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  • Breaking Good. Kate Tucker

    Breaking Good. Kate Tucker

    As artists, often what we want to express can’t be contained between the four straight lines of a canvas.  So artists like Australian artist Kate Tucker push the boundaries of surface and form, leading to paintings that seem to break free from their molds, even as those same structures hold them in place.

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    Even paintings framed in a traditional way seem liberated when incorporated into an installation of shards of compositions.  Each painting reflects the installation, which reflects the painting.  It’s like a wonderful tale of deliberate chaos.

    To see more of Kate Tucker‘s work, please visit her website.

    All images are via the artist’s website.  Artist found via Art Hound.

  • Summer Lovin’. Belinda Marshall #makegood

    Summer Lovin’. Belinda Marshall #makegood

    Surprise!!  I know a few days ago I shared that I would be slowing things down a bit for a while, but then I heard about the #makegood Great.ly campaign and well, I just had to join in! If you don’t know about Great.ly, it is a super fabulous site where artists and artisans AKA Makers stock an online “studio” with work from which “tastemakers” ( bloggers like me & other influential folks ) fill their Great.ly boutiques and share the work with their readers.

    Already there are lots of incredible Makers on the site and I wanted to pop in and introduce you to one of my favorites, Melbourne artist Belinda Marshall.  Belinda creates these gorgeously sunny and happy abstracts teeming with color.  With their bright popsicle palettes, these babies are my summer love affair!

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    All of these pieces are available as prints in The Trove, the Artsy Forager boutique gallery on Great.ly.  Which one is your favorite?  Tell me yours and I’ll tell you mine!

    Be sure to check out some other Makers my fellow Tastemakers are posting about today!  Shout out to The Artful Desperado, Bird & Beau, Mai Autumn, & The Jealous Curator!

    All images via The Artsy Forager Great.ly page.

    *This post contains affiliate links. As a Great.ly Tastemaker and curator of The Trove, I receive a small commission on each piece sold from The Trove boutique gallery.

  • Distilled Visions. Micah Crandall Bear

    Distilled Visions. Micah Crandall Bear

    The other day Mr. F and I hiked up a hill in nearby Trinidad to a spot looking out over the ocean.  As we gazed out over the Pacific, I wondered at the way the colors in the water faded into each other in distinctive strips.  Sacramento artist Micah Crandall-Bear paints color field paintings that distill the landscape into saturated lines of color.

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    Gentle washes of color sweep over the canvases, light filtering softly through, each piece recalling a moment in time and place, never to be experienced again.  Saturated skies reflect their colored light and bathe every other hue.

    To see more of Micah Crandall-Bear‘s work, please visit his website.  His current solo show at  Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento is up through the end of July, see it if you can!

    Images via the artist’s website, the Elliott Fouts Gallery website & the EF Facebook page.

  • Finding My Own Artsy. Slowing down. Gaining Focus.

    Finding My Own Artsy. Slowing down. Gaining Focus.

    Summer is the perfect time for slowing down and regrouping.  Lately I’ve been feeling pulled in a dozen different directions, like a jack of all trades but master of none.  In the back of my mind, I knew I needed to regroup, but I kept putting it off.

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    All of that would have been enough to prompt a good long look at what I was doing, but getting some difficult news last week threw things into perspective.  If you follow along on Instagram, you may know, but my mom was diagnosed with Stage 3C Ovarian Peritoneal Cancer last week.  She begins four months of chemo next week.  She is in Florida and for the moment, Mr. F & I are still in California, so there isn’t much I can physically do for her from here.  But her fight for her life has made me rethink how I’m spending my time.

    At least for the next month or so, I’m going to ease up on blogging a bit– they’ll still be a new “Daily Artsy” each Monday through Friday but I won’t be posting extra features like Design Foraging, Don’t Miss Artsiness, etc. on a regular basis for a while.  I have lots of freelance work coming up that needs to take priority, a special project I’ve started for my mom, and I’d like to devote some serious time to painting.  I’ll still be here and on Artsy Forager’s social media, just taking a little time to slow down and think about what’s really important.

  • Painted Air. Clara Fialho

    Painted Air. Clara Fialho

    It’s true, I love work filled with deep color and contrast.  But occasionally I crave something that feels fresh and light as air.  The work of Brazilian born, New York based artist Clara Fialho feels like such a breath of fresh painted air.  A balm for this artsy’s spirit.

