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a shop for the home
The midcentury modern design has really been catching my eye lately! At Hindsvik everything is so simple, natural and amazing. My top picks – the bar cart, the coffee table and the horse statue. The folks at Hindsvik – Daniel Garbutt and Valeria Herner – tell us that their shop stocks everything from classic vintage designer furniture pieces to small kitchenware and accessories for the home.
For a look behind-the-scenes as Daniel and Valeria renovate and redecorate their home while sharing home decor, interior and design inspiration, head on over to their blog Hindsvik At Home. Check out their diy shelving unit made from reclaimed wood and metal piping.
find these items: lounge chair, sea foam green creamer, wood bar cart, blue ladle, green sofa, dala horse, coffee table, wood candle holders, wood side chair
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A big THANK YOU to everyone who visited my booth at the Wells Street Art Festival. The fest was a huge success and seeing all your enthusiasm and appreciation for my art meant the world to me!
I did over 45 transactions on Saturday. I Love My City 11×14 paper prints sold out and over half of my paintings were purchased. By the end of the day I was absolutely exhausted but I was thrilled with the positive response my art received and how many people took a piece of it home with them. The next day was a bit calmer, but I was still overwhelmed with the turnout and all the friends and family who stopped by to support me.
From the beginning, Marc has always been the biggest supporter of my art. His help, positive attitude and hard work during the fest did not go unnoticed. I am so grateful for him! I’m also so thankful for my friends Frank and Cassi, my cousins Chris and Michelle and my parents who all spent time helping us set up or take down my booth. These fairs are definitely a team effort!
During the fest, I felt really tied to my booth. And although I didn’t have a chance to network with the other artists, it’s always great meeting new people, selling my paintings and getting my name out there! Just being accepted into this festival was a success for me.
On Sunday night, we took down the booth in record time and headed straight home to bed. The next day we went to Yolk for a celebratory brunch. There were a lot of late nights leading up to the fest and long days during so it was such a relief it was over!
This week and last have been catch up weeks with emails and online orders and slowly building back up my inventory of paintings for the next fair – August 24th and 25th I’m participating in the Bucktown Arts Fest in Chicago. Bucktown is an excellent arts fair that has been going on for years. I attended this fest last year and it’s a great showcase of all the local Chicago artists. So mark it on your calendars! Then three weeks after the Bucktown Arts Fest I’m heading over to Lakeview for the Lakeview East Festival of the Arts. That’s on September 14th and 15th on Chicago’s north side. Check out their website for more information! I’ve participated in this fair for the past two years and it is awesome!
the prospective series
On Wednesday night the girls of The Prospective Series hosted their first pop up art show and sale featuring works by talented artists Nicole White, Christine Atkinson, Kayl Parker, Patrick Sanchez and Cody Tumblin. The Prospective Series was founded by young artists Caitlyn Hofer and Lucy Baird to help facilitate the relationship between emerging artists and young collectors looking for new and exciting art.
The event was hosted at Untitled in Chicago and small editions of selected artworks ranging from $50 to $300 were available for purchase. I loved seeing all the beautiful work. The collection included watercolors, photography, line drawings and mixed media art. There’s tons more to see in their catalog.
I’m looking forward to their next event and if you’re in Chicago I hope to see you there! Mark your calendars I hear Series 2 will take place in May. To find out more, sign up for their newsletter.
all images courtesy of the artists from The Prospective Series
the high line
From 1934 to 1980, the High Line was an elevated freight rail line that hauled goods into New York’s meatpacking district. Today, it is a mile long, high concept public park built on the abandoned railroad track with modern landscaping and scattered with public art installations. I was immediately intrigued by the unique juxtaposition of old and new going on with the design like the original steel tracks reused and incorporated into the path, railings restored and given a fresh coat of paint and the modern architectural landscaping along the entire trail.
They also have all these little surprises spread around the park – a paper cup pyramid, a pair of bronze monkeys, small wooden people. It’s called Lilliput and it was the first group exhibition at the High Line when it made it’s debut in April 2012. Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, you can find these miniature sculptures in all sorts of unexpected places throughout the park. Finding these treasures was like a fun artistic scavenger hunt!
The High Line also features a number of other public art installations and rotating art exhibits including artist Allen Ruppersberg’s rad You & Me billboard on display during the month of February. Arranged side by side on a grid to cover the entire 25 by 75 foot billboard, Ruppersberg’s colorful trademark posters displayed combinations of the words “you” and “me.” It was amazing how bright the colors were and how it really popped against the grey sky and city skyline.
Beneath the former Nabisco building there is a passage between 15th and 16th Streets that is accented with Spencer Finch’s beautiful stained glass art The River That Flows Both Ways. Inspired by the Hudson River, Finch photographed the river’s surface once every minute for 700 minutes. Each pane of glass was then based on a single pixel point in each photo and chronologically arranged in the tunnel. During our visit, the late afternoon light reflected shades of red and brown and deep greens. It was amazing.
A similar project in Paris, the Promenade Plantée, completed in 1993, provided inspiration for the High Line and has encouraged other cities such as St. Louis, Philadelphia, Jersey City and Chicago to renovate their abandoned railroads. I did a little digging and in Chicago there is a plan to build a trail on an abandoned freight rail line on the city’s Northwest side. Stretching from Ashland Avenue to Ridgeway along Bloomingdale Avenue through four Chicago neighborhoods, the project is still in the early phases of development. For more info, check out The Bloomingdale Trail website.
To find out more about the High Line, visit their website. For upcoming, current or past High Line art projects, check out High Line Art or download their art map.
photo credit kate zitzer
a blank canvas
We have these walls in our bedroom, freshly painted a cool shade of grey over the weekend and they are just screaming for some new artwork. I’ve been searching Society6 and UGallery for pieces I love but I can’t decide should we do a gallery wall? Or a large canvas painting? Or maybe I could frame some interesting photographs? I prefer pieces that are graphic and colorful and a good mix of prints, paintings, drawings, mixed media collages and photography. So tell me, do you have any recommedations? Or any artists that you know that are up and coming?
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