Skaulo is a comfortable cellulose acetate frame designed in Swedish Lapland. After that, it has been exclusively handcrafted in Greece. Above all, it is a tribute to the small village Skaulo in Gällivare. Specifications: Italian cellulose acetate from mazzucchelli. Stainless steel optical hinges. Cellulose acetate temples with akenberg logo in silver hot iron engraving. Grey gradient lens. UV 3 Protection by Carl Zeiss. 100 % UVA/UVB protection. C5 Colour: Heather by the mountain lake. Size: 51-22-145. Comes with a coordinating microfiber lens cloth.
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Skaulo - Heather By The Mountain Lake

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Jewelry

Skaulo is a comfortable cellulose acetate frame designed in Swedish Lapland. After that, it has been exclusively handcrafted in Greece. Above all, it is a tribute to the small village Skaulo in Gällivare. Specifications: Italian cellulose acetate from mazzucchelli. Stainless steel optical hinges. Cellulose acetate temples with akenberg logo in silver hot iron engraving. Grey gradient lens. UV 3 Protection by Carl Zeiss. 100 % UVA/UVB protection. C5 Colour: Natural Leather + unpolished silver. Size: 51-22-145. Comes with a coordinating microfiber lens cloth.

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Skaulo - Natural Leather

Skaulo - Frost On Black Pavement

HOLLYWOOD ANGEL GIOVANNI PULZE
Acrylic on canvas 31.5 x 31.5 inch, edition 1/1 2015
Is it the case that when we least expect it, when we are overwhelmed by our circumstances and when despair begins to take us over, something or someone ends up helping us? If the answer is yes, then we can call that help Providence, Luck or Destiny.
Giovanni Pulze’s positive response to this is simply the representation of an ‘Angel’. Not an angel in the traditional religious sense of the term, and not a pictorial transposition for the modern cinematic kind of angels depicted by Wim Wenders. This ‘Angel’ can be any person, someone met in the street, someone met by chance or by mistake, someone who could perhaps change your day with their smile, or change your life with a gesture. The white wings therefore become a metaphor, a symbol for potential, this ‘something’ that we all have and that can be harnessed, right here right now, to offer help within this Daily Paradise we exist in.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Giovanni Pulze, was born in Italy at Piove di Sacco in the province of Padua on 1960, now resident in Badoere in the province of Treviso. First solo exhibitions in 1981. From a casual encounter with the “Maestro” Orlando Fasano at the time retired in the country side of Venice in Mogliano Veneto after having spent many years in Paris and meeting and working with many famous painters like of Picasso, Mirò, Cocteau and Prevert, a great friendship develops and G.P. discovers more of the modern art. From 1991 he started to develop works of modern art, with a side line of designing a line of sport wear labeled ‘Jeans Latino’ additionally a very well received line of fashion eyewear, designing for Safilo, Marcolin, Celes, Filos Piave, Valberra. Pulzeʼs creations were part of collection for Versace, Valentino, Roccobarocco.
A well-received collection was the one inspired by ten great masters of modern art, from Modigliani to Picasso, Dalì to Fontana and Warhol. Pulze worked with ceramics, creating collections of Totems/Towers and others objects. In the late 1990 his glance to the fantastic takes Giovanni to study the work of the English painter Turner and of the German painter C.D. Friedrich from where heʼll learn the sense of ‘Emptiness’ and the ‘Loneliness of the Humanity’. From 1999 the dominate theme of his paintings is the presence of the ‘Metropolitan Angel’.
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Art   – Hollywood Angel

Wall Art & Decor

STATIC ROAR Megan Suttles
Vinyl on wire chord 152 x 74 x 30 inch 2019
Site specific
Price varies depending on size plus installation fee

Part of the MAISON 10 group exhibition ALL WOMAN February 17th – April 27th, 2019

