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artist crush: ryan sarah murphy

January 23rd, 2012 · 6 Comments

Ryan Sarah Murphy’s cardboard collage work via Pinterest. Pretty stunning, huh?

I make abstract, sculptural collages using found and collected cardboard and book covers. I am interested in how these materials, in their simplicity, variety and wide abundance, can be cut and formed into quiet surfaces teeming with both geographical and emotional underpinnings. (The collages) reference architecture, landscape and the topographical intersection of urban & natural environments…

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artist crush: liza sylvestre

January 7th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Liza Sylvestre lives in Miami and creates wonderfully vibrant, moody art in both a large and small scale.

“Liza Sylvestre was born in South Minneapolis, Minnesota… Sylvestre’s early life and adolescence was defined by a significant and progressive hearing loss. Communication became increasingly dependent on small details that she became sensitive to. This simple physical fact created a very distinct lens through which she processed the world, and continues to process the world.”

 

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artist crush: paige anderson

November 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Paige Anderson is an artist from Utah whose work is an exploration of her family and ancestry.

My most recent project represents what I have found while discovering my ancestry: repetition, consistency, veiled connections… Methodical processes also underscore the connection my work has to traditional women’s work—like quilting—as well as daily family rituals, ceremony and pursuing genealogical research… My work also explores the idea that I am but one of a string of genetically linked individuals. This notion has profound implications;… that I am but part of a grand causality. 

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artist crush: mary-u-wanna

October 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Mary-u-wanna aka Florian & Michaël Quistrebert at Galerie Crèvecoeur.

This show by the Guistrebert brothers was inspired by Gothic architecture and ornamentation in New York City which they state“dares formal mixes, combining gothic vertical impetuses and constructivist cuttings, medieval austerity and futuristic megalomania.”

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artist crush: anahi ojeda

October 3rd, 2011 · 4 Comments

Anahi Ojeda

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