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holi festival, when all the world is a canvas

Susan Lomuto — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:51:45 +0000

Holi, the Hindu festival also known as the Festival Of Colors, is a time of shedding inhibitions, casting restrictions and differences aside and celebrating with great joy.

The festival marks the coming of Spring and the riot of color and new life this season brings every year. It usually takes place in early March and revolves around the central ritual of throwing and applying colored powders and water on each other.

Carefree Puff Of Childhood

Everyone becomes a canvas – every artist’s dream. I’m in.

Color Me If You Can

eastern market bottles

Susan Lomuto — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:54:57 +0000

Rows and rows of bottles neatly arranged, filled with colorful oils at Eastern Market in Washington DC. I remember being mesmerized by the bottles, the peddler and the stories he told. From my collection of images – one of my favorites.

Eastern Market Bottles

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artist as art

Susan Lomuto — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:59:53 +0000

His street art was interesting, his painted pants even more so
photo: Susan Lomuto, captured moment at Eastern Market, Washington DC 2011

chris dorosz: shifting the idea of the surface

Susan Lomuto — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:23:27 +0000

Trapping drops of paint in tiny compartments created by the deliberate arrangement of industrial staples, Chris Dorosz ‘paints’ mosaic-like images that mesmerize viewers.

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four figures indoors
acrylic/gel medium, industrial staples on canvas, 15″x18″

Paint drops pool in staples placed on their sides, and as the artist explains, “…the low relief of the metal staples catches light and shadow; shifting the idea of the surface as the viewer changes positions.” The work requires not only vision, but a great deal of patience and an intimate relationship with color.

detail of staple painting, click to enlarge

“Out of material discovery I began to regard the primacy of the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through, as analogous to the building blocks that make up the human body (DNA) or even its mimetic representation (the pixel).” Chris Dorosz

four figures in the sun
acrylic/gel medium, industrial staples on canvas, 15″x18″

three figures in a garden
acrylic/gel medium, industrial staples on canvas, 15″x18″

Taking the idea further, Dorosz traps fallen paint drops on vertical clear acrylic rods in the Paintdrop Sculptures series. As the viewer moves, the pixel-like paint drops align to form images which then disappear when the viewer shifts position and the drops move out of alignment.

stasis 13,
paint, acrylic plastic, 12.5″ x 20.5″ x 6.75″

“By placing my subjects in a form of ‘stasis’ through the medium I mean not only to protect them for a little while, but alternately to underscore the tenuous nature of human physicality where any moment life as we know it might just collapse into a pool of droplets or drift upwards into the atmosphere.” Chris Dorosz

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christiane theise’s tagua nut jewelry

Susan Lomuto — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:52:08 +0000

The last week of September brought crazy weather, internet woes and minor mishaps to my days. I’m riding out the weather away from home and hope to be back (along with the sun) tomorrow, no worse for the wear. Dozens of emails are waiting for a response and I will start catching up to all of you over the weekend!

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German goldsmith Christiane Theise combines silver and gold with tagua nuts, which she carves and pigments in this pod-inspired collection of jewelry. Theise shakes things up by using the silver and gold as accents while letting the organic matter take center stage. Nicely done.

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