ABOUT MEGAN SUTTLES
Megan Suttles is the founder, owner, and curator of Hot Wood Arts, an educator, and an installation artist. Her individual artworks are mostly site-specific installations that she considers to be spatial drawings. She creates environments that the viewer can experience by walking around and through. These environments are mostly created with multiples of everyday materials such as hundreds of aluminum tubes, countless rolls of packing tape, thousands of bobby pins, miles of monofilament, many shelving brackets, and boundless amounts of hose clamps. There is usually a grid or structure that is created as a container with some kine of explosion of these objects that happens inside of the created confinement. The ideas are based on anxiety and control. She has been exploring the eternal struggle between restraint and disorder: the way we tend to conceal our inner confusion with the outward appearance of refinement and perfection. Her work has become focused on revealing this chaos; making the invisible visible again. Through gestural installations, she reveals her understanding of the difference between uncertainty and certainty. Megan’s work has been exhibited in such places as Lehman Collage Art Gallery in the Bronx, The UnScene in New York City, The UnFair in New York City, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gallery in North Adams Massachusetts, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts in Asbury Park New Jersey, The Governor’s Island Art Fair, Hunter College in New York City, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York, The OK Hotel in Seattle Washington, Hotel Chelsea in New York City, and Portal Art Fair in New York City. Megan has both a MFA and BFA from Pratt Institute where she studied in Brooklyn New York, Lucca Italy, Rome Italy, and Port Elizabeth South Africa. She also holds an associates degree in Fashion Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology, and studied sculpture and drawing at the Arts Students League of New York City and The New York Academy of Art. Megan was an artist-in- residence at Vermont Studio Center, Emerson Landing Artist Retreat Center, Wildacres Retreat, and 4Heads Governors Island.

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Art    – Static Roar

Brooklyn Mistral
Ethan Cornell Oil and wax on found board
24 x 36 Inches
2016

Ethan Cornell is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received his education at the High School of Art and Design, NYC and the Parsons School of Design. Since graduation he has studied also at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and received a fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. He works professionally as an artist, graphic artist, illustrator, and teacher.
Drawing is the core of his artistic practice, the base of his work in painting, sculpture, video, graphic and digital arts. The central aspects of his work are fictional narrative and working from life: one an act of invention, the other observation of the real. Much of his recent work is concerned with both the epistemology and constitution of things. In a time of fake news, his art investigates the mediated nature of truth and the questions of “how do we know things.” His lifetime interest in popular science, history, and mythology has provided fertile ground for exploring the malleability of memory and the fuzziness of our shared stories and facts. In the last decade he has exhibited his work primarily in New York and California, including shows at Saddleback College, Gaia Gallery, Kentler International Drawing Space and the Art Fair on Governors Island.
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Art - Brooklyn Mistral

UNTITLED Julia Rivera
ECO-OIL ON PANEL
11.5 X 11.5 IN
2020

Part of the Julia Rivera MAISON 10 Exhibition YOUR VOTE IS YOUR POWER

THE STAR OF SAN JUAN
Julia Rivera is a talented and well-educated painter who has pleased many art collectors with her daring use of color, the internal rhythms of her compositions, and above all, her playful and refreshing imagery.
In her painting, Rivera, who was born in the Bronx in 1965, and who studied art in Florence, New York, and the School of Plastics Arts of Puerto Rico, creates an attractive, fairy tale universe where carefully chosen objects – clocks, fruit, little toy cars, bottles and elongated chairs – are arranged in order to let us see their essence in a surreal but celebratory manner.
Mallarme pointed out that a good poem has to be enigmatic. I believe that good works also have to possess magic and mystery. A good work of art does not let us know everything. Influenced by Gorky, Miro, Chagall and Matta, and quite aware of what has happened in the field of ‘lite’ neo-figuration during the last three decades, Rivera combines humor and poetry to conceive well balanced scenarios where the mundane and metaphysical establish dialogue about time and the human condition.
Manuel Alvarez Lezama Art Critic
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Art - Untitled

IN FASHION BLACK CIRCLE 12
TINA PSOINOS

Mixed Media
12 x 12 inch

2020

Tina Psoinos is a Greek-born, mixed media artist based in the US, whose works have been featured in collections and exhibitions in the US and Europe. Inspired by her upbringing in Athens— which essentially acted as a living museum— she composes works that explore themes such as female empowerment, pop culture and love and identity in the 21st century. Her approach mixes traditional painting, photography, digital and stenciling techniques.
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Art - In Fashion Black Circle 12

