Gabrielle Garland is a prolific New York-based artist whose main focus right now is on homes and dwelling spaces. Her little homes are whimsical and alive. Here is what The Hughes Gallery in Australia wrote about her:
“…Focusing on areas of human habitation, Garland does not seek to directly depict these spaces, but rather to communicate the ways we experience place. To that end she twists the rules of perspective to better suit the shift in focus and vantage point that occurs when we are in a room or outside a building. Memory is integral to the process. Garland takes photographs to remind her of the experience of a space and when translating them to drawings she combines alternative perspectives from different photographs to create ‘a kind of virtual collage allowing many different systems of order to exist in a single piece.…'”
https://www.rayhughesgallery.com/bio-cv/Gabrielle-Garland
There is a wonderful body of her work at https://gabriellegarland.org/ and an exhibit opening in Chicago on July 22nd (tomorrow): https://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/2016/06/24/gabrielle-garland-2/
This is a stunning exhibit in Edinburgh.
“Go on a quest through the ages in search of the identity of the Celts, at the latest blockbuster exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.
The first major exhibition on the subject for over 40 years, Celts is produced in collaboration with the British Museum and features over 350 objects from both museums’ collections, as well as other important pieces from across Europe.
Foremost amongst these is the spectacular Gundestrup Cauldron, a richly-decorated vessel made from silver and found in a peat bog in Denmark. Now reconstructed, its surfaces are alive with wonderful detail, providing us with a glimpse of the gods, rituals and lives of the people who made it.
Other objects serve a similar purpose: ranging from reconstructed chariots and carnyx war trumpets to opulent gold torcs and decorative objects. Each piece resonates with a beguiling sense of intrigue, allowing visitors to this well laid-out exhibition to draw their own conclusions about the true nature of the identity of the Celtic people.… ”
https://www.edinburghspotlight.com/2016/03/exhibition-celts-national-museum-of-scotland/
There were maybe 100 of these, some serving as memorials to people or pets.
Made by a disabled fisherman, this is in the little museum by the train tracks in Mallaig, Scotland.
The Marin Museum of the American Indian (in Novato, Calif.) has an extensive basket collection (not now on display). Here is one of them.
Karuk tribe, Northwest California.
Twined open rim; beargrass
Alder dyed with black fern stems.
Beautiful twinned base shown in lower photo.
Info supplied by Coleen Hicks
Ruth Kneass decorated this little model and brought it to my exhibit of driftwood beach shack photos on Saturday. It was filled with marzipan cookies.
In the background is one of the photos in the exhibit.
Godfrey Stephens and I saw this at an art auction in Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC a few years ago. I would think some kind of instant-bonding glue was used.
I got this in an antique/coffeehouse in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii last year. The entire bottle is 9-1/2″ long (the section shown here is about 5″ wide), 4″ high, 3″ wide; the neck, through which all of this had to fit, is about 1″ wide. How they ever did this is beyond me. Build it in collapsed form, slide in and pull erect? There are two human figures, a couple of baskets, a palm tree, and some fencing. Wonder of wonders!
