A Brief History of Sketchbooks
From Da Vinci's flying machine sketches and daily wardrobe lists to Delacroix's intimate drawings in theaters and harems, sketchbooks then and now provide a window into an artist's private world.
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Catching up With: Peter Stankiewicz
Peter Stankiewicz is a sculptor who knows exactly how to mix form and color. This week we would like to introduce you to the bookish charms, artistic inspirations, and unique interests of the artist himself!
New York City Street Artists
New York has one of the most prominent street art scenes in the world, and the city's walls are constantly in flux. With the artwork regularly changing and many players on the grid, it can be hard to know...
Catching up With: Dean West
Surrealist guru Dean West creates staged photographs that will blow your mind. His work ranges from serene beach scenes to creative digital manipulations, both of which are breathtakingly clear and uniquely inspiring. This week we chatted with him about...
New York City Public Art: Anish Kapoor
New York City is known for its active and booming art scene, and the public art here is no exception. Some of the most successful artists in the world are commissioned to do works in public spaces. From Claes Oldenburg to Jeff...
Catching up With: Adam Lupton
This week we chatted with Adam Lupton about his animosity towards the NYC subway and his passionate love for gelato (yes, please!). The Brooklyn-based artist gave us erudite and personal answers that provide unique insights about his body of work and the mental processes...
Catching up With: Linda Colletta
We are thrilled to add Connecticut-based artist Linda Colletta to the Sugarlift roster! This week we chatted with her about the moment she realized she was destined to be an artist and the intimate nature of her work. Check out...
Top Interior Designer Instagrams
With summertime around the corner and spring cleaning well underway, we are feeling tired of our spaces and desperate to refresh them with a new look (and some great new art)! Whether you are looking to revamp your entire apartment or...
Three Gallery Picks for This Weekend
Across New York City from Chelsea to the Upper East Side, there are plenty of gallery shows open this month that are visually striking, mentally challenging, and nostalgically playful. We selected three of our favorites that illustrate a slice of the...
Catching Up With: Miles Yoshida
This week we caught up with our resident hand drawing expert, Miles Yoshida. Among the topics discussed, Miles told us about playing with an 1,800 pound mass of clay, cooking the perfect Hawaiian cuisine, and scoring the unicorn of used cars. ...
Catching Up With: Amanda Scuglia
New York City-based Amanda Scuglia loves her cats, sweets, and camping! This week the multi media artist gave us the inside scoop on artist residencies she has received, her favorite piece at the Met, and which astrological phenomenon she's headed out...
Catching Up With:
Sabrina Barrios
Meet Sabrina Barrios, a Brooklyn-based Brazilian artist, whose interest in the perception of reality results in some remarkably unique installations. We caught up with her about her love of Brazilian music, relatable Netflix binges, and interest in creating art across...
Top 5 Instagrammers to Watch During Frieze Weekend: 5/6 & 5/7
Frieze Art Fair is finally here in New York! We can't wait to see what's in store at this year's contemporary art fair... or better yet (everyone's favorite part) which pieces gain internet notoriety and are the most Instagrammed! From...
Five Shows to See this Weekend (Plus Three for Good Measure): 4/29 & 4/30
April showers bring May flowers? Am I noticing a brightly colored trend in this week's gallery must-sees? In-house gallery hop expert Alex Allenchey presents his list of the top five shows to see this weekend. ... plus three extra for...
Catching Up With:
Caitlin Masley
Caitlin Masley is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work focuses on built forms, ruins, monuments and topographies in their moments of change. We caught up with her to hear about her love of architecture and disregard for the pressures of art...
Catching Up With:
Robert von Bangert
Robert von Bangert is an Ohio-based painter whose work evokes early 20th century modern painting in a fresh, contemporary way. We caught up with him to hear about what drawings give him instant inspiration, the only music he's allowed to...
Ten Shows to See This Weekend: 3/25 & 3/26
It's the first weekend of spring! What better way to celebrate than a weekend full of great art? In-house gallery hop expert Alex Allenchey presents his list of top ten shows to see this weekend. If you need a break...
