Bossy color does try to make good on its promises.
In a recent post about Busboys & Poets, that fabulous and socially conscious restaurant/bar/free-trade shop, I mentioned two artists featured in the Mt. Vernon Square location and promised I’d get you the 411.
Well guess what? It’s not two artists, it’s one.
Meet Anna Rose Soevik of ARS Artworks. She’s a British artist who now lives in Bethesda.
She’s responsible for the nifty portraits around the restaurant, such as the one of President Obama above, and the Dalai Lama and Ghandi (and possibly Queen Elizabeth?) below.
But Soevik ALSO did the lyrical, Matisse-like banners and murals.
These are the ones that really interest me. You can look at them for a long time; the longer you look, the more you see. A comparison to Matisse cutouts isn’t actually fair (to Soevik), because her work is layered and more complex…
This multi-panel mural is at the Mt. Vernon Square Busboys:
Here are 4 pieces installed at Busboys & Poets in Shirlington:
And here’s an untitled piece, presumably not installed anywhere:
One artist, not two. You learn something new every day.
Bottom 3 pictures courtesy of ARS Artworks’ website.