ArtFriday: Tiffany Horan

Posted by Pete on May 22, 2009 at 11:03 am.

I had no doubt in my mind who I wanted to exhibit for the new ArtFriday. I’ve been wanting to put Tiffany Horan’s stuff on here for a while. She was part of the ArtFriday social network but went to Bahrain before she could submit anything.

The other reason for wanting to display Tiffany’s art is that she is still a student and we’re all about the future here at Newcurator. When she’s a successful artist, I want to be able to say she was on ArtFriday. And she will be successful.

Considering the variety of things Tiffany has turned her hand to; photography, sculpture, drawing, video art, it’s rare to see the development of such a mature sense of direction and style in one so young. In each piece she does, you can see her crafting the simplicity of a powerful statement without resorting to alienating cheap tricks that I see so often in young artists. I doesn’t surprise me that Tiffany also describes herself as a writer.

You can find Tiffany Horan at her blog, her twitter, and her flickr.

Bag 4 Life Sculpture © Tiffany Horen. All rights reserved.

Bag 4 Life Sculpture. © Tiffany Horan. All rights reserved.

Bahrain 2009. © Tiffany Horen. All rights reserved.

Bahrain 2009. © Tiffany Horan. All rights reserved.

Formby. © Tiffany Horen. All rights reserved.

Formby. © Tiffany Horan. All rights reserved.

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3 Comments

Frankie Roberto says:

22 May, 2009 at 11:52 am

Man, those thumbnails are small… ;-)
Pete says:

22 May, 2009 at 12:01 pm

That’s intentional. Means you have to click them to see on Tiffany’s own sites and makes copyright a bit less of an issue.
Tiffany Horan says:

23 May, 2009 at 11:07 am

A truely wonderful post. Thank you so much! :)!

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