Artful Giving Guide
Artful Giving Guide
What to give as the perfect art gift for the holidays…
The holidays are here and with that comes the annual search for a perfect gift. Artmuse would like to suggest some original, fun, and creative art gifts for your gift-giving list!
Image by Christopher Boffoli
The Guide
Christopher Boffoli - Champaigne Set Cards
Big Appetites Notecards - Champagne Set
Northwest-based artist Christopher Boffoli creates clever photographic vignettes. His process is combining miniature, hand-painted figurines from Germany with staged arrangements of food and beverages.
He is inspired by an unusual combination of magazine food photography and the 18th century fable “Gulliver’s Travels.” Boffoli explores how inverting the proportions of people and their surroundings creates unexpected points of interest.
Victoria Villasana Prints
Bowie Fashion | Victoria Villasana (bigcartel.com)
Victoria Villasana resides in Mexico after living in London for over a decade. She cites her experience in these different cultures as inspirational in her work, describing her art as a “symbiosis of cultures.” Her trademark pieces, portraits embellished with yarn and pasted up on London streets, mix indigenous Mexican and western art and deliver a healthy dose of rebellious femininity.
Giclée print in 100% cotton textured paper.
Jen Dwyer Lamp Sculpture
Ceramicist and painter Jen Dwyer’s whimsical works reflect on art history and nature with a feminist twist. “This unique ceramics whimsical plant lady sculpture is inspired by the 18th c Rococo Aesthetic, Surrealism, Fauvism and my own imagination :) She is a small size plant lady lamp.” - Jen Dwyer
Artist Plate Project
Artist Plate Project – Artware Editions
The Artist Plate Project benefits the Coalition for the Homeless. The Coalition for the Homeless is the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals and families.
Cashmere Throw by KAWS
Cashmere Throw by KAWS – Artware Editions
Produced by master Scottish craftspeople, the double–sided jacquard technique achieves a design–rich finish. The front face of the blanket showcases KAWS' artwork, with a muted birds-eye pattern on the underside. The blanket has a noticeably soft handle and luxurious heavyweight feel.
Tamara De Lempicka Socks
Art Socks – Tamara De Lempicka
The iconic Autoportrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti) 1929 scarf depicts Tamara's most celebrated painting. It was the precursor image of woman's new freedoms and still today represents to many the emblem of the modern woman in her self-determination and heroic stance.
Jessica Biales Prints
A New York based artist and jewelry designer Jessica Biales has created prints and scarves inspired by fashion and New York City itself.
Biales comments: “I observe my surroundings constantly. I look for beauty and enjoy transforming photographic images … into something new and magical. Almost like a game, I manipulate pieces of a puzzle to fit together in new ways.”
Original Photo Print under Acrylic Glass with a stable aluminum Dibond backing. Gallery quality with a Durable silicone seal. Glossy finish with balanced colors and precise details.
Jessica Biales Print Scarfs
“The corner of 78th and Madison was a favorite spot of mine for years because of the Missoni store. It was always a treat to see the genius use of color and pattern in their luxurious knits. I have woven the graphic lines of a crosswalk, wheel of a car with hints of the magnificent color and pattern of Missoni. 100% Silk.” - Jessica Biales
Jessica Lichtenstein “Light My Fire” Candle
"Light My Fire" Black matte with gold print — Jessica Lichtenstein
Using the female body as a mechanism to explore deeper themes of power, female representation, fetishism and objectification, usually in an ironic and cheerful way, Lichtenstein’s work embodies the very paradox she is trying to explore. Her work consciously plays with the boundaries of power, commercialization, consumerism, fantasy and propriety, provoking tensions that challenge the viewer to confront his or her own gaze.
Black matte jar with gold printing, gold electroplated interior
Great Women Painters Book
Great Women Painters – Perrotin New York
Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women painters from history and today's most exciting rising stars.
Art Puzzle
Step into the dreamlike, whimsically surreal, vibrantly painted, two-mooned world of Eliot Greenwald, here reproduced in this limited edition puzzle, and enjoy the experience of assembling the pieces and achieving its final form.
Newsletter written by Sophia Schlesinger.
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