Tag: Beaded

  • Brushstrokes Transform into Beaded Topographies in Liza Lou's Mixed-Media Paintings

    One of the many reasons artists like Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Cy Twombly, and other mid-20th-century pioneers of painterly abstraction were so innovative for their time is the use of the deliberate yet loose brushstroke. Pollock intuitively dribbled and splattered paint on surfaces spread across the floor of his studio, and Kline created read more

    Brushstrokes Transform into Beaded Topographies in Liza Lou's Mixed-Media Paintings
  • Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet's Tiniest Life Forms

    After more than two decades as a commercial textile designer, often working digitally, Amy Gross was drawn to making something that felt more immediate and tactile. “I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel,” she tells Colossal. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were read more

    Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet's Tiniest Life Forms