Margaret Evangeline

Something Auratic From the Golden West

2013

In Bailey-Bond’s papercut works we are presented with a celebration of colour and pattern as decorative repeated forms of butterflies or dragonflies swarm in all directions – forms indicating a sense of transience and joy. Other motifs such as flowers, leaves, and birds all culminate in nests of activity evoking a breezy summers day. Alternatively inspiration has been drawn from aeroplanes or even tattoo’s as artworks created using the same technique offer a bolder, three-dimensional graphic feel. Icons are first designed digitally, then printed, and cut. Susila manipulates the individual pieces into 3D artworks using wire, adhesive, silver or gold leaf and often Swarovski crystals. Through her unique process of making, Bailey-Bond employs both technology and handcrafting to create elaborately detailed artwork that is unapologetically joyful. Blue Moon...

Mixed media - artwork can be shipped only framed in a crate

Medium: found aluminum cans, copper leaf, wire Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit. Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. PAUL VILLINSKI has...

Materials: Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood Artist Statement: Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict between our behavior in our most intimate moments and our desire to appear as ambassadors of a white-picket-fence America. Using materials sourced from the suburban landscape, such as paint chip samples from Home Depot...

Materials: Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood Artist Statement: Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict between our behavior in our most intimate moments and our desire to appear as ambassadors of a white-picket-fence America. Using materials sourced from the suburban landscape, such as paint chip samples from Home Depot...

Materials: Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood Artist Statement: Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict betw...