Starting August 13 and through October 30, visit the Lancaster Museum of Art and History to see a brand new art show, called The New Vanguard. Featuring works from some of my favorite artists from the New Contemporary Art Movement, like Amy Sol and Brian Viveros, the exhibition promises to showcase a diverse array of styles and mediums. In fact, there are over 55 exhibiting artists. My favorite gallery, Thinkspace, is curating the show. A collector’s preview was just released. Here are some of my personal favorites. How I’d love to collect this art!
Above: Yosuke Ueno: “My World and Distance” $3,000
I’m always on the look out for some good art or photography to hang on my walls. This time, I thought I’d try to find some nature-inspired scenes. You know, beaches, animals, mountains. Here’s what I came up with.
“I have always found it a powerful experience to look into the vast horizon of an expanse of water. It reminds me of how small I am as a person in the world, and there is something both intimidating and reassuring in this thought. This view, no matter how many times I’ve seen it, never ceases to affect me. This photograph is about this feeling-just one small person looking out across the water.”
By Laura Bell.
Is this guy practicing yoga? Sharon Montrose is the best at capturing the adorable expressions of baby animals.
By Sharon Montrose.
Just a lone swimmer in a vast and clear ocean.
By Gray Malin.
Cloud watchers rejoice: Debbie Carlos’ dreamy poster is a window out to the beautiful heavens above, even on those bummer days when the sky is cloudless.
By Debbie Carlos.
The way the morning light shines off these trees is beautiful.
By Tordis Kayma.
This photo consists of long exposures of fireflies. Magical!
By Pete Mauney.
In this black and white image, the silhouette of ’20s mountaineer Thomas G. Hermans approaches a Paradise Glacier ice cave in Washington State’s Rainier National Park.
By Vintage Editions.
This is a composite of a series of star trails photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth.
By Donald Pettit.
“For this photo, I was standing in a downpour. Shortly thereafter the rain stopped, the lead-colored clouds were carried away and the lake restored its calmness again. Suddenly, the brightest sun showed up and its light glittered on the surface of the water. The dew on every plant began to evaporate, their scents carried away by the gentle breeze. I was in the midst of seasonal changes, summer enchantment.”
By Chikara Umihara.
What’s more arresting than a lone wolf standing in a bare forest?
By Lindsey Ocker.
This one straddles the line between art and photography. Which is it? (I believe it’s a photograph.)
By Tordis Kayma.
There’s nothing more beautiful than a colorful beach print.
By Wendy Laurel.
Artist Jordan Harmon has a gift for making beautifully artistic embroidery. Her scenes aren’t complicated, she often leaves a fair amount of negative space in her hoops but that’s what makes them so unique. I particularly love her ferris wheel one. Her pieces consist of embroidery, acrylic paint and thread on canvas.
As she states, “Each embroidery is completely unique, handmade, and one of a kind. Every tiny stitch is thought out and made completely freehand, without a pattern. The background set behind the stitching is handpainted using acrylic paint. These unique details help to create a special piece of art that is individual with its own story. No two will ever be exactly alike.”
You can follow Jordan on Instagram where she shows much of her work. You can also buy a piece of hers on Etsy.
What better way to show your love of space than to wear one of these accessories. From necklaces to earrings, I’ve rounded up some of the most breathtakingly beautiful pieces of art you can actually wear. My favorite is the one immediately below, the solar system necklace. Talk about turning heads! Of course, I’m partial to anything that show off a rainbow of colors.
Dare I say that that celestial jewelry is a trend?
I love this! It’s an inkjet print of mixed media artwork that includes watercolor, acrylic, and Photoshop. It was created by Bend, Oregon-based Katie Daisy of The Wheatfield. The piece was handmade. I wonder if Katie arranged all those flowers herself?
