Sunday Selects Vol. 03.10.2019

PASCAL

French-born sculptor, Pascal Pierme is inspired by his surroundings. For the last 20 years, those surroundings have been Santa Fe, New Mexico. A lover of the outdoors, his work is directly influenced by the magical landscapes of his Southwestern home

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ROBERT MARS

Robert Mars’ artwork chronicles an evolving fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and celebrates the icons of the 1950’s and 1960’s. His paintings evoke a vintage quality of design and pay homage to the idealized age of growth and hopefulness that was prevalent in the USA at the end of the Depression.

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SILVIA POLOTO

Brazilian-born Silvia Poloto is an accomplished artist working in a range of visual disciplines. She is known for her lively abstract canvases and mixed-media sculptures. Recognized for her dynamic compositions and color sensibility, Poloto exploits a vibrant visual vocabulary of boldness and subtlety.

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BERND HAUSSMANN

Bernd Haussmann’s artwork explores gesture, color, and texture in paintings on metal, acrylic, glass, wood, canvas and paper, mimicking the effects of time, temperature and the environment on surfaces. Born and educated in Germany, Haussmann has been a long-time resident of the North Shore of Boston and Maine, where he maintains studios. Haussmann’s work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as Art Hong Kong, San Francisco Art Fair, Art Santa Fe, Miami Project, Toronto International Art, and others.

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THE ARTIST’S LIFE

How the Myth of the Hedonistic Artist Lost Its Allure
These days — despite longstanding clichés about art and excess — the creative impulse can actually be more closely tied to asceticism. from: The New York Times Style Magazine by: Wyatt Mason

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VANILLA BEAN THUMBPRINT WITH DULCE DE LECHE

“These are pretty easy to throw together,” says blogger and cookbook author Rebecca Firth. “The only high maintenance component is the dulce de leche, which must be made in advance and fully cooled before it is added to the cookies.”

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REFRESHING CUCUMBER LIME MARGARITAS

Margaritas,simply stated, are best homemade.

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IN RESIDENCE: JASPER CONRAN

The design maven opens the doors to his light-bathed Wiltshire home
It’s no surprise the home of English designer Jasper Conran is impeccably decked out. An apartment occupying part of New Wardour Castle, an English country house in Wiltshire, the building boasts a rare sweeping rotunda staircase designed by English architect James Paine and full-sized pipe organ made of wood, ivory and gold.

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Vol. 04.30.2019 | Jim Polan & Objects

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Sunday Selects Vol. 03.03.2019

BRANDON REESE

Brandon Reese’s focus on experimentation and varying techniques relates to his belief that the best part of life is the process, “My art wears the fingerprints, cuts, dents and other texturing as a roadmap and documentation of its creation.”

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PATRICIA LARSEN

Many who experience a painting of Patricia Larsen think it’s the work of a Zen monk, someone who’s mastered the elements of purity - but it’s Larsen’s memories of playing in Albertan prairie fields that melt into her images.

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DOUG FREED

Doug Freed attempts to capture the mystical light found in natural atmospheric effects: the haze in the distance on humid summer days, the overcast gloom of winter skies, and the softness of landscape bathed in fog, and the quieting mood of approaching darkness. In his luminescent multi-paneled oil paintings Freed tries to find the grey area between traditional landscape painting and its abstraction into color fields.

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MINERALS

Exhibit by Aberson has been searching for and acquiring minerals from around the world. A fusion of design and primitive form, they are hand-selected to add texture and interest to spaces.

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In Jaipur, a Clothing Designer’s Vibrant and Wonderfully Imperfect Home
Nothing quite matches but everything fits in Caroline Weller’s airy family abode in India — including a giant unfinished mural. from: New York Times Style Magazine by: Ligaya Mishan

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PASTA al LIMONE

This classic lemon sauce recipe has a lot of fat and a lot of acidity, so don’t be shy with adding salt and taste as you go. It will likely require more than you think to strike that perfect balance. from: Bon Appetit recipe by: Molly Baz

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LEMON GINGER ELECTROLYTE DRINK

Refresh after a grueling workout or exhausting day with this electrolyte-packed water, with a natural boost of energy, vitamins, and minerals. from: epicurious

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GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8 TRAILER

Winter, and the Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer, is here, along with its release date! Here’s everything to know on the final season. from: den of geek

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VOL. 02.24.2019 | SUNDAY SELECTS

MICHELLE Y WILLIAMS

Imperfections, flaws, rust, asymmetry, texture, peeling paint and the principles of wabi-sabi all enliven and excite Michelle Y Williams. She approaches her blank canvas with just a beginning and no preconceived end result.

