Archive for the ‘ART’ Category

My friend, the über talented (and cute!) photographer Patrick Cline- one half of the duo that founded Lonny- saw this Sketch graffiti scribbled on a door while traveling, took a photo and sent it to me. I totally LOVE IT! I should print it and hang it somewhere in my apartment.

Patrick literally can’t take a bad picture… Not even of a door with scribble on it. And speaking of, this month’s Lonny is out and its packed with Moroccan gloriousness and now Morocco is officially at the top of my travel to do list. It’s  now tied with the Amangiri for first place. Maybe I’ll go this summer? That would be amazing.

Check out the rest of the new Lonny HERE. Have a great weekend!

 

Last night I went to the art opening of “Project Face” - a year long journey by artist Rina Dweck. Every day for a year, Rina- a painter and trained makeup artist- self transformed and photographed herself using only her iPhone and uploaded it to her Facebook page where she would change her profile daily. Her adventure in self portraiture is so freakin fantastic… It started as a way to challenge herself creatively- the idea occurred to her one day while parking her car, and she went home and started working on photo number one!

I love the fact that the art piece is the body of work ON FACEBOOK. It’s such a fun little bit of social satire. There was something amazing about seeing the body of work-in chronological order- presented in one room. Some weeks are themed- she has a Madonna week, Gaga week, and even a Cindy Sherman tribute.  She says some photos are planned out meticulously while others are created spur of the moment or are the result of just playing in the mirror with some makeup.

I really admire how personal the work is, it takes a lot to put your face out there as your art… I mean you guys see that I crop my head out of half my photos because I’m so shy that way! So the idea of self-transforming and becoming so physically comfortable with being behind a camera, becoming a character and using physical attributes and flaws in an art project seems so overwhelmingly hard to me.

I was so enamored with the work that I bought a print! See if you can guess which one;) They start at $250, FYI.

Click through to see the rest of the photos from the evening as well as some of my favorite shots!

PROJECT FACE – POP UP GALLERY
311 West Broadway, NY NY
May 10- May 22, 2012
Hours:1-8 PM

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I’m sorry but it was just too good of a match up! They are twins! It scares me a little bit that my painting looks so much like those pants and the way she paired it with a heavy dose of a white top: YES, well those match the chairs. The sunglasses in the deep purple even correspond to the darker blue paint at the top of the canvas. She should have worn an Edie Parker black and white clutch with that though, then she would have picked up the striped stool.

The outfit pic is via Refinery 29′s Australia Fashion Week coverage HERE, the painting and room is obviously my own. 

Nicholas Hlobo

Yesterday I headed out to The Frieze Art Fair on Randal’s Island… I absolutely loved the venue and the vibe of being out of Manhattan for the fair, we ate at the Fat Radish and the food was delish too- I need to hit that up back in NYC. This was the first time Frieze is in NYC, in over from London. I’m on the fence on how I felt about the art at the event, now looking back there were a lot of compelling pieces, but in the moment, I didn’t feel it. I’m sad that I didn’t get a chance to check out PULSE or NADA…if any of you were there, what did you think?

Below are some of my favorite pieces from the fair, or at least the ones that attracted me enough to take photos (and I have 100 more…), but I guess looking at these its safe to say I have a type? As you can tell, my friend Casey and I had a blast, and like I said, the vibe was so fun!

Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled, 2012

(Dorky side pony is a little too fresh and tight! But how good would a little shaved sideburn action look? Come on, you know it.)

Joel Kyack

Anselm Reyle

Click through, lot more fun stuff after the jump!

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More new art in my apartment, this one via my nephew photographer Eddie Cohen.  It’s printed on aluminum and its fabulous. He’s a huge Woody Allen fan, so this is a very personal piece to him. And I’m SO happy to have it. It’s too cool for school… and I LOVE how it looks on the silver walls. I generally have enough paintings in my apartment (although I was totally the cobbler with no shoes for the past few months!) so I look for work I love in other fields.  Learn more about Eddie HERE. 

My apartment feels like a whole new place to me. Between the round painting over the high chair, Cookie’s pieces, this Woody and the new paintings, it’s a new world. I also moved the polka dot chairs to the den and left the area in my living room open with just the chair that I rescued from the garbage, and the lucite bench under the big painting. It feels so much more spacious and open now. (Yes Erica, you were right.)

It feels good to be back, baby! And thank the lord I have photoshoots and house tours, cause otherwise I would NEVER finish anything.

Im heading to Frieze today, I’m so excited and Ill report back!