{"id":29604,"date":"2017-09-22T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=29604"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:55:49","slug":"michelle-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/michelle-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"michelle kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29605\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29605\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/michelle_kingdom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/michelle_kingdom.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/michelle_kingdom-50x300.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Um,<\/em> how have I never written about Los Angeles based artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/michellekingdom.com\">Michelle Kingdom<\/a>\u00a0before?! Well, as of this moment I&#8217;ve corrected the error of my ways. I absolutely love it when artists use materials traditionally considered a\u00a0&#8220;craft material&#8221;, for\u00a0fine art purposes instead&#8230; I also happen to love artists\u00a0with this kind of skill! Here is part of Michelle&#8217;s artist statement that touches on the use of embroidery in her work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Decidedly small in scale, the scenes are densely embroidered into compressed compositions. While the work acknowledges the luster and lineage inherent in needlework, I use thread as a sketching tool in order to simultaneously honor and undermine this tradition. Beauty parallels melancholy, as conventional stitches acquiesce to the fragile and expressive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Love. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um, how have I never written about Los Angeles based artist\u00a0Michelle Kingdom\u00a0before?! Well, as of this moment I&#8217;ve corrected the error of my ways. I absolutely love it when artists use materials traditionally considered a\u00a0&#8220;craft material&#8221;, for\u00a0fine art purposes instead&#8230; I also happen to love artists\u00a0with this kind of skill! Here is part of Michelle&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,112,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29604"}],"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=29604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29606,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29604\/revisions\/29606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}