Catching Up With:
Thomas Hammer
Thomas Hammer's body of work includes ink paintings inspired by the loose strokes of post-war abstract expressionism and acrylic paintings which feature strict geometric forms. We caught up with him to hear about how he developed a unique tool to...
Armory Week Roundup 2017
That’s a wrap! Another Armory Week in the books. There was a whole lot of art to see in New York in the last several days. In case you didn’t see it all (how could anyone?!) here’s a roundup of...
Ten Shows to See This Weekend: 3/4 & 3/5
As we enter March, our in-house gallery hop expert Alex Allenchey shares with us his top ten shows to check out this weekend. Take a walk through some of these quiet but incredible gallery exhibitions in between attending all of...
Armory Week Art Fair Guide 2017
It’s that time of year again, New York. Armory Week is finally upon us, and as the international art world prepares to descend upon our fair city, we thought we’d provide you with a little briefing of the most popular...
Catching Up With:
Kiki Slaughter
Atlanta-based Kiki Slaughter creates large-scale abstract canvases by exploring the fundamentals of painting: pouring paint, scraping it and layering it. Learn about her routine, balancing her painting with motherhood and about her latest purchase, a very specific mushroom-based superfood. Check...
Ten Shows to See This Weekend: 2/25 & 2/26
This week, in-house gallery hop expert Alex Allenchey presents his list of top ten shows to see this weekend for the first time. There's something for everyone on the list below, starting with Alex's top pick. If you're gonna see...
Catching Up With:
Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo
If you ask us, Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo is one of the most talented young painters we've recently encountered. A native of Colombia and New York City transplant, Esteban attended the New York Academy of Art. After a few years in the...
Your Art Weekend:
Chelsea Galleries
In these depths of New York winter, we could all use a little more color in our lives. That’s the theme underlying our five selections for Chelsea galleries to stop by for Your Art Weekend in February. Big, bright colorful...
Catching Up With: Anna Church
We would love to introduce Anna Church, who is one of the most recent artists to join Sugarlift's vibrant community. Getting to know Anna we learned that she is both an artist and a mom, a sculptor and a photographer ("Sculptographer!"),...
Catching Up With: Natale Adgnot
Natale Adgnot is a talented artist who recently relocated from Brooklyn to Tokyo. Learn below on how it has affected her studio practice and her life. And learn about the hidden (culinary) gems of Japan. LIVES & WORKS IN Tokyo,...
Museum Shop Holiday Gift Guide 2016
The Holidays are upon us! Finally. This year has been interesting to say the least and it’s time to wrap up 2016 in a pretty bow and say farewell. Now crank up the holiday music, pour yourself a cup a hot chocolate, finish that Facebook rant and take a look through our annual handpicked NYC Museum Gift Shop gift guide, because nothing says quirky and unique like a gift from a museum.
Catching Up With: Alison Cooley
Alison Cooley is a mark maker. Her canvases are filled with them, marks working together to tell stories of "interactions and entanglements". Her recent work explores the many connections between gestures and memory. We were lucky enough this week to...
Catching Up With: Patricia Vargas
This week we are catching up with Patricia Vargas, an artist based in Chino, California whose abstract creations convey positivity and vibrance through her use of colors and shapes. A painter since the age of ten, Patricia is the founder of Parima...
What is a print?
It’s Print Week here in New York, so that means it’s time to focus on a lesser known and definitely under-appreciated form of making art, which is called printmaking. Now I’m sure most of you have already closed your browsers or...
Catching Up With:
Vicky Barranguet
This week we're catching up with Vicky Barranguet, an Uruguayan-born abstract painter based in East Harlem. When you first walk into her studio, you're overwhelmed by the scale, color and movement of her work. It's like walking into a symphony with...
Catching Up With: Tom Flanagan
We recently caught up with Tom Flanagan, a painter based in Yarmouth, Maine. When we first look at his paintings, we think color (!!!), Cubism, texture, and how among all of this chaos is there such harmony? Tom paints like a jazz...
Catching Up With: Helen Robinson
We got an inside look into the inspiration behind the young and talented Helen Robinson, Sugarlift's newest painter! She regales us with life hacks like the best way to keep a tangible road map and how to get as many sprinkles on your ice...
