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ARTmonday: Lalla Essaydi

Photo: Courtesy of Lalla Essaydi

I learned about Lalla Essaydi’s photograph’s from my friend, artist Lee Essex Doyle, who invited me to my first sale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston several years back, which my husband and I have continued to support through our many wonderful purchasesevery December. She’s one of the School’s breakout stars, and on May 22 will be presented with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Medal Award. Essaydi, who grew up in Morocco, combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body. The results are beautiful.

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City

Les Femmes du Maroc: La Grand Odalisque, 2006
Chromogenic print. 48 x 60 inches.

Les Femmes du Maroc: Fumee d’Ambre Girls, 2008
Chromogenic print. 71 x 87.5 inches.

Les Femmes du Maroc: Revisited #1, 2009.
Chromogenic print. 71 x 87.5 inches.

Les Femmes du Maroc: La Sultane, 2008
Chromogenic print.

Harem #4B, 2009.
Chromogenic print. 71 x 87.5 inches.

Harem #10, 2009
Chromogenic print. 48 x 60 inches, 71 x 87.5 inches.

Harem #2, 2009
Chromogenic print. 48 x 60 inches.

Harem #1, 2009
Chromogenic print. 48 x 280 inches.

Photos courtesy of
Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY
and
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston

ARTmonday: Diana Delgado Colorful Abstract Paintings

I discovered painter Diana Delgado on Elements of Style, in which Erin Gates went bananas for the leopard print swatch in the first painting below. Based in New York, Delgado received her MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2007 and her BFA from Syracuse in 2005. I love the colors in these paintings—note the neon—and mix of geometric forms with drips. In her artist’s statement she explains:

While color is a driving force behind decisions made on the canvas, raw gesture, geometric shapes/forms and pattern play important roles. Representational elements and seemingly unstable architectural structures exist within the abstract atmospheres. . . Reoccurring themes in the large-scale canvases are personal narrative, glam, fashion and the embracing of frivolousness.

You Can Lead a Horse to Water

Menstrual Mountain

Chocolate Fountain

She Could Drape it in Color

Cotton Candy Love

Neon Deer

White Goose Blue Jeans

Untitled-(Ribbons-and-Things)

YoungmanGirl

Copycat Cluster

Chandelier

Double Bubble

Rabbit Ears

And a Hot Air Balloon

Smelly Yellow

ARTmonday: Rhi Ellis Humans, Being and Other Photos

Rhi Ellis is a photographer, film maker, and illustrator who lives in South Wales. Most of these photographs are from the series Humans, Being; some are from White Wheat.

ARTmonday: My Visit to MoMA

Last weekend my husband and I took a jaunt to New York City. The excuse was a fundraiser for Castle Hill, an arts center on the Cape, but we also caught up with old friends and spent the afternoon at MoMA. We hadn’t been in quite a while, and were exhilarated at every turn. Here are 30 highlights. While you’re at it, look back at MoMA in a Minute, which never fails to mesmerize.

Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948

Paul Gauguin, Washerwomen, 1888

Pierre Bonnard, The Breakfast Room, 1930-31

Amadeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude, c. 1919

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911

Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910

Gustav Klimt, Hope, II, 1907-087

Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921

Pablo Picasso, The Studio, winter 1927-28

Henri Matisse, The Moroccans, late 1915 and fall 1916

Pablo Picasso, Seated Bather, 1930

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Mark Rothko, No. 10, 1959

Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955

Jackson Pollack, One: Number 31, 1950, 1950

Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936

Ellsworth Kelly, Running on White, 1959

Lyubov Popova, Painterly Architectonic, 1917

Hannah Wilke, Ponder-r-rosa 4, White Plains, Yellow Rocks, 1975

Constantin Brancusi
The Cock, 1924 | Mlle Pogany, 1913

Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces,1955

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Two Whites Between Two Yellows, 1958

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Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude, 2, 1961

Richard Hamilton, Pin-up, 1961

John McCracken, The Absolutely Naked Fragrance, 1967
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1968

ARTmonday: Sabine Finkenauer

Sabine Finkenauer is a German-born, Barcelona-based artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the 1980s. I don’t know much about her, but I really like her simple, geometric forms and earthy yet cheerful color palette. The figurative drawings seem, to me, very influenced by Marimekko designs.