Sourcebook: Recent Artist Finds
The team has been on a bit of a treasure hunt to find new-to-us art for a few of our in-progress projects, and we have found extraordinary pieces lately! It’s never a dull work day when you get to curate art that amplifies your designs. In continuation of our #FRsourcebook series, we are featuring artists below whom we’re commissioning and spec’ing for our clients — all in our sophisticated Wine Country, true Fletcher Rhodes style.
mattias de vogel
Through a previous role as Global Concept Designer for Levi-Strauss, Dutch artist Matthias De Vogel was afforded the unique opportunity to travel and work with artisans around the world in their traditional crafts. Returning to Amsterdam Matthias founded his textile lab and studio Fault Lines in 2015, where he experiments with old world methods of textile art to reinterpret for a new world.
CHELSEA FLY
We can’t get over the meditative calm that the unconventional work of artist Chelsea Fly brings to a space. Chelsea imbues her rural south roots into her experimental pieces in non-traditional mediums inspired by “gazing at the passing skies through the pines, hiding under the heavy oaks, and observing how their weathered gestures translate into moods.”
CHRISTIAN HETZEL
German-born, internationally-collected, artist Christian Hetzel focuses on texture and abstract compositions through large-scale mixed media. Inspired by the environment and nature, Christian tries to send his viewers “on a journey of discovery across the painting surface and sensitize him for the few and less in color, structures, cracks and textures.”
LABB
Laurence Bost, known as LABB, explores nature and man’s place within it through the “ubiquitous contrasts such as rough solids and fine lines, opaque and transparencies, light and dark, fine shades or strong color contrasts, solids and voids, the abstract mixed with scraps of figurative.” Because of the amount of relief and fine detail she incorporates into her pieces, one can view them from a distance, then enjoy a completely different experience up close. Additionally, many of her pieces can be rotated according to the owner’s preference and own desired interpretation.
ROB DELAmater
San Francisco artist and Lost Art Salon co-owner Rob Delamater creates abstract compositions through printmaking, painting, and collage. Starting with an idea sparked in the world around him, he draws from his direct experience to harmonize organic shapes and color stories in natural balance. Rob explains, “I think my most successful pieces combine simplicity and the Japanese concept of ‘wabi sabi’ (finding beauty in imperfection).”
Scott kerr
Contemporary abstract artist Scott Kerr knew from an early age that the way in which he saw, connected, and expressed was never going to fit within traditional settings. But it wasn’t until he stumbled upon a piece hanging in a Scottsdale gallery did he understand his calling to create from that perspective. His large format mixed media paintings command a space and invite a viewer to pause and reflect upon their own experience.
Keep an eye out for these in upcoming projects!
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