Category Archive: ART

Pennylane Shen: Each One, Teach One

Being an outstanding artist and being a successful artist is not always the same thing and finding your way to the artists’ hall of fame is not self-evident. 

Pennylane Shen, artist consultant, curator and educator founded her business Dazed & Confucius back in 2006 and created an artist consultant space dedicated to assisting artists with their careers and gaining exposure in world famous galleries. 

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Isaac Julien: Pioneer of Moving Arts

“The first major UK exhibition by one of today’s most compelling artists and filmmakers” headlines the Tate Britain, the National Gallery of British Art in London. Isaac Julien’s collection of masterpieces titled “What freedom means to me,” is on display now until August 20, 2023. 

The  artist had an eventful life and made a name for himself through his films and photography. Art lovers can see the exhibition of the world-famous artist Isaac Julien and internalize his life's work of more than 3 decades of devoted and expressive creations at the Tate Britain . “I wanted to invade the museum"...,” Julien explained to the Guardian.. “That's the whole reason I’m making my work. There will be a cacophony of sound. I’m interested in turning habits of how we want to meditate on art inside out.”

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Naama Tsabar: Sculptures of Sound

A New York-born Israeli artist is turning buildings into playable works of sensory art. Bringing elements of sculpture and sound together, the visionary (audio-nary) creator Naama Tsabar reintroduces music as a collaborative practice. 

Tsabar’s visual artwork frequently intersects architecture and audio. Many of her installations are collaborative in execution, and she often works with women and gender non-conforming, classically trained musicians to present haunting and tangible audio spaces. 

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Apo Whang-od: Generational Markings

When you love something, it’s easy to get lost in that activity for so long, a whole lifetime could go by. That’s what it was like for Apo Whang-od, the 106-year-old Filipino tattoo artist who dedicated her entire existence to the art of tattooing. 

Beginning her tattoo journey as a teen, Whang-od learned the art of hand-tapping as a teenager. Under her father’s instruction, she soaked up a wealth of information. Hand-tapping  is the art of tattooing skin without the use of a tattoo machine, with the use of needles or other materials to tap ink into the skin manually. This skill requires a significant amount of time and effort, and Whang-od tattooed thousands of people, making her tattoo skills strengthen over time. 

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Fintan Whelan: Raw Silk & Oil on Canvas

Temptation is not simply an emotion. “Temptation” is the name of a piece of art.

It is 95 centimeters long and 120 centimeters in height. It's a painting with a fibrous quality – chaotic yet controlled swishes of rust orange and jade green hues clash, overlap, fade, and burst in colorful unison. And just beneath its titillating title, the description of the piece reads:

“Mixed Media, raw silk & oil on canvas.” 

“Temptation” is one of many paintings created by abstract, German-based artist Fintan Whelan.

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Barbara Chase-Riboud: A Lifetime of Success

With a lifetime of achievements under her belt, artist, sculptor, writer, and fashion connoisseur Barbara Chase-Riboud started her impactful and passionate career at the age of fifteen years old, selling her first novel titled “Reba" in 1955 to the Museum of Modern Art. At the age of 83, Chase-Riboud’s work is celebrated as she is named one of the very few Black Americans awarded France’s highest order of merit, the Légion d’honneur. This is an award Chase-Riboud dreamed about since she was young and dreaming of a life within the art world. 

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