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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Ellen Gallagher! Gallagher is a contemporary American artist whose work often explores her biracial ethnicity through artistic means. Born on December 16, 1965 in Providence, RI, Gallagher went on to study at Oberlin College and later received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1992. The artist’s work is influenced from a variety of sources, including Agnes Martin's paintings, publications such as Ebony, and the writings of Gertrude Stein. “This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries,” she has said about her art and creative process. Gallagher currently lives and works between New York, NY and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, among others. #offroute #art #ellengallagher #womeninart #artinspiration #arthistory #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CONzRYBBeAR/?igshid=12l1qt4gccyej

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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Loïs Mailou Jones! Jones was an American artist and educator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1905, Jones' parents encouraged her to create. Her parents owned a house on Martha's Vineyard, where she met many artists, including sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and received a graduate degree in design from the Design Art School of Boston before deciding to pursue a BA in art education from Howard University, graduating in 1945. Jones traveled extensively, and even lived in Paris in the 30's and 40's, where she was a well known artist. In the 1950s, she was a guest professor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and later helped Howard University research and document contemporary Haitian art. In the late 1960s, she traveled to 11 African countries and interviewed contemporary African artists. In the 1990s, well into her 80s, she continued to produce work. In 1990, an exhibition of her work toured the United States and finally brought her work to national attention. She passed away in Washington, DC in 1998 at the age of 92. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Palace in Haiti. #offroute #art #loismailoujones #womeninart #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CN7yvVBhyP_/?igshid=12zmbm71f8k7y

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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Rebecca Horn! Horn is a German artist known for her performances which involve prosthetic uniforms and sculptural installations. Often dealing with the body and physical sensations, her uniforms are outfitted with exaggerated extensions of the face, hands, and mouth. Born on March 24, 1944 in Michelstadt, Germany, Horn attended the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts before developing aggravated lung poisoning a year later due to fiberglass inhalation. Her injuries forced her to withdraw from school, and the recovery was difficult and filled with struggle, like the death of her parents. It was during this time in the late 1960s that she developed some of her most profound ideas. “Maybe I have a dark sense of humor or of claustrophobia. Sometimes my work's very shocking, as if something is wounded,” she said. “But it also has an aspect of tenderness. There are these two energies, balancing back and forth in certain works.” Today, her works can be found among the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Horn currently lives and works between Paris, France and Berlin, Germany. #offroute #art #artinspiration #arthistory #rebeccahorn #womeninart #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CNpwHsHh97E/?igshid=10vnjva98v22u

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Looking to get involved with Offroute? There's so many different ways to join our community! Visit offrouteart.com to learn about volunteering, selling your art, or being one of our Sunday Spotlight Artists! #offroute #art #artinspiration #getinvolved #volunteeropportunity #lookingforvolunteers #callforartists #donations #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfiCqwBwqL/?igshid=2jf5k9j0t7cl

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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Joan Mitchell! Mitchell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker. Born on February 12, 1925 in Chicago, IL, Mitchell earned both her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Moving to New York in the late 1940s, she was introduced to the ideas espoused by artists like Kooning, Pollock, and Hofmann. In 1951, Mitchell was included in the groundbreaking “Ninth Street Show,” curated by Leo Castelli at the Artists’ Club in Greenwich Village. Over the following decades, the artist divided her time between Paris and New York, developing her style. “My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me—and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed,” she said.   Mitchell died on October 30, 1992 in Paris, France at the age of 67. Today, the artist’s legacy is remembered through the Joan Mitchell Foundation which provides grants for sculptors and painters in the United States. Her works are featured in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among many others. #offroute #art #arthistory #womeninart #joanmitchell #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXvfujhPUA/?igshid=10m3ap0txouzw

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Offroute's weekly Artist Inspiration is Sonia Delaunay! Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French artist and designer known for creating colorful geometric patterns in her work. Born Sarah Élievna Stern on November 14, 1885 in Odessa, Ukraine to a poor Jewish family, she was sent to live with her wealthy uncle Henri Terk at the age of five. She adopted the name Sonia Terk. She went on to study drawing in Germany at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, before moving to Paris in 1906. It was in Paris that she met and later married the art dealer Wilhelm Uhde, who served as a means to Delaunay becoming a French citizen.  It was Uhde that introduced her to her future husband Robert Delaunay. Having left Uhde for Delaunay, the new couple created a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism, later deemed Orphism by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. She used this new aesthetic approach to make paintings, textiles, and designs over the course of her career.  “For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called ‘decorative’ work,” she said. “I never considered the ‘minor arts’ to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.”   In 1964, Delaunay became the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre Museum. She died on December 5, 1979 in Paris, France at the age of 94. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, among others. #offrouteart #artinspiration #arthisotry #womenpainters #womeninart #soniadelaunay #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CNFsmZ-Bcpy/?igshid=13ynjperkzp9j

