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Collections: essential Minimalism

7/27/2021

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Minimalist and minimalist-verging designs allow for the freedom to add elegant simplicity, clean lines, and spaciousness to your life, without foregoing aesthetics.

This collection borrows core concepts of minimalism and includes art and objects that echo similar elements to inspire. We carefully curated these suggested artworks to unify your interior space, or to upgrade your wardrobe with a unique accent piece.
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Horizon Suite: Ocean's Edge
John Beckelman

Clay, mixed media
Art dimensions: 7" x 51" x 1.5"
$2,500

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Dark Sea XX
Laura Young

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 15" x 15"
$1,000

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Line
R5
Satomi Kawai

Size 7.5

Blackened silver, white ink, gold leaf
$140


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Chakra Disc Necklace
Teal
Jules' Murano Glass Jewelry

Glass, rubber
$100


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Red Vessel
Elizabeth Rhoads Read

Fiber, acrylic
Art dimensions: 18.5" x 29" x 9"
$650


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Crepuscular Musings
Linda Ge

Graphite powder, charcoal powder, gouache, color pencil, gold leaf on paper
Art dimensions: 15" x 11"
$525 Framed

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Slide
Crit Streed

Sumi Ink and gouache on paper
Art dimensions: 18" x 24"
$1,175 Framed


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Earrings
(518, EA-V3B)
Jan Gjaltema

$156
$124.80
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Enfolded II
Judy Bales

Found material: steel, paint
Art dimensions: 25.5" x 3.5" x 5"
$400



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Large Serving Bowl

Porcelain
Art dimensions: 5" x 19.5" x 19.5"
$260

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White Mug (Yellow)

Porcelain
Art dimensions: 4.5" x 4" x 4.5"
$55

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Serving Bowl 2

Stoneware
Art dimensions: 5.5" x 13" x 13"
$175


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Bowl 1

Porcelain
Art dimensions: 4.5" x 5.25"
$55

My work is inspired by my curiosity of cultural similarities found in a common origin story of human life beginning with clay. Throughout history, different cultures believed that the first man was created from clay. Separated by land and ocean, this common belief can be found from the first peoples of the Mediterranean, Polynesia, and the Americas, and many others. This common theme has always fascinated me; why do all of these cultures believe mankind originated from the same material.  Clay shares many tactile similarities with the body. Being soft and malleable, resembling skin.
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Dorsal 2

Mounted digital print
Art dimensions: 24" x 16"
$145

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Ventral 1

Mounted digital print
Art dimensions: 24" x 16"
$145

Functional pottery allows me to explore this relationship of clay, flesh, and life, as a way of understanding the bond cultures perceived between clay and man. I respond to this connection by focusing on the flesh-like, visceral quality of clay, producing various alterations that suggest the body, such as folds of skin and protruding joints and bones. These vessels become an intimate object that can be held and touched. An object that, while referencing the body, communicates through the body.

Through function and use, the work is able to participate in life while speaking of life, referencing the body through material, rather than representing the body through figure. Through my work, I address the question, “What is the body when the figure is removed?”
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Serving Bowl

Porcelain
Art dimensions: 5" x 13"
$175

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