Catching Up With: Matthew Johnson
We are thrilled to welcome a new artist to Sugarlift and to get a glimpse into the intricacies of his life and work! Photographer Matthew Johnson let us in on his love affair with New York, detailing how he...
Your Art Weekend: Pergamon at the Met
This weekend we’re heading to the Met to check out Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World before it closes for good on Sunday the 17th! And while we’re there we’ll head up to the roof to have...
Your Art Weekend: LES Gallery Hop
Ah, summer. The season of sunshine, vacations, and, in the art world, group shows. Take advantage of galleries gearing down for the warmer months by scoping out their expansive shows featuring countless artists. If anything it’s an opportunity to find...
New York City Art Guide July 2016
The summer months can start to get a bit drab, as you sit in a crowded subway car with broken air conditioning dreaming wistfully of a faraway beach. Let us be your art spirit guide this July and we'll show you the what's what...
Catching Up With:
Dina Brodsky
The lovely Dina Brodsky joins us this week and gives us some insight into the magic behind her work and her collective to #drawanyway. The artist continues to wow the world and her 150k Instagram following with her art, while also...
Your Art Weekend:
The Met Breuer
Catching Up With:
Svetlana Rabey
Today we are catching up in the studio with Moscow-born artist Svetlana Rabey. Svetlana, a trained dancer, brings movement and music into each and every one of her artworks.
Catching Up With:
Heather Amistad
We couldn't wait to catch up with Hawaii-born, Portland-based photographer Heather Amistad! Heather's work has been featured in Street Dreams Magazine and more, and there is something about her style that is SO fresh. Check it out for yourself, and...
Catching Up With:
Omar Z. Robles
We couldn't wait to catch up with Omar Z. Robles, NYC photographer extraordinaire. With his electrifying photographs of dancers around the city, Omar has gained quite the social media following--and with good reason. We are so excited to be working with Café Grumpy to hang Omar's photography in the Café Grumpy Grand Central location, up now until March 15th. (Bonus: You can shop the Café Grumpy + Omar collection now). Read on for more about Omar's work, and how his training as a mime helps him be a better photographer!
2015 Museum Shop Gift Guide
The stockings are hung, the tree is lit, and you've crossed almost everyone off your list. ALMOST everyone. Well, put your mind at ease -- we've got the perfect gifts at any price point for the art-lovers in your life, all...
Your Art Weekend: Rachel Rose at the Whitney
The Whitney Museum of American Art has become somewhat of a boisterous younger cousin to Disney World. The long lines for admission to the museum remind me of waiting forty-five minutes to ride Thunder Mountain. The Renzo Piano- designed galleries are bursting with colors and media and tourists. Rachel Rose’s video installation, however, is worth the noise.
Street Dreams Magazine Issue 008: Recap
Last night's Street Dreams Magazine launch party at Be Electric, fresh off the #SDwalks photo walk on Wednesday afternoon, were the perfect way to celebrate such a fresh publication. With over 200 at the photo walk and a completely sold out...
Catching Up With:
Susan Inglett
We couldn't wait to learn more about Susan Inglett, founder of Susan Inglett Gallery, I.C. Editions, and the Editions/Artists' Book Fair. Check out this week's "Catching Up With" to learn more about Susan, and to get a preview of the gallery's current show, Benjamin Degen's Where We Live.
Your Art Weekend: Frank Stella at the Whitney
In Frank Stella's latest major museum show in New York, the third of his 57-year career, now installed in the Whitney’s fifth floor and outdoor terrace, the full gamut of the prolific artist’s oeuvre is on display; and will undoubtedly wow you with its variety and unusual evolution. Check out this week’s #YourArtWeekend to read more about Frank Stella, and make sure to check out the show before it closes on February 7, 2016.
Catching Up With:
Joey Herring
We were so excited to catch up this week with Joey Herring, Assistant Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. With crazy advances in technology, the worlds of both photography and museums have...
Your Art Weekend: Morbid Anatomy Museum
In keeping with our dedication to all things Halloween this week, we’re heading to the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brookyn’s Gowanus neighborhood for a dose of creepy in our art weekend. Giving curious oddities and gruesome artwork a place...