{"id":13099,"date":"2012-12-17T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2012-12-17T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:14:39","slug":"im-always-jealous-of-ben-skinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/im-always-jealous-of-ben-skinner\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m ALWAYS jealous of ben skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13100\" title=\"benskinner_2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012-75x300.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012-256x1024.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Gah!!! <\/em>I&#8217;m not sure how many people know this, but the work of Canadian artist <a href=\"http:\/\/benskinner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Skinner<\/a> was pretty much the reason I started The Jealous Curator. And he&#8217;s done it again. I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I am so happy to say that I wrote about Ben for the first time\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/im-jealous-of-ben-skinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost four years ago<\/a>, and since then we have become good friends, and we even did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/jealous-in-washington-dc-march-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">a show together<\/a> in 2011.\u00a0But wait&#8230; there&#8217;s more! His latest text piece, made of a single row of candy sprinkles <em>{which he placed one by one with tweezers, using a syringe to apply the glue}<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13101\" title=\"benskinner_2012b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012b.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/benskinner_2012b-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, I will always be jealous\u00a0<em>{in a good way!} <\/em>of my friend Ben. My crazy, crazy, crazy friend, Ben <em>{a single row of candy sprinkles?!?!}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gah!!! I&#8217;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&#8217;s done it again. I&#8217;m jealous. These pieces are from his latest show, and they took my breath away when I saw them. Simple, every day objects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13110,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}