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Fuller Craft Museum Takes A Look At The “Art of Mosaics”
Cynthia Toops “White Fence” 2012 2.75 x 2.0 x .25 in. Polymer clay, silver metalwork by Chuck Domitrovich. Photo: Doug Yaple via cdbeads.biz When the Director of the Fuller Craft Museum gave Board...
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Black Gold: Thar’s Oil In Them Thar Walls
By Lillian Sizemore (lilliansizemore.com) In May 2012, when the renowned Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles was slated to close its doors for good, the owners ran a huge liquidation sale—the entire...
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Update from the Mosaic Mecca of South America: Puente Alto & Isidora Paz López
Chicarra/Cicada "Cicada chilensis" & Sahumerio (Incense) "Twedia confertiflora" Design: Nicolás Chacón. Drawing: Paulo Meyer. Pillar Director: Gonzalo San Martín. Execution principal figures:...
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What’s It Going to Take to Advance Contemporary Mosaic?
At any gathering of contemporary mosaic artists, the question of “What’s it going to take to advance the art form/genre/medium?” is likely to arise. One of two positions is usually taken: Change the...
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Seriality, Rhythm & Archeology: Interview with Sonya Louro Do Rego by Luca...
Sonya Louro Do Rego "Fall" 2011 150 x 50 x 25 cm Shells and marble on wood and polystyrene Photo: MAN One of our favorite pieces in the Young Artists and Mosaic (GAEM) exhibit in Ravenna in 2011 was...
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Sonia King’s Milestones
Sonia King "Depthfinder" 2011 24 x 18 inches Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna (MAR) The recent news that the Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna (MAR) has added works by three American artists to...
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“Transposition” A Mosaic Triumph in Seattle
Photo: Cindi Buhrig The most exciting exhibit we saw in conjunction with the Society of American Mosaic Artist’s (SAMA) annual conference in Tacoma, WA last April was Transposition, a site-specific...
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Mosaic at the 2013 Venice Biennale Part 1: Mohamed Banawy/Khaled Zaki at the...
Oh, to be in Venice for the 55th edition of the largest and most prestigious international art exhibit in the world – the Venice Biennale. By all accounts, curator Massimiliano Gioni’s Encyclopedic...
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Japan’s 2013 Mosaic Biennale: A Report from Toyoharu Kii
Hisao Matsuo “Don’t Tell What Was Seen In The Woods” 24 x 35 in. While we were at the SAMA conference this past spring, we had the opportunity to sit down for a long chat with the well known Japanese...
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“Signals From the Limit”: Andrej Koruza at RavennaMosaico 2013
By far one of the most interesting and thought-provoking works at RavennaMosaico 2013 was Andrej Koruza’s “Signals From the Limit”. Just watch. The work was mesmerizing and we spent a good half an...
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Mosaic Masterpieces Tour 2013 Part 1: Venice, Clauiano, Udine, Spilimbergo
Mosaic at La Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli (Splimbergo) Photo: James Turner (JT) Can it be a month since we left Italy? Why yes, it has been a month and more. And yet, the memories are still so fresh,...
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The Tesserae Conversations of Valeria Ercolani
By Gilles Antoine and Renée Malaval The 7th edition of the French magazine, Mosaïque, is the publication’s best yet; chock full of incredible content that covers the modern mosaic scene from Chartres,...
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“Con Te Partirò”: Jeroen Meijer’s Mosaic Farewell to His Mother
Jeroen Meijer “Con Te Partiro” 2014 256 x 120 cm When Dutch artist Jeroen Meijer shared his latest mosaic with us earlier this year, we were stunned by the depth and beauty of it. This commemoration of...
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Modern Mosaic in Isaiah Zagar’s Magic Gardens: “Shattering Expectations:...
Photo: Anabella Wewer When we were first approached by the Mosaic Society of Philadelphia and Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens to jury a regional exhibit, we asked the organizers – Carol Shelkin,...
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BiblioMosaico: The Book as a Muse for Mosaic
Verdiano Marzi “Pinnochi” 2011 (Italy) “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”...
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“Words from Objects – Sacred Memory”: Gérard Brand and the Rebirth of...
By Renée Malaval, Editor–Mosaique Magazine (Note: This story appeared originally in the June 2014 edition of Mosaique Magazine and is but one example of the fine writing and international coverage the...
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BAMM’s Mosaic of the Year 2014: Tessa Hunkin & the Hackney Mosaic Project...
The Romans would have approved. The British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM) recently announced that Tessa Hunkin and The Hackney Mosaic Project have received the Mosaic of the Year Award for a...
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Prix Picassiette 2014 Winners Announced
1st Prize Professional Karen Ami (USA) “Dialogues” Chartres les 3Rs, the organization which produces the biennial Les Recontres des Internationales de Mosaïque de Chartres (International Mosaic...
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A Hard-Bound Master Class by Iliya Iliev: Review of “Ornament” by Allan Punton
International award-winning mosaic artist and Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Sofia, Bulgaria Ilya Iliev knows what Rembrandt, Escher, Klee and VanGogh knew about the use of geometry in composing...
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A Modern Mosaic Menagerie: Aneme Mosaico’s Zoological Studies In Stone
Aneme Mosaico “Panthera Pardus” (2014) 37.5 x 28.5 cm We want them all. The Leopard. The Hippo. The Bear. The Llama . . . We want the whole zoological catalogue in stone by Melissa Moliterno and Andrea...
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