Sunday, May 6, 2007

art done by the budget conscious for other people

so this weekend i tried to hit up some of the somerville open studios.
i'm really glad i did. i would have been sad to miss out on some of the great stuff i saw. and i wanted to buy so much of it. why can't i be independently wealthy? oh wait, then i'd probably be a stuck up piece of shit with no real friends like all of you! wait. that's such a stereotype for me to throw out there.
what the fuck is going on here?

oh, right, here's some of the people i saw/places i went and stuff you should checkity check!!

i started it off with a tip from erikka, she insisted i went to the museum of modern renaissance
incredible floor to ceiling fresco paints in what used to be an old church.


the little house studios:
consisting of drawings by briana horrigan


paintings by althea roy:

foxy lady paintings by luxville aka Rebecca Hesketh

pasties by maria davis

odd illustrations by joe keinberger

hand made, modern/vintage jewelry by Esoteria

photographs by amy cooper

cool, reflective patches for bike riding, some prints and other things at haptotrope

multimedia pieces, mostly on wood by elise dietrich


encaustic paintings by renee de montaigne

photographs of his grandmother and panoramas by lee kilpatrick

photographs from morocco by nicole lecorgne





great prints as well as paintings by christina preher

edward gorey-esque paintings by deborah newey - couldn't find any links :(

photographs and strange stuffed animal doll art by vanessa r. thompson

whew, that's all i grabbed cards for, i'm sure i missed out on a lot of other great artists too. the things is, they do these open studios throughout boston and surrounding areas all spring through fall. there were apparently over 300 artists that participated in this thing alone. point being, there is so much great art just in the boston area alone.

speaking of which, my sister happened upon this guy greg stones at the mayfair event in harvard square. he does watercolor paintings, but not just any watercolor paintings, stuff like:
five penguins, one hatchet

and pug, snowman, zombie


cool.

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