March 2011
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New Paperwork Bundles!
Today we are very excited to release our second round of celebrity curated Paperwork bundles! The bundles are a great way to start a collection. You get a wall’s worth of hand-selected art - 3 8x10 prints - for just $50.
This month’s guest curators are Sarah Newell of The Nest, Julee Wilson of Real Simple and Julia Smit, an Olympic swimmer and Stanford Art Studio minor. Be...
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DecorARTing: Warm Up Your Office
Beat Hauser “Stop!”
We’ve got an office art collection, but what else can you do to warm up your work environment? To get some answers, we turned to the experts at The Nest:
Don’t treat your home office like you would a regular workspace if you really want to get ahead. Try these creative, streamlined touches to guarantee you’ll ace whatever’s on your...
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Finger on the Pulse: A New Kind of Filmmaking
Last week Ugallery San Francisco hit up the annual Disposable Film Festival at the Castro Theatre. The festival’s goal is to celebrate democratized filmmaking. Their website explains:
In recent years a new kind of film has emerged: Disposable Film. It has been made possible by new media (webcams, point and shoot digital cameras, cell phones, screen capture software, and one time use digital...
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DecorARTing: How to Hang Your Art the Right Way
David Kassel, a professional art installer, helped Rachel Hudgins transform the entryway of her apartment into a salon-style gallery.
Hang Art Like a Pro
How to create the perfect display—and how to do it safely
Written by Tim McKeough, Elle Decor
The joy of purchasing a new piece of art can quickly turn to stress when it comes time to hang it. How high should it be mounted on the wall?...
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Artist in Focus: Alex Greenburg
Alex Greenburg looks to capture timeless photographs. His colors, compositions and subjects are temporally unidentifiable.
Alex’s professed dream is to make his life a work of art, and he is well on his way. His home, called “The SUB,” is an old garage that he converted into a gallery, concert venue, and opulent kitchen (piles of sweet potatoes and parsnips atop the counter)....
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Colbert Report Tackles Art
“I already know it’s priceless, but I’m hoping I’ll get twice that.”
Watch as Stephen Colbert talks art with esteemed auction house owner Simon de Pury.
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DecorARTing: How to Hang Your Artwork (via The...
You may have a sharp eye and killer taste, but picking out your artwork is only half the battle. If not displayed properly, a Monet could very well look like a cheap motel watercolor (okay, mild exaggeration). Bring out the best in your artwork — and your living space — with these easy tips (via the Nest):
— Odd is always better than even. If you have a series of photos in a...
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How to Speak Art: "Pop Art"
Pop Art
A mid-20th century art movement. Pop artists employed images of popular culture and mass-produced products in their work, removing the objects from their context and re-examining their meaning.
Here are some examples of Pop Art from our collection:
Gerrad Holtz “1 Infinite Lamp”
JH Roller “36 Sugarcubes”
David Arnoux - “Huckleberry in...
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Art Peak: Zhang Huan
Unlike other mediums, the body is capable of direct feeling; it’s sentient. Before I used my body in my work, my work lacked a certain vital consciousness. When I finished a performance using my body, I was always gratified by that immediate experience.
Zhang Huan: Chinese artist who became famous for grueling and sensational performance art such as the following:
“My New York” - Zhang...
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Artist in Focus: Fumiko Toda
Fumiko Toda has been painting insects since she was a girl in rural Japan. To escape what Fumiko felt was a repressively uniform society, she regularly escaped to a nearby pond and spent hours observing and playing with bugs and other wildlife. She resists sketching and reference materials but her work still reflects an obsessive level of intricate detail, repetition of forms and patterns.
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Youtube Art
Search “art” on Youtube and what do you get? “Latte Art” with over 2 million hits:
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How to Speak Art: "Abstract"
Abstract
Abstract painting, sometimes called non-figurative painting, generally relies on colors, lines, and shapes instead of recognizable images or symbols for its compositional elements.
Here are some examples from our collection:
Mylene Iwanowsky “Urban Myth”
Scott Dykema “Untitled (Many Piece Panel)”
Christine Soccio “Degradation”
Giselle...
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DecorArting: Art in the Living Room
Some great ideas for hanging artwork in your living room, via Apartment Therapy:
Sometimes a room calls for a lot of art and in this case, we love the floor to ceiling hanging of artwork in Russel Brown’s House Tour.
You don’t need wall space to hang artwork, try hanging artwork in front of books and objects on shelves for a great layer of texture and color.
For those...
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Finger on the Pulse: JR Plans Graffiti's...
JR’s art atop the slums of Kibera, Kenya.
The Parisian street artist known as JR – a peripatetic figure who has made a name for himself by plastering urban areas around the world with huge photographs of the downtrodden residents who live there – became the unlikely winner several months ago of the 2011 TED Prize. The philanthropic honor gives the winner (past recipients have included...
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Art Peak: Susan Collis
Susan Collis: Works feature pieces that at first glance appear ordinary and unexceptional, until the viewer lingers or looks closer.
Commissioned artist for the 2010 Armory Show. The 2011 show kicks off in today NYC .
“The Oyster’s Our World” - Appears to be a well used wooden step ladder but the paint drips and splatters are actually inlaid mother of pearl, coral, fresh...
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Artist in Focus: Jee Young Choi
Last summer, Ugallery’s Jee Young Choi was invited to create art inside the KedsWhitney Windows at Bloomingdale’s on 59th Street in NYC. Keds interviewed her and produced the video above.
With a background in Eastern Painting at Chung-Ang University in South Korea, Jee came stateside to attend the MFA program at Boston University.
We chatted about her art style, which she said...