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This is our first week partnering with @affirmreact_pod and we're so excited for you to give them a listen and check out the art work Offroute Artist @isabeladolphe made for this week's episode! To learn more about this partnership and how you can support our artists visit the link in our bio! "The one you’ve been waiting for, this week we dive into Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury! As always check it out on Spotify or our website, link in bio✨ AND this is the first week of our partnership with Offroute Art which means this cover art is created by the amazing Isabel Adolphe🤩 to support artists like her make sure you visit the donation link in our bio🥳" https://www.instagram.com/p/CNAfhxrBk2Y/?igshid=t2bdqba5omsl

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It's officially Spring, so we're looking back on our Sunday Spotlight Artists from the Winter season! If you're interested in being a Sunday Spotlight Artist fill out our Google Form- https://forms.gle/gxWfUEVusZxwMc38A #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #sundayspotlight #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CM99vNAhXpg/?igshid=q1a8apctn48j

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We love seeing the Offroute Calendar in your homes! Where do you keep your calendar? Post it and tag us #offrouteart #art #calendar #artcalendar #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CM7boKAhF-q/?igshid=1vphten277z8d

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This week's Art Inspiration is Agnes Martin! Martin was an American-Canadian painter known for her pared-down geometric abstractions. Born on March 22, 1912 in Macklin, Canada, she moved to New York to study art education at the Columbia University Teachers College in the 1940s. She later went on to share a studio with fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Lenore Tawney, and others in lower Manhattan. Martin became obsessed with natural phenomena while also suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. She left the city for the relative isolation of New Mexico in 1968, living and working there for the remainder of her life. Martin did not strive for perfection, instead she felt her art was a reflection of the patterns of nature. As a result, Martin titled many of her abstract works after natural phenomena, such as White Flower (1960) or Night Sea (1963). “Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this,” she once stated. “My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.”    Martin died on December 16, 2004 in Taos, NM at the age of 92. A major retrospective exhibition was held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2016. Today, her works are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. #offrouteart #artinspiration #arthistory #agnesmartin #womeninart #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CMzrY6-ByBQ/?igshid=1so6pf6e4at09

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Offroute's Sunday Spotlight Artist is Porter Johnston! Porter is an artist from the Pittsburgh area who enjoys making a variety of artwork, including paintings, pastel drawings, and mosaics. She has loved to paint and draw from the age of 3 and has never allowed her ataxia to stop her from creating things with her hands. She likes to create colorful pieces that reflect her love of nature, with flowers, trees, and animals as favorite subjects. Porter’s paintings have a folk art quality that makes people happy. She likes to mosaic purely decorative pieces as well as functional items like flower pots and table tops. Always energetic, Porter usually has several projects in the works and loves to try new techniques, the messier the better. #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #sundayspotlight #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CK_61BdjEtf/?igshid=99gj7ytkdqh1

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This month we're asking for art inspired by the Beloved Community. To learn more about the Beloved Community and Dr. King's practice on non-violence check out this link- https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/the-king-philosophy/ Use #offrouteartprompt so we can share your art throughout the month! #offrouteart #artprompt #belovedcommunity #nonviolence #mlk #artinspiration #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwdbe9hxYj/?igshid=1wfqr584per3b

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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Lynda Benglis! Benglis is an American artist known best for her use of wax, latex, metal, and foam in poured sculptural forms. Born on October 25, 1941 in Lake Charles, LA, she received her BFA from Newcomb College in New Orleans in 1964 before moving to New York where she met artists like Sol Lewitt, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, and Barnett Newman. Benglis has used her work to engage with the physicality and process of her material-based art, while confronting femininity in a male-dominated art world.  "My work is an expression of space. What is the experience of moving? Is it pictorial? Is it an object? Is it a feeling?” she said. “It all comes from my body.”  In addition to her sculptural work, she has produced both video and photographs. Today, Benglis’ works can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. The artist lives and works between New York, NY, Santa Fe, NM, and Ahmedabad, India. #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #arthistory #sculputres #lyndabenglis #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjlcq5Jzcr/?igshid=1l6q92sd1rpg6

