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Yanyan Huang’s brushstrokes are carefree, lively and effortlessly beautiful. Feather-like twists and turns, her paintings and sculptures take you on a free falling ride. Huang works in a span of creative mediums, paintings, drawings, ceramics, books and dresses. They all piece together to tell her stories. Huang spends her time between Florence, Italy and California.
Cody Hoyt skillfully blends the natural hues of clay to create contemporary motifs, forming the earth material into angular shaped vessels. A perfect home for a succulent plant. Marbled, dotted, wave-y stripes flow over the vases sharp-cornered edges. Hoyt’s ceramic beauties are made by hand in his Brooklyn studio.
Lotta Lampa’s designs ooze a kind of nightclub chic. There’s an edge to them, a razzle-dazzle, club kid cool. Yet there are more to her pieces than just making the scene. Her most recent work, Raaisii Collection, references the stereotypes of people from Northern Sweden (where Lampa was raised). “I have found symbols representing some of the prejudices, and then used them to create three dimensional objects in the form of furniture and vases.” Lampa lives in Stockholm and Kalix, Sweden.
Dale Hardiman mixes artificial substances with natural elements. The ‘Pogle’ collection of polymer based bangles and bowls swirl radical colors while morphing into globby forms. Hardiman “explores material substitutes and an autonomous approach to furniture and objects. The majority of his work is based around the exploration of differing methods of manufacturing outside those of industrial practice.”
Laura Slater cuts, pastes, paints and layers carefree shapes and patterns to create artful textiles. Slater’s surface designs are lively with dynamic brushstrokes and sharp shapes. Modern paintings and housewares all in one. “Informed by the interaction of colour and shape, my design focuses on the translation of drawing and surface through hand printed processes.” Slater runs her busy studio and print workshop in West Yorkshire, England.
Aaron S. Moran assembles discarded wood scraps into colorful jutting bursts of sculpture. Patterns, shapes and materials cut and collide to make new forms. He describes his work as “excavat(ing) the history of locations through the use of found materials while drawing attention to the inherent aftermath of growth in both urban and ‘sub’urban environments.” Moran lives and works in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada.
Sheryl Oppenheim swirls paint on paper creating marvelous marblings. She’s collected and bound her works in booklets titled Alba Amicorum. Oppenheim’s dazzling Black Hours series are full size marbled “drawings” made on Dieu Donné paper.
Brendan Timmins designs chairs, tables, lights all right. His collection of furniture labeled “Scrap Work” is explained as, “The embrace of imperfection with structural stability as a control and adherence to process.” Timmins, a self described “multi-disciplinary creative”, is currently working as a mens stylist for Urban Outfitters where he mixes and matches his industrial design education with his street stylin’ sensibilities.
Louie Rigano sparkles and crafts an expansive range of wares from Glittering Urns to Rain Boots. His ability to jump from constructing handsomely made tables to wobbly, leather martini vessels is surprising and impressive. Rigano lives and works in NYC.
Fabio Fernandez and Tom Lauerman worked collaboratively on a vast collection of ‘architecturally themed’ sculptures. The works are small-scale and made with mix of materials porcelain, stone, and wood.
Ashley Goldberg’s soft and wistful brushstrokes create dazzling patterns that bounce across the page. Primarily an illustrator, Goldberg recently discovered her love for pattern painting, showcasing her sense of space and adoration of color. Goldberg lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Maiko Gubler’s surrealish, dreamy designs float between time, space and dimensions. She describes her work as “playfully exploring the intersection of the real and the virtual through the combination of 3D technologies and analogue crafts.”
Marlon Ilg & Simon Trüb, a resourceful print design duo hailing from Switzerland, created a series of hardcover books entitled, Bändlistrasse 27, 8064 Altstetten. The books feature collected remnants and leftovers from projects made during their time working in the Zurich neighborhood of Altstetten.
