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Loving this new work by .florence.yee -and the title adds another layer to it. 💛

Breathing Room i
oil on canvas
40” x 30”
2024

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I love it when an artwork makes me feel like I am in the middle of a scene. My mind keeps wondering what’s happening there but also how we got here and what happens next.

That’s exactly what I feel when I see the work by .hawk. A bit playful, a bit mysterious. Totally magical!

It’s all paper!! 🤯

Taking a moment to appreciate these clean lines and folds!

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Chairs made out balloons?! Well, balloons and epoxy!
These designs by made me stop scrolling!

Posted • First look: Pacita Abad - First retrospective, now at

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Did you hear about the ski resort with art installations by James Turrell and Jenny Holzer that Netflix co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings is working on?

The idea sounds kinda cool and I’m curious to see how this goes!

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📷 “Relay (Powder Mountain),” 2023, by Gerard & Kelly.Credit...Drew Rane/Carlson, via Powder Mountain

Over the weekend, the nyt shared an article about a ski resort with art installations by James Turrell and Jenny Holzer, among other artists.

This ambitious outdoor art program was conceived by Netflix co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings (who bought the ski resort in 2023) and it is set to open in 2026.

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A Special Exhibition: James Turrell - Light, Space and the Art of Perception is currently on view at the Center of International Contemporary Art Vancouver.

Architect researcher and avid art enthusiast Codrin Talaba recently visited .vancouver and wrote his experience visiting the show.

New guest post now on artifier.net

Amanda Boulos, Will o’ Wisp
On view at until Nov 4.

*Seen last weekend during

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About the show:

“Engaging with personal and national oral narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada, Boulos explores how the Palestinian Diaspora is constantly undergoing what philosopher Catherine Malabou calls “unprecedented metamorphosis,” a metamorphosis that is capable of abandoning a burdened body or identity to allow a new form to emerge. […] In “Will o’ Wisp”, Boulos also presents a series of ‘smash paintings’ on paper. These smash paintings replicate the intention of a Rorschach test, where the symmetrical image prompts an invitation for interpretation. Boulos takes images she’s familiar with and ‘smashes’ them, skewing the original subject, and doubling it, to reveal a new transformed image and with it fresh, even lucid visual interpretations.”

New on the blog: Passages Insolites, a public art event in Quebec City.
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OMG! I’ve had this post in my drafts for at least two weeks! I wrote it after we took a short trip to Quebec as part of the quintessential Canadian tour with my dad.

There, we quickly spotted a few installations spread throughout the city and discovered they’re all part of , which continues through October 9.

More about the visit and the participating artists: artifier.net [link in bio].
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P.S. I feel my nonchalant blogging voice is bubbling once again! There’s more content ideas than time to create them, but I’m hoping to write a bit more often on the blog.

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This photo made me stop scrolling! A Rahul Mishra designed turkey tail mushroom inspired dress for Paris Couture Week 2021.

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Mindy Stricke: Fringes
On view at

I love window galleries!! - This one is located at 402 College St and presents site-specific contemporary art installations connected to the Jewish experience (Fentster is Yiddish for Window).

About this work:

“In a new work, multidisciplinary artist, Mindy Stricke explores the unpredictable landscape of parenting a young teen. […] The artist creates a wearable map in the form of an evocative tallit (a prayer shawl with fringes on each corner) as a gift for Noa, which marks her place in the city where she became a bat mitzvah and within her lineage.

Montreal’s environs merge with a geography formed from images of Noa and relatives when they became b’nei mitzvah at age thirteen. The invented topography reflects the artist’s experience as a neurodivergent, q***r, polyamorous Jewish woman gaining the courage to question inherited maps, and also trusting her children to discover their own paths. When a new route must be charted, those on the fringes lead the way.”

Curated by Evelyn Tauben
Through October 2023