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BILL CLAPS

Visual artist and writer Bill Claps meditates every morning. “I find that the most important thing to me is to listen and be open to what the world presents to me. It’s amazing what happens to me when my mind is clear,” says Claps.

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MCKENZIE DOVE

Inspired by elements of interior design and architecture, and the raw beauty of nature, she aims to create pieces that make an individual statement while being versatile enough to compliment any style of design.

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TABLES

Exhibit by Aberson has been searching for and acquiring objects from around the world. A fusion of modern design and primitive form, these design objects are hand-selected to add texture and interest to spaces.

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MEET 10 NEW YORK–BASED DESIGNERS WHOSE SENSE OF STYLE GOES BEYOND WHAT THEY WEAR

For these creatives, personal fashion becomes an extension of their larger body of work.

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HOMEMADE GRANOLA

Say hello to the lightest, crispiest, clumpiest granola around. The secret is buttermilk, which soaks into the grains to tenderize them from the inside out, giving this granola a wonderfully delicate crunch.

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LOTTI AND DOOF: MILK PUNCH: JAPAN

We’re all trying to figure out how to write about food after what has happened in Japan. Ruth Reichl’s tweets are getting more and more bizarre.

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STUDIO VISIT: BILLY MARTIN

We visit the New Jersey studio of Billy Martin, the artist and drummer known for his work with jazz-funk band Medeski Martin & Wood.

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STAN GROF WITH TIM FERRISS

Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of “holotropic” states of consciousness, a large and important subgroup of non-ordinary states that have healing, transformative, and evolutionary potential.

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Exhibition | Brandon Reese 02.21.19 6-8PM

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VOL. 02.17.2019 | SUNDAY SELECTS

MARLIES HOEVERS

Marlies Hoevers was born in the Netherlands and got her bachelor of design at the Royal Academy of Art in 2006. She started her career as a certified interior architect with Merkx+Girod Architects, a leading architecture studio in The Netherlands, based in Amsterdam

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CATY SMITH

Inspired by people and places, Caty Smith travels to gather experiences and create conversations. She seeks to learn something on every journey. Her work attempts to visually portray this original perspective and new, insightful observations to the viewer.

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AVERY KLEIN

Minimalism inspires the work of Avery Klein. Her experience with screen printing and graphic art play an integral role in the clean design of her pieces. Klein utilizes form and texture to enhance her work and display her modern vision.

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MINERALS

Exhibit by Aberson has been searching for and acquiring minerals from around the world. A fusion of design and primitive form, they are hand-selected to add texture and interest to spaces.

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DESIGNER OF THE DAY: KIN & COMPANY

Joe Vidich and Kira de Paola of Kin & Company talk about their evocative piece, Tète-â-Tète, which is essentially the furniture equivalent of a trust fall.

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HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE SOURDOUGH BREAD STARTER

I wanted to learn how to make my own bread after visiting a friend who had been whipping up loaves of bread and pizza doughs galore during our trip to Seattle this summer.

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GINGER MATCHA SMOOTHIE

A delicious and simple green matcha smoothie made with spinach, mango, matcha, and ginger. This energizing mix will have you missing warmer weathers, especially this time of the year!

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BENEATH THE SURFACE OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The first time I meet Bruce Springsteen is backstage at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York, where he is in the homestretch of performing his one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway.

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STUFF YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS: ELISABETH LOUISE VIGEE LE BRUN

No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France when she was commissioned to paint Marie Antoinette. She painted royalty and nobility throughout Europe, even as her personal life had its ups and downs.

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VOL. 02.10.2019 | SUNDAY SELECTS

VESELA BAKER

Acrylic and watercolor are the media of choice for me because of the fast drying process. I continue to learn every day, and my work constantly evolves, as I always have the desire to see things a bit different and in a new way.

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KOLLABS

Kollabs is a collaboration between Miami-based artist, Luis Garcia-Nerey and Atlanta-based artist, Anke Schofield. They explore questions on the human construct within the forest and its inhabitants.

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JAMIE KIRKLAND

Jamie Kirkland seeks to evoke a sense of limitless space, of expansiveness, stillness and calm in her paintings. Her work has been described as “minimalist abstract landscape.”

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OBJECTS

Exhibit by Aberson has been searching for and acquiring objects from around the world. A fusion of modern design and primitive form, these design objects are hand-selected to add texture and interest to spaces.

