{"id":4960,"date":"2013-03-21T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:57","slug":"margery-amdur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/margery-amdur\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Margery Amdur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This piece from Margery Amdur<\/a> is made from cosmetic sponges and pigment, brilliant!!! I would be so tempted to push my hands into this squishy piece. I also love Margery’s resin pieces, similiar to reverse glass painting. The colors are collaged with found imagery creating a jumbled paint-by-numbers feel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This piece from Margery Amdur is made from cosmetic sponges and pigment, brilliant!!! I would be so tempted to push my hands into this squishy piece. I also love Margery’s resin pieces, similiar to reverse glass painting. The colors are collaged with found imagery creating a jumbled paint-by-numbers feel.\u00a0<\/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":[16,281,70],"tags":[37,125,824,1878,1868],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-margery-amdur","tag-mixed-media","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1i0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3951,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/lena-wolff\/","url_meta":{"origin":4960,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Lena Wolff","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Inspired by the shapes in traditional American quilts, Lena Wolff\u00a0collages each piece with paper and hand-cut painted pieces of watercolor and gouache or simply designs them with pencil. 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