Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Susan Lee: Biocouture



The other week I attended a lecture from Susan Lee hosted at SAIC.  The garments pictured above are created from a film created by yeast batches started from tea and sugar.   Susan Lee is a Senior Research Fellow with Central Saint Martin and works in the Fashion Design department.  What is unique to Lee is that she does not work as a design professor, but seems to carry on with her research project and working with graduate students whom are also interested in designing their own contemporary textiles as well.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Marimekko print dress

Alberto Marani

By far some of the most interesting prints I've seen.  Incidentally these interior photo's were taken from the pope's private residence in Rome.
more here


I wish I owned this.

                                                                                                    Akris

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Modern Embroidery

Maria Biehn
2010

I was sent these images of Maria's work a little while back, and have enjoyed looking at them so much that they became my screen saver for a while.  They are a lovely composite of tactile surfaces balancing simplistic and rigorous styles simultaniously.  I love the grid structure with the organic overlapping of tones.  This reminds me of minimalist artists like Carol Bove who work within a  minimalist discourse but don't shy away from tactile and organic styles.  It seems that most often I see woman artists who have a comfort level approaching minimalism with less adherence to the sterility that had defined it in the past.  At the moment it seems to me that woman artists are having the most contemporary conversation in minimalism today.

Carol Bove
untitled 2008




Tuesday, December 6, 2011

sass and bide spring/summer 2012


Atmosphere & Prints

nocturne in black and gold

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I can't help but imagine this as a fabric print.  So many fabrics right now with that atmospheric effect to them.












Art Hero: Clifford Still

Untitled

1957
Painting | oil on canvas




Clyfford Still, 1944-N No. 2, 1944


I love the textures and colors.  They remind me of landscapes and textiles.  

Textiles

otti berger's texture board (bauhaus), 1928

Dots











sass and bide spring/summer 2012


http://shinichimaruyama.com






























*notice there subtle seam right at the hips*dot dress


artpropelled:

Patricia Larsen


Friday, December 2, 2011

The influence of Gordon Matta Clark






There is a small exhibition at the MCA right now featuring photos of an apartment building due for renovation in Chicago that the MCA commissioned a piece by Matta Clark.  I first came aquainted with Clark's work when he had a retrospective at the Whitney.  I was a bit suspect at first, I wasn't sure if it was great art just by the size of the gesture.  That show stayed with me for years though.
What is so inspiring about is work is the play of view points and vantages that used to completely change the way a building is read.  Rarely has anything ever felt so three-dimensional.  And it touches on the more heroic tendencies of larger work, and at the same time has an ability to undermine the idea of house, and the solidity.  Clearly these places are no longer structuraly sound, and yet they still feel vast and solid.



















The work of Marjan Teeuwen reminds me very much of his work.

The Eviscerated Architecture of Marjan Teeuwen wood photography installation art architecture
Via:  Colossal
*look carefully and you can see all the books these are constructed from



The Eviscerated Architecture of Marjan Teeuwen wood photography installation art architecture





The Eviscerated Architecture of Marjan Teeuwen wood photography installation art architecture




Same theme of subtraction by Designers Victor & Rolph