ARTmonday: Jealously Curated in Kendall Square

If you like my ARTmonday posts you are likely a huge fan of the Jealous Curator blog by Danielle Krysa

Now a collection of work by East Coast artists who have all been featured on  The Jealous Curator Cambridge are participating in Jealously Curated, an exhibition at Voltage Coffee & Art in Kendall Square. The show starts today, November 23, 2015 and runs through January 22, 2016.

Here is a sampling of work by nine artists taking part in the East Coast edition of Jealously Curated.

Portrait By Anna Jensen Jealous Curator

Anna Jensen, I Feel Too Much Thy Blessing, 2012
Acrylic on canvas
Anna Jensen describes her paintings as psychological landscapes that combine references to art history, pop culture,, natural science, and personal chronicles.

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Airco Caravan, Possession of a Deadly Weapon, 2012
Oil on canvas
Airco Caravano lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. This painting is part of a series called “Crime Scene” and depicts a room at the Delaware Riverview Motel where an employee discovered a murder victim.

Floral Anatomy By JennY Brown Jealous Curator

Jenny Brown, Heavenly Organ
Ink, pen, and found collage on paper
Boston-born artist Jenny Brown earned an M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is currently based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Bicycle Painting By Taliah Tempert Jealous Curator

Taliah Lempert
Brooklyn-based artist Taliah Lempert studied at the New York Academy of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lempert combines her two passions: painting and cycling.

Contemporary Abstract By Zin Helena Song Jealous Curator

Zin Helena Song, Flat Polygon #2, 2015
Mixed media on wood
Korean-born, New York-based artist Zin Helena Song paints sharp-edged abstract wooden sculptures.

Divers Poolside By Jessica Brilli Jealous Curator

Jessica Brilli, False Start
Quincy, Massachusetts-based artist Jessica Brilli is  inspired by slides found at yard sales and in basements in New York and Massachusetts. She scours flea markets and antique shops for everyday objects.

Floral Lawn Chairs By Leah Giberson Jealous Curator

Leah GibersonFloral Pair, 2013
Acrylic over archival pigment print on panel

Leah Giberson was raised by artists deep in the woods of New Hampshire, but tends to depict scenes from suburbia.  She earned a B.F.A. in painting from Massachusetts College of Art in 1997 and has lived in Boston ever since.

Wood Pile By Jeremy Miranda Jealous Curator

Jeremy Miranda
Jeremy Miranda, who was born in Newport, Rhode Island and earned a B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art, paints out of his studio on the coast of New Hampshire.

Portrait By Erin Fitzpatrick Jealous Curator

Erin Fitzpatrick, Sarah, 2013
Oil on birch panel
Baltimore native and graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art,Erin Fitzpatrick, began her current series of portraits in 2008.

All artwork courtesy of the artists. 

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ARTmonday: 40 Artworks at the SMFA Art Sale 2015

The SMFA Art Sale 2015 opens to the public tomorrow morning. I attended the Medici Night party last night and had a great time browsing art and catching up with artists, acquaintances, and friends. With my new curation business underway, I was more conscientious about photographing not just the art but the signage as well. I missed a few, but for the most part am able to identify most of the pieces.

I stuck to a tighter budget this year, but came home with two pieces I love, which I can definitely classify as affordable artwork. Both are photographs by current SMFA students and I plan on hanging them together. I included one of them below. See if you can guess which one it is.

As always, proceeds from the SMFA Art Sale benefits student scholarships. There are pieces by established alumni, faculty, and also current students. The arrays on the walls change throughout the day, and you can always find more in the bins. Stop by this weekend; art makes way better holiday presents than cashmere sweaters.

SMA Art Sale 2015: Thursday, November 19 (10 am–8 pm)—opening celebration from 5–8 pm;  Friday, November 20 (10 am–8 pm); Saturday, November 21 (10 am–8 pm); Sunday, November 22 (10 am–5 pm).

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Judy Kramer

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Adam Moscowitz

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

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Bretta C. Walker

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Jim Cain

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Michael Seif

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Lydia Harris

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Michael Zachary

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Lower left: Nancy Simonds |  Right: Lee Essex Doyle

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

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SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Cecile Forman

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Laura Evans

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Tricia M. O’Neill

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

David Moore

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Joyce Gardner Zavorskas

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

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SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Gonzalo Fuenmayor

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Lindsey Kocur

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Linda Pagani

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

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SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Brian Burkhardt

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Joo Lee Kang (detail)

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Julie S. Graham

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Robert Chamberlain

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Maurice Freedman

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Left: Jim Dine

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Evelyn Rydz

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Richard Serra

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Damien Hoar de Galvan

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Sterling Mulbry

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Tianqi Lu

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Mary Ellen Strom

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Judy Riola

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Elizabeth Carter

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Cyrille Conan

SMFA Art Sale 2015 Affordable Art By Students Faculty Alumni

Soo Young Kim

P I E C E S  from P A S T  Y E A R S

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SMFA Art Sale 2011
SMFA Art Sale 2009

ARTmonday: Three New Additions in Shades of Black, White & Grey at Webster & Company

We’ve added seven more pieces to the installation I curated with Mr. Webster for his showroom, Webster & Company, at the Boston Design Center. All abstracts in shades of black, white, and grey, by artists with distinct styles.

