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Thursday, April 23, 2009

20 x 200 - by Lauren DiCioccio

20 x 200 is a web site that offers affordable limited edition art. I try and swing by weekly to see what's new and found these pieces evening.

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Vogue JUL07:pg145 (Ripeness is All)
by Lauren DiCioccio

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Vanity Fair MAY08:pg269 (and, incredibly, looking not a day older)
by Lauren DiCioccio

About the process:
Fashion magazines are the source materials for my series color codification dot drawings. I make each piece on a sheet of frosted mylar laid over a magazine page. After assigning a color to every letter in the alphabet (numbers are in grayscale, 0=white and 9=black), I apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page. Each drawing I make has a different color codification, and therefore a different palette. The resulting painting is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout — like a system of Braille for the color inclined.

I'm obsessed.
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3 comments:

  1. Mademoiselle JulieApril 24, 2009 at 5:53 AM

    Very pretty! I like the concept too & might have to play w/it myself! :) Cheers, Julie

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  2. lindsey clareApril 25, 2009 at 2:03 AM

    very cool! i love the idea of codes in art. it's formulaic, but so beautiful.

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  3. And KathleenApril 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM

    I think it's interesting to think that typography itself is a code - formulaic and beautiful and a piece of art.

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