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Composites. Patrick Winfield.

It’s interesting sometimes, to think about all the influences, large and small, that have contributed to the people we’ve become. Whether we grow up among those who are like us, or always feeling like the outsider, we feel their affect, regardless. We become composites of all those experiences that we encounter. Photographer Patrick Winfield creates his own composited scenes in which disparate elements come together as a unified whole.

Each individual photograph, beautiful on its own, becomes an integral part of the larger composition. We take in each whole in its entirety, finding it lovely, yet each individual element draws us in, we go in search of the undiscovered detail. How like meeting a new friend, don’t you think? We meet, find ourselves attracted to the whole, whether through mutual interests or similar personalities, but then over time, we discover all that has gone in to making the individual.

To see more of Patrick Winfield‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 24, 2015
Dissections. Jean Faucheur.

Mr. F and I have been doing a lot of breaking it down lately. No, that isn’t some sort of euphemism and no, I don’t mean breakdancing. We’ve been apartment hunting in Marin County, where we’ve just landed for the next three months ( and hopefully by the time you’re reading this, we’ve found a home! ) and have been analyzing every possible rental backwards and forwards. It’s pretty amazing how a place might look like a fabulous bargain until we start breaking down extra costs associated. These photo collages by Jean Faucheur remind me of the way our perspectives change once we come at something from all possible angles.

Just a minut shift to the left or to the right can alter our perception completely, perhaps allowing us to become aware of details we just couldn’t see before. Have you ever found yourself going steadily along one way of thinking only to suddenly experience a revelation that causes a monumental shift? Feels like I’ve been experiencing a lot of those lately. Dizzying at first, but ultimately clarifying!

To see more of Jean Faucheur‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 23, 2015
Dualities. Doug Freed.

I find it amazing to experience a place through different days, different seasons. As Mr. F and I travel, such encounters are a rare treat, for we are usually only in the same spot for a season. But as life and light shifts, so too, does the atmosphere of a place. In his large scale paintings, Missouri artist Doug Freed brings us into the aura of light and mood in the landscapes around us.

In these intensely hued, yet softly toned paintings, we seem to be viewing the world through varying filters and lenses, the landscape changing ever so slightly with an alteration in light and shadow. The paintings seem to quietly call upon all of our other senses– can’t you feel the mist on your face, hear the gentle lapping of the water against the shore?

To see more of Doug Freed‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 20, 2015
Exchanges. Heather Day.

In just 48 hours, Mr. F and I will exchange one temporal locale for another. We’ll drive a few hours down the Coast to spend the next three months in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. Each one of these moves involves a lot of conversations and communications, between ourselves and with strangers, both those who remain so and those who become friends. In her abstract paintings, San Francisco artist Heather Day captures the interactions happening between mediums on her canvas.

Each day, we interact with the people around us in a myriad of ways– with a look, a smile, a kind word or even an um, not so kind gesture, we are communicating with each other even when say nothing. Our exchanges can be like a dance, initiating, giving, taking, some gestures larger than others– just as Day’s marks upon her canvases.

To see more of Heather Day‘s work, please visit her website. You can follow Heather’s work and studio practice on Instagram, as well!

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 19, 2015
Distance. Katte Geneta.

I have a bit of a tendency to get caught up in details. I’m detail oriented, which can be a big plus in some ways, but it does tend to make me a bit of a can’t-see-the-forest-for-the-trees- type sometimes. So it’s good for me to get some distance, both literally and figuratively. These small paintings by New York artist Katte Geneta reveal impressions of places distant from sight, distant from memory.

I first spotted Katte’s work in my Instagram feed, I think a fellow artist recommend her. And these small, quiet paintings seemed a spot of calm among the cacophony of sunsets, cats, and selfies in a typical day’s feed. As we look back upon a place, our memory often recalls the strongest impression– a line here, light there, this or that color. But that impression is what stays with us and Katte’s interpretations of that sense of place are incredibly strong. I can feel the cool air, the fog, the warmth of the setting sun.

To see more of Katte Geneta‘s work, please visit her website.

All images via the artist’s website or Instagram.

February 18, 2015
Discards. Alvaro Naddeo.

