I always want to follow a bitterly political post with some eye candy to sweeten things up:
Isabelle and I went to Giant Robot in Los Angeles a few weeks ago to see Susie Ghahremani's exhibit.
This was actually one of the rare instances when our respective nine year old boys did not resent spending a perfectly good summer afternoon on one of their mothers' lofty cultural pursuits. They would tell you themselves that Giant Robot is Awwwwesum only they are presently tied up in school. (Yehhhhaaaa! Yippy yEEEEhhhah! Life is Goooood!)
Back to Susie Ghahremani's precious miniature gouache paintings on wood tiles. Here is my main problem with them: They are like petits fours.
They look like this:
and like this:
They are too darn small and delicious to be satisfied with just one. You have to get a whole wall of them to get the full effect, and by then, well, you're fat. (not sure the comparison holds the road)
This is what the room looked like:
Oh my was this beautiful. This was enchanting. I loved the wooden birdies flocking the ceilings. Here is a close up via Design Sponge:
See. You can't have just one.
I was the last one to know, because obviously, Susie's work is everywhere, but I discovered her via Design Sponge and I knew i had to check her out. Her paintings are precisely like petits fours, or maybe a wooden version of ladurée macarons. The colors especially. The pastoral, naive and retro scenes are filled with an entire menagerie of sweet and tart characters, and the fact that those are painted on beautifully carved, thick wood tiles really adds to the sense that those are precious. I think the Giant Robot exhibit lasts until September 17th, so you have a few more days.
