FRIENDS OF SIMILAR SIZE: May 2011

5/7/11

I had a great studio visit last week with artist pal and textile designer, Jennifer Parry Dodge.

Check out her fabulous work here:

http://ermieblog.blogspot.com

and here: http://ermie.bigcartel.com

Inspiration of the day: experimental animator, Mary Ellen Bute!

Mary Ellen Bute - Dada (1936) by merzboy

Check out this great photo series by my friend, Molly Landreth in the NY Times magazine!

Now at LAXART!

FRIEND: FRIENDS OF SIMILAR SIZE is a Los Angeles based project by artist Melanie Nakaue specializing in jewelry as wearable fine art objects. Viewing each item as a functional sculpture, FRIENDS OF SIMILAR SIZE focuses on highly unique one of a kind pieces, with an aesthetic appreciation and re-interpretation of shared experiences, objects and processes. Each season will focus on a unique theme/concept, and the individual pieces in the collection will function individually to interpret and create a dialogue with the other items. This first season: Abject Beauty focuses on daily bodily processes that draw us together and how to look at these processes as alternative methods of making sculptural objects.