Street Color

Late this past Fall, my husband and his partner who go by the name Faile put up a massive mural in NYC on the corner of Bowery and Houston Streets. This location is an iconic and highly prominent wall in the city painted by well known artists throughout the years, so it's pretty awesome to walk or drive by and see this huge colorful mural done by them. It's been up since late last Fall but this past weekend we finally got a chance to take some photos of Lyla in front of it. How cool for her to have these photos in front of a huge mural that her daddy made?

Below are some process photos of Faile's studio prepping the giant mural in the studio as well as the installation.







{photos by faile}

Infinite Color + Play

I've loved Yayoi Kusama Dot exhibitions ever since learning of her work back in art school. This past summer we visited the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and I was excited to see her Mirror Room.

But this particular exhibit at the Queensland Art Gallery might be my favorite yet. It started off as a completely white room and she allowed kids visiting the exhibit to become artists themselves and completely cover the room in colored stickers. Absolute amazingness.


{top 3 images for Queensland Art Gallery by Mark Sherwood
bottom image by Stuart Addelsee}

all via inspiration lab

Bird Love

I love these bird photos by Leila Jeffreys. Her life has been full of travel and a deep love for animals which she shared with her family. She really brings to life the personalities of these birds through these loving and charming photographs.

I'm excited to see Jonathan Adler is starting to show and sell her photographs in their stores. I'm looking forward to checking these out in person!

{all photos copyright of leila jeffreys}

Sweater Letters

These hand embroidered letters are quite lovely. The patterns & colors that make up each letter are perfect.

MaricorMaricar is selling the letter 'B' here.

{photos from behance network, artwork by maricormaricar}

Floral Realism

A beautiful series of paintings of double exposed photographs by Pakayla Biehn. Very lovely.

{images from pakayla biehn}

Back to School

It's no secret I'm a fan of Meghan Whitmarsh's work, so I was super excited to see her line of "School Supplies".

This week is Lyla's first week of nursery school and while these supplies aren't the most practical, they are beautiful and will look lovely mounted in some shadow boxes. Lyla's bedroom is full of hot pink artwork and these will be a great addition to her growing collection.

{photos from grey area}

Beautiful

Beautiful, surreal, and mystical photos by Alexander Binder.

{photos by alexander binder}

Lasers of Color & Soft Embroidery

I'm super excited to see this new print by Megan Whitmarsh. It's an 18 color screenprint with hand embroidery. I've been proudly collecting Megan's work for the last 6 years and to be able to own a screenprint with that many colors & embroidery for $225 is a no-brainer to me. Megan's been a favorite artist of mine for a while now, and I can't wait to get this gem framed!

{photos from paper monster}

Inspiring & Refreshing

I wanted to share some inspiring images of my husband and his partner's studio that they've had here in Brooklyn for the last 6 years. Thankfully TWBE captured some fun shots inside Faile's interesting world. It's always fun to take Lyla to the studio and let her run wild. Art is a huge part of our life; we make it, collect it, and are surrounded by it in our home and daily lives. It keeps things exciting.

But by far the most famous and treasured art in our household is by Lyla. Her use of color and shape is really quite brilliant. See below - she's awesome.

Have a wonderful weekend!



{faile studio photos by the world's best ever and photo of lyla's masterpieces by me}

Bedtime Stories

My husband and his partner (a.k.a FAILE) have an exhibition up right now in Chelsea. It's up until Dec. 23rd, so if you're around you should check it out!

I'm super proud of Patrick. He is above and beyond the most talented person I've ever known. And he's my husband! I feel so lucky and thankful to have him in my life. It's been an amazing journey together since our youthful days in art school. And to witness him become a successful artist has been nothing short of inspiring (and at times, tiring).

A sweet tidbit about us - This weekend marks the 10 year anniversary of our first date. I can't believe we've been together for a DECADE. Whoa. He took me to a jazz club and we drank tea. I wore an itchy turtleneck and velour boots. Don't ask ( I was only 20!)

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. To me Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. It's about food, family and friends. No gifts, just love.

Happy Happy Thanksgiving!

{fyi - each of the paintings shown is made up of 2" x 2" solid wood blocks. To say each painting is heavy and extremely labor intensive is an understatement!}

Thankful Goods

Mike Perry and friends (Anna Wolf, Hugo Marie & more!) are having a little garage sale at their studio starting this Saturday, Nov. 27th - Dec. 1st. There will be lots of good goodies, so be sure to stop by!

Serious Stitches

Rebecca Ringquist's embroidery work is amazing. She alternates between hand embroidery, machine stitching and screenprinting. Wow.

Lovely Envelopes

A lovely collection of envelopes as art by photographer Andrew Bush. The envelopes are just as beautiful by themselves as they are together. Very inspiring...

{photos by andrew bush via another something}

The Faile Temple

As many of you know, I went to Lisbon, Portugal this last month to view my husband Patrick's (one of the two Patrick's of Faile) monumental sculpture project. The work is titled "Temple" and it quite possibly is the most amazing piece of art I've ever seen (said with a slight bias, of course).

The Temple project has been two years in the making. It is made up of huge ceramic relief sculptures, cast iron gates, marble sculptures, mosaics, not to mention the 1000's of tiles placed on the interior and exterior walls of this piece. Every single element in this sculpture was custom made and thoughtfully considered. Everything. So much went into this project. The structure itself is made to look like a ruin that has been blasted open to show the hidden beauty that rests inside. And once you're inside, you're blown away by the layers upon layers of detail within the mosaics, the spinning prayer wheels, the marble scuba horse fountain, and well, everything. Every detail was above and beyond breathtaking.

It was a lot of fun to hang out around and in the temple. Tourists would walk up to it with their travel books trying to figure out what was this "thing" they were looking at, old men and their wives would stare in awe at the level of detail in the ceramic and mosaic pieces, while children would run through and speedily spin the prayer wheels. The temple was built and designed for this specific site, Praça dos Restauradores Square, in the heart of Lisbon. What was so impressive is that it felt like it belonged there and had been a part of the city's history for hundreds of years. It was so delicately considered for it's location. It was and is perfect.

As you can tell, I'm incredibly proud of my husband and his partner. Patrick and I started dating 10 years ago this Fall and to witness the progression of his work to this point is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

To view and read more about Faile's Temple, click here.

photos c/o faile