From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Colleen Plumb

Audobon Swan

Bird on Stairs

Circus II

Fridge Owl

Geese Through Window

Lamb

Okay some days I can’t edit content. I love everyone of Colleen Plumb‘s photographs. I found these and others at Jen Bekman .

Brian Burke

Lullaby #2

24 x 24 oil on canvas

Lullaby #3

24 x 24 oil on canvas

Set of Tumblers

45 x 48 oil on canvas

At Ingram Gallery, painter’s painter Brian Burke.

Cybele Young

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Is it May Already?

Japanese paper and copper etching 36 x 36 x3″

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I thought I heard Something

Japanese paper approx. 8 x 7x 2″

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I found it over there

Japanese paper approx. 8 x 10 x 1″

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I’ll be over here

Japanese paper approx. 1.3 x 2.5 x 1″

Canadian artist Cybele Young sculpts paper into fascinating domestic miniatures with implied narrative. She manages to tap into the childhood fascination for things wee and magic, and her results are grown up. See more great work on her website.

The Elephanta Project

What an interesting use of Facebook. Artist Michael Byron and others’ organized The Elephanta Project and use the social network to “examine the elephant’s mystery and imposing form, its fragile future as a species…”. Participants post imagery and links related to these magnificent creatures.

Kate Mccgwire

5,000 chicken wishbones

180 x 180 cm
Sister work: Brood, 2004

Fume, 2007
Hand-made book, burnt
38 x 80 x 13 cm

Fume, 2007 (detail)

Insular, 2008
50 Layers of paper, burnt
77 x 57 x 1 cm

Design Sponge introduced me to Kate Mccgwire’s astonishing feather work installations. I checked out Kate’s website and found many outstanding artworks. It is worth the look.

Suzanne Ulrich

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no. 1161, 2004 Mixed media on paper
Image: 7 x 6 3/4 inches

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no. 1153, 2004 Mixed media on paper
Image: 8 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches

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no. 1416, 2006 Mixed media on paper
15 x 11 1/4 inches

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no. 1412, 2007 Mixed media on paper
14 7/8/ x 11 inches

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no. 1406, 2006 Mixed media on paper
15 x 11 1/4 inches

Elegant. Balanced. Intimate. ( Thank you Heather. ) Suzanne Ulrich’s collages at the Barbara Krakow Gallery.

Micah Lexier

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Revelation 24, 2008  Laser-cut, hot-rolled steel, 26″ x 62″ x .25″

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Revelation 33, 2008 Laser-cut, hot-rolled steel, 31″ x 37″ x .25″

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Revelation 28, 2008 Laser-cut, hot-rolled steel, 26″ x 48″ x .25″

Aren’t these great? These are installation shots ( for those dyslexic like myself – the art is on the wall with the floor in foreground. The shots are so uniform and composed I couldn’t be sure what I was looking at until I contacted the gallery. duh.). Micah’s truly wonderful works are at Birch Libralto .