Photo by Marni Elyse Katz/StyleCarrot
John Ross, Still Life with Dahlia & Lemons
Calendar hanging in my kitchen featuring
Patch NYC designer John Ross’s
gorgeous botanical still life.
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Tag: Boston photographers
ARTmonday: Art + Cocktails Truro (Photography)
As I’ve mentioned, this summer we hosted a pop up art gallery in our home on Cape Cod. (You can see photos on IG #artandcocktailstruro ) We hung 96 artworks, a good portion of them photography. (I posted the paintings and mixed media pieces back in August here.)
I was really pleased that many of the pieces that sold were photos. And not only that, they were unique, personal pieces, even a couple I have in my own collection. Thanks to the photographers who lent work, and to the friends that purchased them.
If you’re interested there are still plenty to choose from; just email me at stylecarrot [at] gmail [dot] com.
Anastasia Cazabon, Legs on Bed, 2008
Photograph • 16″ x 20″
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Anastasia Cazabon, Sink, 2008
Photograph • 16″ x 20″
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Anastasia Cazabon, Bushes, 2007
Photograph • 16″ x 20″
$150
Anastasia Cazabon, Diary, Love and Rivalry, 2008
Photograph • 16″ x 20″
$100
Cory Munro Shea, Graduation
20″ x 16″
$750
Cory Munro Shea, Harvard
10″ x 8″
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Elle Moss, Tempest
Photo printed with archival ink on fine art paper • 12″ x 12″
$150
Grace Hopkins, Nassau06, 2014
Digital photograph mounted on wood • 12″ x 12″
$400
Grace Hopkins, CA01, 2006
Digital photograph mounted on wood • 16″ x 16″
$600
Grace Hopkins, LA45, 2014
Digital photograph mounted on wood • 16″ x 16″
$600
Linda Pagani, Sometimes No. 1, 2012
Archival inkjet print • 24″ x 30″
Artist’s proof 1 • $3,400
Linda Pagani, Sometimes No. 2, 2012
Archival inkjet print • 24″ x 30″
Edition 1/7 • $2,500
Robert Knight, Stephen, Boston, MA
Photograph • 24″ x 30″
$2,100
Sarah Winchester, Paris Graffiti
Digital photographic print • 23″ x 37″
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Shelley Zatsky
United States Marine Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, Caution Bathroom,
Nominated 2003, Saved, 2005
Photograph • 14″ x 14″
$550
Shelley Zatsky
United States Marine Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, Doctors Quarters
Nominated 2003, Saved, 2005
Photograph • 14″ x 14″
$550
Stephen Sheffield, Flight Plan
Photograph • 20″ x 16″
$1,100
Stephen Sheffield, Businessman in Miniature
Photograph • 16″ x 20″
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Suzanne Koett, This Too Shall Pass
Photograph printed on archival paper • 20″ x 30″
$450
Tess Atkinson
Study 2, Cherry Blossom, Charles River Esplanade Boston, 2016
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth print, Edition 1/20
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Tess Atkinson
Study 1, Cherry Blossom, Charles River Esplanade Boston, 2016
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth print, Edition 1/20
$900
Winky Lewis
Photograph • $300
Winky Lewis
Photograph • $300
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ARTmonday: Stefanie Klavens How We Live
Like many of the artists whose work I feature and own, I discovered photographer Stefanie Klavens at the School of Museum of Fine Arts sale in Boston. One year I was eyeing the photo of the two double beds (second photo below). It looks to me like a dreary motel room, though it’s titled Guest Room. I was attracted to the colors and the color fields, along with the general downtrodden, or at least severely outdated, decor. My husband very much didn’t want me to buy it. I didn’t.
That’s ok, because the following year I purchased the gold-hued living room photo of Klavens called Henry’s Paintings. I didn’t make the connection between them then, though now looking at them, it’s obvious these two interior photographs were taken by the same photographer. It’s hanging in a grouping of four photographs in our family room over our sofa, in a sort of compositional echo.
My favorite work of this mostly interior photography series that Klavens calls “How We Live,” is the first image here. To me, the pink and green living room interior really stands up. Swap out the art and preferably the shag rug (though a hip inhabitant could make it work) and you’re all set. Anna’s Parlor could work too, with its Jonathan Adler vibe.
Klavens describes the series as “the small-scale drama of everyday life.” She dubs them “portraits of people through the places they inhabit,” depicting “life captured as still life.” Klavens is inspired by “banal” and “mundane” scenes that hide clues about how people live. She says, “The images are empty and uninhabited, yet one senses a human presence just out of reach.”
In addition to this interior photography and similar exteriors of swimming pools, hotels, and the like, Klavins has photographed a series called “Theaters and Drive-Ins.”