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THE HOMES OF FAMOUS AUTHORS

In a letter to the American journalist Morton Fullerton, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Edith Wharton boasted of the gardens surrounding the Mount, her home near the town of Lenox, Massachusetts.

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ROSE BUTTER

The idea for this recipe comes from Christine Buckley, and NYC based herbalist. Rose butter is delightful on toast with cinnamon and honey, or on top of waffles and pancakes. You can bake into sugar cookies or scones, or spread on warm scones or muffins.

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SHAKER VODKA CRANBERRY

We asked Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta, bartenders at The Broken Shaker in Miami, to create a cocktail for SAVEUR’s 21st birthday.

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MOLLY MAKES ARANCINI

Join Molly in the Test Kitchen as she makes arancini (deep fried stuffed rice balls)! To make these Sicilian cheese-filled snacks, you first have to make risotto, then use the risotto to make cheese-stuffed balls, then coat them with breadcrumbs and deep-fry them.

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PATTI SMITH AND JUDY LINN BY THE KITCHEN SISTERS

Hear Linn discuss how the two young Brooklynites weren’t just “dreaming a future, they were dreaming a present.”

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VOL. 02.03.2019 | SUNDAY SELECTS

EMILY MORGAN BROWN

Birthed out of a fascination with ancient technique, Emily’s large-scale botanical tapestries are a lesson in history and a record of today.

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JENNIFER JL JONES

An exploration of beauty and energy, Jennifer JL Jones’ mixed media paintings are a meditation on the dichotomy of the existence of nature both as corporeal reality and intangible spirituality.

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JERI EISENBERG

Jeri Eisenberg works primarily with non-traditional and alternative photo-based techniques. She represses or subverts traditional photography’s emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium, and emphasizes instead the medium’s expressive nature

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MARINA DUNBAR

“My paintings are nature based abstractions driven by an exploration of movement, color, harmony and balance. Watercolor lends itself to the build up of layers, capturing traces of time and transformation.

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A COUPLE’S SCENIC GETAWAY BUILT FOR CREATING AND TINKERING IN NEW YORK’S HUDSON VALLEY

In New York’s Hudson Valley, two hours outside of New York City, architect Marica McKeel of Studio MM and her husband Brock fell in love with the idea of building their own private retreat from the city.

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HOW TO MAKE A THAI OMELETTE

Not all omelettes were made equal. Case in point: the Thai omelette. It isn’t just as simple as breaking an egg but what goes into the mix, before hitting the pan.

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THAI ICED TEA

Latest note about this Thai tea recipe: we’ve updated this Thai iced tea recipe with an organic tea bag option and with coconut milk!

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IN RESIDENCE: GAWIE AND GWEN FAGAN

Inside the husband-and-wife architecture duo’s sprawling Cape Town home

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SWEAT SCIENCE: THE PULL-UP ARTISTS

Podcast John Orth is a violin maker from Colorado. Andrew Shapiro is a college kid from Virginia. They have little in common except that for the past two years, they’ve been trading back and forth the world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours.

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Vol. 03.17.2019 | Sunday Selects

BILL CLAPS

Visual artist and writer Bill Claps meditates every morning. “I find that the most important thing to me is to listen and be open to what the world presents to me.

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MARVIN GOULD

Marvin Gould has been practicing art and music for over 50 years. Because of his mother’s professional music career he was playing the guitar at the age of 9. Because of his Dad’s engineering career, he was fascinated by mark making.

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KEN TATE

Louisiana non-figurative artist Ken Tate’s art explores the more emotional aspects of the human condition. The impetus for the current work comes from the writings of Beats such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, the writing and short stories of Jorge Borges, the works of abstract expressionists Robert Motherwell, William de Kooning, John Chamberlain and David Smith, as well as the works of Robert Rauschenberg.

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JERI EISENBERG

Jeri Eisenberg works primarily with non-traditional and alternative photo-based techniques. She represses or subverts traditional photography’s emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium, and emphasizes instead the medium’s expressive nature.

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The Three Simple Tonics That Sustain One of New York’s Busiest Chefs

Daniela Soto-Innes, a co-owner of the acclaimed restaurants Cosme and Atla, shares a trio of recipes inspired by her Mexican grandmother’s natural remedies.

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Basil-Cashew-Lime Vermicelli Bowls with Pork and Green Beans

Briefly soaking cashews in hot water softens them enough that you can blend them into a creamy (and gorgeously green-hued) basil-lime sauce for noodles. Top those noodles off with pan-seared pork chops and green beans for an easy summery dinner bowl.

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