For most of my life I’ve lived surrounded by friends and family, so being without a home never seemed like a very real possibility to me. As Mr. F and I travel, we do occasionally find ourselves “between homes” temporarily, but that usually just involves a few nights in a local hotel while trying to find a rental. While living this past year in Eureka, we’ve encountered a homeless population to rival larger cities. I always wonder about them, how they came to where they are– was it a series of bad luck? Was it by choice?

We find ourselves walking by them, not making eye contact, trying not to notice them so they won’t notice us and make us uncomfortable. Perhaps through no fault of their own, these are the cast-offs, society’s discards that we’ve thrown away and never given a second thought. Because if we really think about them, we might see ourselves in their eyes.

These watercolor paintings from New York artist Alvaro Naddeo focus our attention on the consumption and consequent dumping of what was once needed, shiny and new. To see more of Alvaro Naddeo‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist.

February 17, 2015
Storytelling. Andrea Kowch.

I love a good story. Be it novel, film, or just an anecdote, I can’t get enough. Mr. F is a marvelous storyteller, far better than I’ll ever be. He has more stories than the Grimm brothers. While abstract painting has my heart, I do love the intricacies and narrative intrigue of allegorical painting, and in the work of Andrea Kowch, the visual storytelling shines.

It seems to me that with the advent of social media, as a society, we’re rediscovering our storytelling roots. On Twitter, we’re challenged to set a scene with just 140 characters. Instagram allows we visual folks to tell our stories through photos– often more powerful than words. Kowch’s figures with their sly, knowing gazes and hair in wild disarray drew me in when I first saw them in the Get Real show at MOCA when I was home in Florida. In the way her characters interact with each other, the viewer, and the world around them we seem to be catching them in the midst of a private scene– one whose true story is known only to the artist, but perhaps not even she.

To see more of the work of Andrea Kowch, please visit her website.

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 16, 2015
Nocturnes. Carla Berger.

It might surprise you to know that Mr. F and I are kind of homebodies. At night, any way. We get out during the day, hiking, adventuring around each new town we find ourselves in, but we often like to just spend our evenings at home with a nice dinner and a bottle of wine. I do get the itch sometimes, though, and tell Mr. F that I need a night out. There is something about being out when the sky is black that feels special. It’s that sexy I’m-out-on-a-school-night-after-curfew kind of feeling.

The work of photographer Carla Berger captures the alluring provocative quality to the night time. Her blurred, often closely cropped images are like fleeting glances into a film noir world. A world filled with seductive characters and intrigue. Proof that sometimes we all need a little escape into the night.

All images are via Carla Berger’s Instagram. Follow her for gorgeousness in your IG feed!

February 13, 2015
Veils. Rowena Martinich.

Although most of us aren’t required to wear them, many of us hide behind them. I’m talking about veils. They are often present even when we aren’t aware of them. We use our veils to hide our authentic selves– maybe it is a certain personality or brand we project through social media, or a laugh that is just a bit too loud, or gossiping about others to avoid talking about ourselves.

Our veil may be attractive, heck, it may even be the reason for our popularity, but what happens when the veil gets a tear? Who we truly are can’t be hidden forever, even as we try to recreate a different version of ourselves. Glimpses peek out again and again, until soon, the curtain we hide behind is obscuring, not what others of us but how we see the world.

Paintings by Australian artist Rowena Martinich. To see more of the artist’s work, please visit her website.

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 12, 2015
Softness. Mel Rea.

We live in a world in which everyone seems to be competing for attention. So many are shouting look at me, look at me! And it is often the shouters that get the attention, because well, our attention is more easily gained by a blow horn than by the soft whistle of a bird. These paintings by Mel Rea seem to revel in hushed strength.

Softly atmospheric with bright punches of color, Rea’s paintings remind me of those foggy early morning hours when the world is only just awakening.. The softness of the lifting darkness punctuated by the light of early risers, the occasional screech of brakes or blast of a horn jolting us from the stillness and into the rush of day.

To see more of Mel Rea‘s work, please visit her website.

All images via the artist’s website and Huff Harrington. Artist found via Steller’s Gallery.

February 11, 2015

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