So here’s the thing… I don’t speak Spanish. However, María Revuelta and Núria del Moral, the girls behind the Barcelona based photography studio Las Coleccionistas, do. All of this to say, I love the images from this project titled Meals {perhaps because all I’ve done for the past three days is eat!}, but I really have no idea what it’s about. So I used Google Translate, and this is what I got…

Meals – Exaltation of the pleasures that produces the experience of eating. Editorial fashion in collaboration with stylists barcelonaUnnaked . Posted Pashion Magazine (Middle East), Luxsure Magazine (France) and Spot Magazine (Mexico).

Hm. Well there you go.

Merry Christmas! I hope all of you are having a lovely, cozy, happy holiday with your friends & family. I’m going to take a few days to be with my boys, but wanted to leave you with my most favorite piece of art that I’ve ever been given:

Stunning composition, excellent use of color, and the tension between the yellow-fin tuna and salmon … palpable. Mark my words, this artist is going to end up in a text book one day!

{My very sweet little boy made this for me last Christmas… excuse me while I go check under the tree for his newest masterpiece!} xo

Um… I WANT A TINY, CERAMIC, GLAZE-COVERED PIGGY BANK FOR CHRISTMAS!!! Do you think it’s too late to get this request in to Santa? These amazing little ceramic banks are the work of Copenhagen based artist Anders Arhøj, and I absolutely love them! Now, I realize that today is Christmas Eve, and not Hallowe’en, but how could I not show you these lovely little ceramic ghosts, that Anders made in collaboration with Louise Gaarmann:

boo.

{ghosts found via miss.moss}

Oh boy. I found the work of LA based artist/designer Ming Ong when I was putting yesterday’s post {about Garage Gallery} together. Um, I love these little paintings on found paper oh so much! Slightly disturbing? Yes. Crazy awesome? Yes.

And on that note, may your weekend be filled with cow cuddles and giant bras… you might want to avoid birds and bunnies though.

Garage Gallery started as just that… a garage in LA where art was shown, shared, and sold affordably:

They had some amazing artists hang their work! Here are a few of my favorite pieces from various shows:

Love! {1) Ming Ong  2) Aaron McConomy  3) Alika Cooper}

Now, Garage Gallery has gone online, stretching their community from a neighborhood in LA, to the world!!!

Lovely… and boy oh boy, do they have some great artists in their roster. Again, a few of my faves:

Yep, this is definitely a garage I could hang out in all day long! Go check it out… right now! ; )

{The pieces above are the work of 1) Emily Barletta 2) Emma Lawrenson  3) Paz Lopez  4) Elliot Beaumont}

Maria Dubrovskaya is a Russian-born artist, who now lives in the Philippines. What does she do in her new tropical home? She makes moveable, hand-painted, paper dolls out of kraft paper and white paint. I love that there are references to her life in one of the coldest parts of the world, and to her new life south of the equator. Yep, I love ‘em… almost as much as that girl loves her bear.

{via curate1k}

Oh my. Atlanta based artist Drew Tyndell has me wanting to move into a little, flat, wooden, multi-colored house. Pink & navy, straight angles & organic shapes, painted surface & exposed woodgrain… and of course, just the right amount of insane precision. Home sweet home.

{via Design for Mankind}

Gah!!! I’m not sure how many people know this, but the work of Canadian artist Ben Skinner was pretty much the reason I started The Jealous Curator. And he’s done it again. I’m jealous. These pieces are from his latest show, and they took my breath away when I saw them. Simple, every day objects silhouetted perfectly in gold leaf on black lacquered panels. So simple, and oh so stunning.

I am so happy to say that I wrote about Ben for the first time almost four years ago, and since then we have become good friends, and we even did a show together in 2011. But wait… there’s more! His latest text piece, made of a single row of candy sprinkles {which he placed one by one with tweezers, using a syringe to apply the glue}:

Yep, I will always be jealous {in a good way!} of my friend Ben. My crazy, crazy, crazy friend, Ben {a single row of candy sprinkles?!?!}

Do love children? How about children on horses:

… or children sleeping on mats, and in tents:

… or at school, being attentive {and not so much}:

… or doing a little hunting & fishing:

LOVE! Tiny, strange subjects on great big canvases! This is the beautifully bizarre work of Argentina-born artist  Carolina Antich. And just to make sure you’re all heading into your weekend feeling super duper inspired/jealous, you should know that she is currently based in Venice, and has an amazing, jealousy-inducing studio! Have a look over at sfgirlbybay today, and get a sneak peek at Carolina’s fabulous space. Inspiration overload…

The angles! The colors! The precision! Oh my. I absolutely love this stunning installation work by Amsterdam-based artist Henriette van’t Hoog … and to be totally honest, it has me wishing that I was this good with angles. And colors. And precision.