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stARTup Art Fair comes to the fourth largest art market in the US this October! stARTup Houston takes place at Hotel Icon @hotel_icon in Downtown Houston and is held the same weekend as Texas Contemporary - and only a few blocks away!⁠ ⁠ Artists selected by the jury will each have the opportunity to create a solo exhibition of their work in a hotel room. ⁠ ⁠ Your application should include:⁠ ⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀Artist resume / CV⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀10 images⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀Short statement about your work⁠ ⠀⁠ ➡️ Artists can Apply Now at: https://www.startupartfair.com/houston/overview⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startuphouston #artfair #artfairs #callforartists #artistcall #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #houstonart #houstonartist #contemporaryartists #interiors #houstonlife #designinspo #houstonevent #houstonevents #emergingartist #independentartist #emergingartists #supportartists #artnews #artistopportunity #texasart #texasartist #artintexas #artbusiness #industryleader #callforart #startupartfairhouston
stARTup Small Works tickets on sale now in our bio link! Find sculpture, collage, mixed and digital media at The Midway 7/19-7/21. ⁠ ⁠ A "tabletop" style art fair in a large creative complex, Small Works exhibits select contemporary artists showing small-scale works in all mediums. With 6,000 square feet of original art in an industrial warehouse setting, find ceramics, prints, sculpture, books, assemblage, and so much more during this unique and immersive weekend. Pictured: Dan Lythcott-Haims @dblhaims from stARTup Small Works 2018 ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #themidway #sculptures #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #independentartist #sfevent #sfevents #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #sculptureart #mixedmedaartist #artinspo #designinspo #designyourlife #contemporaryartcurator #finearts #collectors #artcollector #artcollections #contemporaryartists #mixedmediaart #sculptural
stARTup Small Works tickets on sale now in our bio link! Find sculpture, collage, mixed and digital media at The Midway 7/19-7/21. ⁠ ⁠ A "tabletop" style art fair in a large creative complex, Small Works exhibits select contemporary artists showing small-scale works in all mediums. With 6,000 square feet of original art in an industrial warehouse setting, find ceramics, prints, sculpture, books, assemblage, and so much more during this unique and immersive weekend. ⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #independentartist #sfevent #sfevents #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #sanfrancisco #emergingartists #linkinbio #ticketsforsale #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #finearts #collectors #artcollector #artcollections #contemporaryartists #themidway #dogpatch ⁠
stARTup Small Works tickets on sale now in our bio link! Find sculpture, collage, mixed and digital media at The Midway 7/19-7/21. ⁠ ⁠ A "tabletop" style art fair in a large creative complex, Small Works exhibits select contemporary artists showing small-scale works in all mediums. With 6,000 square feet of original art in an industrial warehouse setting, find ceramics, prints, sculpture, books, assemblage, and so much more during this unique and immersive weekend. ⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #independentartist #sfevent #sfevents #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #sanfrancisco #emergingartists #linkinbio #ticketsforsale #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #finearts #collectors #artcollector #artcollections #contemporaryartists #themidway #dogpatch ⁠
Sarah Barsness - stARTup Small Works ⁠ ⁠ "I started looking closely at birds at the very end of a year of personal losses. I had always paid attention to birds, but I had never really seen them before that time. I could not believe that they had always been my neighbors, present everywhere I go. It felt, at the time, as if they suddenly materialized in response to my attention. ⁠ ⁠ Optics (binoculars and long lenses) bring me closer to the birds, but paradoxically emphasize our distance from each other. The narcissist in me yearns to touch and hold them, but our error has always been in trying to own what we think we have discovered. I started making felted bird eyes almost by accident, as an intermediary object to satisfy my yearning. I use my photos as a direct guide, printing them onto felt, and then recreating them by touch using the old craft of needle felting. Each one of the pieces is the eye of a bird I have met."⁠ @slbarsness ⁠ Join us for stARTup Small Works at The Midway @themidwaysf July 19-21. Tickets available now in our bio link!⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #independentartist #sfevent #sfevents #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #emergingartists #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist #feltart #felting #needlework #craftart #birdwatching
William Hill - stARTup Small Works⁠ ⁠ ⁠ "To be unique is the goal when it comes to my art. Everyone wants to be different especially when it comes to art. Art is the perfect way to express, define or redefine one's self and that is why I love art. No one can tell you what your art is supposed to be. I try to bring to light the uncommon ways of looking at specifics. I want to make you see what I see. What inspires my creations is my life and the experiences of others this includes some current events." ⁠@willihill2 ⁠ Join us for stARTup Small Works at The Midway @themidwaysf July 19-21. Tickets available now in our bio link!⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #emergingartists #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #stencilartist #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryartist #newcontemporaryart #artinspo #themidway #designinspo #sculptural #sculptureart #sculptures
stARTup Art Fair comes to the fourth largest art market in the US this October! stARTup Houston takes place in Downtown Houston and is held the same weekend as Texas Contemporary - and only a few blocks away!  Artists selected by the jury will each have the opportunity to create a solo exhibition of their work in a hotel room.   Your application should include:  🔸️⁣⠀Artist resume / CV 🔸️⁣⠀10 images 🔸️⁣⠀Short statement about your work ⠀ ➡️ Artists can Apply Now at: https://www.startupartfair.com/houston/overview⠀  Applications close July 28th.  🔸️⁣⠀ 🔸️⁣⠀ 🔸️⁣⠀ 🔸️⁣⠀ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀ 🔸️⁣⠀ #startupartfair #startuphouston #artfair #artfairs #callforartists #artistcall #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #houstonart #houstonartist #contemporaryartists #interiors #houstonlife #designinspo #houstonevent #houstonevents #emergingartist #independentartist #emergingartists #supportartists #artnews #artistopportunity #texasart #texasartist #artintexas #artbusiness #industryleader #callforart