WHEN WOMEN SUCCEED, AMERICA SUCCEEDS Julia Rivera
ECO-OIL ON CANVAS
20 X 16 INCH
2020

Part of the Julia Rivera MAISON 10 Exhibition YOUR VOTE IS YOUR POWER

THE STAR OF SAN JUAN
Julia Rivera is a talented and well-educated painter who has pleased many art collectors with her daring use of color, the internal rhythms of her compositions, and above all, her playful and refreshing imagery.
In her painting, Rivera, who was born in the Bronx in 1965, and who studied art in Florence, New York, and the School of Plastics Arts of Puerto Rico, creates an attractive, fairy tale universe where carefully chosen objects – clocks, fruit, little toy cars, bottles and elongated chairs – are arranged in order to let us see their essence in a surreal but celebratory manner.
Mallarme pointed out that a good poem has to be enigmatic. I believe that good works also have to possess magic and mystery. A good work of art does not let us know everything. Influenced by Gorky, Miro, Chagall and Matta, and quite aware of what has happened in the field of ‘lite’ neo-figuration during the last three decades, Rivera combines humor and poetry to conceive well balanced scenarios where the mundane and metaphysical establish dialogue about time and the human condition.
Manuel Alvarez Lezama Art Critic
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Art - In The End We Will Not Remember The Words Of Our Enemies But The Silence Of Our Friends

TUSCAN VESSEL Paper mache, foamcore, wire and paint 25 x 17 inch 2018, edition 1/1
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Art/c12 – Tuscan Vessel

SOMETHINGS ASKEW 12
Pat Dunigan
2019

When I was 17, I had a summer job working as the assistant in the advertising department of the original Abercrombie & Fitch store on Madison Avenue in New York. (No, not the Abercrombie people know today. Abercrombie & Fitch was the world's finest store for all sorts of sporting, hunting & fishing equipment. It's where Teddy Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy shopped.) Every day A&F ran an ad on the same page of the New York Times, and my job was to get all the materials for that ad, have the art studio create the layout, and then take the "mechanical" of the ad to the NYT building on West 43rd St. on my way to Penn Station to go home to NJ. The next morning on the train back into NYC, I would see the ad (my ad) printed in the paper. That started my love of advertising.

College came next and I studied fine arts and languages. I wanted to work at the UN and travel the world. But, I took a painting class at Skidmore and turned a corner. I had my own studio at school and painted large Monet-inspired abstract landscapes.

After graduation when I was looking for a job in NY, I answered an ad for a studio assistant and discovered it was for Helen Frankenthaler. She invited me to tea at her home. All seemed great until she told me it was an unpaid job. Unfortunately, I needed a job that paid.

So, advertising it was...and is. I’ve loved it and have been able to travel all over the world shooting commercials.

Some years ago, I started passing the time in airports and on flights by tearing bits of color pages out of magazines and gluing them into a notebook. Those were my first collages. I love playing with the shapes and colors…having them clash and collide and finding their right place.

The collages are the first step. Next, comes the paintings - large paintings. And, I’m exploring turning some works into large 3-D pieces. We’ll see what happens…

My studio is in an 1840s building that was a General Store and Post Office.

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Art - Somethings Askew 12

WELL 2 Ulrika Strömbäck
Glazed earthenware 4 x 10 inch, edition 1/1 2014

Part of the MAISON 10 group exhibition ALL WOMAN February 17th – April 27th, 2019

ULRIKA STRÖMBÄCK
My work is like a type of photography, but using clay. It becomes like diaries or maps that are recording the many walks I take around the city. Whilst walking, I am looking at overlooked details in the landscape, things deteriorating, things seemingly unimportant, or things under threat to disappear. The essence is capturing things that are significant for documenting a particular place at a particular time. As I am walking and rewalking I discover new and different things each time. I touch and explore textures and fissures in the landscape with my hands and body and I take prints of what I find with clay – like 3-dimensional photography. Back in the studio, I make plaster moulds from the clay prints made whilst walking. My cast pieces are made using the same moulds with very different results each time. I'm letting the pieces grow organically, and sometimes partly collapse, according to the laws of gravity or entropy. They are never really ‘finished’, but rather frozen somewhere during this process. Textures on the surface look like growth rings or skin.
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir
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Art    – Well 2

