Two things I love..

...miniatures and thrift stores:

http://hyperallergic.com/17104/ledrays-thrift-store/

New Painting: A Mailbox

Look how pretty: Vija Celmins

There's a show of hers up right now in Houston,TX titled, Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966. I wish I could go!


http://www.menil.org/index.php

Look how pretty: Elad Lassry

New Painting

More artists I like: Vija Celmins

Conrad Bakker

So basically Conrad Bakker has already done everything I've done in my studio this semester. Depression glass? Yes. Wastebaskets? Yes. Here is some of his lovely work:

new painting

New paintings

Painters I like: Alex Katz

I only knew about his portraits, which are ok, but it's his landscapes that are beautiful. I want to make paintings like this:

This guy is good: Ryan Johnson

http://www.guildgreyshkul.com/artist.php?id=91&show=works

New paintings- painted this week.

Tired Old Queen At the Movies

You should look at this:

New painting of Latkes and Pierogies (in progress)

Work by my new advisor

This artist, Tony Tasset, is going to be my advisor at UIC in the fall! Should be fun!

Video: Chicago's new eyeball: "
The Chicago Tribune looks into the making of downtown Chicago's newest sculpture, a 30-foot orb modeled after sculptor Tony Tasset's eyeball. Props to the motherland: The fiberglass ball was fabricated in Sparta, Wis., -- not so far from where I grew up -- by F.A.S.T. Corp., which made the world's largest fiberglass sculpture, the 145-foot-long muskellunge that makes up Hayward, Wisconsin's Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.

Via C-Monster.

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New Painting in progress

Painters I like: Sara MacCulloch

New work at work

A new Flower/Welcome display on the wall. Thanks Dad for giving me four of the old windows from your house.

Look who was in Time Out Chicago

My Hagia Sophia was a Critics' Pick in the April 15- 21 issue of Time Out Chicago.

Fancy Times

This morning I went to the home of a fancy art collector downtown. I met him a few years ago at work. I think I sold him a box of crackers. I said something like, "I'm really putting this art degree to work," and his ears perked up. He's always on the lookout for new painters. He and his wife have art covering every inch of wall inside their home, art which is probably worth more than the home itself.




That's a real Elizabeth Peyton watercolor in the background!