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‘Morning! So my plan this week is to post at 9am, 11am, 1pm, and 3pm every day, with ICFF recaps in the mornings and NSS recaps in the afternoons. So check back often! There’s so much to share and I hope you’ll excuse my poor photos—fluorescent lighting isn’t the easiest thing to work with.

These photos are from one of my favorite booths, elasticCo. I have such a soft spot for textile design, especially experimental work, so it’s no surprise that French designer Elodie Blanchard’s work topped my list. Elodie now lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Parsons.

The following photos are from the eslasticCo website:

photo by james ewing

photo by art gray

photo by linda taalman

I overslept Sunday morning and thought for a split second that I might miss my early morning flight, but of course I made it and am having a blast in New York. I picked up my press badge for ICFF yesterday and made a quick dash through the show. More to come but below are some favorites:

dform

graypants

elasticco

Then I headed over to the American Folk Art Museum, which I loved. Can’t wait to check out NSS today!

Last weekend my aunts, cousins, and I loaded into a van and went antiquing in Massachusetts. We didn’t have time to do the Boston stores (although I’ll be sure to hit up the places you guys suggested next time!) but instead we visited a couple antique malls in Lunnenburg and West Boylston. I had to remind myself that everything I bought would have to be toted on the plane, and it was hard not to bring home so much more.

These are all in the shop! I’ve also put some items in a sale section, so be sure to check it out.

Miyoshi Barosh received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She currently has work at the New Children’s Museum in San Diego and at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.  In addition to showing in New York and Los Angeles, she was Managing Editor at BOMB magazine in the early eighties in New York, and editor and publisher of Now Time in the early nineties in Los Angeles.

Miyoshi is currently in need of experienced studio assistants. She is looking for rocking grannies who are good with knitting needles and / or crochet hooks, who are non-smokers and will work for snacks (if interested, comment on the post).

LP: Ok Miyoshi, Favorite book of all time? It’s a hard one, I know. Maybe just something good you’ve read recently?

MB: My favorite book is either the one I’m reading now, or the one that I’ll read in the future. I hate to think that my favorite book is one I’ve already read, because, then, each subsequent book would be a dissapointment. Books currebtly next to the bed: The Duchamp Effect; Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed; and David Foster’s Oblivion.

LP: Do you listen to music while you’re working? If so, what is it?

MB: I like everything from A3 to Young Marble Giants. Anything reminiscent of Brechtian cabaret is my favorite music right now for the studio.

LP: Describe a good dream you’ve had recently.

MB: I like this phrase, appropriated from Walter Benjamin, because it reads as bombastic manifesto: “the dreams that seep through to daylight and are antithetical to the Work Machine.”

LP: How does the idea of process play into your work?

MB:There usually is a conceptual underpinning, which is often clichéd by phrase, image, or idea. From there I like to layer images, colors, textures…Accumulation allows be to be looser with individual elements because the collected bits create lots of complexity. I like the juxtaposition of jarring elements, I find it reflects our networked lives.

LP: What sort of concepts surround your use of domestic materials and processes?

MB: I started using embroidery, crochet, knitting as well as recycles sweaters and afghans as a reaction to the use of fabricators by Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy. To counter testosterone-driven Pop, it seemed that “handiwork” would add a kind of Kippenberger-esque artworld f**y** as well as tactile, “happy” coziness. I try to use craft materials in a way that’s not precious or traditionally beautiful but has some muscular legs (see Giant Legs above).

Miyoshi’s work is represented by Luis de Jesus Gallery in Bergamont Station

Don’t forget to check out Miyoshi’s work on the gallery’s site.

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Lindsay Preston is an artist and graphic designer from San Diego. In “Lindsay’s Quick Queries”, Lindsay brings you work by contemporary artists, and answers to the questions everyone has been wondering about them, like “pancakes or waffles?”

There’s always something pretty in the slide sideways shop (previously blogged here), and these new screen printed tea towels and pouches are no exception. The tea towel patterns were inspired by walks through the Pacific Northwest forests, and the “Market Weave” zip pouches were inspired by an old book on weaving techniques.

For my birthday, my brother gave me this great book called The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolff. It’s full of step-by-step instructions on gathering, shirring, ruffling, tucking, pleating, quilting, and everything in between. The hard part is figuring out which technique to try first! I see lots of pillows and upcycled t-shirts in my future…

You can pick up a copy here.

How fun are these tea towels from schoolyard studio? Bright prints, and unique packaging too.

Also, on the schoolyard studio site, there’s a little coming-soon tab that says “fabrics.” I sure hope that means fabric by the yard!