Artists, Small Businesses and Their Trades, Collected in Visual Essays & Art Services
Mention: "There are two types of distressed—one good, one bad. Bad distressed is the way you feel after your pet Yeti gets quarantined by the government. But good distressed can be seen right here in these distressed timbers on this magnificently rustic Timbertop Desk from Railyard Studios. Is this the kind of desk Abraham Lincoln used to lean on when hammering away at his MacBook Air? Yes it is...."—INDesign By Sam Jordan
Railyard Studios was featured on The Nice Niche in February 2013....
Mention: "At First Glance, Caroline Z Hurley's small West Village apartment required a bit of imagination..."—Kat Mceachern
Caroline Z. Hurley was featured on The Nice Niche in January 2014...
http://www.theniceniche.com/this-week/caroline-z-hurley-artist
Mention:"Facebook makes the world smaller by connecting people who would otherwise be worlds apart.
Andrea Mihalik, of New Jersey, creates unique and artistic chairs by adding new materials to vintage furniture for her business Wild Chairy. On a trip to Kenya last year, Andrea met the people of Kiltamany, a small village four hours outside Nairobi...."
Wild Chairy was featured on The Nice Niche in March 2013
Mention: "It’s happened again. We’ve turned over the calendar page to a new month. February is such a short & sweet month, isn’t it? It’s here and then over before we know it, but while it remains, it’s filled with Valentines and chocolates, hugs and kisses and cuddles. The work of this month’s Featured Artist Jenny Brown with her use of antique papers and ephemera seemed the perfect way to put just a little more love into the next 28 days!"—Lesley Frenz
Mention: "Artist Shawn Huckins toys with the idea of the American West getting its social media on in a series of hilarious and surprisingly poignant mashup artworks. Somewhere between Ed Ruscha and a product of KnowYourMeme.com, Huckins' series "The American __tier" juxtaposes classic American imagery with slang, hashtags and the abysmal grammar we've come to expect in the internet age...."
Shawn Huckins was featured on The Nice Niche in July 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/shawn-huckins-artist
More of his New Work can be seen here: http://www.theniceniche.com/new-work/shawn-huckins-new-work
Mention: "Out there ... The Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Library on West Putnam Avenue will present the artwork of artists Sydney Albertini and Heinrich Spillmann from Jan. 30 to March 12. A meet-the-artists opening reception will take place on Thursday, Jan. 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery. Albertini, a resident of East Hampton, N.Y., and the daughter of Greenwich resident Jamee Becker, grew up in Paris and studied art at Parsons School of Design in New York City, as well as fresco painting in Florence, Italy...."
Sydney Albertini was featured on The Nice Niche in May 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/this-week/sydney-albertini-artist
Mention: "The Housatonic Museum of Art presents “Pins and Needles” on view in the Burt Chernow Galleries from Jan. 21 through Feb. 20, with a reception on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Pins and needles, the tools long associated with sewing and spinning, which continues to be an essential part of women’s domestic and industrial labor, are used as a means of creative expression by the 10 women artists presented in the show curated by Suzan Shutan.
“Pins and Needles” explores a variety of subjects, including memory, mapping, beauty, nature, pleasure, loss, pain, absence and presence, poetry, scripture and spirituality.
Artists in the show include Kim Bruce, Janice Caswell, Beth Dary, Valerie Hallier, Tamiko Kawata, Karen Shaw, Belle Shafir, Suzan Shutan, Jill Vasileff and Erwina Ziomkowska."
Beth Dary was featured on The Nice Niche in May 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/this-week/beth-dary-sarah-lutz-artists-the-interplay-installation
January 2014
Mention: "The artwork of Eric Standley with forward by Dr. Panagiotis Kambanis of the Museum of Byzantine Culture. Explore these stunning artworks in this image-based gallery catalogue. Includes over one hundred images of Standley's intricate paper cut windows, forward, artist’s text and biography."
Eric Standley was feature on The Nice Niche in October 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/eric-standley
January, 2014
Austin, Texas
http://www.theniceniche.com/caroline-wright-artist
Quollective Social Media App partners with Abstract Artist Caroline Wright
Quollective, a social network for styling and sharing quotes on iOS, is announcing a collaboration with the Austin-based artist Caroline Wright. Wright, who is also a cellist, creates abstract art inspired by by jazz music, dance, and fashion design. After studying at Brown, she spent several years living and working in an art collective in Paris, where she launched her career. Her works are dramatic, colorful, and provide a unique perspective on nature.
