Grace Visits: Artist Sandra Payne
I have never experienced an apartment where every inch of space was conceived as a beautifully composed art installation.
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Grace Visits: Artist Miriam Brumer
Miriam Brumer’s art has the power to be formally delicate, while at the same time consisting of a razor sharp humor penetrating the skin of pretense, which she peels open for scrutiny.
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American Watercolor: Opening Doors for Women Artists
“I all but ran past the static British-influenced paintings in the Philadelphia Museum’s watercolor exhibition until I reached the looser approach taken by contemporaries of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. This is where the fun starts.”
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Grace Visits: Artist Daria Dorosh
In this age of “selfies” Daria Dorosh began a new digital print series titled Narcissus, which considers “self-love and . . . the dark side of obsessional beauty.”
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Grace Visits: Artist Cicely Cottingham
Cicely Cottingham’s later works feature a palette that is aggressive, resulting in a muscular dance with paint.
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Grace Visits: Art Collector Johanne Bryant-Reid
Johanne Bryant-Reid is an extraordinary woman who has devoted her life to the arts, knowing with certainty that it is a glorious path to enriching one’s being.
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The Female Gaze: Masterworks of French Photography
Many of the French pioneers of photography were women, who not only influenced their male peers but had a major impact on the artists and writers of their era.
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Grace Visits: Artist June Wilson
Grace Graupe-Pillard is making studio calls. This week she shares with us her visit to the studio of the artist June Wilson whose love affair with nature since her childhood days deeply informs her artistic practice.
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Jewelry Designer Susan Ritter: Transforming the Simple Beauty of an Object into Wearable Art
Susan Ritter’s artistry is evident. She can take three dissimilar stones and frame them aesthetically to enhance each as well as the combination. What an eye.
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Grace Visits: Artist Mimi Smith
The visual elegance of Mimi Smith’s work often belies the startling dichotomy between the object and the inscribed words. Her language is both comical and deadly serious.
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Grace Visits: Artist Robin Tewes
Robin Tewes believes "[T]here is a need for men to be fragile and vulnerable with each other . . . usually they are not portrayed that way in art history. . . ” In her work, "Men In Trouble," men are metaphorically engulfed in water — either drowning, or in a ritual of purification, transitioning from one state of awareness to another.
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Blueprint for Happiness: The Photography of Joana Cardozo
By Suzanne Russell
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Photographing the streets of New York and its strange array of characters, Joana Cardozo fell in love with both New York City and photography. When it was time to go back to her law practice in Brazil, she decided instead to apply to a one-year intensive photography course at ICP. She told herself that if she were accepted, she would spend another year in New York. Joana was 36 years old at the time.
Happiness, Liberty, Life? Politics and Art
By Stacia Friedman
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How does art created 10, 20, or even 50 years ago speaks so loudly to issues that dominate headlines today? Is the current presidential race taking us forward or “back to the future?"
Grace Visits: Artist Judith Henry
This August, our frequent arts contributor and artist herself Grace Graupe-Pillard is making studio calls. This week she shares with us her visit with Judith Henry, who for over 40 years, has created evocative multimedia artworks that explore the friction between our interior lives and public selves.
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The Fine Art of Aging
By Stacia Friedman
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“Better she should learn how to cook for her husband than make like Picasso,” Hilda’s relatives said. To her credit, Hilda never turned on the stove. And she never stopped painting.