Art I Like

I contain multitudes.

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Cueva De Las Manos

Cueva de las Manos in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina is my favorite piece of art, though calling it a “piece” is perhaps misleading. It is a cave filled with hundreds of hand prints on the walls and ceiling, dated from 7,300 BCE to 700 CE. The hands were created by blowing pigments through bone pipes over one's hand, leaving a negative on the wall. Images of humans, guanacos, lizards, and geometric shapes are also found in the cave.

There are countless Tumblr posts about cave paintings connecting modern humans to those who lived thousands of years ago. Instead of writing another one, I'll leave you with this picture from my trip to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

People have always been people.

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Lucy Be

On Instagram as @/lucy_be.ceramics

https://lucybeceramics.com/

Lucy Be is a ceramic artist from Australia. She received her BA in Ceramic design at Central Saint Martins College in London before going on to work at MUD Australia, La Meridiana Ceramics in Italy, and Studio 45 in England.

Lucy works primarily in stoneware and fires in reduction, which offers depth to her pastel pots. She also hand-turns the wooden handles for her teapots.

I am particularly obsessed with the stripe and harlequin patterns below, which bring to mind a tea party in Wonderland-- whimsical with something darker beneath the surface.

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Amber Foote

On Instagram as @/amberfooteart

Amber Foote is a painter from Southern California. They recieved their BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design in 2013 and MFA in 2024 from the same institution. Amber works in oil paints and much of their work is of animals, specifically their horse.

I met Amber when they came into the store I was working at and painted a perfect tiny portrait of their horse on a saddle pad with puffy paint.

This sequence of paintings depicts their aging horse rolling and standing up, despite the struggle of carrying his own weight. I am crying in the club over it.

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Eva Polzer

On Instagram as @/eva.polzer

Website

Eva Polzer is a ceramic artist from Ohio. They got their BFA in Ceramics from Kent State University.

I saw her work in person and was blown away. The detail in her work is incredible, and their cats are creepy, human, alien, and absolutely beautiful.

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Recently been obsessed with Korean Moon Jars from the Joseon Dynasty, produced in the 17th-18th century. They are porcelain, usually glazed white but sometimes pale blue or green, and have a larger mouth than base.

Wikipedia

This photo shows how they were made- thrown as two separate halves and then attached together at the widest point. (Artist Shin Chul)

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Juliette Vivien

On Instagram as @/juliette_vivien_ceramic

Website

Juliette Vivien is a French ceramic artist. Unfortunately I don’t know much more information because their website is in French.

They work primarily in porcelain, and they often add tiny versions of their pots onto the pot as handles or decorations.

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Mickey Alice Kwapis

On Instagram and TikTok as @/kwapkwapkwap

Website

Mickey Alice Kwapis is a taxidermist, jewelry maker, and stained glass artist from Chicago. She teaches taxidermy both in her studio and online.

Mickey beautifully combines science and art in many different media.

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Allis Markham

On Instagram as @/preytaxidermy

Website

Allis Markham is a taxidermist from the L.A. area, and currently has a studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles. In 2017 she was named ‘Third Best in the World’ at the World Taxidermy Championships. Allis’s clients include The Huntington Library, The Santa Bárbara Museum of Natural History, and The Getty.

Check out Allis Markham on Ologies!

Allis Markham is committed to both science and art, and it is obvious in her work. Taxidermy is a polarizing art form, but it combines some of my favorite things—sculptural art and biology.

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Hannah Bastel

On Instagram and TikTok as @/hbastel

Website

Hannah Bastel is a bookbinder/mixed media artist from Georgia, now based in Chicago, IL. They received their BFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Georgia in 2011 and their MFA in the same from Columbia College Chicago in 2016.

Hannah’s artist books can be found in libraries and museum collections across the country, and their book A is for Another Rabbit can be purchased through their website or wherever books are sold.

Hannah is often experimenting with new media and while their artist books are beautiful, I am especially fond of their lino prints and paper dolls, and their beadwork featured on their TikTok.

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Some more super cool stuff by Charlotte Framboiselle!

Also I have just been I formed that Framboiselle is likely Framboise (meaning raspberry) and Mademoiselle (meaning Miss) so.

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In an art class I took we had to choose an artist that we liked and present them to the class each week. Here I am keeping up with it.

Since it’s Valentine’s Day I thought I’d chose something festive. I could go on about cute things and how I feel about that, connecting to the inner child, blah blah. Not going to. Here’s the artist.

Charlotte Framboiselle*

On Instagram @/framboiselle.ceramics

Website

Charlotte is a ceramic artist from France. She currently lives and works in Germany.

While this post focuses on some of her pink- and heart- themed pieces, she has some wonderful celestial-, ghost-, and winter-themed stuff as well.

*Her last name is not specified on her Instagram or website, so I’m making an assumption