I have always admired photographer Tim Walker’s special take on fashion photography, and I love the way he references and honors Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn. This video interview is a special treat worth sharing.
It’s indeed here, the last day of 2011. Time to don your best sparkly tights, drink too much champagne, and then work it off at the gym tomorrow. Time to make all sorts of promises of less of this and more of that, and see how long that sticks. I have added an easy resolution to the obligatory ones, which is to read the famous Herman Melville novel, “Moby Dick”. I have seen every movie adaption, and I believe while very good, they are all probably, missing the boat. If you love astrology as much as I, you must read your horoscope for the week from the illustrious Rob Brezsny, he is truly poetic. A very Happy New Year to you and yours.
Here’s a sumptuous new Cecily Brown painting called “The Hunter”, and a New Year’s Eve outfit inspired by it. If you click on the image you can view it larger, and really get caught up in the action of the painting.
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View more of Cecily’s work by watching this video from her 2008 show at the Gagosian.
Keltie Ferris is a Brooklyn based painter born in Louisville, KY in 1977. She starts by using a palette knife to scrape acrylic or oil paint across the surface of her canvas, and then she sprays paint on top. What develops is a matrix of space, and shapes playing visual games with your eyes. Her work feels ethereal and mystical yet filled with city energy to me.
She is apparently inspired by the neo abstract expressionists of the 80′s (I had to look that one up… it means artists like Ida Applebroog, Basquiat, Schnabel etc), but I would rather think of her as a Piet Mondrian of today’s city life.
Here is my outfit inspired by Keltie’s painting. I really want the Jil Sander sweater for myself! Click on the objects for shopping info:
Here is a link to a fantastic 7 minute video of Keltie getting ready for a show: Art21
I tried to embed the video, like I usually do, but for some reason it wasn’t working..click the link instead!
I have been super busy over the last couple of months, so I thought it would be cool to show you a visual diary of what I have been up to. These are photos from my everyday life; work, art, and things that catch my eye. Click on the images if you want to see the whole photo.
from left to right, top to bottom
1. black feathers and flowers from hair accessory designer Jen Behr. She let me borrow them for a crazy Gibson Girl hair-do for a party I attended.
2. love this ring, reminds me of Giorgia O’Keefe’s animal scull paintings
3. everyone needs a black heart ring
4. candle display at a party. It was a great way to give some interest to a boring corner area of the room
5. my lithograph titled: “Whatever You Say”. This was featured in W Magazine
6. dear friend makeup artist Ashleigh Ciucci. She has the best style. Love the orange lipstick
7. with model Ursula in wardrobe room. Someone sent us the wrong sized jeans.
8. A new species of plant: Chichi-anthalious relaximus.
9. Neal and I at IPC opening for their summer show. I had two pieces selected for it! We are doing a little Great Gatsby look here.
10. vintage bathing headband. I bet it had a matching bathing suit at one point
11. Robert Rauschenberg artwork at MOMA. I loved all the prints of old newspapers.
12. zodiac cuffs in the Seventeen Magazine fashion closet.
13. model Shu on set. she is super cute, love her
14. white sweet peas, so pretty and fresh.
15. my lithographs drying on a rack
16. Jersey shore swimming pool: this shot would be much better if everyone knew how to do “pretty feet”
17. Lithograph ready to go to my friend’s cupcake shop in Maine
18. seeing the light on a all girls camping trip
19. Tina getting made up in the woods by Carmindy. We did each other’s hair and makeup and took great pics running around the woods.
20. fresh seafood pic I saw in a magazine.
21. “Lady Cinnamon”. I ended up printing her in a burnt umber color.
22. a piece I did for Hublot Watches
23. monoprint I am especially proud of
24. another version
25. and yet another version
26. loved the way my friend, artist Celia Gerard, had her hair so casually knotted
27. fresh fruit from the stand
28. Celia enjoying the bounty
29. Anchovy starring in her own film noir
30. adorable penguin sweater by one of my clients, Little Miss Matched
31. doing research for my t-shirt post for Equinox’s new magazine called Q
32. lithotine poured on a litho plate. Love the effect
33. researching new brands
34. Albertus Swanepoel hat I want to pick up from Target at the end of this month
35-42. me pushing toner powder around on a litho plate. wild how much things can change right? I ended up scrapping it, as it got very Bootsy Collins…
43. vintage military pins etc for a Rebel Youth inspired story
44, vintage bra tops from Early Halloween
45. Vintage military hat
46. fantastic Aldo shoes…cheap and cool!
47. working on a litho.
