Tami Mnoian

Chad Silver thinks you can measure your love in inches. For the JSx55 gallery in New York City, he's re-imagined his deconstructionist valentine, affectionately known as the “shit bitch” bear, as a 40-inch furry giant named Albert. "He's their exclusive love child," says Silver. Offered in limited edition, Albert is part of Loveislame, a pop-up [...]

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If you’re not familiar with the Norton Simon Museum of Art by name, then perhaps you’ve seen its iconic chocolate bar Heath tile exterior as the backdrop to the floats of the Rose Parade as they round the corner from Orange Grove to Colorado Boulevard. The Norton Simon is currently hosting Proof: The Rise of [...]

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Nathan Gelgud illustrates tiny collections of things, as if he has released the contents of his pocket and taken pen to paper. While the renderings are small, the subjects are certainly not: Steve Martin, Sal Mineo, and Spuds McKenzie (see above), or Felix Mendelssohn, Frances McDormand and Fred MacMurray—personalities  who share the same initials. This [...]

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It was the early 2000s and we were living the post-college dream in a terra-cotta colored apartment in Santa Monica. We awoke to palm trees and sunshine daily and bonded over living-room dance parties and dreamy drives up the Pacific Coast Highway. Sadly, this was short-lived, as Jennie returned to New York City and her [...]

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Artist and stationery designer Danielle Maslan was hunting around a local animal shelter in search of the perfect pooch. “I wish I could take all of them home,” she laughs. Though she has yet to find the right hound, she did come across inspiration for her latest project, American Gothic, a calendar-postcard two in one [...]

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Janine Wareham is that little dose of glitter and shine we need in our everyday—really, if only she were a vitamin. Her illustrations are like the doodles of a teenager, at home on a Pee-Chee folder, only more sophisticated and self-aware. She presents loud bursts of color—bright yellows, multi-hue showers of confetti, firework light explosions [...]

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It was a rainy Tuesday evening in mid April and inside the Gowanus offices of non-profit magazine, Cabinet, Jane Taylor was giving a talk on the Cape Town-based Handspring Puppet Company. “One of the astonishing things of puppetry is that you’re working with prostheses,” she said. “So in a circumstance where one’s identity is so [...]

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“Yeah, it was the '90s. Everyone danced in the '90s,” says Tom Marquet, explaining how he met co-curator Carl Gunhouse. “Carl and I have known each other since we were in junior high school. And we kind of grew up together in the New York hardcore scene. We went to shows a lot. I went [...]

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Of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, three adjectives come to mind: prophetic, prolific, determined. Graham was the daughter of a psychology doctor who was interested in the ways in which “people used their bodies.”* It seems inevitable that she would dedicate her life in a similar, if not parallel, direction. As a dancer, Graham was [...]

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Rachel Beach is a storyteller…though not in words. Her medium is three-dimensional wood sculpture, where she plays with edge and surface, each piece telling a tale, existing as an extension of the artist’s imagination and thought process. “I am obsessed with translating ideas into objects,” she says. “The only thing that makes sense to me [...]

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