CITY ANGEL GIOVANNI PULZE
Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 inch, edition 1/1 2018
Is it the case that when we least expect it, when we are overwhelmed by our circumstances and when despair begins to take us over, something or someone ends up helping us? If the answer is yes, then we can call that help Providence, Luck or Destiny.
Giovanni Pulze’s positive response to this is simply the representation of an ‘Angel’. Not an angel in the traditional religious sense of the term, and not a pictorial transposition for the modern cinematic kind of angels depicted by Wim Wenders. This ‘Angel’ can be any person, someone met in the street, someone met by chance or by mistake, someone who could perhaps change your day with their smile, or change your life with a gesture. The white wings therefore become a metaphor, a symbol for potential, this ‘something’ that we all have and that can be harnessed, right here right now, to offer help within this Daily Paradise we exist in.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Giovanni Pulze, was born in Italy at Piove di Sacco in the province of Padua on 1960, now resident in Badoere in the province of Treviso. First solo exhibitions in 1981. From a casual encounter with the “Maestro” Orlando Fasano at the time retired in the country side of Venice in Mogliano Veneto after having spent many years in Paris and meeting and working with many famous painters like of Picasso, Mirò, Cocteau and Prevert, a great friendship develops and G.P. discovers more of the modern art. From 1991 he started to develop works of modern art, with a side line of designing a line of sport wear labeled ‘Jeans Latino’ additionally a very well received line of fashion eyewear, designing for Safilo, Marcolin, Celes, Filos Piave, Valberra. Pulzeʼs creations were part of collection for Versace, Valentino, Roccobarocco.
A well-received collection was the one inspired by ten great masters of modern art, from Modigliani to Picasso, Dalì to Fontana and Warhol. Pulze worked with ceramics, creating collections of Totems/Towers and others objects. In the late 1990 his glance to the fantastic takes Giovanni to study the work of the English painter Turner and of the German painter C.D. Friedrich from where heʼll learn the sense of ‘Emptiness’ and the ‘Loneliness of the Humanity’. From 1999 the dominate theme of his paintings is the presence of the ‘Metropolitan Angel’.
MAISON 10 has chosen to support 9 charities – the charity chosen for this artwork is Housing Works. If you like, simply tell us which one of these 10 charities you would like to choose at checkout. MAISON 10 will make a 10% donation of the retail cost to your selected charity.

Art   – City Angel

IN FASHION BLACK CIRCLE 3
TINA PSOINOS

Mixed Media
12 x 12 inch

2020

Tina Psoinos is a Greek-born, mixed media artist based in the US, whose works have been featured in collections and exhibitions in the US and Europe. Inspired by her upbringing in Athens— which essentially acted as a living museum— she composes works that explore themes such as female empowerment, pop culture and love and identity in the 21st century. Her approach mixes traditional painting, photography, digital and stenciling techniques.
MAISON 10 has chosen to support 9 charities – the charity chosen for this artwork is Housing Works. If you like, simply tell us which one of these 10 charities you would like to choose at checkout. MAISON 10 will make a 10% donation of the retail cost to your selected charity.

Art - In Fashion Black Circle 3

MISS AMERICA… UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL Julia Rivera
ECO-OIL ON CANVAS
14 X 11 INCH
2020

Part of the Julia Rivera MAISON 10 Exhibition YOUR VOTE IS YOUR POWER

THE STAR OF SAN JUAN
Julia Rivera is a talented and well-educated painter who has pleased many art collectors with her daring use of color, the internal rhythms of her compositions, and above all, her playful and refreshing imagery.
In her painting, Rivera, who was born in the Bronx in 1965, and who studied art in Florence, New York, and the School of Plastics Arts of Puerto Rico, creates an attractive, fairy tale universe where carefully chosen objects – clocks, fruit, little toy cars, bottles and elongated chairs – are arranged in order to let us see their essence in a surreal but celebratory manner.
Mallarme pointed out that a good poem has to be enigmatic. I believe that good works also have to possess magic and mystery. A good work of art does not let us know everything. Influenced by Gorky, Miro, Chagall and Matta, and quite aware of what has happened in the field of ‘lite’ neo-figuration during the last three decades, Rivera combines humor and poetry to conceive well balanced scenarios where the mundane and metaphysical establish dialogue about time and the human condition.
Manuel Alvarez Lezama Art Critic
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Art – Miss America… United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Threshold #8
Mark Gens
Cyanotype & Silver Leaf
13x13 Inch
2021

Mark Gens is a multi-media artist whose work includes collage, installation, video, e-literature, sculpture, and critical writing. He received his BFA from Otis College of Art in Los Angeles CA and his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. Mark is a queer boy who came out in New York City in the midst of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
This deeply personal and political experience became the driving force in his life and in his studio practice. He has worked throughout the US teaching art to children and adults, participating in intercultural art programs, and exhibiting artwork. Although the 1980s and 1990s were a dark time in the life of NYC, Mark was also aware of the phenomenal burgeoning creativity: hip hop culture, activist art, community organizing, ACT UP, etc. He understands how creativity and cultural production have always served well political and personal action. Over the past four decades Mark has maintained a prolific art practice, “I have engaged image, object, space, and audience with the goal of raising consciousness and awakening perception.” While the core of his art practice remains the same, Mark is always exploring new methods, materials, and imagery.
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Art - Threshold #8

