CARROLL DUNHAM

girls start lena dunham made a film called tiny furniture about her mum who is a photographer who takes pics of tiny furniture.. i didnt realise her dad was also a famous artist.. i really like his paintings.

OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI

BEPPE GIACOBBE

quirky cool and surrealist illustrations by this artists inspire me to paintmore the stuff in my head

nina braun

sarah applebaum

a studio view of picket signs by sarah applebaum, 2011-2012
wood and paint
all images courtesy the artist

san francisco, california, USA-based artist sarah moli newton applebaum has sent to designboom her new-psych pieces. applebaum’s range of creation
spans from picket signs of every day objects to giant knit chains or felt guns. her work attempt to reconcile the psychological and psychedelic as her aesthetic
is formed from an exploration into the worlds of art and design in combination with the psychology symbolism. the artist’s work is an investigation into
the dual nature of the conscious and unconscious mind as her pieces possess the underpinnings of gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis of which she told us
she has a deep interest.

picket signs

the graphic, wooden picket signs are made in the form of symbols and/or personal item – bright colors and patterns, a house key, vultures,
television test pattern, an individual’s silhouette, a maze,  dark clouds, and splattered eggs. upon completing the collection, applebaum tells
designboom she plans to use the picket signs for a live march/picket line.

‘wall of guns’, 2011

‘giant felt gun’
die cut layered felt
2 ft x 1 1/2 ft x 4 in

a detailed view picturing the felt barrel and cylinder of the massive plush gun

giant cork gun, 2 ft x 1 1/2 ft x 4 in

the ‘heads’ collection, 2011

each of the three-dimensional profiles are built on a 1:1 ratio, constructed from honeycomb paper and wood. the artist develops the expandable works
in her san francisco studio by means of a scroll saw for shaping the wooden cover then hand cutting the honeycomb paper interior with a custom template
formed from the profiles pictured individuals.

rainbow ‘head’, 2011

green ‘head’ with natural wood exterior, 2011

‘knit chain’

miyoshi barosh

Miyoshi Barosh uses the vernacular traditions of craft and folk art to make her wall tapestries, paintings, and sculptural objects. The current economic crisis has added relevance to Barosh’s recent body of work centered on ideas concerned with cultural failure (the failure to make life better) and its impact on the individual. Her use of myriad materials such as fabric, Plexiglas, foam, fiberglass, paint, and found objects, as well as craft processes are a refutation of ideas of progress. Acrylic yarns and thrift-store purchased polyester knitwear are used with both comic irony and heartfelt sincerity as an Americanized arte povera. These “indigenous” fabrics and folk-craft techniques are then processed through accumulation and assemblage in opposition to male-dominated Modernism as well as a parody of aspirational consumerism.

The text and titles of many of Barosh’s pieces—Feel Better, Reflecting Our Fevered Dreams and Desires, Rescue Chair with Soft Intervention—point to a shift in responsibility to create and sustain meaningful lives from society to the individual. Cultural failure becomes internalized within the individual who turns to self-help 

kati-gegenheimer

katis incredibly sloppy and decorative large paintings ahhh so inspiring.. reminds me to maybe let loose a little not take things so seriosuly