Collages with a vintage bent? Yes, please! Featuring the work of California artist Eugenia Loli in my Artist Watch on Escape into Life today. Check it out here!
Category: Daily Artsy
Artists featured in a solo spot on Artsy Forager
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A Different Kind of Art Walking: Laurie Frick
My seven year old niece Kendall was recently given a pedometer at school as a physical fitness promotion. Pretty soon, she was obsessing over how far she walked every day. I have a feeling she would love Austin artist Laurie Frick’s Walking series, a group of collaged works based on daily walking patterns.
Walking, Week 51, handmade paper and found cut paper on alumalite panels, 72×48 The artist uses fitbit, mytracks, and a cat cam to record her every day walking patterns, which she then translates in collage form onto alumalite panels.
Walking, Week 44, handmade paper and found cut paper on Alumalite panels, 35×35 
Walking, Week 42, cut found and handmade paper on alumalite, 72×72 Isn’t it interesting how little we notice patterns in our own behavior until it is placed before us in a visual way? Frick has created several other projects focusing on self-tracking, each confronting us with the visual reality of the activities we engage in.
Walking, Week 52, handmade paper and found cut paper on alumalite, 35×35 To see more of Laurie Frick’s work, please visit her website.
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December Featured Artist: Marsha Glaziere
The work of this month’s Featured Artist, Marsha Glaziere is filled with luscious layers, texture, pops of bold color, and a skilled hand at good old fashioned drawing. No matter the subject she undertakes, her style and way of working is unmistakably hers.
Nalley Valley Viaduct 
Portals Her work straddles the line between representational and abstract, almost as if she begins in realistic mode and then her abstract altar-ego takes over. The resulting work then becomes more about the energy of her subject rather than perfecting every small detail.
No Speed Limit Marsha’s latest series, Coffee Spots, features her interpretations of the eclectic coffee houses in and around the Puget Sound. It’s no secret that Northwesterners ( especially those in or near Seattle ) take their coffee very seriously. Marsha decided to begin painting her favorite local spots in celebration of the coffee culture that began in the PacNorthWest and has since spread across the country and around the world.
Cafe Ladro Espresso Bar & Bakery 
Olympia Coffee Roasting Company The Coffee Spots series has been made into a 2013 calendar and fabulous “table COFFEE book”, both of which would make wonderful holiday gifts for the artsy coffee lover in your life! Both the calendar and book are available for purchase on the artist’s website. While you’re there, don’t miss all the other incredible artwork on Marsha’s site, some of which you can also see in her album on the Artsy Forager Facebook page!
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Artsy Holiday: For the Artsy Naturalist
The holidays are upon us! And I love them. I can’t help it. Much to Mr. Forager’s chagrin, I totally get into the music, the decorating, the cooking, and of course, the gift giving! It seems every blogger does a gift guide, so why shouldn’t I get in on the action? So each Friday until Christmas, the regular Friday Design Finds posts will be replaced with a selection of gifts for the artsy folks on your list!
We begin with gifts for the Artsy Naturalist– there’s no reason why buying for nature lovers should be limited to hiking boots and camping supplies!
Art Glass Vases by Nick Chase at Artful Home 
Navy & Seafoam Antler from Terrain 
Entomology Wall Calendar at Anthropologie 
Sterling silver & enamel jewelry by Julie Blyfield 
925 silver, rhodium-plated, gemstones by Nora Rochel 
Bud Vases by Yassi Mazandi at Grey Area 
Maple Leaf Bowl by Kay Sekimachi at J Sauer Gallery You can see more naturalistic gift ideas with an artsy bent on my Pinterest board, Artsy Holiday 2012: Gifts for the Artsy Naturalist!
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Weaving Tales: Kaoru Mansour
There is nothing better than a good yarn. And by yarn, I mean story, although the fiber kind can be pretty satisfying, too. One of the things that I love about Mr. Forager is his propensity for spinning tales. Los Angeles based artist Karou Manour weaves visual stories throughout her work, whether figurative, abstract, sculpture, or landscape, her work catches us in the midst of a mystery.