LOURDES
Claire Price
Acrylic on canvas
22"x24"
2019

Claire Price was born in New Zealand, studied Fine Arts at Canterbury University and began working as a photographer from the age of 18. Parallel to that, Claire continued to paint and began writing songs and performing. She signed her first record deal in 1998 and in 2000 moved to Paris to pursue music. Claire lived in Paris for 15 years, put out several EPs of music, exposed and sold her paintings in cafés and galleries and continued to work as a photographer specializing in fashion and portraits. In 2015 Claire moved to the US where she continues to paint and work as a photographer.

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Art - Lourdes

SEER (MEMORY PALACE: ROOM 7, PEG 3) KO SMITH
Oil on canvas 44 x 30 inch, edition 1/1 2016
Ko Smith has been an exhibiting artist for fifteen years, his first solo show held in Cambridge, Massachusetts a decade ago, in 2007. His work has since been exhibited in numerous venues including Spazio TID in Milan, Italy, Six Month Space in New York City, Con Artist Collective in New York City, Create Collective in Miami, Florida and the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, New York. He has received grants, residencies and awards including a grant and residency from Vermont Studio Center in Johnson Vermont, as well as an Arches Printmaking Award. Smith earned his BFA from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University with a concentration in Studio Art in 2006. He was raised in New London, Connecticut and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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Art   – Seer (memory Palace: Room 7, Peg 3)

LOUIS ARMSTRONG Paintings, acrylic, oil, mixed media on canvas 45 x 35 inch 2017, edition 1/1
ABOUT LESTER SÁNCHEZ
Lester creates a series of portraits inspired by historical characters that wander our collective subconscious. He wants to feel connected with his subjects in a particular way; sort of an intimate dialogue with the iconic aspect of the individual portrayed, expecting the viewer also will have their personal dialogue with the piece; or even let their life story unfold before the piece. Sometimes portraits can also be based on significant individuals like close friends or family.
He drips industrial paint onto a flat canvas with loose expressive gestures, taming the accidental, mixing colors optically, constructing layers of texture until the desired image results.  Lester also uses traditional painting methods as well as mixed media.  His work is influenced by artists such as Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, and Jean Michel Basquiat.
Lester Sánchez was born in Habana, Cuba, where he studied fine arts at the National Academy of San Alejandro.  In 2001, he moved to Miami, where he received the Wolfson Scholarship for the Arts awarded by Miami-Dade College.  He was awarded First Place jurors’ choice, in the prestigious ‘League for Innovation’ national competition, organized annually for all of art disciplines.  Lester has been the subject of several art shows, grants, and honorable mentions, featured in local and national art magazines, catalogs, and pedagogical book covers.

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Art/c11 – Louis Armstrong

Splendid Summer
Ethan Cornell Oil on aluminum plates nailed mounted on wood with nails
48 x 56 Inches
2017

Ethan Cornell is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received his education at the High School of Art and Design, NYC and the Parsons School of Design. Since graduation he has studied also at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and received a fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. He works professionally as an artist, graphic artist, illustrator, and teacher.
Drawing is the core of his artistic practice, the base of his work in painting, sculpture, video, graphic and digital arts. The central aspects of his work are fictional narrative and working from life: one an act of invention, the other observation of the real. Much of his recent work is concerned with both the epistemology and constitution of things. In a time of fake news, his art investigates the mediated nature of truth and the questions of “how do we know things.” His lifetime interest in popular science, history, and mythology has provided fertile ground for exploring the malleability of memory and the fuzziness of our shared stories and facts. In the last decade he has exhibited his work primarily in New York and California, including shows at Saddleback College, Gaia Gallery, Kentler International Drawing Space and the Art Fair on Governors Island.
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Art - Splendid Summer

Magenta_Paint Skins W/Brush
Acrylic on Acrylic on Panel

Sei Smith

2019

Sei Smith (b. 1990, New York City) studied painting at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. He had his first solo exhibition in 2011 and has since shown both nationally and internationally. In 2012, Smith and his brother founded Apostrophe NYC, an art gallery/curation experiment. They notably staged guerrilla pop-ups in the stairwell of the Whitney, the courtyard at MoMa PS1 and a Brooklyn subway station. Along with his art practice, Sei continues to curate shows/happenings.

