{"id":19214,"date":"2014-06-13T07:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:38:26","slug":"ben-skinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/ben-skinner\/","title":{"rendered":"ben skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benskinner1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19215\" title=\"benskinner1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benskinner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awesome Awesome.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aaaaand<\/em> he&#8217;s at it again! Vancouver based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benskinner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Skinner<\/a> is an amazingly talented and incredibly clever artist who I am very happy to call my friend. I have loved his work for years, and have written about him a bunch of times <em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/ben-skinner-again-always\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/im-always-jealous-of-ben-skinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/jealous-in-washington-dc-march-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/i-was-victorious-at-the-cheaper-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/im-jealous-of-ben-skinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, AND he was the first artist I interviewed for my book!)<\/em>. I&#8217;ve been watching him post this new work <em>{acrylic tinted HydroCal plaster}<\/em>, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benskinner.com\/SAME-SAME\" target=\"_blank\">SAME SAME<\/a>, on Facebook for the last couple of months and <em>loooooove<\/em> that it&#8217;s finally up on his site! Such gorgeous colors and patterns, and so\u00a0smart&#8230; isn&#8217;t it crazy how many words we do this to? You&#8217;re trying to think of some right now, aren&#8217;t you? Yeah. Me too.<em> {You can see these, and a zillion other amazing pieces by Ben, in person at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backgalleryproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Back Gallery Project<\/a> in Vancouver until the end of June. These are priced at $200 per set, in editions of 10 and can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backgalleryproject.com\/store\/c1\/Featured_Products.html\" target=\"_blank\">ordered online<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And with that I&#8217;ll say happy weekend, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benskinner2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19216\" title=\"benskinner2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benskinner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benskinner2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benskinner2-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>ps. You can follow Ben on instagram {lots of cool things!} at \u00a0@benskinnerart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome Awesome. Aaaaand he&#8217;s at it again! Vancouver based\u00a0Ben Skinner is an amazingly talented and incredibly clever artist who I am very happy to call my friend. I have loved his work for years, and have written about him a bunch of times (here, here, here, here, here, AND he was the first artist I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,12,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214"}],"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=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19227,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}