ARTmonday: Justyna Przybylowska

Justyna Przybylowska is a Vancouver-based photographer with provocative, hard-edged work in both black and white and color, with many selections available on Society6.

Her art prints start at $64. Like most of the offerings at Society6, Przybylowska’s color and black & white photography prints are available in varying sizes, framed, printed on canvas or metal,  on iPhone cases, pillows, totes, greeting cards , hoodies, and other items.

You can see Justyna Przybylowska’s most recent work on her website PRZY, which she calls an online photographic exhibit of the world through her eyes. And then there’s her Instagram feed.

Here’s a sampling of her work from Society6, plus a selfie.

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Justyna Przybylowska, Trump

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Justyna Przybylowska, Untitled

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Justyna Przybylowska, Designer Drugs

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Justyna Przybylowska, Bull

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Justyna Przybylowska, Cake

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Justyna Przybylowska, Mangiare

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Justyna Przybylowska, Leg Through Void

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Justyna Przybylowska, Advice

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Justyna Przybylowska, Slasher

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Justyna Przybylowska, Legs

Justyna Przybylowska Self Portrait On Stairs

Justyna Przybylowska

ARTmonday: Amy Stevens Cake Photos

I just finished putting together a sidebar of affordable art picks for the May issue of HGTV Magazine. It will accompany the feature on our Boston condo, which will focus on our art, which is everywhere. They chose 8 affordable artworks out of 25 choices I provided, so there were a lot of leftovers. I’ll eventually post all 25 picks, but in the meantime here is an expanded look at artist Amy Stevens’ cake photographs.

Stevens cake photo series, called Confections, started in 2005 as a response to her 30th birthday. She says, “It was a celebration of birthdays, color, pattern, and obsessive absurdity.”

Her original idea was to bake 30 birthday cakes for herself and photograph them. She ordered a cake decorating kit online, watched an instructional video, and quickly discovered her cakes were going to be imperfect. She decided to leave them in what she describes as “their exuberantly imperfect states.”

In the course of eight years, the series evolved into more of a humorous, feminist, conversation on life and the struggle for perfection. Amy Stevens is based in Berks County, Pennsylvania, earned a BFA from Arizona State, and an MFA from Temple University.

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Confections #65, 2008

Food Photography Cake Photos Amy Stevens

Confections #57, 2007

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Confections #54, 2007

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Confections #42, 2006

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Confections (Adorned) #22, 2011

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Confections (abroad) #7, 2010

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Confections (adorned) #20, 2010

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Confections (adorned) #15, 2010

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Confections (adorned) #25, 2012

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Confections (adorned) #14, 2010

A few of Amy Stevens cake photos are available at:
20×200
Eye Buy Art
ArtStar

ARTmonday: 20 Fun Food Artworks

With all the food art I perused to put together last week’s 20 Autumnal Artworks in honor of Thanksgiving along with the post I did for Matouk, Appreciating Autumn Through Art, I noticed there were quite a few examples of humorous, fun food artworks. You may not want to eat anything after this weekend, but there’s no harm in looking. Some of it may even inspire you to try snapping fun food artworks yourself, at least on Instagram.

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John Chervinsky, Apples, Painting on Door, 2011
Archival inkjet print, $2,400, Pictura Gallery, Artsy

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Rachel Kumba, Pig Head/Tete de Cochon
Digital photo on paper, $1,000 at Saatchi Art

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Katie Baum, Gumball Machine  •  Prints starting at $24, 20×200

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Erin Niehenke, Stacked Peaches
Limited edition framed print starting at $29 at Minted

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Lynne Abrahamson, Too Good to Eat, Fabric on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
$1,500 at Saatchi Art

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Natasha Gornik, Cherry, photographic inkjet print, edition of 7
$1,500 Saatchi Art

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Ricardo Martinez, no title , #1 of 6, C-type photo on paper
$500 at Saatchi Art

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Sebastian Juergens, Fruit Face@Schlaumeier
digital and color photography on aluminium
$300 at Saatchi Art

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Josh McCartney, Tonguesicle
Canvas prints starting at $125 at Saatchi Art

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 SO FAR SO GOOD/Rob Kalmbach, Food
Prints starting at $35 at Society6

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Amy Stevens, Confections (adorned) #14
Prints starting at $60 at 20×200

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Alexey & Julia, Egg    Prints starting at $18 at Society6

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Monika Forsberg, Perrier    •    Print, $50 at Furbish Studio

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Lulie Wallace, Apricot Appetite
Limited edition print, $50 at Furbish Studio

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John Bucklin, Raspberry Softy, oil on panel
$700 at Serena & Lily

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Ting-Ting Cheng, Still Life with Banana   •   $920 at Rise Art

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Joni Tyrrell, Pining for Pineapple
Limited edition framed print starting at $29 at Minted

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Monica Loos, The Humble Egg
Limited edition framed print starting at $29 at Minted

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Heidi Bassett Blair, Roxy   •   $265 at Artsy

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ARTmonday: Laura Letinksy Still Life Photographs

Canadian-born, Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinksy is a master at understated still life photos that celebrate the remnants of meals at a table. At first glance, the pastel colors and sometimes almost abstract forms at inviting. On closer inspection, you see that the subjects have been picked at, pulled apart, and generally abandoned, awaiting cleanup at a later time. Nevertheless, Letinsky’s photos are beautiful.

It’s no surprise that Laura Letinsky has long been intrigued with Dutch-Flemish and Italian still life paintings. In 1997, she started a series of 4″ x 5″ photographs that were experimental elaborations of details from an earlier series about couples. She noticed that they depicted scenes  of meals she had prepared and consumed–after the fact. She describes them as “unexpectedly beautiful tableaux of dirty dishes and messy counter-tops,” noting that the formal arrangements were “almost classical in an art-historical way.” Indeed, there were also “assemblages of completely banal personal details of appetites, habits, and implements.”

Over the years she has continued the project, photographing tables in New Haven, Rome, Berlin, and Chicago. Rather than romanticizing the gorgeousness of uneaten food, she is “curious about those domestic objects and spaces that are touched, devoured, and discarded.”

Letinsky, who received her M.F.A from Yale in 1991 is a professor at the University of Chicago. She is represented in NYC by the Yancey Richardson Gallery, and other fine galleries around the world. Here is a sampling of her work, starting with a piece from 2009, going back to a 1998 work.

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Untitled #2, from the series Fall, 2009.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #3, from the series Fall, 2009.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #1, from the series The Dog & The Wolf, 2009.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #11, from the series The Dog & The Wolf, 2009.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #23, from the series The Dog & The Wolf, 2009.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled, 2009, Italy
Galerie m Bochum

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Untitled, 2009, Italy
Galerie m Bochum

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Untitled, 2009, Italy
Galerie m Bochum

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Untitled #22, from the series To Say It Isn’t So, 2007.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #118, from the series Hardly More Than Ever, 2007.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #117, from the series Hardly More Than Ever, 2003.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #80, from the series Hardly More Than Ever, 2003.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #63, from the series Hardly More Than Ever, 2002.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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“Untitled #64” from the series “Hardly More Than Ever,” 2002.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #37, from the series Hardly More Than Ever, 2001.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Untitled #54, from the series Hardly More Than Ever, 1998.
Yancey Richardson Gallery

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