LS Art Consulting

Episode 24 – Cris Sweeny and Claire Lardner

 

 

 

Cris Sweeny and Claire Lardner, owners of Frameworks in Miami for the last 30+ years, have started a new division in their company that offers one-of-kind art pieces that are becoming increasingly popular every day. Appropriately called LS Art Consulting, Sweeny and Lardner are experts in designing the most captivating, yet appropriate custom art works in the fields of hospitality, cruise lines, design companies, healthcare, commercial, and multi-family developments. 

 

The art installations are so unique that many residential homeowners are now relying on LS Art Consulting to create custom sculptures that underscore their passions. It’s a whole new opportunity that LS Art Consulting is leading the way in. They understand how to create new possibilities that have yet to be defined.

 

The company believes in “Limitless Possibilities”

 

 

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Timeline:

 

1989: FrameWorks is founded by Cris Sweeny in Coconut Grove

1994: Sweeny began to work with her first major hotel projects, The Fairfield Inn by Marriot

1996: Claire Lardner becomes an equal partner and owner

1996: Partnership with Summer Bay Resorts in Orlando, FL began

1998: Partnership with Sandals and Beaches Resorts began

1999: First Cruise Ship with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line / Began creating custom art with 60″ Epson Fine Art Printer

2001: First Ritz Carlton Project

2008: Expanded our commercial and retail business to a 20,000 sq foot production facility in the Bird Road Art District

2010: Partnership with Carnival Cruise Line began

2012: Partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line began

2016: Expanded large format printing capabilities with the Canon Arizona Double Flatbed Printer

2019: Expanded wall covering printing capabilities with the Colorado Printer

2024: The rebranding from FrameWorks to LS Art Consulting

 

Listen to episode 24 of the Art Lovers Forum podcast here –https://www.artloversforum.com/e/episode-24-cris-sweeny-and-claire-lardner/

 

 

The Art Lovers Forum Podcast is also available on popular podcast sites:

 

Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art-lovers-forum-podcast/id1725034621

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5FkkeWv83Hs4ADm13ctTZi

Amazon Music – https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/77484212-60c5-4026-a96f-bd2d4ae955c6

Audible – https://www.audible.com/pd/Art-Lovers-Forum-Podcast-Podcast/B0CRR1XYLZ

iHeartRadio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-art-lovers-forum-podcast-141592278/  

 

 

 

Join Author Eliot Hess and Artist Jayda Knight September 18th at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital for a bird making arts and crafts session sponsored by Fearless Flying Fannie. More details to follow.

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Billy Stritch and Nicolas King gave us a million dollar performance tonight. We will remember it always. The PTown audience said they turned Commercial Street into Broadway. This is what great talent is all about. Thank you from Gail Williams Dawn McCall Greyson Burleigh Derik Burgess, Eliot Hess and yours truly.

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NYTimes: Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56

I was in shock this morning when I read that Susan Wojcicki died. I have always been fascinated by Susan and her sisters. Susan was the eldest of three daughters. Her sister Janet is an epidemiologist and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Her sister Anne co-founded the genetics testing firm 23andMe, and was once married to Mr. Sergey Brin.

Susan rented her small Menlo Park home’s garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Sept. 1998. That was their first office. She is definitely one of the major reasons why YouTube is such a success today.

Susan is the mother of five children. Women everywhere applaud her inspiring accomplishments. I am so sad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/business/susan-wojcicki-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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We are very happy to welcome Joerg Dressler to the Eliot and Lois Hess art collection. In his recent work, Dressler has been juxtaposing still life imagery on landscapes. We found this painting at the Alden Gallery in Provincetown. His paintings show a sculptural element. He breaks through the surface in organic shapes, revealing underlying panels painted in geometric or op art patterns, Dressler says that this work is “personally meaningful. It comes from memories of the past and impressions of Provincetown in the present.” Eliot’s choice.

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Danny Meyer’s Gramercy Tavern Changed the Way New York Eats – Eater NY

https://ny.eater.com/2024/8/7/24213897/gramercy-tavern-anniversary-danny-meyer

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The new Mac mini may be almost as small as the Apple

By Willow Roberts

Apple is planning a new version of the Mac mini using the M4 chip, according to reports from Bloomberg.

It’s expected sometime before the end of the year, and insider information suggests that it will be significantly smaller than the previous generation — almost as small as the Apple TV box.

This will be the first significant redesign of the product since it was overhauled in 2010 under late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

It seems there will be two versions of the new Mac mini, one with the standard M4 chip and one with an M4 Pro chip that has yet to be announced. Like other Pro chips, it’s expected that the M4 Pro will support additional memory and enhanced graphic performance.

Apple has also reportedly tested models of the mini with at least three USB-C ports alongside the power and HDMI ports, and Bloomberg speculates that it will be cheaper to make than the previous model. Whether this will translate to a smaller price tag is yet to be seen.

Mac mini is not the only Mac getting upgraded to the M4 chip, however. If the rumors are true, Apple will be putting an M4 chip in every one of its Macs, and this will be the first time the entire lineup has shared the same chip generation.

The iMac desktop and MacBook Pros with M4 chips could launch as early as this year, with M4 MacBook Airs planned for spring 2025 and Mac Pro and Mac Studio models expected in mid-2025. Whether we’ll truly see M4 MacBook Pros before 2024 ends, however, is currently in question after some cryptic comments during Apple’s recent quarterly earnings call. This is despite assurances by Mark Gurman of Bloomberg that things are still on track for later this year.

The reason for these upgrades could be to make sure the entire Mac lineup benefits from the AI-focused M4 chip, which will enable each model to handle upcoming and future Apple Intelligence features smoothly.