48. Rachel Roy safety pin earrings that I wish I would have bought because they sold out!
49. Steve Madden silver boots I was considering buying for a job
50. RAGE! Royal Family Affair in Vermont
51. purple plant I want to find out more about.
52. satin headwraps and patent bow from Jen Behr
53. adorable knit head kerchief from Jen Behr
54. customizing boots…love my job sometimes
55. on set for Little Miss Matched
56. me trying on a hat, while enjoying a tootsie roll pop
57. shoes!
58. sunglasses!
59. Oh Ferragamo, you make such pretty things
60. in between shots for Gen Lux
61. love taking pictures of models when they are not modeling!
62. Anchovy loves the beach
63. Carmindy looking lovely in Montauk
64. me in some Dior sunglasses I wish I would have kept…
65. The outdoor “roof” at the Surf Lodge. I want to do this in our back yard
66. Chovy
67. Bergie
68. at Pravda. Yes that is caviar in the martini glass
69. Neal with Jimmy Cobra at the Caveman show at Mercury Lounge
70. Anchovy is such a lady sometimes
71. took a quick snap of a Mert and Marcus pic in Interview Magazine
Greetings, and happy New York fashion week! I mostly feature painters in this series, but I couldn’t resist showing you a photograph by artist Daniel Gordon. Born in 1980, Gordon likens his images to photographing loving muses, mixed with a bit of Frankenstein collaging.
Borrowing photographic imagery from the internet, Gordon makes trompe l’oeil, 3-d sculptural portraits of people and still-lifes, and then re-photographs the tableauxs. I love the way he uses recognizable “textures” like hair, and makes them into hair-do shapes, but completely off scale. Some of his work is a bit grotesque, especially with some of the hairy skin textures, but I think the piece I’ve chosen, is quite beautiful. Is the shadow created from the bust “real”? Does the shadow now look like a boy’s? The blurry pixelated blocks work to heighten our view on the subject, just as depth of field does when taking a photograph. The “window” above really makes you think you are looking outside. In other words, he plays with the lie that is photography. Click on the image below to view larger:
Here is my outfit inspired by “Sillhouette” above. Click on items below for shopping info:
Here is a great studio visit video with Daniel by dailyserving.com. He’s messier than I thought he would be..I imagined a laboratory set up, and him wearing a lab coat.
Daniel Gordon, Portrait Studio from sam fleischner on Vimeo.
Hello hello! I have been so wrapped up in trying to create some lithographs that I like, that I have not been blogging lately. bad bad bad! I think I am on the right track now, after wrestling some new techniques, and I will post some pictures soon. While I have been mired in creative dilemmas, I have been thinking about Ellen Gallagher (b 1965), who is an artist who lives and works in both Rotterdam and New York. She is repped by Gagosian, so you know she does well, and I absolutely love the intuitive and visceral nature of her work.
She is most known for her appropriation of old black and white advertisements from magazines like Ebony and Sepia. She then transforms them into narratives, repeating certain characters and adding her own details like googley eyes and sculpty. I have seen several of them in person, and they are mesmerizing and intricate.
Here is my outfit inspired by “Wiglette” above.
Dress: See by Chloe, earrings: Missoni, bracelet: Missoni, sandals: Reed Krakoff
Sunglasses: Prada, bag: Chloe, shirt: Elizabeth and James
As you know, besides being a stylist, I also study printmaking. Here is a fantastic video with Ellen and a master printer talking about the process of taking her work and making multiples.
And here she is talking about her work..
I have been styling up a storm lately, and now it’s time to retreat to art. I have two prints in the New Prints Summer show at IPCNY, which opens June 9th, and today I am going to the Gagosian Gallery to view the Picasso paintings of his much younger lover, Marie-Therese. (Their odd relationship is fodder for a whole other blog post, let me tell you.) For now, let me inspire you with another Pockets and Paintings post, this time about the very talented and heady painter, Mark Tansey.
Mark Tansey is a post modern painter born in California in 1949. His large scale paintings are monochromatic and are rich with conflicting and contradictory images, symbols, visual puns, and hidden imagery. He employs lots of art history in his work, and in fact in one painting you see the figures of Picasso, Pollack and Duchamp and other art luminaries all standing together in a sort of post-apocyliptic landscape.
His use of art history is also interesting since his father edited several versions of Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages”, which every art history student lugged around, including me.
Tansey has a very interesting system for coming up with ideas and subject matter. He has created what he calls “color wheels” filled with phrases, nouns, and objects and spins the dial so-to-speak, to come up with ideas for his next painting. Possible generated phrases may be: “Borgesian cartographers redeploying jouissance” or “stock characters suspending disbelief in unshakable foundations”. Wild eh?
