The New York Times’ today has an article about last week’s Gowanus Art studio tour  and Artsicle (love the name), an online business that rents inexpensive art on the cheap.

Artsicle caters to newbie collectors with small budgets, limited art knowledge and “no appetite for the intimidating atmosphere at many established art galleries.” Artsicles’s Alex Tryon is pictured here viewing a beautiful beautiful painting by Park Slope artist Kit Warren. 

About her work, Kit Warren writes:

My paintings are microcosms—worlds in miniature. Earlier pieces explore the landscape of the body in microscopic detail.  More recent work moves from behind the microscope and hovers far above the world.  Whether looking inside or out, at blood cells or land mass, my work examines the relationship between scale and pattern. Small patterns intimate the behavior of larger ones; repetition unifies.