Well, just as the light was waning over West Texas last evening, the Marfa Girls were returning safely home from their reckless adventures in the sleepy, brushy, desert town of the same name. If you are not familiar with Marfa, it’s an amazing (I am told) once nearly “ghost town” turned artist colony, thanks to [...]
Tag Archives: Modernism
13 Lady Photogs on One Hot Trip
Posted in A Sense of Place, Collage, Object Making, Objets trouvés, Odes to Joy Also tagged 1970's style, adventure, artist colonies, birdcages, blue, bohemian style, Brooke Schwab, Chinati Foundation, documentary photography, Donald Judd, exhibitions, family photographers, fun, happiness, installation art, Jesse Chamberlin, joy, Man and Nature, Marfa, Marfa Girls, minimalism, Modern, Mystery Lights of Marfa, natural light photography, photographers, post-industrial, Post-Modernism, road food, road trips, Sarah Rhoads, sculpture, sky, Southern Gothic, tarantulas, Texas, the desert, truck food, typefaces and fonts, vernacular design, wedding photographers, women artists, women photographers, young artists 2 Comments
Mad for Mod
Quickly, form a single line and move toward Veerle Pieters amazing street-level foto-document of Interieur 08 – which, for those of us on this side of the Atlantic, might otherwise be missed. I am really rather smitten (as is Veerle) with these quixiotic 1963 Alexander Girard dolls. Pieters points out that Girard was inspired to [...]
Le porte-pique nique
When I lived in Brooklyn, I was forever seeing empty suitcases. Many were stunningly well-preserved 1960’s era Samsonites. With their sturdy functionality and mod high style, they were pretty well begging for me to bring them home to our 675 square foot apartment with no closets (that’s NO closets – not small, or few closets [...]
Posted in A Sense of Place, La Bonne Vivante, Object Making, Objets d'art, Objets trouvés Also tagged 1960's style, Assemblage, Brooklyn, cast-offs, collecting, Design*Sponge, green space travel case, junk, Man and Nature, Mod, New York City, Paige Russell, pastoral art, picnics, Retro, Samsonite, Sidewalks of New York Leave a comment


