edin-bird exhibition

A handmade envelope from my correspondent in Edinburgh.  Inside, postcards from a retrospective of work by Elizabeth Blackadder at the National Galleries of Scotland:

 

Still Life with Gerberas, Moonlight, 2004

Chinese Still Life with Arum Lillies, 1982

Each in a private collection, oil on canvas

122 x 122cm, 100 x 112 cm, respectively 

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golden fleece

Detail of a postcard on its way across the country to my friend Mike. The tapestry image is a reproduction of Pae White's Sea Beast, on display at Power Plant in Toronto until January.  Pulled from a beautifully close-up ad in the October 2010 Artforum.

'M' cut from another, long-ago Artforum: an advertisement for a Jack Pierson show in Barcelona, 2006-07, saved for its typographical interest.

A Sea Beast detail lives up in my page header, too.  The original is 290 x 660 cm, cotton and polyester.

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