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!
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.
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! )
You can practically see the artist’s movement as his hand sweeps feverishly across the surface of the paper.
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.
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!
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.
Using what is found the enviroment around him, Pugh draws inspiration from natural patterns and textures as well as archaeology and geography.
His installations blend so seemlessly into their environment that it would seem as if they were arranged by mother nature’s own hand.
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.
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.
Something about this time of year makes long for warm & cozy things. Felt played a big role in the holiday decor I grew up with, so I love seeing so many modern spins on this classic material. Here are a few of my recent felt art finds!
Happy Friday!
Wishing a very happy Thanksgiving to all the US Artsies and a day of blessing to everyone! I am thankful for the inspiration found in the work of so many talented artists, the encouragement of all my artsy readers, and the opportunity to bring these two blessings together each day.
Hope you are all enjoying an abundance of love today!
Image by November Featured Artist, Susan Melrath. See her work on the Artsy Forager Facebook page & her website.
Growing up in the 70’s in a working class family, much of the time we used what we had and lots of imagination in our daily play. My brother & I would regularly create “cars” out of cardboard boxes and I distinctly remember creating an entire make-believe floor plan out of fallen leaves. The work of London based photographer Noemie Goudal reminds me of how easily our imaginations are transported as children.
Goudal’s work recalls the magic of blanket forts and tin can telephones. Taking us back to a time when just a shape or a line sparks our senses to conduct us into a new fantasy world filled with possibility.
The artist uses simple props and imagery to create imaginative installations that seem to capture portals into a completely different world, a world that seems to leak out, blending the imagined with reality in the same magical way we did as children.
To see more of Noemie Goudal’s work, please visit her website. How did your imagination shape your own childhood play?
Completely in awe of these quiet, seemingly simple drawings by Asheville artist Kirsten Stolle. These unassuming little works deal in abstract ways with big issues such as climate change and genetic modification. I’m featuring Kirsten’s work in my Artist Watch over on Escape Into Life today– see it here!
It’s no secret that colors can have an effect on our mood. There are certain shades that just make me happy and artwork that concentrates on the interaction of colors and their properties make my heart sing. Chicago artist Judy Ledgerwood’s work explores the ways in which the placement of color creates graphic interplay and the illusion of light.
Ledgerwood’s large scale works are drenched in saturated color, focusing on simple shapes and patterns. The eye isn’t distracted by detail but can concentrate on the sheer beauty of color and shape.
She uses the placement of color to play with pattern and light. Shadows and movement emerge through the simple interaction of color.
To see more of Judy Ledgerwood’s work, please visit her page on ArtSlant.
Artist found via The Art Cake. All images via ArtSlant.