In this creative collaboration with Quollective, Caroline is extending her unique abstract designs to digital social media, where users are now able to use her custom artwork to style quotes in the app. Her unique filters are downloadable for all Quollective users alongside the existing designs by artists Kent Youngstrom, Michael Mullan, and Jessica Rust, among others.
"Caroline was brought to our attention by another Quollective artist, Kent Youngstrom," said Cordila Jochim, Quollective's founder. "Caroline's work is breathtaking, inspired by the lights and architecture of Paris, so we were taken with her work immediately. By the time we actually spoke with her, she was already enrolled in the opportunity, thanks to Kent. This artist-to-artist word-of-mouth tells us we've succeeded in making Quollective a win-win for our users and our artists."
Described as an "Instagram for Quotes", Quollective has been growing exponentially since its launch in June 2013. The app allows users to choose from custom filters, fonts, and artwork to style quotes and share with their friends on Quollective, as well as on all the popular social networks, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
Quollective plans to launch additional artist collaborations in early 2014. Quollective is free to download and available in the Apple App Store for all iOS devices.
Download Quollective on iOS: https://appsto.re/i6Fv22H
More about Quollective: http://quollective.com/
Quollective Press Kit: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/40teluu767kwa0v/VUnMovxTuU
More about Caroline Wright: http://carolinewrightart.com/
About Quollective:
Quollective provides a free iOS app that let's you capture, style, and share quotes. Quollective was founded in early 2013 by Cordila Jochim and Aydin Ghajar. Cordila Jochim is a former founder and designer of Thickskin leather accessories and principal of Corhouse Branding. Aydin Ghajar was most recently CEO of Thinkfuse, a team collaboration tool purchased by Salesforce.com in 2012. He previously held product management positions at at iLike (a social music discovery platform and once the largest music application on Facebook), MySpace, MarketLeader, and other startups. Quollective's mission is to give people a simple medium to capture and share insights that transform their thinking and ultimately their life.
About Caroline Wright:
Caroline Wright is a painter and a cellist, interested in the emotional responses that happen when color, sound, and movement translate each other. After graduating from Brown with a double major in Visual Art and Art History, Wright moved to Paris and lived with artists from all over the world in a squatted, abandoned state building in Belleville. This creative and challenging environment imprinted the possibility of a life supported by and for art-making. Wright returned to Austin in 2007 to participate in the burgeoning art community of her hometown. She enjoys collaborating with dancers and musicians in live painting performances, always looking for new ways to communicate with immediacy and bring the viewer into the process. Wright is represented by Martine Chaisson Gallery in New Orleans and Navillus Gallery in Toronto, Ontario.
Media Contact:
Dian Oved
Empower Digital
dian@empower-digital.com
Mention: "We prefer our dietary changes low effort and high impact. So when word came down that NYC-based Sakara Life had begun shipping its healthy eats up to Boston, our indolent ears perked up.
Founders Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle forwent careers in medicine and finance to focus on dietary wellness for harried souls. In their Westchester kitchen, they meld regional ingredients with global superfoods (chia, Brazil nuts, maqui berries) to craft seasonal plant-based dishes so creative the nutritious wallop is but a bonus. It’s not about dogma — they also believe beer and fried chicken to be parts of a balanced diet — but about learning to choose clean foods as your default...."—By Meaghan Agnew
Sakara Life was featured on The Nice Niche in December 2013...
Mention:
Cynthia Reeser (TRON): What inspires your artwork?
Shawn Huckins: My work has always been inspired by mundane environments—environments everyday people may overlook and not see the potential beauty in, within the given surroundings. Especially with my early work, I found beauty in old rusted-down gas pumps, old ice cream shops, or even a used can of Turkey SPAM. My current paintings involve replicating 18th and 19th Century paintings and superimposing everyday, mundane text messages from people’s everyday lives. This early work is also inspired various artists that I adore, such as Edward Hopper, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechlte, and David Hockey to name a few.