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We're close to finishing January, which means the end of our New Year, New Art #offrouteartprompt To celebrate, check out the amazing new art from one of our Offroute Artist's @gene_frank_radical_dude Visit offrouteart.com for more art from this incredible artist and see the new art we have available! #offrouteart #art #artprompt #artinspiration #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CKeb2w9piyw/?igshid=1i2r9ow48o0t1

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Offroute's Sunday Spotlight Artist is Shruti Shankar. Shruti is an undergraduate senior at Denison University, OH. She is a candidate for the BFA in Studio Art and holds a minor in Art History & Visual Culture. At Denison, she is a Teaching Assistant in Printmaking, Ceramics and Art History.  Here's what she had to say about her art- "My work involves multidisciplinary modes of working with drawing, photography, print and installation. I am interested in investigating practices of looking and belonging as that relates to identity and connects to the idea of home. In situating myself in the work, I am looking to situate myself in the world. In my practice, I take time to absorb and respond to a swiftly shifting outer world and draw from my own lived experiences." Check out more of Shruti's work here- @shrutishankar_art If you're interested in being one of our Sunday Spotlight Artist's please DM us or email us at [email protected] #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #artist #supportyoungartists #supportlocalartists #supportartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womenownedbusiness  https://www.instagram.com/p/CKb3EbxJpei/?igshid=1le4u76zepfjs

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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Martha Rosler! Rosler is a photographer and video, installation, and performance artist, as well as a writer and educator. Born in Brooklyn, 1943, Rosler went on to earn her BA from Brooklyn College in 1965. She later went on to obtain her MFA from the University of California in 1974. Rosler also studied art at the Contemporary Fine Arts academy in Frankfurt and at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Rosler's works focus on themes of politics, repression, women, and war. She's also a well known writer and photographer, covering subjects like infrastructure of roads, airplanes, and subways as well as addressing urban planning, architecture, the environment, and how to house the homeless. Martha has published over 10 books and her art has been shown in the New Museum and the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as in England, Austria, France, Spain, and Holland. Other notable exhibitions include a solo show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012 titled "Meta-Monumental Garage Sale", which revisited a series of exhibitions she held in the 1970s that focused on the American garage sale. Rosler has received numerous awards, such as the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, and the Spectrum International Prize in Photography. #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #arthistory #photography #writer #feministart #feministartist #womeninart #martharosler #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRkPTqJhqZ/?igshid=tjdnx73xd2vy

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Offroute's weekly Art Inspiration is Claude Cahun! Cahun was a Surrealist photographer whose work explored the subconscious mind and gender identity.  “Under this mask, another mask,” the artist said. “I will never be finished removing all these faces.”  Born Lucy Schwob in Nantes, France on October 25, 1894 she would later attend the University of Paris. The artist's first recorded self portraits are dated as early as 1912 when she was just 18 years old. In the early 1920s, she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun, which would be the third and last time the artist changed her name. Claude moved to Paris and fell in love with the Surrealism movement after she finished with her schooling. The artist went on to collaborate with several other Surrealist artists and co-found the left-wing group Contre Attaque Cahun moved to Jersey, an island off the coast of Normandy, in the late 1930s. There, Cahun disguised as non-Jewish and worked to produce and distribute anti-Nazi propaganda. After being caught, imprisoned, and sentenced to death, she successfully escaped such a fate when Jersey was liberated by allies in 1945. Tragically, she never fully recovered from her maltreatment in prison and passed away on December 8, 1954 in Jersey, United Kingdom. Cahun is considered to be a ground-breaking artist who fully embraced her gender fluidity long before the term came into use. Her work left a huge impression on photography and directly influenced contemporary photographers like Cindy Sherman and Gillian Wearing. Today, her works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others. #offrouteart #art #artinspiration #arthistory #claudecahun #surrealism #selfportrait #photography #genderfluid #genderfluidartist #contemporaryart #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusiness #womenownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_irxqJ3xI/?igshid=jsma04jnolc4