Art Hound

Mimi Jung is a Cooper Union grad, a recent LA transplant and an artist and jewelry maker who works under the clever name Brook&Lyn. She just unveiled these weavings on her site and they are popping up all around the internet! Mimi’s work stands out from the crowd not because it’s groundbreaking but because of what she achieves (elegance in spades!) working with familiar materials and constructs.

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I blogged about Anastasia Ugorskaya back in 2010 and that post gets more mentions than any other in Art Hound’s history. I guess many of you share my strong feelings about Anastasia’s work! The artist has been pretty quiet, but she did update her website with these three paintings from 2012. I am eagerly awaiting more!

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This work is by Brooklyn-based Art and People. While I chose to feature Art and People’s wildlife scenes which with their dark, subdued palette reminds me of Rosseau, it is fascinating to look through the rest of the artist’s extremely varied body of work.

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I am loving the work of Brooklyn-based artist Katy Krantz. These are some of her prints and collages from 2009 – 2010. Not new but definitely great work that is lush and summery!

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Amy Feldman is a Brooklyn-based abstract painter.  Most of her recent work on her site is in black and white, but it’s her work in color that really speaks to me.

“Her canvases explore the complex and often paradoxical nature of abstraction. Her compositions contrast bold, abstract geometries, cartoon scrawls and oozy expanses of colorful line that feel as if they are going to melt from the canvas and onto the floor.” – The Art Economist

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Brooklyn-based artist Stephanie Chambers is on Buy Some Damn Art this week and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share her work here too. Stephanie’s work is full of flora and fauna, and by excluding human subjects she sidesteps the many social constructs with which that we view them. She also has a deep love of Pomeranians and coconut water and was once an extra on People’s Court.

Go After What You Want, $500

Tell us about the work in this show. 

They’re chosen for both. As humans on this planet, we encounter and absorb so many stories and symbols about specific animals, and I like to play with these notions in my artwork. Even if the animals chosen symbolically are not traditionally considered beautiful, I try to represent them as beautiful aesthetically. I’m interested in making beautiful things. The butterflies often represent opportunity and change.

Together, Even At The End, $500.

You have a pretty unique style that is an amalgamation of figurative, cartoony and graphic elements. How are these visual frameworks connected in your mind?

For me, painting and the stories I tell are like the way people perceive memories. Some images in a memory are clear and rich with detail, while other aspects of that same memory may be fuzzy visually, just colors or shapes. Not everything is equally defined visually in a memory. The world in which these animals live is similarly fluid; a little like sounds you hear in the distance, but can’t identify the source. They live at the visual periphery of my mind.

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