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Tag: Jeremy Miranda

  • Don’t Miss Artsiness: NSEW 6.5.2014

    Gallery Shows You Should Know About

    This week, it would seem, is one to be filled with all sorts of newness!  In addition to the new post series started on Tuesday and the introduction of my Great.ly shop, I’m excited to finally launch a new featured series I’ve been pondering for a while now.  I’m always on the hunt for new ways to support and promote the artists whose work I love.  When we travel, we’re on the lookout for local art shows and happenings.  Which led me to think, hey, you guys must be, too!

    Each Thursday afternoon, I’ll be posting a round up of interesting gallery or museum shows I think you outta know about– one from each region of the country, North, South, East & West. ( FYI– sometimes North and Northwest will be interchangeable, just because. )

    Here’s the very first round up–

    NSWE collage 6.5.2014

    north | Marie Watt, Receiver at Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

    south | Lily Kuonen, Playnthings, at the Crisp Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, FL

    east | Jeremy Miranda, Late Winter/Early Spring at Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH

    west | Jennifer JL Jones, Invisible Thread at Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM**

    Find details about each show by clicking through to the gallery or museum links above.  If you check ’em out, tag me ( @artsyforager ) on Instagram with the hashtag #dontmissartsiness!

    **Jennifer JL Jones’ show ends June 8th! Get there before it closes.

    Image sources via the galleries & museum sites linked above.

     

  • Nature, Uncontrolled: Jeremy Miranda

    Nature, Uncontrolled: Jeremy Miranda

    The sea or the snow?  The sea or the snow.  Mr. F and I go back and forth on this question frequently.  While spending the winter in Idaho, we decided on snow.  But now that we are on the Northern California coast, I wonder, will the tides turn back toward the sea?  There is something wild and mysterious about the ocean, and Massachusetts artist Jeremy Miranda captures the struggle by man to understand and control the uncontrollable character of nature.

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    We move in to the wild places, we build our houses and cultivate lawns and gardens, we want to be surrounded by nature’s beauty yet when the elements go about their way with no regard for us, we resent it.  We try to control it.  To bend and shift nature’s way to meet our own needs instead of leaving it to its own perfectly evolved devices.  Miranda’s work captures that intrusion of man on wild, not only the destruction and encapsulation that ensues, but the way that nature reclaims what is hers when man moves on.

    To see more of Jeremy Miranda‘s work, please visit his website.

    All images via the artist’s website.