I'm a huge fan of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and was stoked when I found out she was having a show at the Seattle art museum. Her work is complex-- both cheerful and disturbing. There's a a playful intensity to ALL THOSE DOTS. Her mirror rooms are like walking into a giant kaleidoscope. And what a fascinating life ...
I had the absolute pleasure of visiting the Georgia O'Keefe museum today in Santa Fe. She's one of those artists who is so famous that some of her work has become cliche. But her life's work was much more than just the evocative flowers we most associate with her. The collection has a diverse sample of her work. Here are some ...
I love love love the cutouts of Henri Matisse. The paper shapes and compositions he made during the last decade of his life were at once colorful, abstract, organic and playful, and novel. He called it "drawing with scissors. " (This MoMA site describes his process--I love the picture of him in his studio surrounded by all the colorful paper detritus.) Last year ...
When I was building the goattoman, I became pretty much obsessed with how to craft animal shapes. Not being much of a sculptor myself, I achieved something goat-like by a ton of trial and error. In my research, I gained a lot of respect for the fabric artists out there who make imaginative critters. Recently I came across the whimsical ...