Sei Smith’s work from Reflections 1-2 is founded in the concept of phenomenology, a mode of thinking established at the dawn of the twentieth century by Edmund Husserl. Phenomenology emphasizes awareness of one’s own life as life occurs. It suggests that we interact with the phenomena of our world through experience, and that these experiences result in us being people who play, think, feel, reflect. The revelations we form—the ones we find to be most true—occur to us because we choose to participate in life as unique and subjective individuals.

As you consider the course of your own sensory involvement with the work, Smith’s kinship with these ideas becomes apparent. The fluorescent shadows cast over plains of white act as invitations that draw the eye’s attention before sustaining your gaze. An intense quality of focus can be felt in the presence of these works, one that is rarely experienced in our time, as we grow dependent on new forms of communication and technology.

Smith has said that the shapes, shadows, and textures of his Reflections work are unavoidable elements: “But to see is to be attracted, and to be attracted is to desire a kind of unattainable understanding. This is, to me, the beginning of every experience I’ve had with art.”

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Art - Magenta_paint Skins W/brush

MOUNTAIN VIEW 3 Oil on Belgium linen 20 inch diameter 2017, edition 1/1
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Art/c12 – Mountain View 3

Middle Child
Twig Lips
30 x 40 in
Ink and Acrylic on Canvas

Twig Lips is a New York City based artist. Self-taught, she has been painting since 2017, transforming canvas with acrylic, oil, ink, and watercolor.
Her nom de plume is derived from the original source of her inspiration for painting. She began painting lips--the shape of which eventually evolved into her signature flowers that have remained an important part of her work.
Twig Lips intuitively channels her paintings, creating pieces that align with her vision of balance, with each element of her work charged with a dynamic magnetism that creates a sense of harmony and power for the viewer. She is constantly reinventing herself through different techniques, colors, and mediums. Her bold colors paired with delicate details make for a reimagined abstraction, suggesting ideas about the relationship between nature, the metaphysical world, and art. Her rare oil portraits reveal the duality of classic raw emotion and modern influences.

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Art - Middle Child

HE CALLED ME A POOR FELLOW AND A RABBIT (ITALIAN SLANG FOR COWARD). WHO IS THE COWARD? Julia Rivera
ECO-OIL ON WOOD PANEL
22 X 14 INCH
2020

Part of the Julia Rivera MAISON 10 Exhibition YOUR VOTE IS YOUR POWER

THE STAR OF SAN JUAN
Julia Rivera is a talented and well-educated painter who has pleased many art collectors with her daring use of color, the internal rhythms of her compositions, and above all, her playful and refreshing imagery.
In her painting, Rivera, who was born in the Bronx in 1965, and who studied art in Florence, New York, and the School of Plastics Arts of Puerto Rico, creates an attractive, fairy tale universe where carefully chosen objects – clocks, fruit, little toy cars, bottles and elongated chairs – are arranged in order to let us see their essence in a surreal but celebratory manner.
Mallarme pointed out that a good poem has to be enigmatic. I believe that good works also have to possess magic and mystery. A good work of art does not let us know everything. Influenced by Gorky, Miro, Chagall and Matta, and quite aware of what has happened in the field of ‘lite’ neo-figuration during the last three decades, Rivera combines humor and poetry to conceive well balanced scenarios where the mundane and metaphysical establish dialogue about time and the human condition.
Manuel Alvarez Lezama Art Critic
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Art – He Called Me A Poor Fellow And A Rabbit (italian Slang For Coward). Who Is The Coward?

