Introducing Ariana Huggett: Seeking beauty in the ordinary -- and finding it in an AT readers Outbox?
AT reader Martha called our attention to Huggett's recent work, which involves spending time at other people's homes and creating paintings of the objects and arrangements she finds there.
See more than interiors, plus the portrait-worthy Outbox below.
and here, Marthas and her husbands apartment Outbox, circa winter 06/07. (What's an outbox? see here and here)
In Huggetts words, the paintings become portraits of how humans accumulate and live, and they become a snapshot of the times by showing what people have and use in this moment. I tend to focus on the utilitarian and day-to-day, because I enjoy the challenge of seeking beauty and order among our clutter."
Take a peek at a few earlier jewel-like works of quite a different sort - in installation and multiples - below.
Huggets paintings from the Being and Seeing series (interiors) are on view until September 30, 2007 at Preservation Framing on 219 North Milwaukee Street (Phoenix Building, Third Ward) in Milwaukee. (call first 414-298-9830)
Inquiries? Please contact the artist via her website or the gallery via email.
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The paintings of interiors remind me of Hopper. Very nice.
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