Night Blessings: Katherina Olschbaur @ Union Pacific
May 28, 2021 | in Painting
Night Blessings is running its final days, if not hours, over at Union Pacific. Back in the city in which she lived for a year while in the Erasmus Exchange program at Wimbledon College of Arts, an Austrian-born and LA/Vienna-based artist is presenting a new body of paintings she s been working on in the past year.
The exhibition is comprising of eight paintings, 4 of which are single portraits and 4 motific, larger works that are displayed in dialogue, confronting their respective sentiments and dynamics. Based on Olschbaur s own desire-driven imagination, they are projections of subjects and scenes purposely constructed in a way so the viewer feels small next to their physical grandness and imposing attitude. Built-up through an impulsive and free layering process, the images are a culmination of directness, rhythms, and tensions that hold the image together, performed as she explores the relation
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Cathy Whitlock
COVID-19 hasn’t stopped these institutions from teaching Hollywood’s next generation of costume designers.
Courtesy of SCAD; Wayne Reich/Courtesy of School; Courtesy of SCAD; Angeliki Matsi/courtesy of Wimbledon College of Arts/UAL
Clockwise from far left: Veteran costume designer Ruth E. Carter in front of the SCAD exhibition “Afrofuturism in Costume Design”; a student at work in the costume shop at UNCSA; a performance of Little Women at SCAD; a costume design lineup by Wimbledon alum Angeliki Michaelidou Matsi.
Sure, nothing can beat hands-on experience, but learning the basics and technology of costume design can offer the skills to meet the unique demands of virtually any type of project. Just ask Emmy Award-winning costume designer Jane Petrie (
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Hannah HRH’s signature scrunchies for the London-based label HRH, when worn on the wrist, look like a stack of baroque bracelets in violet, tangerine, blush pink, and emerald. When worn in the traditional way, they take up the majority of the wearer’s head. Each scrunchie is made from nylon and individually stitched and is roughly the size of a watermelon. HRH, who debuted with the fashion collective Fashion East for fall 2021, has been creating her scrunchies for a year and designing accessories since 2018. At first, she began to make things for herself and then her friends. “I like to make things for myself or for my girlfriends,” she says. “It’s like giving a moment of extreme pleasure, like a special treat.”