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    While some of Fialho’s work has a much more saturated palette, it was to these lighter paintings and drawings I found myself drawn.  There is such a delicacy to them, not just in the lightness of hue but in the way many of the shapes seem to float weightlessly above the surface.  There seems a sense of freedom to these pieces, the shackles of saturation cast away and a dance of joy begun.

    To see more of Clara Fialho‘s work, please visit her website.

    All work via the artist’s website.

  • Shapes Surrounding. Joshua Abarbanel

    Shapes Surrounding. Joshua Abarbanel

    Whenever Mr. F and I go hiking or beach walking, I get a sore neck.  That might seem a bit weird, but it’s really not when you learn that I spend a lot of time looking down.  Not just because of my klutzy tendencies, but because of all the amazing shapes and patterns to be found beneath our feet.  California artist Joshua Abarbanel fashions incredible wood sculptures inspired by nature’s forms and shapes.

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    Abarbanel uses a mix of technology, mechanical tools, and handiwork to craft these amazing sculptures.  The way all the elements fit together seems perfectly in sync, a delicate balance like the life on a coral reef or gears of a clock.

    To see more of the work of Joshua Abarbanel, please visit his website.  His work can currently be seen at Hinge Parallel in Culver City, CA.

    All images are via the artist’s website.

  • Don’t Miss Artsiness 7.17.14

    Don’t Miss Artsiness 7.17.14

    Gallery Shows You Should See

    I would love to get lost in an interesting and compelling art show right about now.  In case you’re looking to do the same, here are a few gallery shows you might want to check out– NSWE collage 7.10.2014 north | Kinetic Sculptures, Prints, and Carved Wood Panels by John Buck at Greg Kucera Gallery

    south | Women in Abstract at Hidell Brooks Gallery

    west | Chroma, Hue, Value featuring Gerardo Hacer at Gilman Contemporary

    east | Joan Mitchell: Trees at Cheim & Reid

    I am especially jealous of anyone who gets to see the Joan Mitchell show.  So very very jealous!  If you go, tag me on Instagram with the hashtag #dontmissartsiness!

    All image sources linked above.

  • Don’t Miss Artsiness 7.10.14

    Don’t Miss Artsiness 7.10.14

    Gallery Shows You Should See

    Hey you fellow Foragers!  There are some incredible shows going on right now.  Here are just a few of my recommendations for must-see museum and gallery shows this week!

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    north | Your Feast Has Ended featuring work by Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep Sidhu at the Frye Art Museum

    south | Dialogues featuring work by Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Myungwon Kim, Ron Buffington, Galen Cheney at Gray Contemporary

    east | Fable, Victor Grasso solo exhibition at Parlor Gallery

    west | Micah Crandall-Bear at Elliot Fouts Gallery

    Happy Foraging, Artsies!

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  • Detritus Reformed: Aurora Robson

    Detritus Reformed: Aurora Robson

    Whenever we’re out hiking, one of our pet peeves is spotting trash and debris in wild places.  We inevitably come across a bit of litter no matter where we happen to be exploring and always try to do our best to pick up what we can.  Yet we all consume and discard so much every day without even thinking.  Multi-media artist Aurora Robson transforms plastic debris into beautiful, life-like structures.
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    To see more of Aurora Robson‘s work, please visit her website.

    All images via the artist’s website.

     

  • Unruly Surfaces: Howard Sherman

    Unruly Surfaces: Howard Sherman

    Last week, while Mr. F and I were out with a few of his work colleagues, we discovered that, at a table of four adults in their 30s/40s, every single one of us came from a divorced family. It seems that we all become torn and tattered as life gets ahold of us.  Not just the kids of divorce, but anyone who’s gone through pain, suffering, and loss.  But it’s how we deal with our circumstances that determines the people we become.  In his mixed media work, artist Howard Sherman uses a process of addition and subtraction to create unruly surfaces that result in a beautiful mess.

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    Just as we react to our own situation, Sherman describes his work process as a bit of “call and response”.. Each action creates a reaction, and it is up to the artist whether the result is something to keep or cover up.  Just as we act and react to people, events, and circumstances in our lives, it is up to us to decide how we are affected and what our own final composition will be.

    To see more of Howard Sherman‘s work, please visit his website.

    All images via the artist’s website.  Artist found via New American Paintings.