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The Art of Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery follows a tradition of conceptual art and stands out by bringing a poetic voice to the discourse of text art. Montgomery creates billboard poems, light pieces, fire poems, woodcuts and watercolors. He was the British artist selected for Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, the first biennale in India. Montgomery has had solo exhibitions at venues in Europe and in Asia, including major outdoor light installations on the site of the old US Air Force base at Tempelhof. The first monograph of his work was published by Distanz, Berlin in 2015.

“To encounter the work of Robert Montgomery is to make a tender encounter whose tenderness is enhanced by the public, communal quality of his work. To encounter his work is to have your body filled with a sad thunder and your head filled with a sad light. He is a complete artist and works in language, light, paper, space. He engages completely with the urban world with a translucent poetry. His work arrives at us through a kind of lucid social violence. No one has blended language, form and light in such a direct way.” ~ Dane Weatherman. Black & Blue Journal

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Celebrating William Christenberry

William Christenberry, who depicted rural Alabama through photographs, paintings and sculpture, died on Monday, November 28, in Washington, DC. He was 80. Known for photographs that measured the passage of time and evoked a sense of place in a region with a rich history darkened by racial and social injustice, Christenberry was one of the pioneers of color fine-art photography in the 1970s, working first with a Kodak Brownie snapshot camera before he incorporated 8×10 and 35mm cameras into his practice. Christenberry produced his work largely through annual trips to Hale County, Alabama which he thought of as home. His photographs show time’s effect on the landscape and humble rural architecture.

“I don’t want my work thought about in terms of nostalgia,” Christenberry said in an interview in 2005. “It is about place and sense of place. I only make pictures when I go home. I am not looking back longing for the past, but at the beauty of time and the passage of time.” Christenberry’s work also acknowledged the terrible racial history of the deep South through his piece “The Klan Room,” a tableaux of images of Ku Klux Klan events he surreptitiously photographed in the 1960s, paintings of Klansmen and sculptures.

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Please join us in welcoming the newest member of the Department of Extraordinary Eggshell Artists: Slovenian artist Franc Grom. 76-year-old Grom uses a tiny electric drill to create incredibly elaborate designs comprised of an anywhere from approximately 2500 to 3500 teeny-tiny holes.

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Self-destructive Marcus Møller Bitsch

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Miniature Masterpieces

A small sampling of the stunning miniature artworks by Woodcastles. The work covers a broad range of subjects from surreal images to landscapes with plenty of cartoon characters and architecture, it is also available to buy here.

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Michael Johansson

Public Square, 2015. Furniture, ordinary items. Installation view: Konkret mehr Raum, Osnabrück (DE)

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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

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Blue Hole, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

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SUBMISSION: Adam Hillman, Watercolor, 2016

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Your Home is Your Castle

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Close Encounter by Vadim Balakin

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The Department of Extraordinary Embroidery loves cats as much of the rest of us. That’s why they’re head over heels for the work of Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, who recently launched her own custom clothing brand, Go!Go!5.

It all started when Kubota was making clothing for her young son, who asked if he could have a kitty cat stitched onto one of his shirts. Now she takes custom orders from customers all over the world for items bearing hand-stitched cats, dogs and other animals, and more via her ShopGoGo5 on Etsy.