Got a Girl Crush On: Cait Oppermann & Yael Malka’s photo projects

girlsgetbusyzine:

“My girlfriend and I went on a 2+ month long backpacking trip across Morocco, Turkey and several European countries. We are both artists and are making a book of photographs from the photos we collected on our trip. We created a few series throughout the trip and one of them is called “twenty one beds”, in which we took self portraits in every bed, couch or floor we slept on throughout the trip.” - Yaek Malka

They’ll also be launching their book Sea Blues at Molasses Books in Brooklyn tonight Friday, May 17th!

Got a Girl Crush On: Textile art by Katrin Bawah

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Got A Girl Crush On: The simple and whimsical collages of Katrien de Blauwer

Belgium based artist Katrien De Blauwer combines only two images in each piece, yet magically creates a fascinating & mysterious story. Oh, and don’t even get me started on her amazing color palette, created solely through found images and found paper that she somehow manages to maintain throughout her entire, huge, gorgeous portfolio. Love with a capital L.

…And, as a little post-nod to the Oscars, here are three pieces from Katrien’s series, “Cinematic Cuts”:

(via: The Jealous Curator)

Got A Girl Crush On: Gordon Park’s photos of Helen Frankenthaler in her New York Studio

More like Helen Babenthaler.  How did I manage to receive an Art History degree without realizing how adorable this woman was?

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Got a Girl Crush On: Adrienne Slane, Ohio-based collage artist

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Got a Girl Crush On: Heather Benjamin’s “Sad People Sex” 

This stuff is weird and gross and bloody and strangely appealing in it’s tiny epic details.

Heather Benjamin has carved out (literally—in most of the women depicted in her comics’ case) a very brutally honest niche about the pratfalls of sex and relationships and all the wet and gore that comes along with it! 

Get the full set of her zines over at her online shop!

Got a Girl Crush On: Laurie Anderson’s “Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)”

Anderson photographed men who called to her or whistled her on the street.  In her artist statement she writes about one experience,

“As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon.  I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’  This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.  I wheeled around, furious. ‘Did you say that?’ He looked around surprised, then defiant ‘Yeah, so what the fuck if I did?’ I raised my Nikon, took aim began to focus.  His eyes darted back and forth, an undercover cop? CLICK.”

Anderson takes the power from her male pursuers, allowing them nothing more than the momentary fear that their depravity has just been captured in a picture.  

(Source: bodytracks.org, via knotintime)

Got a Girl Crush On: Nina Katchadourian - Mended Spiderwebs (1998)

We’ve already expressed our love for Nina before, so let us reiterate our admiration shall we? 

Artist’s statement:

“In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread. All of the patches were made by inserting segments one at a time directly into the web. I fixed the holes in the web until it was fully repaired, or until it could no longer bear the weight of the thread.

In the process, I often caused further damage when the tweezers got tangled in the web or when my hands brushed up against it by accident.

The morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process.

My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned.”

(via knotintime: likeafieldmouse)

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