SURRENDER Origami paper, acrylic, glue and wood 48 x 48 inch (122 x 122 cm) 2015-18, edition 1/1
ABOUT CHELSEA HRYNICK BROWNE
Discovered for her unique Kaleidoscope-conjuring creations, artist Chelsea Hrynick Browne has found the ideal outlet to utilize her training in fine art and mathematics.
Described as ‘obsessive detailed repetition’, Chelsea hand-cuts paper into unique intricate patterns over and over again until the layers form a larger abstract ‘painting’. What begins as a precise form evolves into something interpretive, elusive and beautiful.
Chelsea’s work can currently be viewed in the Gramercy Lounge Cibar where she created custom murals and a lighting installation.
Her artwork has also been in permanent hospital collections across the country, including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.
Last January, her work filled Sprint’s Flatiron Art Space curated by Cheryl McGinnis Projects with a snowflake-inspired exhibit.
Instagram: @chelseahrynick
M MAISON 10 has chosen to support 9 charities – the charity chosen for this artwork is Housing Works. If you like, simply tell us which one of these 10 charities you would like to choose at checkout. MAISON 10 will make a 10% donation of the retail cost to your selected charity.

Art/c10 – Surrender

PRESIDENT SUPERDUDE CONFRONTS HIMSELF TED CHAPIN
Mixed media 15 x 11 inch, edition 1/1 2017
Trump suffers an extreme case of narcissistic personality disorder. The potential consequences for the human race of this man’s mental state, now that he has acquired power sufficient to destroy civilization with the push of a button, suggests a story line from a vintage action-hero comic book: the fate of the world at the mercy of an all-powerful villain.
The number one action hero of Trump’s childhood was Superman, who was the leading 1950’s DC Comics character, the first action hero to have a TV series with a large and loyal audience tuning in every week. Fighting for ‘Truth, Justice and the American Way’, Superman’s enemies were an endless progression of comic book villains.
Over the many decades of Superman comics, some of the story lines have featured Superman overwhelmed by evil forces, a rogue villainous Superman who becomes a direct threat to truth, justice and the American way. That rogue genre of Superman comic books provided me a metaphorical stand-in for Trump for my new series ‘The Adventures of President SuperDude’.
In this series I have collaged comic book images of a rogue Superman into wall-hung three-dimensional cartoons composed of typewriter pieces, plastics, and other found objects, mechanically connected with nuts and bolts as well as springs. These machine-like constructions illustrate the dysfunctional, illogical machinery already evident in the nascent Trump administration.
They also foreshadow the likely disasters ahead resulting from the executive branch of the American government headed by a mentally ill man.
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Art   – President Superdude Confronts Himself

DOOR 3 Mixed media on hollow core doors 80 x 30 inch 2005, edition 1/1
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Art/c12 – Door 3

PERPETUAL BURST Hair pins, size variable 40 x 40 inch 2017-18, edition 1/1
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Art/c12 – Perpetual Burst

Eventide Ripples
Samuel Staffan
20 in x 17 in Watercolor on Layered Japanese Paper 2020

Brooklyn based artist exploring our relationship to the natural world, the passing of time and the fragility of memory. Using a range of techniques from a self-developed method of layering and tearing rice paper as a way of “adding some time” onto the paintings to working on Japanese papers while they are completely saturated with water, materiality and texture play a huge role in the work. Using these layered and weathered surfaces the paintings become a pursuit to examine the most extreme fringes of human’s relationship to time, trying to find the eternal, the transient and the infinite in nature. The hazy, half-remembered depictions of the natural world evoke a melancholic spirit but still manage to remain optimistic and hopeful.
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Art - Eventide Ripples

SIMPLE PRESENT MIRA NACHMAN
Archival pigment print on Dbond and plexi glass 22 x 32 inch, edition 8 + 2 artist proofs New York, 2014
In life, as in photography, the light which penetrates through the negatives radiates and creates the positive. The one cannot exist without the other. Mira collects these rays of light into a geometric and harmonic composition. She is traveling throughout the world as a bystander to reality and has gathered her inspiration with time from people, their feelings, desires, disappointments and dreams.
Mira has learned photography over the years through her experience. She responds intuitively to the moment and devotes herself to the sensory experience of photography.
Her images were taken in different parts of the world and are reflecting different periods in the progression of Mira’s photographic language – one might consider them as a quotation of moments she had experienced. Moments which might be passed without paying attention to their existence, Mira is capturing them and revealing their magic.
These images are ambivalent, and do not surrender easily to the viewer’s eyes, they can be interpreted in more than one way.
In this way Mira creates the space for the viewer where he can fill in his personal insights and feelings, it might be regarded as a kind of correspondence with the viewer.
MAISON 10 has chosen to support 9 charities – the charity chosen for this artwork is Housing Works. If you like, simply tell us which one of these 10 charities you would like to choose at checkout. MAISON 10 will make a 10% donation of the retail cost to your selected charity.