Rachel de Joode’s sculptures and still lives enhabit globby tactile forms that are pleasantly gross at times. Her sculptures play tricks with dimensions and perspectives. Turning back to nature, de Joode began to work with clay, enjoying its playful flexibility. “I really like that it’s the ultimate earthly, raw, physical material. It’s partly a gut-feeling and partly a choice that I work with clay.”
Nicole Killian whips up sugary sweet graphic treats. Sprinkled with sticky, party-time hues Killian’s work oozes visual sensations. Bouncing between sculptural forms, print design and textiles to share her message. “My work revolves around identity, youth culture, adolescence, ritual and internets.”
Angelika Arendt models vivid forms from the most unassuming craft supply—polymer clay. She shapes the wobbly sculptures by rolling and twisting the colorful clay into globby droplets and swirling spirals. Arendt lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Get lost in coats of colors and drips of dyes glazing through Andrea Bergart’s paintings. Bergart draws inspirations from Ghana’s rich history of textiles, where she lived for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship. Bergart’s blog shares her experiments with Jacquard dyes and silk, covering the white squares of silk scarves with bright, flowing patterns.
Christopher K. Ho’s collection of multi-faceted tables are layered with unexpected materials — watermarked and Color Aid paper and silvers of glass and mirrors set on top hunks of ebony, alabaster, bleached white oak, and black-and-white 3D-printed ceramic. The collection Demoiselles d’Avignon (2013) revisits Ho’s exploration “of the primitive and its relationship to the history of abstraction in Western culture.” The pieces are now on view at Y Gallery in New York City until May 4th.
Mari Isopahkala’s graceful lighting illuminates rays of LED glow. She describes her lighting as “sculptural light” built simply with waxed birch wood, then painted with primary hues of red, yellow, and blue (and sometimes green). VIIKARI (above) is her newest ceiling lamp: “Every VIIKARI light arm can turn horizontally 360 degrees, which enables it to direct the light where it is needed.” Isopahkala lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Samantha Bittman’s optical works pulsate in and out, up and down with lines and shapes. They pull you in, spin you out. Bittman’s latest works are hand woven textiles, tediously executed patterns that create the illusion of dimension. She enhances and re-interrupts the weavings by applying acrylic paint to the maze-like works. Totally mesmerizing.
Michelle Hur nimbly beads, zips, snaps and clips, collaging everyday objects into magnificent necklaces. She pricks zipper linings with safety pins, and stacks safety pins with bright beads. The necklaces sparkle with metallics and soften with colored textiles. Hur aims to find “beauty and potential in simple, ordinary materials… to create something else of higher value by mixing and matching different components”. Hur is a recent RISD graduate and currently lives in NYC.
Ferréol Babin designs fanciful household necessities with a nod to nature, referencing insects, land formations, and moon light. Less natural is Babin’s three piece series entitled Écume, a trusty little pine wood table that “mix(es) elementary shapes and functions with surprising patterns and colors.” Babin lives and works in in France.
Mel Nguyen’s work stretches, oozes, and floats across net-scapes and paper planes. One of her most recent projects is the wearable statement, Bolted. The necklace is a mix of shiny ball bearings, rock hard metals and neon plastic slinky tubes, styled to viral-able perfection. Lots of likes. Nguyen is currently a student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Robin Cameron takes the time to process, practice, and play. Collected here are many of Cameron’s works in ‘Process’ (as categorized on her website), a glimpse of the way she studies her objects, moves them around, and explores their range of reactions to the many mediums she works in, from clay to 16mm film. Cameron states she’s “interested in the work of Romantic Conceptualists, and the extent to which conceptual art, or any art object, can carry emotion.” She lives and works in NYC.
Tim Colmant blazes trails of flickering gifs across the internet. ’80s style soft-pop colors flood over his dynamic diagonals, jiggly squiggles and pitter-patter dots. He makes gifs that keep on giving. Colmant employes his childhood favorite, the simple drawing program MS Paint, to create his illustrations. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.