Curated Friday: Potted Plants and Flowers

Posted by Dustin Metz on 3/05/10 • Categorized as Columns, Curated Fridays

With a poised eye towards spring, this week’s collection features artists’ depictions of plants/flowers inside- because they sure as hell aren’t living outside right now.

Michael Eudy. Te(n)am Manet. Acrylic on Linen. 54″x40″. 2007

Michael Schmelling. (from his series Week of No Computer)

Amy Lincoln. Peace Lily. Acrylic on MDF. 11″ x 9.5″. 2009

Kim Boske. Flowers (Collection of Sleepings and Awakenings)

Marlo Pascual. Untitled. Digital C-print, plant. 2009

Susannah Habecker. Abandoned Arrangement. Oil on Canvas. 2009

Michael Jones McKean. Plantlife and Science and Momentary Solidarity Between Forms. 2008.
Folding magician’s table, hand-made plant from papier-mache and paint, 2008 Anthropologie blouse, 5000 yr old Camp del Cielo meteorite, conch shell from the Caribbean Sea

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3 Comments

1. Conor

   03/09/2010 • 10:02 am

   Here are two by Alejandro Almanza Pereda:

   http://alejandroalmanzapereda.com/index.php?/selected-works/just-give-me-a-place-to-stand/

   http://alejandroalmanzapereda.com/index.php?/selected-works/untitled-chest-of-drawers/

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   • Jong Kyu

     03/09/2010 • 1:15 pm

     As a numbers man, I have to point out that the plant to total artwork ratio in these pieces is like, 3:100, whereas Dustin’s featured works CLEARLY keep a ratio of AT LEAST 3:4. For shame sir, for shame.

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     • Conor

       04/13/2010 • 8:11 pm

       think i care?

       well, i don’t.

       Reply

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