by Rachel Mendelson | Apr 28, 2021 | Design
Growing up in Dalton, Georgia—the “carpet capital of the world”—Trish Andersen never thought she would do anything with carpet, until a friend sent her a video of people making rugs with a tufting gun in India. “It was like a Kismet moment,” she says. Trish packed up...
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 24, 2021 | Design
For Mimi Jung, an artist whose practice centers on handwoven tapestry and sculpture, her work is often biographical, formed by her psyche and landscape. She splits her time between LA and Montana, where she’s building a new studio on nine acres of lush wilderness—an...
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 22, 2021 | Design
Born in Örebro, Sweden, Camilla Engstrom never thought she’d be a painter. “I was introduced to drawing and watercolors by my grandfather when I was a kid. He was super encouraging and told me I would one day become an artist,” she says. “I thought he was wrong, as I...
by Laura Rote | Dec 31, 2020 | Design
Part house, part art gallery. That’s the premise behind JARtB House, architect Billy Kavellaris’ family home on a tree-lined street with an eclectic mix of housing typologies in Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 2020, JARtB House is an acronym for all the members of...
by Lark Breen | Dec 29, 2020 | Design
London-based Yinka Ilori brings optimism and light to unexpected places with work across mediums. In summer 2019 Yinka’s “Colour Palace” emerged outside Dulwich Picture Gallery as a celebration of his native London as well as his Nigerian roots. Striking in its...
by Sophia Conforti | Jul 15, 2020 | News
Banksy is at it again. The artist sprayed and stenciled a London Underground train with rats that use a face mask as a parachute, hoard hand sanitizer, and sneeze, leaving a trail of blue mucus in their wake. Banksy debuted his latest work in a video on Instagram...
by Grace Perry | May 27, 2020 | Studio Tours
“I was influenced somehow or another by doodads,” art dealer Rhett Baruch tells me, utterly sincere. “Doodad,” by definition, means (literally) nothing. It’s a placeholder for words we cannot recall, like a gizmo, a whatsit, something Ariel would collect in The Little...
by Laura Rote | Feb 27, 2020 | News
Vibrant color, unexpected shapes, and raw data tell the story of the African American experience in the early 1900s in ways you’ve probably never seen—unless you’ve been to London’s House of Illustration recently. As part of an exhibit through March 1 at the House of...
by Zoe Sessums | May 30, 2019 | Design
In the back corner of a large building in Dumbo, bars and shops at the base and a maze of offices and studios throughout, I find my way to an assembly of colorful, thin, planar elements: creatures, structures, surfaces. This is the space of Marc Fornes, architect and...
by Ayla Angelos | Mar 13, 2019 | Design
Angela Santana, a Swiss artist currently residing in New York, uses her medium to address the mass consumption of online imagery. Through her ongoing series of large-scale oil paintings, inspired by illicit images she finds on the internet, Angela interrogates the...
by Stephen Gossett | Feb 6, 2019 | News
A Chicago museum will soon host a major retrospective of a groundbreaking feminist artist—and the institution is using the opportunity to highlight the gender wage gap that continues to impact millions. Filmmaker and photographer Laurie Simmons has spent nearly five...
by Chris Force | Jan 10, 2019 | Design
In Chris Labrooy’s digital reality, his love of sports cars, California sun, and midcentury design fuses into pleasant mayhem. I spoke to Chris from his home studio in Scotland—where he crafts his instantly recognizable 3D illustrations—about design, Porsches, fake...
