{"id":21533,"date":"2015-02-16T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=21533"},"modified":"2015-02-16T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:33:58","slug":"alison-foshee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/alison-foshee\/","title":{"rendered":"alison foshee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alisonfoshee1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21537\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alisonfoshee1.jpg\" alt=\"alisonfoshee\" width=\"584\" height=\"2393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alisonfoshee1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alisonfoshee1-73x300.jpg 73w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/alisonfoshee1-250x1024.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staples. <em>Whoa.<\/em> This is the very clever, very careful work of\u00a0Portland\u00a0based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonfoshee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Foshee<\/a>. Why staples you ask? I&#8217;ll let Alison explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Thumbtacks and pushpins explode into extravagant floral arrangements. Staples trace the jagged contour of a leaf. Office labels spin out in hot, firecracker explosions. Over the past 20 years, I have been exploring the artistic potential of everyday stuff. I enjoy working these raw materials with the geeky intensity of a Rubik&#8217;s cube puzzle master and relish the challenge of finding new meanings in objects that have become banal&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh. So, so good! Many of her <a href=\"http:\/\/goodeyegallery.com\/portfolio-category\/alison-foshee\/\" target=\"_blank\">originals {and custom commissions!} can be purchased through Good Eye Gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staples. Whoa. This is the very clever, very careful work of\u00a0Portland\u00a0based artist Alison Foshee. Why staples you ask? I&#8217;ll let Alison explain: &#8220;Thumbtacks and pushpins explode into extravagant floral arrangements. Staples trace the jagged contour of a leaf. Office labels spin out in hot, firecracker explosions. Over the past 20 years, I have been exploring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533"}],"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=21533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21559,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions\/21559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}