Betsy Youngquist: A Sense of the Fantastic
Betsy Youngquist’s “ Androcles and the Cat” ( 2010). Size: 12 x 22 x 8 in. Glass beads and stones, antique porcelain doll parts, vintage prosthetic eyes, urethane foam, unsanded tile grout, sealer. Mixed media artist Betsy Youngquist is definitely in the business of creating new life forms. She starts with carefully sculpted shapes (often [...]
Julie Richey: The Places We Love
Julie Richey’s “La Corrente” (The Current) ( 2010). Size: 29 x 22 x 22 in. Italian and Mexican smalti, marble, 24K gold smalti, seashells, chalcedony. It is easy to get swept away to the sea by Julie Richey’s “La Corrente”. Since the sculpture won the prize for Best 3 Dimensional at the 2010 Mosaic Arts [...]
Lynne Chinn: Life As We Could Know It
Lynne Chinn’s “Winged Geode” (2007). Size: 9 x 29.5 x 13 in. Smalti, 24K gold smalti. Lynne Chinn’s mosaic sculptures immediately bring to mind the possibility of new life forms. The Texas-based artist is a master at making the hard materials of mosaic look soft, yielding and animate. In her breakout work, “Winged Geode”, Chinn [...]
Contemporary Mosaics In The Home
I live for contemporary mosaics. As the editor of Mosaic Art NOW, I am constantly discovering artists who use the medium to express themselves in striking new ways. I also live with contemporary mosaics; they reside in my home right alongside the paintings, prints, textiles and sculptures my husband and I have collected over the [...]
Mosaic Art with a Mission: Piecing Together Hearts & Souls in Haiti
“Not all places and people have financial capital, but everyone has creative capital.” — Laurel True Laurel True is a mosaic artist with a mission: to create economic opportunity and pride in community through mosaic art. In a paper presented to the International Conference on the Arts in Society in Venice in 2009, Dr. Randy [...]
