Art Hound

Patti Roberts-Pizzuto creates one-of-a-kind mixed media works on beautiful handmade paper. She works from her studio in South Dakota.

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Mary Button Durell is a San Francisco artist who works with tracing paper and wheat paste. Durell was profiled by Klea McKenna and Nikki Grattan on In The Make (images 1-3). I really like her quote below.

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re responsible for keeping open, playing and infiltrating culture with newness, the unknown until now, the original.”

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Striking sculpture by Lauren Clay. Read her interview with Hi-Fructose. These pieces feel alive – made of repeated graphic systems that mimic nature. And there’s an eerie sense of movement (spilling, rustling) even though there obviously is none.

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Ania Wawrzkowicz was born in Poland but now lives and works in London as a commercial photographer. This is Ania’s personal work, a series entitled Ambiguous Documents which I thought was smart and subtle. It made me remember that not very long ago everything – a life’s worth of documents – was on paper. How quickly we have shifted away from that.

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Andreas Johansson’s work, including these clever pop-up books, features desolate landscapes crafted from the artist’s memory, imagination or perhaps both. Images from Galleri Flach via Flavorwire.

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Jessica O’Hearn makes sculpture from found objects, vellum, corrugated cardboard and paper. They are understated but really lovely.

“I have always been interested in natural patterns and things I find in nature. I grew up close to the ocean so I would collect remnants of sea life, like shells, bones and pods. Growth and life cycles are fascinating to me and I always think about what would happen to the earth if nature were to overtake our homes and structures. It is this struggle between chaos and control that drives my work.” –  the artist via Veine Magazine

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