{"id":5448,"date":"2010-09-11T06:29:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T18:08:47","slug":"september-11th-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/september-11th-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"september 11th ~ 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5449\" title=\"brian_d\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_d.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_d-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian Downey is a curator at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartscompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Arts Company<\/a> in Nashville. Not only does he have an amazing eye for art, he&#8217;s also ridiculously nice. We &#8216;met&#8217; when he made a comment <em>{a ridiculously nice comment, of course}<\/em> on one of my posts about a year ago. Just so you know, whenever someone makes a comment, nice or not, I go and check out <em>their<\/em> site, and that&#8217;s how I found Brian&#8217;s very inspiring blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/artdesignandhome.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art, Design and Home<\/a>. It was so inspiring in fact, that I ended up <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">stealing<\/span> writing about a bunch of his featured artists <em>{don&#8217;t worry, I gave him credit&#8230; I promise!}<\/em> Anyway, here is yet another fantastic artist that Brian discovered before I did:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m jealous of Emily Eibel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5450\" title=\"brian_images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"2824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_images.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brian_images-163x1024.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m jealous of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilyeibel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Eibel<\/a>.\u00a0 As someone who took every studio art class I possibly could in college, I was constantly creating\u2014pottery, sculpture, printmaking, even jewelry.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure any of it was that good, and I can tell you with utmost certainty\u2026it was nothing that anyone would ever be <\/em><em>jealous of.\u00a0 I was practically laughed out of my \u201cDrawing I\u201d class, so I have an enormous appreciation for someone who can put pencil to paper and create something that makes me take note and say, \u201cWow!\u201d\u00a0 Emily Eibel is one of those artists.\u00a0 Not only does Emily create unique and quirky illustrations, she takes the process one step further by creating amazing, hand-stitched illustrations, and I have to say\u2026 I am in love.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These embroidered creations are sometimes disturbing, but always engaging.\u00a0 These little gems would speak to anyone with a love of craft, which is one of the reasons I love them so much.\u00a0Some of the most amazing works of art are the ones that combine fine art and craft, and Emily does\u00a0this to perfection.\u00a0 Her work is a more contemporary version of Miriam Schapiro\u2019s \u201cfemmages\u201d of the late 70\u2019s, but with a simple style and a distinctly darker point of view.\u00a0 I have only recently discovered Emily\u2019s work, but I know I will be a fan for life.\u00a0 How could I not?\u00a0 She has quite a way with a needle and thread.\u00a0 If only I had taken that darn embroidery class in college.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes. My thought exactly! Why, oh why, have I never learned to embroider?! Thanks for stopping by Brian&#8230; and for being so ridiculously nice ; )<\/p>\n<p>ps. Brian&#8217;s latest show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/im-jealous-of-inspired\/\" target=\"_self\">Inspired ~ featuring Julianna Swaney and Jonn Welles Bartlett<\/a>, is on now until September 25th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Downey is a curator at The Arts Company in Nashville. Not only does he have an amazing eye for art, he&#8217;s also ridiculously nice. We &#8216;met&#8217; when he made a comment {a ridiculously nice comment, of course} on one of my posts about a year ago. Just so you know, whenever someone makes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,58,6,493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448"}],"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=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}