As we start to pack and plan for another summer wedding season – it’s fun day outfits like this I could even create in reality, not even on paper! I love the colors chosen and the looks they create.

A little fall print!

All their creations are manufactured in the USA as well. Jennifer, who I think is the mastermind of the operation, must be pretty fun

So adorable.

I remember taking painting classes in college and learning about how to start with color blocking like this – I really appreciate the hot and cold areas and how they create shape and shadows.

This cow makes me think of Dali – it’s like a cow of your weirdest dreams! I really like that her background appears to be red, which was another approach we learned at college. The base upon which you start can make such a difference – just not starting white!

I love how linear her streaks are and how unexpected the color combos are. This reminds me of the cow painting in our guest room by Roz but much more dreamy and abstract.

I can’t get over these. I think they’re great. I love that peachy-salmon tone and it makes me think I could paint…but I learned that lesson long ago!

Some of these appear to vary in scale from pretty small to fairly large but her pricing seems really reasonable for having such a personal, developed aesthetic. I can’t wait to see what she does next.

I also adore the lack of attention to the background (conscious or unconscious). I like that, like photo, you focus on just one part mostly.

Per usual I’m attracted to the vessel form as well as its bulbous quality.

And hives. I love a great hive. I think I might love this one even more if it was wall mounted, not on the stick but literally just coming out of the wall. I also really think it’s great that she leaves the pieces neutral in tone so that you can still see the print itself. I love a good neutral color palette and letting your materials literally speak for you.

How neat are those? Holly works out of Tacoma, Washington – she might be the first Washingtonian I’ve ever profiled here.

In her own artists statement she says, “In these labor-intensive works she explores the life cycle of ideas—how ideas are generated, dispersed, referenced or forgotten.” I love a good laborious art process! Commitment.

As I got to digging around though it appears she’s far younger than I thought. She, I think, graduated college last year in Colorado.

For some reason, maybe it’s the patterns or the colors but I just sort of assumed she was middle-aged. I have no idea what that says about me! Eleanor keeps up a great site but unlike many other artists there’s no big about section or artist’s statement – you get to just enjoy the works.

I did find this article on her from from her college’s radio station where it says she self-describes her works as 2.5D – as they do look sculpturally flat I can see what she’s getting at.

I think my favorite part is how simple some are like the above. It loks like a shell, a hive, stone wall, an igloo, etc. The possibilities are endless!

This photo is from “Abandoned Nature” – they’re whole installation works so it’s hard to get a complete sense of it in one photo but it’s as though these little amoebic cylinders were growing on a window sill after being left behind. I had thought at first they were glass but it appears they’re slip cast porcelain.

These, from the same piece, are polymer clay, which I imagine is much easier to work with. Part of what’s interesting about Sophia is that she does installations, sculptures, 2D work and digital as well. At first I thought, “that’s a lot to bite off” but then I realized how young she is and still in school at RISD. When I was in college art programs I was definitely encouraged to try new mediums until I found one that stuck. Sophia’s getting her MFA in Digital and Media this year.

This piece sort of reminded me of the installation works of Susie MacMurray who I always loved for her wrapped usage of saran wrap.

The above is one of Sophia’s 2D works. I was surprised to see that her focus at RISD is digital as I really like her sculptural works but I do like how these pieces nearly look knit in a way. Though they’re 2D they seem to have a lot of depth and so it seems she’s cross-populating her forms into one another.

This was the piece that made me realize why she may have emailed me (well this and the little repetitive cylinders). I do love art that deals will cells, science and the repeating forms it allows for. This is from her “Organic Cities” series and they’re all worth a look  - I also like the vibrant use of wood (I think).

Another digital piece – it looks like origami urchins or something. Again, the color is great and gets into the repeating shapes of nature – these could be snowflakes.

I’ll close out sharing her piece, Dreams. I love these little vessels. I like anyone who commits to creating so many of one thing too as you know. It all comes full circle for me as I realize Sophia’s email signature says Art, Tech and Nature – you can so clearly see those interests in her work and I can’t wait to see what natural, repeating forms and materials she gets into next.

Amoebas! I went into Google Translate to try to figure out her materials and it looks like pencil and thread…and foam? I’m not sure I trust the translator though, to be fair, we’ve made some weird things out of self-hardening foam in our day.

These look almost skeletal – like som odd invertebrate.

I love these with color selectively distributed throughout the inside! It reminds me of a cast you’d have put on your arm in elementary school that all your friends wrote on. But for what creature?

They look like cement, or polished concrete too – I just love the shapes.

The pods even look great oblong as opposed to rounded. I wonder if she uses an armature or not. Katrien, if you’re out there let us know!

Again I feel like this is some odd bone we never knew we had! It’s close enough up though that I think I can see the thread in it though to be fair my pupils are still fully dilated from the eye doctor today!

Believe it or not but this piece moves. Made of paper, fabric and a motor it actually undulates.

