ARTmonday: Beatriz Milhazes

A few years ago I discovered Rio de Janeiro artist Beatriz Milhazes. Her work was hanging in a living room featured in a glossy mag (perhaps Elle Decor). I perused her work online but it simply wasn’t in the budget. Seems she’s done a lot since then. In addition to her paintings, which are similar in style, but more vivid and hard-edged, there’s an amazing mobile installation and some public works. Most of these are through the James Cohan Gallery in NYC; some are earlier works from the Stephen Friedman Gallery, also in NYC. Feast your eyes. . .

Mariposa, 2004
Acrylic on canvas

Aubergine II, 2003
paper collage on paper,

Brinquelandia, 2008
Mixed media collage on paper

A Lenda, 2002
Acrylic on canvas

O Macho, 2002
Acrylic on canvas, 99 x 96cm (39 x 38in)

Jamaica, 2006
Hiromi handmade Kozo triple thick

Gamboa, 2008
Iron and mixed media

Site Spotlight: Etsy Boston

Not long ago, Cambridge-based interior designer and CreateGirl blogger Julieann Covino wrote to me about some fabulous Etsy finds – all by Boston area artisans. I was able to write up her ideas in Stuff Magazine. Here are  a few of her picks as well as my own discoveries of Boston Etsy-ites (Etsy-ers? Etstonians?). Eat local, shop local, design local.

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ARTmonday: Alexander Gorlizki

When textile designer Seema Krish, whose work is helping to revitalize crafts in her native India, learned that I had studied Indian art in grad school, she suggested I have a look at contemporary artist Alexander Gorlizki. Mughal miniatures, with a twist!