Quirky and classy: Home of artist/illustrator Courtney Wotherspoon

HGTV: How did you decide to create your own cardboard headboard?

Courtney: I had designed an acrylic version, only to discover that it would cost about $1,000 to have produced. I took the box that my new bed frame came in and did it myself. For zero dollars! I guess I’m happy my pockets aren’t as deep as the acrylic version would require, as I think the cardboard version (yes, with neon orange duct tape) really sums up my aesthetic — a balance of pretty and gritty — and my own way of going about getting things done. Being crafty can really pay off.

HGTV: What’s the story behind the “Deer” poster/sign?

Courtney: I don’t know how long it will last, but I did it in response to the over-saturation of ironic taxidermy found just about everywhere these days. I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for the uber-trend but just can’t stand to look into the glassy eyes of a real one on the wall.

And yep! That's a pregnant manequin in the corner! More at HGTV Canada.

Mike Miller for West Elm

West Elm's new collaboration with artist and antiques dealer Mark Miller really strikes a cord with me, and I love the graphic nature of his silhouette prints and pillows.

In undergrad one of my most time consuming installations involved meticulously cutting out every object image from a vintage 35 volume series of Time Magazine books that chronicled "everything" in this world, and arranging them on a large 12 foot wall. I have always been attracted to collage and the use of cut outs for their narrative qualities. By removing and image from its original context and recontextualizing it amongst foreign images, a dynamic and new narrative emerges.

I get the same feeling from Mike Miller's new line of products at West Elm and I love subtle differences in neutrals between the silhouettes.

The pillows below are also pretty cool--although I definitely think I prefer the prints.

Available at West Elm.

Modular Living

Artist Andrea Zittel

Artist Marjetica Potrc

Modern playhouse from Chronical Books.

Artist Karla Black

I was browsing Andrea Rosen Gallery's website today and was delighted to see Karla Black's new show with Nate Lowman, on display now through mid-June. I was really into Black's work several years ago when I was creating tissue paper sculptures supported by thin wooden scaffoldings.

In her current exhibition, Black creates large and delicate color field sculptures of paper, glitter hairspray, glue, and chalk. I have always loved Karla Black because of her view on visual art and art production. For Black, she considers art a "product of a bodily, physical desire to make a mark--a need to just grab the world."

All images from Andrea Rosen Gallery.

RIP Louis Bourgeois

Interview with Louis Bourgeois at 99, from Pop:

POP: Is there anything you haven't done in life that you would still like to do?

LB: No.



That's my girl!