The first four are by Betty Carroll Fuller, whose work I first saw on the Outer Cape.  An art professor at Cape Cod Community College, Fuller’s work presents abstract forms, lines, and layers of color that are simple and spare, but not spartan. The next abstract painting is by Jen Kelly, a Hingham-based artist who studied art at Boston College and has a master’s in social work. Kelly paints abstracts and landscapes while combining the arts with social causes. The third is Jen Bradley, who my friend Stephanie Walker of Waitsfield, Vermont gallery Walker Contemporary brought to the mix. Bradley is a Boston-born artist who earned a B.F.A at MassArt and teaches at South Shore Art Center, paint, screen-printing, glazes, and drawing in her abstract works.

Webster & Company is hosting an opening this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 6pm-8pm at the showroom at the Boston Design Center. Please let me know if you’d like to attend.

Betty Carroll Fuller Black & White Artwork at Webster & Co

Betty Carroll Fuller, Family Reunion, 2012

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Betty Carroll Fuller, Mean Girls, 2013

Betty Carroll Fuller Black & White Artwork at Webster & Co

Betty Carroll Fuller, Summer, 2011

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Betty Carroll Fuller, When Grey Clouds Turn Black, 2014

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Jen Kelly, Music to My Ears

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Jen Bradley, Paradise V

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Jen Bradley, Paradise III

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Works by all 21 artists now installed
at Webster & Company, Boston Design Center

See a sampling here.

Next week I’ll post some installation shots in the Webster & Company showroom.

ARTmonday: That Elusive Woman—Sourcing Statement Photos For Troy Boston

At the end of January I posted color inspiration—a blush & charcoal color palette—for a model apartment that I’ll be decorating. The apartment is in a new building that’s still under construction called Troy Boston in Boston’s SoWa neighborhood, right by the other new building with Boston apartments, Ink Block, and the giant new Whole Foods. (My husband got lost in there recently; says it’s fantastic.)

Troy Boston is one of a number of new buildings with Boston apartments (there are also a couple in the Fenway) slated to have a LEED Gold rating; that mean’s it will be officially “green.” I’ve been to the construction site twice now (complete with hard hat). These Boston apartments are small but beautiful, with a loft-like feel. There are floor-to-ceiling windows, pale oak flooring, and cerused oak and lacquer cabinetry.

The model apartment I’m decorating is a 469-square-foot studio on the 14th floor. It’s got lots of sun, a sleek grey bathroom, and grey kitchen, which runs along one side of the room. I’ve been putting together collage-y room layout mockups (as a non-designer I have no idea how to use interior design software), and measured last week. Fingers crossed I did so accurately.

No surprise, my favorite aspect of decorating is curating the artwork for the walls. I have a definite idea of what I want, and am excited to include works by artist friends Lee Essex Doyle, Tess Atkinson, and Grace Hopkins. Linda Cordner is another local Boston artist whose work I hope to hang, as she generously offered up a large encaustic in my blush and grey color palette.

Above the sofa in the main living space I will hang a collection of photography and paintings. I want to include a statement artwork of a partially obscured woman; a moody portrait/fashion-y lifestyle photograph, preferably with a hint of copper or mustard, which will be the accent for the pink and grey scheme color scheme.

Given my limited budget, I need to find artists who would like to loan their artwork in exchange for exposure and publicity (of which there should be plenty). Given the other work I will be using hails from New England, I have decided that all the artwork I use will be created by local women artists.

I think I’ve identified the replacement for that initial inspiration piece. In the meantime, here are the photographs I’ve found that I’d most like to use in the model apartment. I lam hoping to secure at least one or two for the Troy Boston project, which I also hope will be a well-curated showcase featuring New England artists who all happen to be women.

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Alicia Savage

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Anastasia Cazabon

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Cig Harvey

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Anastasia Cazabon

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Rhi Ellis

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Alicia Savage

ARTmonday: Grace Hopkins

Grace Hopkins is one of many New England artists whose abstract artwork defies expected New England standards. Hopkins  grew up in NYC and is now based in Portland, Maine, with her artist husband and sweet little girl Gigi. Grace shows her work in galleries all over the Northeast. I discovered her work in Cape Cod. Her father, artist Budd Hopkins, is a longtime friend of my in-laws. (I’ll do a post on Budd at some point too.)

Hopkins characterizes her work as abstract photo-paintings. I have included a sampling of her photos from 2005 to the present , so you can its progression. This is how she describes the evolution: ” In the past few years I have been getting closer to my subject matter and minimizing the number of objects in my pictures, essentially zeroing in on what really interests me and excluding everything else.”

2009 South Beach

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2009 Europe

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2008 Michigan

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2008 Maine

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2008 Las Vegas

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2007 Belize

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2006 St. Maarten

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2006 Curacao

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2005 California

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