Thursday, September 19

Art

Here’s the entire archive of art-related articles on webertela.online . Take some time to look around, and have fun getting lost in all the content.

Musya Qeburia – continuous quest for perfectionMusya Qeburia –
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Musya Qeburia – continuous quest for perfectionMusya Qeburia –

/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Emma Taylor UK-based book sculptor Emma Taylor sources old books from charity and antique shops and gives them a second story. Taylor uses simple materials—just glue, paper, and scissors—to sculpt architectural facades, lively animals, and leafy trees from otherwise unused titles. Each scene is inspired by the book’s written content, with a garden scene emerging from An Introduction to Botany and Italian houses built out of The Story of Venice. The artist shares on her website that she has been ca...
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New Three Dimensional Narratives Composed from Discarded Books
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New Three Dimensional Narratives Composed from Discarded Books

/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Emma Taylor UK-based book sculptor Emma Taylor sources old books from charity and antique shops and gives them a second story. Taylor uses simple materials—just glue, paper, and scissors—to sculpt architectural facades, lively animals, and leafy trees from otherwise unused titles. Each scene is inspired by the book’s written content, with a garden scene emerging from An Introduction to Botany and Italian houses built out of The Story of Venice. The artist shares on her website that she has been ca...
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Howard Gross
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Howard Gross

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Howard Gross Howard Gross began his artistic career in Chicago receiving his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago during his first solo exhibition at the Alan Frumkin Gallery. The exhibition was in fact presented as Mr. Gross' graduate thesis. He believes the moments that open that exhibition - first his professors coming to evaluate the work for his degree and then his dealer. Alice Adam entering, followed by him receiving his degree - were prophetic in that it marked for him the first time art d...
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“Seven Mile and Livernois” @ the Detroit Institute of Art
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“Seven Mile and Livernois” @ the Detroit Institute of Art

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Tiff Massey, Whatupdoe (part 1), 2024, stainless steel, photo K.A. Letts Museums are often risk-averse institutions, choosing their curatorial offerings with an eye to what is safe and canonical. The Detroit Institute of Art has made a provocative and unexpected choice with its just-opened exhibition of Detroit-based sculptor and community activist Tiff Massey.  “Seven Mile and Livernois,” as this year-long exhibition is called, places the artist’s practice squarely in the neighborhood where she...
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Zoë Buckman On Tenderness, Her Evolution as a Woman and Mother, and Embroidering Her Largest Works To Date
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Zoë Buckman On Tenderness, Her Evolution as a Woman and Mother, and Embroidering Her Largest Works To Date

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} “songs leak from my bedroom walls” (2023). Photo by Charles Benton. All images © Zoë Buckman, courtesy of Lyes & King, shared with permission What responsibility does an artist have to care for her viewers? Zoë Buckman thinks deeply about this question and discusses it in a recent conversation with Colossal.One thing that’s important to me has to do with beauty and softness. Those are definitely tools that I embrace and harness. I know that I’m exploring something that is very difficult and trig...
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Barbed Wire, Chains, and Shears Cleave Through Delicate Pottery in Glen Taylor’s Profound Sculptures
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Barbed Wire, Chains, and Shears Cleave Through Delicate Pottery in Glen Taylor’s Profound Sculptures

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} ll images © Glen Taylor, shared with permission Far from dainty, Glen Taylor’s teapots, cups, and saucers (previously) tap into the contrasts and contradictions of human nature. Soldering industrial implements like barbed wire, shears, and chains to broken pieces of porcelain and pottery, the artist draws on our associations with aging, decorum, and everyday wear and tear.Influenced by kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with metallic seams to highlight the object’s history, the sc...
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Artist Spotlight: Xénia Lucie Laffely
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Artist Spotlight: Xénia Lucie Laffely

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Artist Spotlight: Xénia Lucie Laffely Aselection of work from Swiss artist Xénia Lucie Laffely. Currently based between Lausanne and Montreal, Laffely holds a BFA and an MFA in textile design from the Haute École d’art et de design (Geneva). Her fleshy textile pieces playfully interrogate issues related to digital culture, vanity, domestic space, failure, consumerism, and lesbian love. Integrating snapshots and memories from her own daily life, Laffely’s work is infused with a sense of familiarity t...
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Sir Elton John and David Furnish Bring Their Exceptional Photography Collection to the V&A Museum
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Sir Elton John and David Furnish Bring Their Exceptional Photography Collection to the V&A Museum

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} “Elton John: Egg On His Face, New York” by David LaChapelle, 1999 (Photo: © David LaChapelle) Sir Elton John is known as one of the greatest singer-songwriters of our time, as well as a respected philanthropist along with husband David Furnish. But did you know that John and Furnish are also passionate about photography? A new exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum shines a light on their vast photography collection, displaying over 300 rare prints from their collection of over 7,000 im...
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Fungi, Feathers, and Insects Spring from Carol Long’s Art Nouveau Vessels
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Fungi, Feathers, and Insects Spring from Carol Long’s Art Nouveau Vessels

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} All images © Carol Long, shared with permission Midwestern flora and fauna are the foundation for Carol Long’s lavishly adorned sculptures, which elegantly meld Art Nouveau embellishments with natural motifs. The Kansas-based artist (previously) continues her process of pushing and pulling the sides of a thrown vessel to achieve exaggerated proportions. Bublous bases, thin, curvy handles, and wobbly openings are characteristic of her ceramic sculptures, which she garnishes with slip-trail textures e...
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Warped Sculptures Suspend Novels, Guidebooks, and Other Print Objects in Borax Crystals
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Warped Sculptures Suspend Novels, Guidebooks, and Other Print Objects in Borax Crystals

/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} For more than a decade, Alexis Arnold has been intrigued by the evolving nature of print. Her ongoing collection, titled Crystallized Books, transforms novels, guides, and maps into gleaming sculptures that consider how we value and use objects. “While I started the series in 2011 partly as a reaction to the vulnerability of printed media, it’s been nice to see a return to the cultural value of printed media while working on the series over the past 12 years. It’s also been interesting (and at times technically fru...
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