Etsy featured The Wheatfield back in 2013. In that post, Katie stated, “Being able to create a business based upon doing what I love means I get to pour my heart and soul into the work, because the work is me. It’s this constant means of self discovery. I feel more connected with the world now, and it’s made me realize the effect we can have on each other as individuals. There’s this potential to the human spirit I think the majority of us ignore — the ability we have to encourage, and to bring hope and change into other people’s lives.”
This Saturday, visit my favorite art gallery, Thinkspace in Culver City, to see the surreal works of Cinta Vidal. The figures in her paintings are so consumed, mostly reading books, that they don’t realize that they’re microcosmic worlds have been turned upside down. I like how each piece shows a sense of community yet gives the feeling of isolation.
The opening reception for Vidal’s show, called Gravities, will be held this Saturday, July 23rd from 6 to 9pm. You have till August 13 to check out her works in person. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but, if I had to, I’d choose Reading Club, seen immediately below. Every single person is reading a book, getting lost in their own worlds. (The poor cats aren’t getting much attention.) How I’d love to collect her works.
Ahead of their show at StolenSpace gallery, street artist duo Jana and JS recently put up three new street art pieces in London. I particularly love one of them, it’s of a woman holding a person (possibly a child) in her arms. It’s a beautiful reminder that love is all around us.
You can see more of their works at StolenSpace from now till July 31st. The exhibition is called Inner World and it features works on wood and recycled materials. Jana and JS have a unique look, they make pieces exclusively based on their own photos, creating beautiful stencils out of them.
Their pieces at StolenSpace are about relationships. As they say, “Since we first met and since we started to live and work together, sharing our deepest feelings has always been an essential aspect in building our artistic identity, and those emotions are always a great inspiration. It is the reason why we explore the representation of different relationships, and particularly the image of ‘the couple’. The evolution of our life together and the births of our son and our daughter made us more and more express interest in different kind of relationships.”
While artist Carole A. Feuerman is known for her hyperrealist sculptures, she’s also the creator of a brand new series of bronze works inspired by dancers. You can view them and more from July 14 to August 20 at KM Fine Arts. This will be the first time Feuerman has had a solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Must go!
Using acrylic on canvas, Dario Moschetta, an artist from a small town near Treviso, Italy, creates incredibly striking portraits of people. Though he experiments in various techniques, especially for his Cityscapes series, it’s his gorgeous paintings of faces that caused me to stop and stare. The way he captures emotion in his portraits is striking. I love how some of his subjects seem lost in a dream, with their eyes closed, they’re immersed in their own peaceful world.
This one is from his Nameless collection (I love the dripping paint):
Since artist Frida Kahlo’s birthday was yesterday, July 6, I thought we could celebrate by looking at this magnificent piece of street art by artists Julián Campos Segovia, Jean Paul Jesses and Juan Carlos Campos. It took the threesome three weeks to paint the mural using paintbrushes and latex paint. The iconic Mexican painter holds a cigarette in her hand and is adorned with flowers in her hair. The head of Frida is made from a wooden panel which was attached to a wall.
The breathtaking artwork measures 9 meters high and 7 meters wide. It was completed in Palermo, Buenos Aires.
Hello, I’m Alice Yoo! I’m founder and CEO of Skylar Yoo, a company dedicated to inspiring and empowering women to be bold. We sell apparel, art prints and accessories to the modern feminist.
In my former life, I was editor-in-chief of the art and culture blog My Modern Met, which I founded back in 2007. I curated and wrote about art, design and photography for more than seven years. (In fact, I published over 7,000 articles which were seen by millions of people worldwide.) I’m also co-author of a book called For Love: 25 Heartwarming Celebrations of Humanity, which is on Amazon and wherever books are sold.
I live in southern California along with my husband and my two toddler boys.
This blog is about what I love, the tough experiences that I’ve learned from, and my journey as a second time entrepreneur. Right now, I’m in the midst of a 365 day challenge, to read one book a day. If you share my passions or want to learn some cool new facts, come along for the ride. I hope to inspire, educate and entertain you!
