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Artist Crush: Corydon Cowansage

June 20th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Corydon Cowansage plays with perspective and pattern in his her stark yet fanciful house paintings.

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artist crush: Of The Holy Blood // Jennifer Mehigan

January 30th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Of The Holy Blood aka Jennifer Mehigan. Jennifer is based in Sydney and works as a graphic designer.

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Artist Crush: Emily Wenda

May 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment

Whimsical Grandma Moses-inspired vignettes of luxuriously lazy summer days in the country by Emily Wenda of State College, Pennsylvania.

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Artist Crush: Amy Greenan

April 1st, 2011 · 5 Comments

Amy Greenan lives in a “modest but endlessly inspiring” Arts & Crafts bungalow in upstate New York with her boyfriend and three cats. The artist mainly focused on figure paintings before starting her Abandoned Houses series in 2009. Her paintings are certainly sober but beautiful in their own right and really stir the imagination around the stories of these houses and the people who lived in them.

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Having grown up in what was an abandoned house when my parents purchased it, I find an irresistible affinity to these lost architectural souls. I realized, too, that the similarities between these houses and the human body and experience cannot be ignored. These places have a history in the same way we do. Memories are attached; they crumble in the same way the human body eventually does…

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A Glimpse Of Nebraska’s Suburbs

November 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments

Drawings by Jessica Ann Mills available on her etsy shop. Jessica’s humble drawings beautifully document homes in tired and depressed neighborhoods across Nebraska and South Dakota. A local of Omaha, Nebraska, Jessica depicts these neighborhoods with affection and provide the opportunity for us, even as outsiders, to do the same.

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Jessica’s work stands as relic to things abandoned: objects with desired functions that seem to have been forgotten or worn through. It is her intention to act as preservationist for these things left behind; these things, that with time, become increasingly swallowed by the landscape in which they are put to rest. Jessica explores her own identity in relation to land through the process of making intricately detailed studies of the landscape that surrounds her.

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The inspiration…

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Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus Play House

August 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Yes, I know I’m kind of obsessed with house art, but I didn’t even realize this installation was a house (of sorts) until watching the video below. I swear! Reminds me of Jim Houser’s installations.

Free Life Center by Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus at Needles + PensPhotos and interview by MLFU.

The Free Life Center is “…a movable gallery space, built of reclaimed materials, in a modular fashion. At its full size the structure is a pretty large free standing building (10 ft wide x 16 ft long x 10ft tall), complete with lighting, a tin roof and a wood floor… At each location along the journey we’ve been setting up the structure and filling it with our artworks, video works, process documentation, interactive installation elements, music, good vibes. Along with our own artworks we’ve asked members of each local community to join in…” – Mark Warren Jacques

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