Small Works makes its second appearance next week July 19-21 at The Midway SF! While this "tabletop" fair has no theme, jurors Director Ray Beldner and Content Curator Mica England noted a trend in artists using mixed media and collage. This week on our blog Mica features six exhibiting artists working in mixed media collage and the unconscious processes that drive them to create: https://www.startupartfair.com/blog/ephemera⁠ ⁠ Pictured: K'era Morgan @k_apostrophe Linden Eller @lindeneller Larraine Seiden @larraineseiden Miles Epstein Susan Kurland @susankurland and Dennis Parlante⁠ @dennisparlante ⁠ Still need tickets? Check our bio link ⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #contemporaryartists #sfevent #sfevents #emergingartists #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #designtips #collectors #artcollector #artcollections #designinspo #designyourlife #artanddesign #collageart #artinspo #mixedmediaart #mixedmedaartist #collages #ephemera ⁠
This week on our blog we interviewed Danielle Eubank @danielleeubankart an LA based painter and stARTup alumna who exhibited with us at stARTup LA 2016. We recently caught up with her as she completed a monumental quest to paint every ocean in order to raise awareness about ocean pollution and climate change.⁠ ⁠ Over 20 years, Danielle has painted roughly 200 bodies of water in 22 countries, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, for her project One Artist Five Oceans. She recently returned from Antarctica and has mounted a solo exhibition of her works at the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture at California Lutheran University. ⁠ Hear what she has to say about the experience and what we all can do to help the oceans at: https://www.startupartfair.com/blog/danielle-eubank⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #artblog #bloggers #visualarts #artblogger #contemporaryarts #artblogging #womenwhopaint #independentartist #artinspo #fineart #finearts #curated #savetheoceans #danielleeubank #environmentalart #womenleaders #womeninart #printmakers #printmaking #climatechange #industryleaders #artbusiness #contemporaryartcurator #industryleader #globalcollectors #womenartists #laartist #laart #contemporarypainters ⁠
Graham Blake - stARTup Small Works⁠ ⁠ "The inspiration for my work, originally, was to try and capture the nostalgic feel of watching poor quality VHS video recordings on a cathode ray tube television during my youth. I wanted to show how with a minimum information I can still convey the feel of the scene in the movie. I even was going to go so far as to paint in the reflection off the glass of the TV, but the original prototypes couldn't convey what I wanted. Many iterations later, I started using spray paint and stencil to reduce the image to two colors with a background of fabric or paper, and layers of resin. The resin conveyed the glare, and the spray paint and stencil reduced the image to the point I was looking for. I love stencils as street art, as made popular worldwide by the likes of Banksy and Blek le Rat, and moving forward I am trying to use backgrounds of a more industrial nature like concrete."⁠ @mr.grizz.cinema.art ⁠ Join us for stARTup Small Works at The Midway @themidwaysf July 19-21. Tickets available now in our bio link!⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #stencilart #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #emergingartists #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #stencilartist #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryartist #newcontemporaryart #artinspo #themidway #graffitiart #graffitis #stencils #resinart #streetart
Camila Magrane - stARTup Small Works ⁠ ⁠ "As an artist, I am witnessing the rapid changes and new developments in technology and science. In my work the human face is shown as fragmented portraits intertwined with tools, textures, and abstract forms--symbolically representing the objectification of my own ideas, memories, feelings, and experiences of current times. Both artificial and natural elements are superimposed on the human image. These portraits act as a vortex, attracting and repelling objects according to the theme evoked. As a developer, I am looking to explore this digital age where creative coding has become a pivotal component in my work. It has enabled me to utilize interactivity as a form of communication, allowing me to move viewers from a passive perception to an active one where they become explorers and co-creators instead of pure observers."⁠ @camilamagrane ⁠ Join us for stARTup Small Works at The Midway @themidwaysf July 19-21. Tickets available now in our bio link!⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #emergingartists #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #newcontemporaryartist #artandtechnology #themidway #womeninart #digitalmedia #contemporaryphotographers #newmedia #newmediaart #newmediaartist #augmentedreality #AR
Jenny Guan - stARTup Small Works⁠ ⁠ "Everything is converging. These past three years has been a pronounced period of transition in my life, most notably the shift from a decade-long career in architecture to a role that encapsulates so much from subjects that I’ve always found fascinating: systems design, machine learning, cryptography, chaos theory, randomness. These topics of my professional career run parallel to the themes embedded within my current artwork, which have evolved to become studies in complexity and convergence. I view these pieces are a continuous visual diary - a medium to capture and make sense of an ever-branching inner monologue."⁠ ⁠ @jnyguan Join us for stARTup Small Works at The Midway @themidwaysf July 19-21. Tickets available now in our bio link!⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ ⁣🔸️⁣⠀⁠ 🔸️⁣⠀⁠ #startupartfair #startupsmallworks #smallworks #artfair #artfairs #contemporaryartist #visualarts #contemporaryarts #sanfranciscoart #emergingartist #independentartist #sfevent #sfevents #sfart #sfartist #sfbayarea #emergingartists #curated #curator #contemporaryartcurator #drawings #artonpaper #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryartist #newcontemporaryart #artinspo #themidway #pendrawings #penandink #womenwhodraw
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