We’ve posted about ceramic artist Angel Oloshove before – she loves gradients! Her sculptures are sweet puffy forms that have a such soft lightness to them. They look almost good enough to eat! angel-oloshove.squarespace.com
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Surrounding Islands
In 1983 installation artists and lovers Christo and Jean-Claude surrounded the islands of Miami’s Biscayne Bay in floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending out 200 feet (61 meters) from each island into the bay. The fabric was sewn into 79 patterns to follow the contours of the 11 islands…. Read more »
A Few South Africans
Celebrating the women activists of South Africa’s apartheid – who often go unrecognised by historical record and mainstream media – Sue Williamson has created these almost shrine-like effigies in their honour. The central image in each piece is a photo-etching with additional etching techniques like aquatints and drawing through hardground. Some of the imagery on the… Read more »
Pleats Please
French photographer Francis Giacobetti has collaborated with Issey Miyake on numerous campaigns for his Pleats Please range, in the late 90s and from 2013 onwards. Pleats Please is positioned to embody one of the most fundamental concepts of Issey Miyake – where the true value of design lies in its integration into the everyday life and… Read more »
Islands in the Sky
Surreal otherworldly utopias created by Canadian artist Tristram Lansdowne. tristramlansdowne.com