Category Archives: Art Monday

June 8, 2009 · 1:30 pm

ARTmonday: Anne Beresford

an installation view from Entwined at Judi Rotenberg Gallery Boston, MA 2006

A few years ago, I fell in love with a painting by Anne Beresford at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery in Boston. It was very pale, all ivory and robin’s egg blue, with gray and black architectural-like drawings on the canvas. It reminded me of sculpture in Paris, somehow. I didn’t have the funds to buy it at the time, though I had the gallery call it back in last year to consider it for our house on the Cape (which, by the way, is still devoid of all art). I brought my husband to see it and we decided, unfortunately, that its soft renderings would be lost in the space. I can’t find an image of that particular painting online (I’m sure somebody bought it by now), but I can at least show you these . . .

Homeward Bound 2
ink, acrylic & oil on paper on canvas
2005

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Rising World of Waters
ink, acrylic & oil with collage on canvas
2006

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Uprose (Hommage a Van Gogh)
ink, acrylic & oil with collage on canvas
2006

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Of a Feather
ink, acrylic & oil with collage on canvas
2004

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After Auden
ink, acrylic & oil with collage on canvas
2001-4

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Tempest, (from The Exeunt Series)
ink, oil, engraved aluminum

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Very Small Things
mixed media
2007
Courtesy of Judi Rotengerg Gallery

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Appearance
monotype with wax, letterpress & drawing

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June 1, 2009 · 1:47 am

ARTmonday: Jed Devine

When I lived in NYC, back in my twenties (no, not in the twenties, my twenties, in the nineties), my then boyfriend and I began to collect photography. A friend of ours, whose dad had (has?) an outrageous photography collection (think Arbus and Mapplethorpe) pointed us to the small, well-respected Bonni Benrubi Gallery on the Upper East Side, just blocks from our apartment. (Today the gallery is at 41 East 57th Street.) We popped in often on the weekends, poring over print after print in the flat files. One of my favorite artists was Jed Devine. I loved the spare white on white still lifes printed on Japanese rice paper that seemed so delicate, but that Bonni assured us were quite strong. After much deliberating between bottles, colanders, and cups, we purchased Stacked Cups and had it framed in a simple semi-glossy white wood frame. I still own it; it now hangs in my Back Bay kitchen. And I still love it. Here is that image, and others.

Stacked Cups (Candace Dwan Gallery)

Pear and Colander (Bonni Benrubi Gallery)

The White Jug (Candace Dwan Gallery)

Shaker House in Snow (Bonni Benrubi Gallery)

untitled 2000 – 2002 (Bonni Benrubi Gallery)

White Cup (Candace Dwan Gallery)

Untitled, Ca. 1985 (Bonni Benrubi Gallery)

Daffodils (Candace Dwan Gallery)

Peonies (Candace Dwan Gallery)

Untitled 200 – 2002 (Bonni Benrubi Gallery)

Central Park series (Bonni Benrubi Gallery)

ARTmonday: Grace Hopkins-Lisle

Grace Hopkins-Lisle is an artist who grew up in NYC and is now based in Portland, Maine, with her husband, artist Andrew Lisle and her sweet little girl Gigi. Grace shows her work in galleries all over the Northeast. I discovered her work in Cape Cod. Her father, artist Budd Hopkins, is a longtime friend of my in-laws. (I’ll do a post on Budd at some point too.)

Grace characterizes her work as abstract photo-paintings. I have included a sampling of her photos from 2005 to the present , so you can their progression. This is how she describes the evolution: ” In the past few years I have been getting closer to my subject matter and minimizing the number of objects in my pictures, essentially zeroing in on what really interests me and excluding everything else.”

2009 South Beach

2009 Europe

2008 Michigan

2008 Maine

2008 Las Vegas

2007 Belize

2006 St. Maarten

2006 Curacao

2005 California

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May 4, 2009 · 1:02 am

ARTmonday: Caroline Moore

I happened upon these photos on Etsy by Caroline Moore (aka “sixhours”) last week when I was browsing for child-appropriate pieces I could buy as baby gifts. Obviously, these don’t fall into that category. However, they caught my eye because they remind me of a short story by A.M. Homes in The Safety of Objects. In the story, if I remember correctly, a teenage boy dismembers his sister’s Barbies and does bizarre (sexual) things with them.

I read it over 10 years ago, after reading The End of Alice for a book club and becoming obsessed. (I loved it…. especially because the pearl-wearing girls who comprised the club were appalled by it. It’s narrated by a pedophile in jail, and also involves a young girl experimenting with the boy she babysits.) If you are not familiar with her work, she is an excellent writer, never dull, and often compellingly offensive.

I wonder if the photographer is familiar with the story?

And I just found this one below, on Moore’s website, Sixhours Photography.

ARTmonday: Lindsay Brackeen

Lindsay Brackeen is another girly artist I found on Etsy. She too seems to have gotten lots of attention from other design blogs, but I bought a couple of her original works last year, so I thought it’d be ok if I featured her too. Some of these are original works, but most are prints. Hope you love.

“Don’t Mind Me”