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Wednesday Woman: Tal Shochat
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Tal ...

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Apr 17

Wednesday Woman: Tal Shochat
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Tal Shochat is an Israeli photographer born in Netanya in 1974.
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Shochat attended the WIZO France Art High School in Tel Aviv, before studying art at the Hamidrasha Art College in Beit Berl from 1995-1999.
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Shochat’s photographic work questions the boundary between nature and artifice. She stages figures and objects to create images laden with symbolism and mystery.
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Her most famous works are photographs of five different fruit trees that grow in Israel — peach, almond, pomegranate, apple, and persimmon — against cloth backdrops. To create these images, she cleaned every branch and leaf before shooting the trees at their peak ripeness against a black background.
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The colossal black velvet backdrops Shochat places behind her subjects gives the images a dreamy, surreal quality. At the same time, they exude an earthiness and sensuality that recalls biblical references — The Song of Songs, the Garden of Eden, Paradise Lost.
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Her staged theatrical photographs of solitary trees and everyday subjects blur the lines between reality and imagination.
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Shochat has exhibited her work in solo gallery shows in Tel Aviv and New York. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Israel Museum.

WXY Studio (@wxystudio), in partnership with SITU ...

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Apr 17

WXY Studio (@wxystudio), in partnership with SITU (@situ_fabrication @situ_nyc), recently unveiled guidelines as part of Dining Out NYC, NYC’s permanent outdoor dining program.
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The "streeteries" that served as such a vital pandemic lifeline for restaurants were mostly improvised structures and frequently caused problems with trash and traffic. In August, Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation legalizing outdoor dining sheds permanently. In February, the city launched Dining Out NYC, which provides guidelines for building, maintaining and operating restaurant sheds. The firms WXY Studio and SITU collaborated to develop four standard templates that any restaurant can use to design and build their own streeteries.
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Prototypes for the sheds have been constructed at four different NYC restaurants: @sundaytosundaynyc on the LES, @bodrumnyc on the UWS, and @wariquenyc and @dawasnyc in Queens.
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Read more via the link in bio about WXY and SITU's solution to outdoor dining in @dezeen, @bloomberg, @timeoutnewyork, and @curbed. Thank you to @ben_dreith, @kriston_capps, @amber.sutherlandnamako, and #ianvolner for covering this story.

So much of the art I love is a celebration of ...

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Apr 17

So much of the art I love is a celebration of nature, and I find Sandra Allen's intricate pencil drawings of tree trunks to the be the ultimate love letter to the natural world.
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"Flux" | Pencil on paper | 53 x 53 inches | 2016
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@sandraallenartist #sandraallen @winterhouseprojects #winterhouseprojects

So much of the art I love is a celebration of ...

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Apr 17

So much of the art I love is a celebration of nature, and I find Sandra Allen's intricate pencil drawings of tree trunks to the be the ultimate love letter to the natural world.
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"Flux" | Pencil on paper | 53 x 53 inches | 2016
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@sandraallenartist #sandraallen @winterhouseprojects #winterhouseprojects

Wednesday Woman: Katt Both
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Apr 10

Wednesday Woman: Katt Both
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Katt Both was a German photographer, furniture designer, and architect.
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Born in a small town in central Germany, Both studied furniture design at the Bauhaus from 1924 to 1928 under the Hungarian painter and photographer László Moholy-Nagy. She also studied in the carpentry workshop, run by Marcel Breuer.
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While the founding director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, promised equal treatment for men and women, many of the women who enrolled in the school felt that true equality didn’t exist there. Both said about her studies at the Bauhaus, “We learned nothing, we only strengthened our character.”
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Nevertheless, Both utilized the close network of Bauhaus avant-garde creatives to establish her career in architecture and furniture design. After finishing her studies in Dessau, she worked with the Luckhardt brothers’ architecture firm in Berlin. In March 1929, she was hired by Otto Haesler in Celle — the firm’s first woman architect.
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Both was also a photographer. Almost all the Bauhaus artists dabbled in photography, in addition to design and architecture. They used to medium to document, both casually and purposefully, the Bauhaus’ radical ideas and vision.
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Both’s photography work was experimental, incorporating elements from advertising and still life. Her black and white images capture household objects and products like cigarettes and playing cards.
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After WWII, Both moved to Kassel, where she designed and built her own house. She lived there until the end of her life in 1985.

Wednesday Woman: Carol Ross Barney
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Apr 3

Wednesday Woman: Carol Ross Barney
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“Public space shouldn’t be thought of as a gift. It should be an expectation.”
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Carol Ross Barney is an American architect born in Chicago, Illinois in 1949. She studied architecture at the University of Illinois and enlisted in the Peace Corps immediately after graduating from college. Assigned to Costa Rica, she worked with the National Park Service on projects to protect coral reefs, restore parks, and design worker housing.
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Returning to Chicago after the Peace Corps, she joined an architecture firm and worked on the restoration of the Chicago Public Library and improvements to the Post Office.
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Barney was a founding member of Chicago Women in Architecture in 1973 and started her own practice in 1981. Awarded a fellowship from the University of Illinois, Barney was able to study the post war planning and rebuilding of European cities from 1983-84. One of her studio’s first notable projects was the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the Murrah Federal Building after a domestic terrorist attack.
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Barney was the recipient of the 2023 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. Barney’s studio is renowned for its expertise in civic space design and dedication to creating exceptional public spaces. From community facilities to academic and research buildings, as well as innovative transit stations and urban places and spaces, Carol’s work has left a lasting impact on Chicago and beyond.
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Barney has been teaching an advanced Design Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over thirty years, continuously sharing her belief in the transformative power of the built environment on our daily lives.

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I ...

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Mar 27

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I wanted to highlight the work of five influential, but often-overlooked, women designers and architects: Jane Drew, Lina Bo Bardi, Norma Merrick Sklarek, Eileen Gray, and Anna Castelli Ferrieri.

So lucky to have time with this crew (missing ...

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Mar 27

So lucky to have time with this crew (missing @benkubany) seeing a few places that have been on our lists for a long time.

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