Yoshinobu 1949, collage, acrylic and ganbi tissue on wood panel, 16×16 Each piece has such an clandestine atmosphere, making us wonder where we have found ourselves, what we are seeing, and how it came to be.
From Portland #117, collage, acrylic on wood panel, 10×10 
Uzu Uzu #104, acrylic and thread on gourd, 5x5x5 
Rocket Apron, thread, acrylic, ink pen on paper, 23.5×35 It feels as if we are caught in the midst of an ancient story, one filled with myth and mysticism.
Iro #529, collage, acrylic and 22k metal leaf on canvas, 30×30 To see more of Karou Mansour’s work, please visit her website.
Artist found via Florida Mining Gallery, where I saw a few of Karou’s pieces in person– they are stunning!
All images are via the artist’s website.
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Guest Foraging for UGallery: Curated Persona: Outdoorsy Wanderer
There’s a new Curated Persona up over on the UGallery blog! This one describes a person pretty similar to someone close to my own heart. Check it out here! BONUS: Artsy Forager readers will receive 15% off on any UGallery purchase until December 3, 2012! Just enter coupon code forage15!
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Sketch & Slash: Pinkney Herbert
There is a temporary, transitory nature to drawings that always make them seem much more loose and free than their painted counterparts. The pastel work of Memphis artist Pinkney Herbert explodes with the energy of an artist unfettered.
Fanfare 2, pastel on paper, 29×41 Maybe it’s the relative inexpense of paper vs. canvas or the fact that work on paper is usually seen as merely preparation and practice for more permanent work. Herbert’s work on paper, for me, has a frenetic energy that is incredibly appealing and engaging ( not that his painted work isn’t– check out his paintings here! )
Tower 1, pastel on paper, 29×41 
Tower 2, pastel on paper, 29×41 You can practically see the artist’s movement as his hand sweeps feverishly across the surface of the paper.
Attune, pastel on paper, 29×41 To see more of Pinkney Herbert’s work, please visit his website.
Artist found via David Lusk Gallery. All images are via the artist’s website.
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Artsy on Escape Into Life: Lucy Mink
While I adore abstracts full of wild, expressive brushstrokes, sometimes abstracts with a focus on quiet shapes and patterns are a welcome respite. In today’s Artist Watch over on Escape Into Life, I’m featuring the work of Lucy Mink, whose paintings feature muted tones and the comfort of repetitive patterns. See Lucy Mink’s Artist Watch here!
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Environmental Ephemera: Tim Pugh
Nature has a way of littering her surfaces with remnants of her past lives. Whether sea shells scattered on a beach or leaves dispersed across the forest floor, she leaves us with reminders of what was. UK installation artist Tim Pugh arranges nature’s discarded offerings like precious memories in a shadowbox.
Woodland Floor Rearrangement, leaves, sticks, woodland debris, Biltberry Woods, Flintshire, UK Using what is found the enviroment around him, Pugh draws inspiration from natural patterns and textures as well as archaeology and geography.
Winter Clusters, Hawarden Woods Deeside, Flintshire, UK 
Snowball Composition, snow, Hawarden Woods, Flintshire, UK 
Beech Burst, beech nuts and snow, Hawarden Woods, Flintshire, UK His installations blend so seemlessly into their environment that it would seem as if they were arranged by mother nature’s own hand.
Beech Weave, beech leaves, Bilberry Woods, Flintshire, UK To see more of Tim Pugh’s work, please visit his website. Have you ever happened upon an artistic installation in the woods?
All images are via the artist’s website.
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Social Media: Laura Hudson
Because of the transitory nature of my life currently, many times Mr. Forager and I will purposely seek out coffee shops, art openings, and pubs merely for the opportunity to interact face to face with other people. Baltimore based artist Laura Hudson takes such opportunities a few steps further, cultivating events in order to draw people together, observe their scenes of interaction, then distilling selected scenes as life-scale paintings.
To see more of Laura Hudson’s work, please visit her website. She is an artist in residence at Gallery Four in Baltimore.
Artist found via New American Paintings. All images are via the artist’s website.
