Design on a Dime
6 Ways Transform Your Dining Room Without Buying New Furniture by Ana Nicole Rodriguez Last week, I collaborated with Evette Rios to help build an installation for the Design on a Dime benefit – an annual event where over 50 top designers create rooms from salvaged goods and donated furniture. All items are then sold [...]
Leslie Lewis Sigler
Connecting to the beauty in daily existence is what drives my artistic vision. My particular areas of focus are the natural beauty that can be discerned in unnatural objects, and also the relationship of these objects to the spaces they occupy. I see an innate beauty in a simple wooden chair or an antique blowtorch; [...]
Miller’s Sugar Murals
Shelley Miller is a Montreal-based artist whose installations, sculptures and public works have been exhibited across Canada as well as India and Brazil. She earned a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1997 (Calgary, AB) and a Masters in Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2001 (Montreal, QC). [...]
Eat Me: Victionary
Eating is no longer a pure experience of smell and taste but rather an effective agency to communicate and engage, an indication of cultural values, lifestyle, artisanship, criticism, aspirations and imagination this present day. While no single aspect of food and the associated can epitomise the new food culture, EAT ME takes out a slice [...]
DiCioccio’s Bags
My work investigates the physical/tangible beauty of commonplace mass-produced media-objects, most recently: the newspaper, magazines, office papers and writing pads, plastic bags, 35 mm slides. These media are becoming obsolete, replaced by the invisible efficiency of various technologies. In some cases, this transition is a good thing- faster transmission and distribution of information, streamlined systems, [...]
Kleiner’s Lollipops
Carl Kleiner abstracts lollipops into strangely majestic architectural forms using marble and composite like materials. A smattering of candy droplets gives the lollipops an even eerier feel. I only wish there were more! The rest of his work is also just as visually arresting.
Wagashi
Wagashi are traditional Japanese confections that evolved into an art form in the ancient Imperial capital, Kyoto. The character pronounced ‘wa’ denotes things Japanese, while the characters for ‘gashi’, an alliteration of kashi, have come to mean confections. Wagashi represent the essence of Japanese culture, and continue to be vital force in Japanese life. One [...]
Dennis Wojtkiewicz
“Each painting is constructed by beginning with a monochrome underpainting in the complement of the featured subject. Subsequent layers of semi-opaque through to transparent colors follow with up to ten passes before the end result is achieved. The process is in essence a modified version of techniques used by Northern European Masters, Vermeer being of [...]
