Nov 3, 2014 | Life With Art |
A world of color, inky, trasparent, dripping… yet sometimes geometric and deliberate. It feels to me like you can walk right into the rainbow colored world of Ara Osterweil and play in the layers of dreamy flow. This art is spectacular for me to kick start my own...
Oct 27, 2014 | Life With Art |
Now, this I plan to collect. It’s art made of fibers, twisted, knotted, knit, pulled, constructed and deconstructed. It’s handmade. It feels like you can read the lines and rhythms of each piece. This is the textile art of Alicia Scardetta and I want...
Oct 20, 2014 | Life With Art |
I love a great ring of stones, a field turned into sculpture, even sand carved with shapes. The thing about land-based, Earth-borne art is that it is just like Nature itself- fleeting, not meant for forever, yet enduring in such a magnificent way long after the...
Oct 13, 2014 | Life With Art |
Some art is lit from within. These landscapes created with ballpoint pen, oil paint and resin by Shane McAdams are an ultimate example of the luminous. Streaked skies like this make me want to hike a trail this afternoon and watch the sunset. It seems like the sky...
Oct 6, 2014 | Life With Art |
When art becomes much more than just something to hang in a gallery, when it becomes a tool for social change, a piece of history and life-changing in ways you just can’t fathom… this is the stuff I dream about. And this is what artist Tim Rollins created with...
Oct 4, 2014 | Life With Art |
Craft. If you consider craft to be the black sheep of “real art” think again. Craft is the viceral, the hand-hewn and, as we are about to see… craft can be the most disarming form of expression. Michelle Kingdom “paints” in thread. Her...