Contact 2010 Photo-a-Day: Dana Claxton (et al) at MOCCA
It's be hard not to give today to Contact's lead exhibition at MOCCA, The Mechanical Bride , which hosts the festival's splashy public launch tonight (starting at 7). The curatorial frame, drawn from media soothsayer Marshall McLuhan's book of the same name , is remarkably tight and focused, though some of the work seems a little shoehorned in: In his book, McLuhan observed, with his typical eerie prescience, how the manipulative potential of an image-based culture was destined to become the tool of an advertising industry bent on presenting us with false pleasures as a means of selling their stuff
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Contact 2010 Photo-a-Day: Dana Claxton (et al) at MOCCA
David Edwards Becky Joy Cheryl Pass Barbara Haviland Mark Webster Janice Warriner Karla Nolan Cheryl Ratcliff Andrew Orr Coral Barclay Justin Clayton AJ LaGasse To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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New Daily Paintings – April 30, 2010 – from Painting a Day Artists!
Exhausted and still not finished with all the paintings (16 in 4 day!) I am more than satisfied with this little trip, … learned a lot! One thing for example that some colour really aren’t mixable with Menk’s palette (Sorry Kevin) but the pink and purple fields just aren’t the same when painted in brownish colors.
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Back from the bulb-fields.
Contact doesn't officially start until Saturday, but that doesn't mean there isn't a glut of openings related to it tonight. In keeping with last year's practice, I'll run a photo here every day, from a different exhibition (not sure if the paper will do the same this year or not; last year we got lucky).
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It begins — Contact 2010
In the final throes of my catch-up — and moments before the Contact onslaught descends — I wanted to point you to a handful of shows in their waning moments that are worth a look, if you haven't already. Helpfully, they're all clustered side-by-each along a quiet stretch of Tecumseth Street a little south of Queen, which makes it easier
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Last chances …
Illustration: Examples Of Tatar leatherwork 1925 In 1925 the then Soviet Union held, amongst its various exhibitions at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, a large display that highlighted the ethnic diversity of the Union as seen through various traditional craft skills. Amongst these displays was some Tatar leatherwork.
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Tatar Leatherwork
Janice Warriner Barbara Haviland Coral Barclay AJ LaGasse Andrew Orr Cheryl Ratcliff Cheryl Pass David Edwards Justin Clayton Karla Nolan Mark Webster Becky Joy To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings – April 29, 2010
Illustration: Crochet chair back pattern 19th century Although crochet can often be closely, although inaccurately twinned with knit, it has in fact long been associated with lace rather than knit. In many respects, it could be seen as a simpler, though still effective interpretation of lace skills. Although obviously not as fine and accomplished as professional lace making, depending on the materials used and the fineness of both yarn and needle, a wide variation of crochet can be achieved.
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Crochet as Lace
Illustration: Large embroidered hanging from Bukhoro, Uzbekistan The embroidery skills and decorative pattern work of Uzbekistan are some of the most iconic of Central Asia. Although embroidery was used extensively in costume, apart from the ubiquitous cap or hat, many outside of Uzbek culture are more familiar with domestic embroidery. Many of the best examples of Uzbek embroidery are in the form of internal hangings, bedspreads and covers
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Uzbek Embroidery
David Edwards Becky Joy Cheryl Pass Barbara Haviland Mark Webster Janice Warriner Karla Nolan Cheryl Ratcliff Andrew Orr Coral Barclay Justin Clayton AJ LaGasse To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings for Sale – April 27, 2010
Illustration: Erin Wilson Short Story #4 2009 The textile artwork of Erin Wilson at first seems effortlessly simple. Small boxes are repeated in a composition that includes regular rows and columns
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Erin Wilson’s Quilted Short Stories
Barbara Haviland Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster David Edwards Cheryl Pass AJ LaGasse Justin Clayton Becky Joy Coral Barclay Andrew Orr Karla Nolan Janice Warriner To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Art by Daily Painters – April 26, 2010
Thanks to Cheryl for her thoughts about cooking with her young girls! I am thrilled that she offered to participate in What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids! (I love her blog and adore many of the blogs in her blogroll – maybe What’s Cooking will make it there one day!) Take it away, Cheryl… I often spend my
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids: Babka is a Family Affair
David Edwards Becky Joy Cheryl Pass Barbara Haviland Mark Webster Janice Warriner Karla Nolan Cheryl Ratcliff Andrew Orr Coral Barclay Justin Clayton AJ LaGasse To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Abstract Art | Still life art | Daily Art – April 24, 2010
So many tips I want to pass along to you this weekend… Why You Need A Sidekick And How To Get One — from Inspired to Action Struggling with Time-Debt — from Get Rich Slowly Kideos — online videos for kids, kind of like YouTube, but screened to be safe and age-appropriate. (Our three-year-old daughter will surprise us with how well she uses the computer. She somehow added a little pink pet to my husband’s Facebook account, and it took him a good half hour to figure out how to delete it and restore his manly rep.) You’re guaranteed to find new lunch ideas you like from the nearly one hundred amazing comments you shared this week
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Good Reads for Your Weekend
In honor of Earth Day, this Parisian fool is going to load his vintage Fiat with about a thousand pounds of soil and shrubbery. In honor of Earth Day, Oh Joy! has shared this piece of design candy with her readers, kicking them over to manufacturer BacSac
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Design literacy needed: Oh Joy! puts Earth Day at -1
Illustration: Marianne Stokes Ehret die Frauen tapestry 1912 Marianne Stokes for all her connections with Morris & Co and the perception, through at least part of her work, of an inbuilt English Pre Raphaelite style, was in fact Austrian. She was born Marianne Preindlsberger in Graz in southern Austria. She became Stokes through her husband the English landscape artist Adrian Stokes and settled in England, living for many years in St Ives, Cornwall.
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Marianne Stokes and the Ehret die Frauen Tapestry
Barbara Haviland Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster David Edwards Cheryl Pass AJ LaGasse Justin Clayton Becky Joy Coral Barclay Andrew Orr Karla Nolan Janice Warriner To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings for Sale – April 23, 2010
This Story is by The Brothers Grimm Translated by D. L. Ashliman Once upon a time, as a queen sits sewing at her window, she pricks her finger on her needle and three drops of blood fall on the snow that had fallen on her ebony window frame
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A take on Snow White…
5″ by 7″ daily pastel painting, unframed painted on pastel board Virtual Paintout’s art challenge this month is to paint a scene from google maps in the Canary Islands. This little piece changed so much from the original image that I picked but I still might submit it to the challenge.
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six trees