VOL. 12.30.2018 | SUNDAY SELECTS

 JEN PACK





The interweaving of contrasts, oppositions, or normative coloration is the driving impulse of the work. Evolution of the work relies heavily on an embrace and cultivation of uncertainty and the activity of intense seeing.

 

 


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BRENDA ZAPPITELL




Brenda Zappitell creates abstract expressionist works not only born out of intuition, but also serendipitously influenced by nature and her life experiences. Her mark-making, though serendipitous, reflects these influences.

 

 


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MORGAN ROBINSON




“I attempt to stay clear of the mundane by taking a closer look at the things that can do nothing else but encompass my sight. Unable to ignore organic language, I follow the indigenous bends in pieces of nature. There is no part of my environment too obscure to inspire.”

 

 


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KEN TATE




His paintings have been featured in magazines such as “House Beautiful”, “Traditional Home”, “Coastal Living” and “New Orleans House & Home”. His work is in private collections in New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Tulsa, Nashville, Houston and Jackson, MS to name a few.

 

 


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THESE ARTISTS ARE CREATING WORK THAT’S ABOUT, AND MADE FROM, FOOD




For centuries, it’s been both medium and topic; now, an emerging cohort is challenging what it means to play with the most essential material.

 

 

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TANDOORI CHICKEN BOWLS




This prep-ahead dinner can be served layered in bowls or deconstructed for picky eaters with the ginger, scallions, and cilantro sauce on the side.



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CHAI-SPICED HOT TODDY




For centuries, people have been using hot toddies as a natural remedy for common ailments. Adding warming spices like fiery black pepper, revitalizing cinnamon, and cleansing cardamom make for a cheering drink that can also cure the winter blues.

 

 

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PORTRAIT OF A PLACE: BESTAS




A close shave with the wild horses of Northern Spain and the people who cut their manes



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AI WEIWEI, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, MARKETING LUXURY REAL ESTATE


 

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has three shows in LA. His new work “Life Cycle” at Marciano Art Foundation explores the state of refugees. He talks to DnA about exile, his roots as an “architect” and why he enjoys visiting casinos.




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VOL. 01.01.2019 | HOLLY ADDI

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ABOUT HOLLY ADDI




Holly Addi, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, makes paintings and mixed media artworks. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Addi creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position. Her paintings are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways.

VOL. 12.23.2018 | SUNDAY SELECTS

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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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.” Kirkland desires to speak to the viewer through simplicity and by reducing the landscape to shapes and forms, much the same way a poet expresses an idea in three lines of haiku.

 

 

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KELSEY IRVIN




Kelsey Irvin’s work is collecting traces of peoples lives. Her work is very much related to memories and storylines. Her admired artists are Antoni Tàpies, and Andrew Wyeth with their deep work of nostalgia and bringing life to the overlooked.





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A SAUNA WITH AN OBSERVATION DECK, DREAMED UP AT A DESIGNERS’ RETREAT




One extraordinary (and totally nonessential) space. This month: a tar-covered hut for warming up, and winding down, in the center of a Swedish island.




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CREAMY CAULIFLOWER DIP




Earthy and rich without being heavy or filling.




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SIGNATURE COCKTAIL #44: SMOKED TEQUILA ICE




Smoky, spicy, and deceptively sophisticated, today’s cocktail is a tastebud-tingling dance of fire and ice.




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CALVING SEASON




A teenager helps her family save newborn calves during a snowy spring.




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#5: MINIMALISM TO THE MAX


 

Jo Baer and Donald Judd made art that explores the relationship between colors or objects and space – and Abbi discovers there’s more to simplicity than meets the eye.

 


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VOL. 12.16.2018 | 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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FABIO MODICA



Fabio Modica blends abstraction and representation with a dramatic, vivid color palette capturing the eye of the viewer. He made a departure from realism in his early years as an artist and developed a “semi-abstracted” style utilizing sheer lines and colors.



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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.



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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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AT GIORGIO ARMANI’S WEEKEND RETREAT, LIVE SWANS AND GILDED ARCHES




For decades, the fashion designer has been escaping to an estate outside Milan that proves even minimalists (sometimes) like a little coziness.

 


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CAULIFLOWER BOLOGNESE




You don’t have to be a vegetarian to love what’s going on here. Chopped-up cauliflower and mushrooms provide comparable richness and texture to what you usually get from the classic long-cooked ground meat sauce.

 

 

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UNDER-THE-MISTLETOE PUNCH




This punch recipe easily scales down by half, or even all the way to festive drinks for two.

 

 

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IN RESIDENCE: NOÉ DUCHAUFOUR-LAWRANCE




A snow-bound visit to the French designer’s deceptively simple Paris apartment

 

 

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THE MODERN ART NOTES PODCAST


 

Episode No. 353 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Megan Fontanella and Paulina Pobocha.




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