pieces of orphaned artworks from OODE.

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Nel van Dijkhuizen, 1982
Painting/collage on paper

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A. De Jonge. 1982
Lithograph 6/16

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J. van Maarschalkerwaard
Painting on canvas in wooden frame

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Wil Klaassen
Silkscreen in aluminium frame

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Jan de Mug, 1979
Painting on canvas in wooden frame

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A. De Jonge, 1979
Signed lithograph 6/18

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Peter Kampehl

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D. Putman
Aquarel on paper

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Ori ben Zeev, no title. 1984
Painting on paper

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Joop Stolk, 1989
Painting in wooden frame

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Ton Kraayeveld, 1988
Oil and acrylic paint on canvas in wooden frame

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Jelis van Dolderen, 1982

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ARTMonday: Rainbow Artworks

In honor of the United States Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality, making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states, here are artworks featuring rainbows, because #lovewins.

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Charlotte Chisnall    RainbowSociety6

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Zee Tucker    Taste the Rainbow  •  Society6

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Landon Nordeman    Nice Pants  •  20×200

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Jan Sowarby    No.S124 Floating Rainbows    Serena & Lily

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Adine Stix    Harbor    Serena & Lily

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Cissy Chen    Rainbow Dip  •  Saatchi Art

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Bridge Fahy    Jibboom  •  Saatchi Art

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Carrie Marill    Bird Power  • 20×200

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Mel Bedggood     Rainbow Baby  •  Saatchi Art

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Timothy Blewitt    Memories Lie Over the Sea  •  Saatchi Art

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Ivana Vajman Jackson     Over the Rainbow  •  Saatchi Art

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Julie Hansen    With the Waves    Serena & Lily

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Jessica Snow    Color Stack Series #5  •  20×200

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Lisa Congdon    Lovebirds •  20×200

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Serhii Bilyk    I-Horizon (Landscape with road, sun and rainbow)  •  Saatchi Art

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Thea Altmann    Home Is Where My Heart Is  •  Saatchi Art

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Katherine Blackburn    Rainbow Girls in Brooklyn  •  Saatchi Art

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Kristofir Dean    Silvery Sky  •  Saatchi Art

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Stacey Meacham    Salt Water Taffy    Minted

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Matthew Shelley     Rolodex 2    Uprise Art

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Budi Kwan    Uphill Battle  Society6

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Kristi Hoodjer    Rainbow    Saatchi Art

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Mariana Ionita    Crossing the Other Sea    Saatchi Art

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Mia-Nelle Droschler    Rainbow    Saatchi Art

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Damian Hoar De Galvan

ARTmonday: 10 Variations On White

This past week I’ve been working intensely on an urban development / real estate piece for the Boston Globe, interviewing a number of Boston’s top real estate developers and architects. The other day I had the pleasure of talking with Sam Norod, a principal at Elkus Manfredi. Wrapping up business chatter, we connected on other things, including art. Norod’s daughter, Hilary Tait Norod, is an artist in her late 20s who recently moved back to the East Coast. Of course I clicked over to her website to have a look.

I was drawn to her white abstract paintings. The White Series began as a challenge—with the exception of the black outlines, all the colors on the canvas have been mixed with different ratios of white paint. The shapes in the compositions develop from through layering the paint and other materials on the canvas.

Norod explains her series of white abstract paintings with this statement: White is the color produced by the reflection, transmission or emission of all wavelengths of visible light without absorption. When light reflects off of a white surface the full spectrum of color is displayed, even when we may not see it. However, in the production of white paint there is no use of color.

Here is a roundup of mostly abstract artworks, all in variations of white, and all by artists represented by Boston art galleries.

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Hilary Taite Norod, The Black Swoosh
Galatea Fine Art

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Bill Fisher, Red Dots
Courtesy of Arden Gallery

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Julia Weiman, Reverse II
Courtesy of Bromfield Gallery

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Wilfredo Chiesa, White 1 (La Serenissima)
Courtesy of Alpha Gallery

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Janice Redman, Immobility Series (Spoon)
Courtesy of Clark Gallery

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Christina Pitsch, Flora of Fauna
Courtesy of Kingston Gallery

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Suzanne Ulrich, No. 1459
Courtesy of Barbara Krakow Gallery

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Danette English, Vase Series #19
Courtesy of Andrea Marquit Gallery

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Magda Biernat, Adrift #22
Courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery

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Bernard Haussmann,#2249 untitled (Darwin’s Coral)
Courtesy of Chase Young Gallery