Thank you Robert Fontaine Gallery

Artist Spends 10 Years Drawing His Incredible Adventures Onboard a Cruise Ship

By Jessica Stewart and  Emma Taggart  

Many artists take inspiration from their travels, but Benjamin Sack found a unique way to make his way around the world. For the past decade, Sack has been an artist-in-residence on a Holland American cruise ship. This unique opportunity allows him to soak in architectural details from cities worldwide, which he then incorporates into his detailed pen drawings.

Sack first approached Holland America—a company known for its round-the-world cruises—after he finished university. He pitched a unique idea: an “artist residency” where he’d give drawing classes and lectures to passengers on art related to the ports of call. He also offered to create a large cartographic-style drawing to commemorate the voyage.

“Long story short, they loved the idea and welcomed me aboard, saying it would only happen this one year. Ten years later, I’m now the court artist to King Neptune himself,” he jokingly tells My Modern Met.

Sack now has his own artist studio on board the ship, where he works on his drawings inspired by the journeys around Africa, South America, Antarctica, and beyond. “I’m lucky in that the room comes with a view that’s ever changing,” he says. “Perhaps it’s the best art studio in the world.” At the end of each voyage, he presents the final drawing to the passengers and crew.

The artist meets people from all over the world and from all walks of life while on the ship. “As the ship is very much a city at sea, I feel like a Court Artist of sorts,” he says. “My position onboard is unique in that I’m kind of in the gray zone between passenger and crew member. I have access to both worlds, much like how art is in the real world where all practices and divisions in society overlap.”

Sack captures the incredible scale and complexity of his journeys, as well as the intricate details that define each monochrome place. His unique situation is woven into all of his drawings. The gentle swaying of the ship inevitably influences the lines he draws with his fine liners. His large-scale drawings feature dizzying details, such as architectural renderings that encapsulate the microcosm of a city. Each piece is reminiscent of the mind-bending lithographs and etchings of M. C. Escher.

The rich details of the cities he visits are also omnipresent in his designs. Florence, in particular, is a favorite destination, and its iconic Duomo has been incorporated into many drawings. “Architecture is merely music frozen in time,” Sack poetically articulates. “It also can represent the human form in a myriad of ways, physically (as per the roman architect Vitruvius) and metaphorically: the body is a temple…So, in essence, each building is a character, portrait, or even a note assembled in a symphony of movement and form.”

Sack spends anywhere from a few months to half a year at sea and loves the adventure that awaits him. These adventures weave into his monumental drawings, which are rife with detail. From the regal architecture of Japan’s Himeji Castle to the sleek modern buildings on Singapore’s Marina Bay, his works are a magical mirror of world architecture.

“On land, the drawings are fixed to the studio. On the ship, the studio travels, and the drawing literally records the movement of a journey around the planet—as I draw lines, a little bit of the ship’s movement is recorded; this slight nuance repeated a thousand times breathes a whole different spirit into the work,” he shares. “Through my stateroom window, sunsets and sunrises depending on the ship’s trajectory from every time zone break across the drawing. Each year, I find the drawings become richer and richer. It’s magic!”

Artist Benjamin Sack has spent the last decade as an artist-in-residence on a Holland America cruise ship.

This makes his art studio completely unique.

He then weaves his travel adventures into his monumental pen drawings.

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Reminiscent of old cartographical drawings, they give an aerial view of cities around the world.

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Episode 23 – Laura Shabott

Artist Laura Shabott is a well-known, multi-media artist and actress, but should be the Ambassador for Provincetown, Massachusetts, the New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod. Laura sounds like she is reciting poetry when she describes the small coastal resort which has a year-round population of 4,000 and then grows to 60,000 or higher in the summertime. Often called “PTown, the locale is known for its beaches, harbor, artists, tourist industry, and as a popular vacation destination for the LGBT+ community.

PTown, three miles long, is regarded to be “America’s Oldest Working Art Colony in the United States since 1850. There are now 60 art galleries, a major regional art museum, and many other organizations that provide opportunities for artists including residencies and educational programs.

I met Laura at the Fine Arts Work Center, an art program and residency based in Provincetown. For over five decades, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided time and space for emerging artists, and writers at crucial, early stages of creative development through their seven-month residency program.

Laura’s paintings, collages and drawings have been exhibited at Berta Walker Gallery, the Museum of Art, Ely Center for Contemporary Arts, Four Eleven Gallery, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, (PAAM); Provincetown Monument and Museum (PMPM); and Truro Center for the Arts. Laura has work in the permanent collection of PAAM Museum and will have a solo show. “YOU ONLY GET ONE BODY” on October of 2025 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Boston.

Laura will also return to the stage in “A PART OF THE NOISE” by Carl Kline and directed by Lynda Sturner on August 11, and she will act as Lee Krasner in a performance of LEE AND TENNESSEE directed by David Kaplan on September 14th as part of Forum 24 with the Provincetown Art Gallery Association.

Listen to episode 23 of the Art Lovers Forum podcast here – https://www.artloversforum.com/e/episode-23-laura-shabott/

The Art Lovers Forum Podcast is also available on popular podcast sites:

Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art-lovers-forum-podcast/id1725034621

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5FkkeWv83Hs4ADm13ctTZi

Amazon Music – https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/77484212-60c5-4026-a96f-bd2d4ae955c6

Audible – https://www.audible.com/pd/Art-Lovers-Forum-Podcast-Podcast/B0CRR1XYLZ

iHeartRadio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-art-lovers-forum-podcast-141592278/

The big opening night for the 12×12 Exhibition and Silent Auction at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Prices start at $125.00.