While exploring a variety of galleries I came across the Burning In Water Gallery. It is located in New York, NY. This gallery caught my eye right away because of its cultural diversity. As shown in the video link below from the galleries website, artists express their culture and political views through their work. A large portion of the artwork in this gallery is abstract. Many pieces are shown online that I have included below.


https://youtu.be/mPzAG9PeiBU  

  

Collages are such a fun and unique form of art. Collage art ranges from simple to complex pieces made out of various materials. These can include paper, magazines, photographs, newspapers, etc. Some great collage artists are John Walker, Eileen Agar, and Mimmo Rotella who all have different styles of expression. The term collage derives from the French word, Papiers colles, used to describe techniques of pasting paper cut outs on various surfaces. Below are various collages that are unique to each other. Some are busy, others are simple, and most of them are vibrant and colorful.

Recently walking to a coffee shop near the RISD museum I came across a large gate-like sculpture that decorated the entrance of a building. I looked at it up close and realized it was bamboo strung together and painted white. I'm a big fan of bamboo. I have bamboo in my room that is 2 months dead because I forgot to water it so I painted it. I was inspired by the use of dead bamboo as a canvas that I have taken a liking in painting on random shit. Some artists do this and it doesn't look like trash. They use objects around them as canvases, rather than limiting paintings to a flat boring surface. Everywhere I go I see art. The world is one big canvas. Desks in classrooms are painted with vibrant colors and buildings are covered in graffiti. We recently painted on old vinyls that Kristen discovered in her daily trash picking ;))) The world is a canvas!!! even Trumps face on bathroom walls.





pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+objects+painted+on&rlz=1CAACAG_enUS743&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikvJKp2dHTAhVn9IMKHRCWCA8Q_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=654#tbm=isch&q=paintings+on+toilets&imgrc=F68gV5qZAI-s7M:

https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+objects+painted+on&rlz=1CAACAG_enUS743&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikvJKp2dHTAhVn9IMKHRCWCA8Q_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=654#tbm=isch&q=human+canvas&imgrc=eidwO0c_yZCFsM:

https://www.google.com/search?q=painted+bus&rlz=1CAACAG_enUS743&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn8Oq839HTAhWky4MKHUTjDuIQ_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=654#tbm=isch&q=painted+van&imgrc=EJPuOfa1sAi5FM:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/13/yves-klein-london-birth-blue

Botanical Art

Botanical art is the depiction of plants through mediums such as paints, watercolor, illustrations, etc. It has been a popular form of art as long as artists and plants have existed together. An initial relation between plants and art in early years was informational books on botany with illustrated images of plants. The purpose of botanical art is to capture life and color in earths creations. Alexandra Marshal is a wonderful botanical artist that uses soft, neutral, and rustic colors to capture the beauty of flowers and plants. She shows a particular fascination in wilted flowers, which look extraordinary in her work.


Alexandra Marshals work:

pictures:  https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexander+Marshal&sa=X&rlz=1CAACAG_enUS743&stick
https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexander+Marshal&sa=X&rlz=1CAACAG_enUS743&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAG1Ru07DMBTFEqDW7VC5QqBMFWJgy7OlXRhATFAhQUekKk6cNK0Tl9g0ST-