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French-American artist Louise Bourgeois died on May 31st at age 98. Her work is haunting, eerily beautiful, brave, fragile, fierce, sexually explicit and autobiographical.
A spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
The Sydney and Walda Bestoff Sculpture Garden
New Orleans Museum of Art
More on Louise Bourgeois:
New York Times, May 31, 2010
PBS art:21 (includes videos)
Centre Pompidou Exhibition Itinerary 2008
Leather and Crepe Paper Necklace with Wood Beads by Manu
$50 at Castor & Pollux
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Earlier this year interior designer Tricia McDonagh emailed me about a project she had been working on with “This Old House.” To help celebrate its 30th anniversary season, they wanted to help the community where it got its start. The show’s crew worked alongside affordable housing nonprofit Nuestra Comunidad to to renovate a vacant, foreclosed house in Roxbury. Tricia furnished the interiors in her flawless, clean and elegant style.
The refinished façade of the 1870s Second Empire house.
It was an absolute wreck. Have a look at the “before“pictures. The two units will be sold separately, at an affordable price. The original shingles were replaced with fiber cement siding, and the dilapidated slate roofing (which was salvaged) was replaced with recycled rubber architectural shingles.
The crew restored the hand-carved wood banister and newel post in the entryway.
These plaster ceiling medallions throughout the house were either be restored or replicated.
The rooms all have Tricia’s spare, sophisticated touches, like muslin covered furnishings.
The artwork over the sofa, which looks like a tie dye scarf, is actually beaded porcelain on rice paper by Dharma Strasser MacColl from Walker Contemporary in Boston.
The crew was able to salvage the original marble fireplace surround. They removed it for cleaning and repairs, then reinstalled it.
It’s absolutely gorgeous. I love the subtle color from the silver cups and plant.
The dark walls make the room look rich and cozy. Love how the white shapes of the furniture pop against it too.
A gleaming white kitchen. The original kitchens were on the second floor; the new ones are in the center of the units’ first floors.
Love the nailhead detail on the bed and muslin upholstery.
The old millwork of the window casings and panels were replaced with replicas featuring the same dimensions and profiles. There were ugly dropped ceilings that were removed. Now the rooms have an airy, lofty feel.
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All photos by CASEY Photography.
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Artwork on display at MOMA on April 10, 2010. Picasso, Pollack, Matisse, Mondrian, Monet, Modigliani, Braque, Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Gaugin, Cezanne, Chagall, Klee, Magritte, Dali, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, Kahlo, Rousseau, Wyeth, Klimt . . . Delectable.
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Photo: Style Section L.A.
This morning, while reading through clips from L.A. style writers, I came across a post about Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday by Sierra Feldner-Shaw on Style Section L.A., a site I’ve now bookmarked. I was immediately taken by Holliday’s work, especially the ones that give off a sort of really loose Frank Stella vibe, though the watery almost leopard print pieces are absolutely gorgeous (and I’m not even the animal print type.)
Feldner-Shaw came across Holliday’s work first in the apartment of shoe designer Beatrice Valenzuela, and second, in the home of jewelry designer Kathryn Bentley. The writer says, “The L.A. artist was clearly tapping into something fashion-savvy women were digging.” You can add me to that group.
Hadley Holliday went to RISD and the California Institute of the Arts (as well as the University of Kansas – she’s a Kansas City, Missouri girl). She works and lives in East L.A. and shows at the Solway Jones Gallery in L.A.’s Chinatown.
Long Shot, 2009
The Lovers, 2008
Spygyric, 2008
The Dancer, 2008
Sea of Joy, 2008
Forever and Never, 2009
Wallflower, 2009
Gestalt, 2009
Poured Square 2009 Poured Square 2009
Breakaway, 2009 Mirror Mirror, 2009
Love With The Proper Stranger, 2008
Detail of Love With The Proper Stranger
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