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Tanja Alexia Hollander
SEE-April 2012
Tanja Alexia Hollander's Are You Really My Friend?
Brittany Marcoux + Brian McGuire, Swansea, Massachusetts, 2011, archival pigment print, 10" x 10"; relationship: friends, art, met through Bakery Photo Collective; years known: 0–5
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Conceptually, the collection is an investigation of friendship in the digital age. Aesthetically, it is a visual amalgamation of natural light, intimate spaces, and the soft grain of film. Together, it is disarmingly insightful and personal. This exhibition will be on view at the Portland Museum of Art through mid-June.
Portland Museum of Art | 7 Congress Sq. | Portland | portlandmuseum.org
All works are by Tanja Alexia Hollander (United States, born 1972) and are courtesy of the artist and Carroll + Sons Gallery, Boston, MA.
Add a commentShoshannah White
Shoshannah White's Butter
2010, photograph with encaustic, 6" x 6"
shoshannahwhite.com
Fine art photographer Shoshanna White unravels the beauty of our everyday in her ethereal and intimate collection, "Basic Ingredients." Using food, White is able to explore layers of history and cultural significance—the pomegranate, salt crystals, sugar cubes, while speaking to the immediacy of life through the natural potential of preservation and decay.
What was the process of creating Butter? What other mediums are used?
I painted over the photographs in the series with an encaustic medium. Encaustic is an ancient Etruscan painting technique that uses beeswax melted with tree resins. While still in its hot, molten form, the mixture is then applied to an absorbent surface.
Butter was well received at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art Auction last year. What do you think was the draw to this particular image?
I'm not sure what the draw was, but the emulsion of beeswax on the surface makes it a more tactile experience. The abstracted view also makes the image both geometric and organic, so it is able to speak to people on a number of levels.
What is it about this series that strikes you most?
The most common response to this body of work has been that people want to actually lick the surface—since the beeswax is both solid and translucent, it actually sort of resembles a thin frosting. Combining a food photograph with the encaustic medium seems to somehow connect the senses and inspire a layered experience.
How has your work evolved from this series?
I'm currently working on a couple bodies of work. The food series—where objects are sort of floating in darkness—led me to projects with small bits of light within darkness. I'm photographing landscapes at dusk or night now, and am developing a portrait series where faces emerge out of the dark.
Laura Fuller
SEE-February Special Wedding Issue 2012
By Candace Karu
Photograph by Jay York
An Artful Wedding Gift: Artist Laura Fuller creates customized stained glass artwork filled with meaningful memorabilia.
Laura Fuller’s Starry Night, 2011, porcelain antiques, ammonite fossil, printing stamps, quartz, antique crystal chandelier prisms, bottles, moonstone bead, tin, copper, GNA glass, and zinc, 17” x 18” x 2.5”
Add a commentFairfield Porter
By Sharon Corwin
A Curator's Perspective:
Fairfield Porter’s View from Upstairs
1966, oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Shirah Neumann
By Lauren Fensterstock
A Curator's Perspective:
Shirah Neumann’s Untitled, 2011, oil on panel, 48” x 48”
Shirah Neumann was born in Los Angeles, spent her childhood in Buffalo, and has since lived in Brooklyn, in Florence, on the Greek island of Corfu, and now in Maine. For an artist who has kicked around the globe, it is no surprise that the concept of place has become a central theme in her work. shirahneumann.blogspot.com
An Art Dealer’s Perspective: Elie Nadelman's Seated Woman with Raised Arm
By Tom Veilleux
Seated Woman with Raised Arm, c. 1925–26, galvano-plastique, 49” x 19.5” x 24”
Read more: An Art Dealer’s Perspective: Elie Nadelman's Seated Woman with Raised Arm
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