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Elizabeth Briel

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Artist and paper researcher in Paris - sometimes Hong Kong IG: @ebrielart http://ebriel.com/contact

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi new followers-I'm a visual artist based in Paris (mostly) working in Asia several months/year.
Currently researching Iberian & Ming dynasty tile painting for a 25sqm paper installation of blue jeans and white cotton t-shirts, in the form of azulejo tiles which will be exhibited in Macau, Nov '25.

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · 19h

Newest addition to the bucket list:

Making & Meaning @makingandmeaning.bsky.social · 19h

Artists Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller have left the limelight of the big cities and set up an amazing exhibition of their interactive multi-media works deep in the middle of British Columbia. Definitely worth the journey!
makingandmeaning.substack.com/p/a-voice-a-...
#Canadianart

A Voice, A Song, A Dream

Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse

makingandmeaning.substack.com

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · 4d

OMG beautiful and terrifying. what are they made of?

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for this! Fascinating topic

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 18d

'60 yrs ago Wales gifted a commissioned stained glass window to a community in the US city of Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of a bomb that killed four black girls
John Petts visited Alabama and opted to construct a stained-glass image of a Black Christ.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_W...

stained glass window depicting a black christ

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 20d

My father, rooting about his shelves, found a book he’d inherited from his father. Opened it for the first time. Inside an inscription.

My grandfather, Robert C Miller, was a US airforce metrologist. He developed the first tornado forecast. The inscription is during the development of that forecast

A green hardback of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Inside the book an inscription, in beautiful swooping cursive penmanship:

To Major R.C. Miller

For those moments while you’re waiting for the forecast to verify - a few meditations of another misunderstood genius.

Lt. Mac
August, ‘56

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Colpizen @colpizen.bsky.social · 29d

Ça me rappelle au passage le projet Guilt nostalgia de @ebriel.bsky.social ici :)

www.ebriel.com#/gilt-nostal...

Gilt Nostalgia
"Gilt Nostalgia", embossed handmade paper with pure copper leaf, bamboo scaffolding with construction mesh, LEDs, vintage sudare blinds, 2024

Each blind embossed print the physical record of a meeting between architecture and the artist’s body.

This installation marks a continuing preoccupation with life patterns in two cities: Paris and Hong Kong. These grooves and tiles mark the consciousness of residents in varied ways: our feet, neighborhoods, and identities.

Having been designed for a previous century, they provoke a sense of nostalgia or decay in those of us who live and work among them, a subtext to our lives. Though often ignored, they become an indelible part of our memories.

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks John! This is a great overview

Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Sep 22

This week in the studio: full-on paper production. Rags hang from every surface and dehumidifiers work overtime

pale blue rags hang from wooden shelves next to stacks of papers under a stone ceiling

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · Sep 10

I remember going with my parents (a surgeon and an anesthesiologist) to a museum in France filled with medieval era medical instruments, and when we got to the section on gynecological instruments they were shocked to see that what was used in the 1400s was basically what is used now. Thread.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Sep 10

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes

Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

www.science.org

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Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's World Physical Therapy Day! Shoulder Wheel, oil on canvas by Francis Criss, 1944, commissioned by the US Army and a peculiar kind of masterpiece:

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 25

the best.

Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oooh gorgeous!

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · Aug 17

The curators of the exhibit Chinese officials demanded be censored in Bangkok have fled to the UK and plan to seek asylum, citing fears of retaliation from authorities.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Aug 7

A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!

A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).

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Bryan Hilley @bbhilley.bsky.social · Aug 6

"There is a six-panel folding screen, donated just recently by a Hiroshima family, whose gold expanses are streaked by black rain: the most terrifying abstract painting I have ever seen."

A six panel folding screen streaked by black rain

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you for posting this

Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks for posting this! Now on the list for my next trip

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 4

Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith wrote of this woodblock print "Flower Street, Hong Kong" (c.1944):
"A rather difficult one to print. I could not leave the printer to his own sweet will. I suppose that is why I had so few printed...
There will never be a Flower Street like that again in Hong Kong"

Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 4

Agree. There were some great arts writers. Many have migrated to more image-heavy IG, but discourse there is flakier

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · Aug 4

Perfect — Coffee, Edward Hopper, 1955. ☕

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 4

A tiny, space-age looking Nakagin capsule bathroom

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Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · Aug 3

Gordon Parks' photograph of watermelon, an eerie "dye inbibition" print, ca. 1967-69:

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 3

Would be interesting to know more. Maybe @andybrouwer.bsky.social knows someone who knows something

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Elizabeth Briel @ebriel.bsky.social · Aug 3

It's Sunday morning in Paris and I stream the same radio station I'd paint to late into the night as an art student in Minneapolis where it's just gone 3AM and this world of ours thanks to tech has become so small and gets smaller every year www.jazz88.fm

Jazz88.FM--Twin Cities' Voice for Jazz, Roots Music and Education

Studio Line: 612-529-5236--As a program of the Minneapolis Public Schools, we offer a hands-on educational program focused on broadcasting and production.

www.jazz88.fm

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Aug 2

Remaining Native by Paige Bethmann (Haudenosaunee) is a documentary from POV of a 17 y.o. Native American runner and aspiring collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, future.

Aug 2 Philly + online
#FilmSky

Remaining Native - BlackStar

Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner struggling …

www.blackstarfest.org

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