An Artful Life
Ruminations on the intersections of art, craft, design and life.
art·ful/ˈärtfəl/Adjective
1. Showing creative skill or taste
2. Clever, typically in a crafty or cunning way
C. Ful of art (ok that one's not real, but its my blog)
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August192011
Even closer!
11AM
Close up
11AM
Payton Cosell Turner & her wall covering sticker installation
11AM
After reading the September issue of Elle Decor, I have totally fallen in love with Payton Cosell Turner (http://www.paytonturner.com/). That’s right. A girl. A grad of MICA in 2008 she now designs wallpaper as well as creates wallpaper-esque installations made entirely out of little stickers! So incredible & awesome! She takes thousands if tiny ice cream cones, flowers, bears, pizza slices, fire trucks and more and turns them into intricate patterns that cover the walls. From a distance it looks beautiful, dainty and sophisticated. Up close it’s silly, humorous and fun!
10AM
I have officially been out of the loop and otherwise preoccupied because u just moved to the glorious city of San Francisco!! Why? Because I’ll be attending the SF Art Institute for a Masters in History & Theory of Contemporary Art! I’m super excited! So I’ve been spending my days packing, moving, unpacking & getting situated in my brand new home! I have to say I’m totally ecstatic to be in a city that’s so full of art & culture! This is a photo of the Diego Rivera mural at SFAI, which is a mural about making a mural!
July292011
by Tim Burton from the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA
Untitled (Vincent), 1982/exhibit poster
Untitled (Ramone), 1980-1990
Untitled (Mars Attacks!), 1995
Untitled (Oyster Boy), 1998
7PM
Tim Burton Exhibit at LACMA
The Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA is awesome! It runs through October 31 (fitting), so everyone and their mothers should go check it out! I love Burton, and even though he’s had a few misses in the past, the hits are some of my all-time fav’s. Love his creepy style! There are over 700 objects in this exhibit, which include drawings, paintings, sculptures, puppets from the stop-motion movies, and movie artifacts, like Batman masks, Catwoman & Edward Scissorhands costumes. Definitely worth seeing even just for those things.
I have to say, painting is not his strong suit, but Burton’s tons of illustrations were definitely the highlight for me. You could spend hours in there looking at all the drawings, watercolors, etc., which are stacked salon style up and down the walls. The exhibit was much larger than I anticipated, but also very packed with visitors (naturally). And even though I love to spend my money on exhibition catalogs with which I stuff my tiny apartment full, I found the exhibit catalog a little disappointing. I wanted to see some of the awesome never-seen-before illustrations (totally holding out on us!! not fair!), which actually do seem to show up in the much larger book of his, called The Art of Tim Burton, a 430 page coffee table book that costs around $70, and which I would probably be willing to kill to own someday. Le sigh. They also did not allow photographs, which is always a bummer. I promise not to reproduce! I just want to have some evidence of the inspiration!
But go see the exhibition!! It’s awesome!
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July222011
“I do not want to die…until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.”
Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
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