One of the things I like about art fairs is being able to see such a wide variety of artists in one place.
I’ve had a little stack of cards on my desk since the Brookside Art Fair, including Jody Depew McLeane’s pastels, top.
Signe & Genna Grushovenko collaborate on oil paintings based on vintage photographs.
And Dick Daniels’s cartoonish commentary.
All images via the artists’ sites which you can find through the highlighted links above.
I have a stack of those cards too. I think the Brookside fair is the best one of the season. We love the Grushovenko paintings.
Please tell us more about the Brookside fair, when is it? where is it?
I bought a Grushovenko painting last year at the Savannah Telfair Museum Art Fair that is very similar to the bathing beauties painting you posted. I love it.
If the Brookside fair is fantastic, maybe my friends and I need to do a girls trip to coincide with it.
Love art fairs. You just made me realize I have not been to one in too long.
Jody's work absolutely fascinates and memorizes
me.
From her statement page:
The pastel I use is comprised of pure powdered pigment combined with a small amount of binder. They are not oil. Crumbling the pastel in my left palm, I use my hand as a palette, scooping the pigment with my right thumb to apply it to the pastel paper. This technique gives the work a painterly quality. Because the pigment is airborne due to its crumbling, I wear a respirator while working in the studio. When the drawing is completed I steam it to fix the pastel, rather than spraying it with a fixative.
I had never heard of her when I saw a figural pastel of hers on Craigslist. Lucky day!