Here he is with the table version, where he can generate 5 million different phrases.
I am trying to figure out what the phrase might have been for this painting below. Any thoughts? I love his use of blue. It looks like Delft pottery or like a blueprint.
Here is my outfit inspired by his painting above titled: “EC 101″.
Dress: Splendid, necklace: Eddie Borgo, sunglasses: Barton Perreira, boots: Ralph Lauren
Bag: Meredith Wendell, cuffs: Dannijo, jacket: Elizabeth and James
Tansey just had a show at the Gagosian Gallery. The installation video really shows you his work in detail, so check it out.
Happy Summer everyone!
I am feeling like I am 110 years old today! I have been working on a crazy busy catalog job that makes me think there should be an olympic sport called “Super Styling”. (It should come right after rhythmic gymnastics. Ha!) So now I am sitting here with my laptop, sandwiched between two snoring pups, dreaming of my chiropractor appointment tomorrow morning. I love discovering new artists, (or new to me I should say), and I’m thrilled to show you a painting by Will Fowler.
Will Fowler is a Los Angeles based painter who was born in 1969. His non representational canvases reference early Modernists like Dubuffet, Miro, and Pollock and sometimes take years to complete. He works in acrylic, and layers shapes upon colorful shapes until they become a mesmerizing, energetic, frenzy-filled composition.
I find them to be quite beautiful, and I wondered how much recognition he had been getting lately. I searched around and read on Bloomberg.com that during the Armory show this year, his dealer sold 13 paintings in under two hours at $7,000 each. Not bad!
this painting is called “Bathtub”. (Click on the photo to see it bigger)
And here is my outfit inspired by this work:
Dress: Isabel Marant, jacket: Theory, bag: Ricky Designs, shoes: Acne
Necklace: Kenneth Jay Lane, earrings: Tom Binns
I am crazy about the Tim Binns earrings. I chatted with him on the phone many years ago when I was calling in jewelry for an InStyle Magazine cover featuring Sheryl Crow. He said in a very nice English accent: ”I suppose I should lend you jewelry for it, but you know, I don’t really like Sheryl Crow.” I laughed, as it was refreshing to hear someone be so honest, when most designers would kill to get their stuff on a celebrity.
Today I am featuring the very talented painter Michael Borremans. He is from Belgium and was born in 1963. Originally trained as a photographer, he turned to drawing and painting in his mid thirties. This is kind of wild to me since he is a really good painter, so he must have had a natural gift to have picked it up so late.
He is influenced by the styles of Manet and Degas, and Velazquez, and he uses photographs he has taken himself as reference for his paintings. He also commissions sculptures of the human figure which he then paints from. His paintings are seemingly quiet and contemplative, but they really hit you over the head with their air of restraint and strong views about society. Here are a few of his paintings. The woman with the bees is called “American Actress”, I wonder what he means by this?
This very masterful painting is called “Automat”. His light and detail are really stunning.
Here is my outfit inspired by this painting. I am crazy about the Michael Kors cork wedges…
Dress: Bottega Veneta, earrings: Roberto Cavalli, shoes: Michael Kors
Necklace: Isabel Marant, watch: Michael Kors, bag: Chloe
Another structured leather bag that would work with this outfit (and is more reasonable priced) is this one from Michael Kors:
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Here is a video of Michael Borremans talking about his work:
I am getting ready for 11 straight days of work where I will be dressing 20 (!) people, but I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to a painter you might not know about. His name is Thomas Scheibitz.
Thomas Scheibitz, both a painter and a sculptor, was born in 1968 in Radeberg, Germany, and currently lives and works in Berlin.
He uses found media images of empty and idealistic scenes, and deconstructs them into abstract parts. He is influenced by the amazing colorist Josef Albers, and by the Bauhaus movement. His paintings are design oriented and are very architectural. He layers shapes upon shapes emphasizing their flatness, while also creating space amongst them. Make sure you click on the paintings so you can view them larger.
I love this portrait he did. He looks like a professor waiting to speak at a graduation ceremony:
Here is my outfit inspired by “Anlage” above. The composition is like a maze don’t you think? I think anlage means “plan” or “arrangement” in German.
Pants: Jil Sander, earrings: Bottega Veneta, boots: Chloe Sevigny for O.C.
Necklace: 3.1 Phillip Lim, bag: Alexander Wang, jacket: Vanessa Bruno, cami: Roland Mouret
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