Stefanie Klavens studied at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she received a BFA and was awarded a Traveling Fellowship. Klavens has an upcoming exhibition this summer at the 555 Gallery in South Boston.
Formal Room
Guest Room
Anna’s Parlor
Henry’s Paintings
Kitchenette
Blue Room
Pink Tiles
ARTmonday: Artwork for TroyBoston Model Apt #1409
I love when I have the opportunity in my work to showcase local Boston artists and makers. For the last couple of months I’ve been working on a interior decor scheme for a model apartment at Troy Boston, a brand new, upscale, “green” rental building in SoWa. It’s a little outside my usual scope of projects and it’s been fun. You may have seen the initial post I did about it, when I was determining the color scheme for the apartment—Impressions: Creating a Color Palette of Charcoal + Dusty Rose. The final palette is indeed based on this post, with plenty of textural elements, including velvet, sheepskin, cork, plywood, and copper.
The best part has been curating the artwork. The art collection is the distinctive feature of the overall design and I hope people will view it as an exhibition rather than mere decoration. The pieces, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and mixed media pieces, are all done by New England-based female artists. Some of these Boston artists are talented friends (Lee Essex Doyle, Tess Atkinson, Grace Hopkins), others are young artists whose pieces I’ve purchased over the years at the SMFA Art Sale (Laura Beth Reese, Eugenie Lewalski Berg), others are artists I’ve become familiar with through blogging (Cig Harvey, Alicia Savage, Anastasia Cazabon, Anna Kasabian, Rachel Cossar, Winky Lewis, Jenny Prinn), and others are Boston artists who are new to me (Heather McGrath, Linda Cordner).
I knew from the start that I wanted to include a statement artwork of a partially obscured woman; a moody fashion-y photograph of an elusive woman. I was able to get a few, though no oversize pieces due to the prohibitive cost of printing. Nevertheless I think the collection will hold together well. At the end of this post, you can see my current hanging scheme for the main wall, and for over the bed. I also plan to print a few of my own Instagram photos to pin or (washi) tape up.
Here I present to you the Troy Boston Model Apt #1409 art collection featuring over a dozen Boston area artists. I hope you love it and will learn more about these talented women, all of whom have generously lent me their artwork.
Alicia Savage
self-portrait • Panopticon Gallery
Fort Point, Boston, MA
Laura Beth Reese • self-portrait from Nude series
Boston, MA
Cig Harvey, MidCoast Maine
The Goldfinch • Robert Klein Gallery
Anastasia Cazabon • From the Secret World series
Boston, MA
Grace Hopkins • CA01
Color photograph on canvas
Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Grace Hopkins • Nassau06
Color photograph on canvas
Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Grace Hopkins • LA45
Color photograph on canvas
Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Rachel Cossar • Tights
Instagram photograph backstage
Ballerina, Boston Ballet • Boston, MA
Lee Essex Doyle, Boston, MA
Prada I Orange • Childs Gallery • Watercolor and ink
Winky Lewis, Portland, ME
Black and white photo of the artist’s daughter
Eugenie Lewalski Berg • Six Couples
Cast concrete relief with graphite and oil pastel
Boston, MA
Linda Cordner • Bayside Sky • encaustic
Linda Cordner created this large encaustic for the apartment after seeing my color palette inspiration post.
SoWa, Boston, MA
Tess Atkinson • Vista Series
Color photograph face-mounted on plexiglass
Boston, MA
Heather McGrath • Sunset in Iceland
Color photograph printed on sheet metal
SoWa, Boston, MA
Anna Kasabian, North Shore, MA
Tide Pool III • stoneware
This many not be the exact piece that will hang. Anna Kasabian is lending me three pieces, which I will see when she drops them off next week.
Jenny Prinn, Maine
Little Footsteps I • Oil on canvas
This is not the exact canvas I’ll be hanging. Jenny Prinn has graciously offered to paint an original work for the project.
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Main art wall
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Art over the bed
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ARTmonday: Asia Kepke’s Self Portraits With Mannequin
Boston-based photographer Asia Kepke is a former model with a great sense of humor. Her series “Bridget and I” are self portraits starring a mannequin (Bridget, I presume) in all sorts of environments, indoors and out. She shot them over the course of ten years with a 4×5 camera (with the exception of the water images).
I discovered Asia Kepke’s self portraits at the SMFA Sale 2013, when I had one of her mannequin photographs in my hand, but ultimately didn’t buy it. (I now wish I had.) She also has a series of humans wearing horse and squirrel masks, but I will feature those another time. For now, let’s enjoy her journey with Bridget.
Images courtesy of the artist.