to art, I don’t think I share it. I love to see the pieces on the wall and I love when they’re aesthetically pleasing. That doesn’t mean I’m looking for something pretty to match the drapes, but they’re things that I end up living with for a very long time, and frankly I want to be able to look at them over and over again. Looking at the last half dozen pieces I’ve acquired, they all feel like they come from the same family. As time goes on, I find myself taking less and less of an academic approach to art and more of a gut level approach. I either like it or I don’t. In the past month, I’ve added 4 new pieces to the collection by stumbling upon the work of Sidney Pink (www. sidneypink.com), Sarah Ferone (www. sarahferone.com), Lisa Hanawalt (www. lisahanawalt.com), and Matt Furie (www. mattfurie.com). For me collecting is an
intensely personal experience. I don’t go into it thinking about how it will look with my furniture or whether or not it’ll be a good investment. In a way, they’re like the boxes in my garage filled with comic books, old toys and other scraps of my childhood. Jeff Hurlow studied Art Studio at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has designed and art directed movie posters, print ads and websites for the likes of Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Disney, Columbia Pictures, Universal, First Look Pictures and Napster, and until recently the Director of User Experience Design for Yahoo!. Jeff ’s drawings have been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. His online home is Dosmasks.com. FA B R I K
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