Fascinated by 19th- and 20th-century innovations, Peralta dismantles and painstakingly reassembles each item piece by piece.
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"I've always enjoyed themes revolving around melancholy, the female figure, and species found in nature," the artist says.
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In "Murmuring Minds," DRIFT utilizes the swarming patterns of birds, bees, and other social organisms to create an interactive installation that responds to human movement.
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A new body of work explores how abstract forms can translate the myriad textures and compositions of the natural world.
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Vintage, mass-produced porcelain knick-knacks take on new life in uncanny and intricate hybrids.
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For Thomas Trum, the methods artists use to apply a medium to a substrate is as much a source of fascination as the finished work.
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Thousands of individual flowers and plants grown in Meggan Joy’s Seattle garden form the contours of her ethereal figures.
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An auction aims to raise funds to continue the late Shawn Hosner's vision and legacy for the gallery.
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"We so often forget to embrace the shadow as it's presumed unloveable or is invisible," says the Barcelona-based artist.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 12, 2024 is:
fraternize \FRAT-er-nyze\ verb
To fraternize with someone is to be friendly with them or to spend time with them in a friendly way. Fraternize is often, though not always, used in situations where such friendly behavior is considered wrong or improper, as in “fraternizing with the enemy.”
// The boss warned that fraternizing with the junior employees could be a risky career move for a manager.
“Ten years after the successful opening of the Tyler Colleges, my grandfather, who was 17 at the time, began to study and take advantage of the rich social and economic legacy of barbering. He opened the first barbershop to be owned and operated by an African American in Gordon Heights, Long Island. From its humble beginnings to the next 68 years thereafter, his business became a place in the Black community that men gathered to connect, fraternize and—of course—get groomed; a place where Black men found hopes, dreams and pride.” — Stacey Morris, Variety, 23 Feb. 2022
Did you know?
O brother where art thou? In many an English word descended from the Latin noun frater, meaning “brother,” that’s where. Both fraternize and fraternal (meaning “of, relating to, or involving brothers”), for example, come to us by way of Medieval Latin from frater. Other fraterprogeny in English include friar and fraternity. Even brother itself shares a relationship with frater (albeit it a more distant one). These days, although fraternize can still apply to a brotherly association or simple friendliness, it is often used in phrases, such as “fraternizing with the enemy,” implying friendliness toward someone who would be better avoided.