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The Poppy Collective features the work of emerging artists from around the world. Get to know us by reading our community board of writings & musings.

Support our artists by shopping our carefully curated selection of art and fashion.

07/08/2022

Figgy Boi 🕺🏻
by Olivia Vining
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05/17/2022

🔴 It’s all in the details! 🔴 check out our beautifully crafted vintage finds, available now at thepoppycollective.com!

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05/08/2022

✨CONGRATULATIONS to the super talented Emily Furr on her show, Porch Pollen, on view at Public Works Art Center!! ✨

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05/01/2022

✨🌸 Mother’s Day is just around the corner! 🌸✨

Give her the gift of art! ➡️ thepoppycollective.com

04/02/2022

Celebrate spring with these mini prints by Rebecca Pempek • each piece is a print of a hand-cut collage • 4x6”, signed by artist 🌸
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03/27/2022

THIS JUST IN! 💫 New series by Grace Drake, “The Time is Now” • The collection features 10 paintings that represent renewed energy, fresh starts, shedding winter skin, and embracing all the light that spring brings. • Hang them as as diptychs, or groups of 4 to fully celebrate their stories of color, negative space, and layered details. • Shop the collection at thepoppycollective.com ✨

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03/01/2022

✨Artist Spotlight : Elsie Campbell ✨

“In my work I explore the relationships we have with ourselves. I am particularly interested in gender, sexuality, and difficult experiences and how those features are processed and affected by time. Ultimately, I am curious about how that interplay informs self-conception. Our bodies often seem like an avenue for our internal self to meet with the external world, so I find much of my work is informed by explorations of the body. In the vein of time and experiences, the body is, in a way, a memoir of what we have faced.

I find myself drawn to materials that lend themselves to unpredictability and fragility, perhaps because they mirror the delicate nature of the relationships we have with ourselves. I am particularly interested in using materials that carry with them preconceived notions; I like to twist and repurpose materials with connotative baggage like soap, pins and needles, ashes, fresh fruit, eggshells, poisonous plants, and lipstick. I have an enduring interest in using lipstick as a medium both for painting and as a substance in my performances; the connotations of femininity and idealization as well as self image and disguise can more easily enter my work when I use lipstick as a medium. There is a visceral power to being forced to use and misuse materials in all of my pieces, an inherent curiosity and discomfort. As much as my art informs my materials, my materials inform my art.

I work in two dimensional styles, such as painting and drawing (sometimes with unconventional materials), three dimensional sculpture and installation, and performance based work.”

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02/21/2022

~ Artist Spotlight Series ~ featuring Julia Vining ~

Julia Vining is a mixed media artist whose work centers around the human consumption and its impact on ecosystems and biodiversity. Julia graduated with a degree in art and environmental studies from Davidson College and currently works as a designer at Jordan. At the start of the pandemic, Julia started The Poppy Collective as a way for artists to creatively connect and share inspiration in a time of isolation. The collective then grew into a platform for those artists to sell their artwork online and expand their audience via social media. One of her biggest passions is supporting the creative pursuits of other emerging artists 💫 Thank you for supporting all of the artists here at The Poppy Collective!

xoxo
Julia Vining

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02/05/2022

Paige Greeley received a degree in Fine Arts from Endicott College and is currently working towards an MFA in Painting + Drawing at Ohio University.

In her current work, she examines the role of misogyny in the depiction of women in America, particularly the social construct of beauty-as-currency. Drawing on her own personal experience and research, she explore the ways that feminine beauty is culturally defined and the dangers arising from this obsessive and limiting view. Despite five decades of social activism, popular culture continues to depict women as beautiful, hopeless victims. As women make progress toward greater equality, the patriarchy has countered with strategies designed to maintain control. One tactic, discussed in the literature, is to set impossibly high standards for beauty, forcing women to devote enormous amounts of time and money in a struggle to meet society’s expectations. The objective of her paintings and embroidery is to raise awareness of the persistent debasement of women in Western culture, including erotized female victimization and violence. She examines the biological argument for the evolution of this behavior, the overwhelming social pressure to conform, the subjugation of women by the patriarchy, and women’s complicity. Working from experience on a r**e crisis hotline and her own exploitation, Greeley creates visceral, figurative oil paintings that incorporate labor-intensive, tight-stitch embroidery to highlight the twisted representation of women in media, the damage it inflicts, and the perennial costs of beauty-as-currency.

Greeley remains committed to addressing the abuse of women in American society and has worked with Nasty Women Exhibitions throughout the U.S. She has exhibited her paintings at Last Rites and Booth Gallery in New York City, The Dark Arts Emporium in Long Beach, California, The Photographic Resource Center in Boston, a solo show at Local 188 in Portland, and at Ganzo Gallery in Italy.

02/04/2022

Gabrielle White is a 21 year old artist currently studying visual arts at Université du Québec à Montréal. Her passion for clay and sculpture inspired her to start her own online small business in 2019, in which she sells handmade items such as earrings, necklaces, clothing, prints and more. She specializes in polymer clay miniatures with her funky and colourful designs and has started her journey with graphic design by experimenting with illustration and digital drawings that she uses for her logos and other branding.
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Check out her available pieces at thepoppycollective.com! ✨
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01/29/2022

Meet Fangyu Ma! ✨✨✨

Fangyu Ma is a Chinese illustrator and designer based in Atlanta. She’s currently studying illustration and pursuing her M.F.A at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).

Most of her artworks are created digitally. She also loves exploring and applying different media and materials in her work to vividly illustrate her story. People describe her work as bright and whimsical.

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01/18/2022

My name is Olivia and I am a creator at The Poppy Collective! I am currently a culinary instructor and artist in queens. My passion for food is reflected in my art. I have been working on a series called ‘Reflections on Food’ which just released jan 1 2022.

I love finding the complex beauty in the things that nourish us. Thus this collection was born! All of my art is made on recycled or repurposed surfaces to reduce waste.
Thank you for taking the time read this and get to know me! I hope to inspire all to follow their creative passions.
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