This piece is from a series she’s done re-imaging the use case for paper bags. She essentially turns paper bags – disposable items – into permanent vessels and works of art. She calls the series False ID.

Another piece from False ID. What’s particularly cool to me is that Georgia actually went to MassArt here in Boston and graduated in ’98. This was following what appears to be a college level degree in guitar in Athens. Very cool.

A close up from False ID.

She also makes wearable art – this piece is made of fabric and metal it appears. It reminds me somewhat of Issay Miyake’s accordion clothing.

The above is her piece that was actually a part of the Biennial. I love how they’re hung and almost look like human sized cocoons.

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I can tell you practically nothing about her or her work as everything I can find on her is in German and the translations aren’t super helpful. What I can find says that she works mostly with found objects. The above is called Spirits.

The above is called Oracle. I’m not sure what it’s made of – bicycle tires?

One writer talks about Sigrid as in the tradition of surrealist, Max Ernst. I can sort of see it. The above looks like a dragon made of ladders.

Fiberglass? Not sure.

Don’t ask. Half of her images are small and the other half – I imagine, newer images, are big like the above! Being in a larger image I can tell that these pieces are all cable tied together. This piece is called tortoiseshell.

The White Woman. I wonder what the scale of this is!

About her own work she says, “by making use of structural properties of the material, I develop flat bicycle tubes and mounts to three-dimensional objects. The everyday objects get a surprising spatial presence of form and gesture, act strange and familiar at the same time and broaden the perspective of the viewer.”

Reminds me of Jordan Taler’s work.

]]> http://pokate.com/2012/12/11/sigrid-neuwinger/feed/ 0 http://pokate.com/2012/12/11/sigrid-neuwinger/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pokate/~3/OH-ujP2zIgA/ http://pokate.com/2012/11/08/yuriko-yamaguchi-tubing-resin-art/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:41:10 +0000 Kate http://pokate.com/?p=3151 There is a blog – I think based in France – which I’ve mentioned here before, Murmure Visible. The writer, Marie-Andree Cote and I share a similar taste in artists. I often find new artists on her site and see ones I’ve written about on hers as well. I have no idea if she’s ever been over here but it’s just so nice to know that someone else out there and I have a common eye! Yesterday, in the snow here in Boston, I was perusing her site and fell in love with Yuriko Yamaguchi’s wall art / sculptures.

I love that her pieces look like clouds and vary in their depth of color and yet are made of plastic tubing, cut to various lengths, glued together. It’s reminiscent of Tara Donovan’s straw pieces. Of her work, Yuriko says, “I like to engage in creating works in which the materials, time, and labor become life itself. I prefer not to perceive the end result before I start a work. I prefer taking the time to discover in the process a successful planned construction. My works continue to evolve and change until I arrive at a state of satisfaction.”

The above piece is only listed as being made of resin. I have no idea how resin acts as a material – I’d always thought of it as an external coating or maybe an adhesive in some cases but never as a standalone material.

More tubing – this time more regular and clear to see. It looks like maybe this is at its max depth perhaps 3 or 4 inches, which would be possible to have in one’s home unlike some other pieces I’ve looked at recently.

Resin and wire – I love that this is reminiscent of my yurt shape – it looks like an igloo or home of some kind but obviously made of featherweight, non-enclosed materials.

For Yuriko this seems like a divergent type of piece and actually reminds me of Mona Hatoum’s intestines piece that I wrote up when I started this blog.

This to me almost looks like a cluster of butterflies. One thing I really love is that Yuriko has a great website with lots of information and detail and she has obviously taken a great deal of care with how her pieces are lit, photographed, etc.

Again, another departure into cast bronze. She works in many different materials. She calls this piece, “Rapture” naturally. It looks like my Jonathan Adler vase!

A close up – I love ombre as well.

One of my favorite parts of his work is that you don’t necessarily need to be a music fan to appreciate them. They are works of art, they are textile and weaving creations and more!

I love these. The colors he chooses are so vibrant and the stitching is so so exact. He apparently punctures the stock with a needle and then sews the thread through and ties it off. His puncture holes though are so small…I wonder if there’s another tool!

Look at those holes? They’re so exact and perfect. I also wonder if he freehands these works or if he uses a ruler. For some works below I imagine a ruler came into play!

The above is what a back side of one of his pieces looks like I think though I really can’t tell where the threads go in at those places where they just look like dots. It doesn’t make sense really how it all works unless those aren’t dots and instead they are just tiny tiny knots. I don’t know!

So beautiful and simple, streamlined.

The above is his visualization of the Fibonacci sequence in stitches. I like in these works that the color thread evolves throughout the piece, it isn’t just white or something else. Peter is able to create architectural detail and depth with color changes.

Beautiful color by an amazingly creative person. Based in the UK, Peter is an inspiration to people who are into detailed, repetitive work such as myself.

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