{"id":4157,"date":"2013-02-07T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:29:37","slug":"matthew-craven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/matthew-craven\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Matthew Craven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ancient Pleasures<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is a collection of collaged pieces from artist Matthew Craven<\/a>\u00a0masterfully combing black & white imagery, hand-drawn patterns and daubs of pink. Matthew transforms primitive structures into compelling graphic pieces of art.<\/p>\n

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Ancient Pleasures\u00a0is a collection of collaged pieces from artist Matthew Craven\u00a0masterfully combing black & white imagery, hand-drawn patterns and daubs of pink. Matthew transforms primitive structures into compelling graphic pieces of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,281],"tags":[37,125,669,1878],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-matthew-craven","tag-mixed-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-153","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6020,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/matthew-korbel-bowers\/","url_meta":{"origin":4157,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Matthew Korbel-Bowers","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Offering a bit of visual stimulation today with the design work of Matthew Korbel-Bowers\u00a0whose four favorite things are California, Design, The Ocean and Eggs Benedict.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/artist\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/secretsurfmap002-matthewkorbelbowers.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/secretsurfmap002-matthewkorbelbowers.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/secretsurfmap002-matthewkorbelbowers.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7651,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/artist-kennedy-james\/","url_meta":{"origin":4157,"position":1},"title":"Artist: Kennedy James","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a few pieces from a collection by Kennedy James called Serial Bondage. 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