I’m supposed to be organizing my many belongings…
but instead it is after 1 am and I’m swooning over the most recent American Craft Magazine. I am admittedly only about half way through my reading, but I’ve been totally engrossed in it this time around. A few artists caught my eye and I decided to look them up…and now it is after 1 am.
My first happy find was the website and blog of Hilary Pfeifer. She is currently working on a number of pieces for a show at Ogle Gallery in Portland. I highly recommend checking out her blog, her treasure trove of found images, and her work.
The next find was an artist named Lindsey Adelman who has a studio in NYC. I was reading along and learning all about her work on her Bubble Series chandeliers when I saw, ” But over teh last two years, her work has taken an interesting double detour, shifting between her successful Bubble series chandelier and her pain stakingly assembled art made from human hair.” What? Human hair? Great!
Lindsey’s blog is also very engaging, but, I am specifically interested in the hair drawings. These beauties apparently came about during her work on another project when she kept finding hair stuck on her tape (this happens to me all of the time!) These are the two materials she uses to create her hair drawings, almost like stickers if I understand it correctly. The pieces themselves resemble wallpaper patterns…I’d really like to see them in person.
In the meantime, watch this choreographed video that details the making of the hair drawings:
I love the ending 
Hey Barb…came across your site through conceptualmetalsmithing. I’m the editor of American Craft magazine so I of course was pleased to read that you’re enjoying the new issue! I love Lindsey’s work and her hair drawings really are incredible. I wish we had room to include more of those. Those were in fact what brought us to everything else she does! Anyhow, thanks for reading (and writing!)…
Andrew Wagner said this on August 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 am
Thanks for visiting Andrew! This issue was great…these articles/artists, Sugarcraft, I could go on. I really enjoyed reading it, as always.
borderlinebarbie said this on August 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 am