Shawn Huckins was featured on The Nice Niche in July 2013...
Mention: "I first saw Federico Uribe’s work in NYC – I believe at SCOPE and was so lucky to see a lot of it in Miami during Art Basel – we first saw some works at one of the shows – a lot of these are made from pencils"
Federico Uribe was featured via The Hudson River Museum in July 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/federico-uribe-fantasy-river-exhibition-hudson-river-museum
Mention: "Nearby, artist Sydney Albertini was “taking the folk all the way” with her tree, a furry-looking White Pine which she sprayed with fake snow and covered in pink and green-frosted cookies (“edible ornaments”) she had spent a week making. “I love holidays. I love the narrative that goes with it — kind of old-fashioned, with the over commercialized, plasticky, fake feeling.”—— Rozalia Jovanovic (@Ruschka)
Sydney Albertini was featured on The Nice Niche in May 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/this-week/sydney-albertini-artist
Mention: "oh that alyson fox, she’s always up to something new. and this time around the very prolific austin texas-based artist alyson has teamed up with hawkins new york to create a stunning and modern new collection! alyson is a designer of all things, from drawings, jewelry, textiles, photography, to pretty much anything she can get her hands on. hawkins new york is known for designing their own line of products, and they work closely with designers to help get their designs to market in a capacity they would potentially be unable to do so on their own. By focusing on production and distribution strategies, Hawkins New York allows the designers to focus solely on creation and innovation — and alyson fox has designed an amazing collection of rugs, as well as prints and throws for them."—posted by victoria, SF Girl By Bay
Alyson Fox was featured on The Nice Niche in March 2013...
Mention: "Late last summer I put together a glittery, holy-hell-I-want-everything-on-there bridal registry for Rent the Runway and – in the process of researching stuff for the list (it’s a tough job) – stumbled on a precious gem of a company called Rab Labs."—Covet Living
Rab Labs was featured on The Nice Niche in June 2013...
Mention: "After a couple weeks off, Work on Monday returns with a fine art photograph, “Corn Wheat Sky,” by Sag Harbor photographer Daniel Gonzalez. The award-winning piece shows off Gonzalez’s expert use of color and composition to create an image as strong as many of the minimalist and color field paintings it references."—by Oliver Peterson, Dan's Papers
Daniel Gonzalez was featured on The Nice Niche in November 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/this-week/daniel-gonzalez-photographer
Mention: "Red-wine fans cannot be left in the cold. Pinot noir is a suitable accompaniment to goose, suckling pig and baked ham, as well as duck. I recently revisited two particularly attractive pinots from McCall Wines in Cutchogue, last tasted in April, and was pleased to find them evolving nicely. They are the flavorful, deep and earthy 2010 Corchaug Estate reserve ($60) and the regular 2010 Corchaug Estate ($45), tasting lightly of barrel oak, cherries and licorice."—HOWARD G. GOLDBERG
McCall Wines was first featured on The Nice Niche in April 2013.... http://theniceniche.com/mccall-wines/
Mention: "It's safe to say that these aren't your normal colored pencil drawings. Colombia-born, Miami-based conceptual artist Federico Uribe's latest series, called Color Constuido, consists of 20 drawings that are part built with and part drawn by colored pencils. Though the drawings all have a sociological, philosophical or personal story behind them, they're all constructed in a similar fashion. The very same colored pencils Uribe draws with are the ones he also uses in the piece.Therefore, he's mixing two art production techniques - drawing and collage."—Posted by alice via mymodernmet.com
Federico Uribe was featured via The Hudson River Museum in July 2013...
http://www.theniceniche.com/federico-uribe-fantasy-river-exhibition-hudson-river-museum
Mention: "Wearable technology might seem like a great way to improve our lives, but the truth is that all that data is just noise if it isn’t expressed properly. That’s why Jawbone have teamed up with artist Shantell Martin, a talented illustrator and storyteller, for their latest UpxArt initiative. The project illuminates a wide range of fascinating insights on sleep that were acquired from Jawbone’s UP community..."— Ross Brooks, PSFK
http://www.psfk.com/2013/12/jawbone-shantell-martin-sleep-data-art.html
Shantell Martin was featured on The Nice Niche in August 2013...
