I discovered the abstract paintings of Atlanta artist Sally King Benedict last month from a pin on interior designer Angie Hranowskey’s “Abstract” board. I love the bold and cheerful colors, shapes, and compositions. Many of these are already sold; I’m hoping she’s at work on a new series.
Nugget 1
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Texas Summer
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Take It
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Violet Track
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Phase Out
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Headdress
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Free Love
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Swingset
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No. 65
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Ethereal
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No. 70
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Temperature Spike
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Artist Ashley Goldberg of the blog Kitty Genius, whom I discovered on Pinterest, has been creating some great patterns of late: birds, feathers, dots, geometric shapes. When I clicked over to her Etsy shop, I was immediately drawn to these charming portraits of mod girls who seem to have come out of a world where ’60s London meets contemporary Harajuku. I may need to buy the postcard set.
Rosie
Ginger
Clementine
Diana
Doris
Follow the Sparrows
Susannah
Lily
Scout
Gwen
Celia
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I came across these glass dioramas by Parisian artist Maïssa Toulet when I was sifting through Flickr photos for a story I was doing The Inside Source about displaying white collections. I was immediately drawn into her quirky little worlds, in which mice wear suits, ducks have arms, and where Marie Antoinette finds her fate.
Toulet cites the assemblies of the American artist Joseph Cornell as her initial inspiration. She is drawn to the “eclectic jumble” of curiosity cabinets—the disturbing dimension, sometimes morbid, cabinets of curiosities, which accumulate stuffed animals, skeletons, and organs preserved in formaldehyde.
She views her pieces as miniature museums, and says that though nothing is classified with apparent logic, each object has a distinct place; none are interchangeable. Her most recent works are moving away from the concept of curio cabinets towards pieces that are self-contained stories.
I find them to be part science project, part crazy collector, part artistic effort; all intoxicating.
Ecographie
2007
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A Rodent Trap
2007
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Les Végétaux
2008
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Oral Hygiene in Adults
2008
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View
2008
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The Autopsy of Marie-Antoinette
2011
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The Menagerie
2011
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Under the Sea
2007
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Souvenirs of Youth
2011
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Jeune fille, que vous faut-il pour le printemps?
2010
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I discovered photographer Lissy Larrichia, or Lissy Elle, as she seems to go by, on one of my new favorite blogs, The Jealous Curator yesterday. Her work is incredibly atmospheric and angsty. She’s a Canadian teen (or maybe she’s just beyond teendom now; her Flickr stream started in late 2009). I really love her work—the settings, the dresses, the props, the narratives. You should have a look at her Facebook page too, where she’s posted some of her most recent images.
Golden Hours
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The Play Pretend Princess
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Untitled
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Princess Alyssabeth’s Belated Birthday
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The Big Bad Wolf
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The End of Alice
“The Alice in all of us dies sometime. From personal experience, the Alice in all my friends were stabbed to death the moment they got breasts. Breasts suck.”
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The Snow White Dilemma
“I hung up all those apples today during a thunder storm.”
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Butterfly Effect
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Alice Saw Some Shiny Things
“So down, down she fell.”
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Alice in Wonderland
Inspired by the shirt she’s wearing, purchased at Downtown Disney.
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Impossible Things
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Untitled
“Green grass grows all around all around and the green grass grows all around.”
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Spirited Away
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Get Back In Your Book, Belle
Beauty and the Beast edition.
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I act like a child.
In her fort.
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Seven Fragile Things
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Natural Disasters
“The snow melted, and there was fog, so Thy Cornrows looked so mystical today…”
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Lyrical new works of deeply saturated slashes of color by Martina Nehrling is currently on view at the Zg Gallery in Chicago through the end of this month. Nehrling describes the pieces, which are acrylic on canvas and paper, as “visual rhythms inspired by the cacophony of daily life.” I’m not sure where I discovered her work, perhaps Pinterest. They’re a wonderfully invigorating burst for mid-February.
Leeway
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The Absence of Field
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Solid Sonorous Non-Reality
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Hive
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Surfacing
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Ruse
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Pleat
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Truth and Jest
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Verge
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Of an Evening
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Of the Next Day
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Heap
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