Link: STEVE WIMAN.COM / D BERMAN GALLERY
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title quote: Rumi
Link: Frances Trombly » Biography
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"Frances Trombly uses trompe-l’oeil effects in her work to recreate mundane objects, making labor-intensive pieces through weaving, embroidery, cross stitch, and crochet. By recreating what is mass-produced she initiates an authority that is missing from the utilitarian original. Her objects exist in an environment where value lives, where value thrives, the gallery or museum. This contrast confronts the viewer, asking questions about labor, value, history, feminism, class, and the American way of life."
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Link: www.highheeledart.com
Mark Schwartz made a name for himself as an accomplished shoe designer. For the past 25 years, he has traveled the world gaining inspiration for his ideas from artists like Andy Warhol, who Schwartz beneficially watched at work and Roger Vivier who he cultivated his talents with for 5 years. Both Warhol and Vivier encouraged Schwartz to continue his capricious approach to fabricate his artistic style of shoes. He is producing exciting work by taking advantage of the spontaneity and movement that shoes can create when drawn on paper.
Very few artists have attempted what Schwartz is pioneering. Mark exaggerates the usual way individuals view shoes by playing off the already artistic shapes of footwear and creates art that exudes personality. The artist’s work is collected worldwide by both private and corporate clients.
"I have always been fascinated by the shoe , the shape the movement, shoes create a mood all of there own, they scream sex , they are whimsical and for me they take on another life in my paintings.". -Mark Schwartz
Title Quote: Cole Porter
Link: Lisa Fontanarosa Collection :: Lee Renninger :: Sculptures.
"Oh, what a sculptural web Lee Renninger weaves:
Bouquets of pretty porcelain blooms shimmer and dance in the light,
creating a spider's doily that entices and enchants. Hanging and hanger
couture!
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Title Quote: Emerson
Link: Lisa Fontanarosa Collection :: Barbara Gilhooly.
"With a fine line, Barbara Gilhooly's steel sculptures and metal sketches paint striking still lifes that embody winged motion and wild emotion."
Title Quote: MC Richards
Link: Lisa Fontanarosa Collection :: Diane Casteja.
"Diane Casteja's designs toast tradition with a tweak. Her hand twisted, hand formed collection of lights, drinking vessels and wine/champagne glasses tricks the mind and treats the eye."
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Title Quote: Dag Hammarskjold
Link: Poesia dorsale - page 3.
Poems written from the arrangement of book titles ... "Poetry Backbone"
poesiadorsale.it
"Putting books one above the other so that the titles will concatenino to form verses. This is done 'poetry backbone.' It is called so because it comes from the backs of books, not by titles. The difference is only visual, because he invented a graphic designer and photographer, Silvano Belloni. What has not had the inspiration pensandoci up, but setting a shelf crowded with books. The journalist Antonella Ottolina was in love the idea and gave life composing the poems backbones. For example: when you're part of me, myself and only you, can I no longer walk. Tell someone you are here. I want to scream the voiceless first steps that poetry is a poem composed by dorsal 8 books that have no relevance gender, only for cases, all signed by Italian authors. These are the headlines: when camilla carrara (new authors 2006) part of me six of raffaella bedini (anagram 2007) and I you only stefano of aroldi (new authors 2007) not rie"
Title Quote: E.M. Forster
Link: artist chiharu shiota « momeld - modern living | modern design.
"Chiharu’s works convey a very personal, profound meaning; they are a physical creation of a shrouded memory literally exploding from the artist. Because of this we feel a deep connection with her and are at the very least sympathetic if not at all empathetic." from site
Title Quote: Samuel Johnson
Link: Mickey Smith Artist + Photographer.
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. -T.S.Eliot
"Volume is an ongoing project documenting bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their online counterparts, and in many cases the printed versions are no longer bound. Several titles photographed in the process of this project have been removed from the stacks due to space and budget constraints. Searching endless rows of these utilitarian texts, I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and tenuousness of printed works as they fade from public consciousness.
The act of hunting for and photographing these objects is fundamental to my process. I do not touch, light, or manipulate the books and words – preferring to document them as found in the stacks, created by the librarian, and positioned by the last unknown reader.
The irony and graphic quality of repeating titles fascinate and draw, no matter how mundane, from known to obscure, from Vogue to Blood. I focus on simple, provocative titles that transcend the spines on which they appear.
Note: Collocation is defined as "the act or result of placing or arranging together, specifically: a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements (as words)." -Mickey Smith
