I have a few images of my students from this semester's Student Exhibition! (I still have a few more to take next week) I dragged each class down there and made them pose in front of their work, because that's who I am. ;)
And here is a sneak peek of the Cardboard Chair assignment that is due next week!
Recently, my Three-Dimensional Art & Design students created these very colorful large scale pieces. I'll update the third, Monday's class, when it is completely finished, but here's what they've been cooking so far in my classes...
challenge:Color Coding key concepts: art as everyday, collaborative, high relief, color, mind mapping, pattern, visual organization, observation
Students are asked to create a collaborative piece of art by designing a color coded system from the found objects they collect. In this 4 week process, students focus on seeing objects beyond their normal function, embracing color and pattern, and creating a sense of community and a shared investment in artmaking. artists/resources/inspiration
Christine Buckton Tillman & Lisa Solomon, CHROMA, Gallery CA (images/article)
Emily Blincoe, (Colossal, images/articles)
Raoul Servais, Chromophobia (animated film, 1966)
Thursday's class!
Thursday's finished piece
detail
Friday's class!
Friday's finished piece!
Monday's class actually created their piece using contrasting colors (background versus object) so that should be something new and different. In the meantime, I put the two of these in the display case, side by side, unfortunately I ran out of room while simultaneously taking over someone else's space.
What can I say, it's a gift...
...and just for fun, here is Chromophobia, the 1966 animated film from artist, Raoul Servais.
Not sure about these...the why of it. Meh, they're fine, but I think this is an exercise in understanding, again, that I don't like using pristine, new materials...or acrylics, really.
ETA: No less than three of these are different already, only a month later. Two of them were completely repurposed...I think I need about a year with a piece of art before I understand its true purpose.
I took my exhibition down from the walls of Jubilee Arts yesterday. I wasn't really prepared, but was in the neighborhood; but I knew it was feasible based on what is laying around in my car, as far as bags and such. It was touchy work getting the tape off of some of the paper, but it was altogether one of the easiest de-installs I have done. I think this was a new record for me!
Although I did have to use my tweezers to get some of the rogue embedded pins out (Jubilee does not have an in-house pliers = totally weird). Those ball pin heads often pop right off, even if you are trying real hard not to let that happen; some just have a mind of their own. Anyway, I got those little suckers with my tweezers. Ye shall not outwit me, de-installation!
And let's all say a fond goodbye to the piece, Cut...
...as it has a new home with artist, teacher, and all-around extraordinary gal, Cinder Hypki. I could not be any more pleased that it will live with her!
Because of my general feeling of loss and emptiness, I decided to apply to a few more solo exhibitions this week. This time, I submitted my work-in-progress series, Cog (the new mandalas). I applied to two solos total thus far, so I hope to get at least one of them and hope to find a few more places to apply. *fingers crossed*
Now that that's out of the way, I will return to the drudgery of writing for allthegrantsfellowshipsand awards. Dangit!
My solo exhibition, Eskhara, will debut at Jubilee Arts on Saturday, August 8th, with a reception from 4-6 pm. The show runs through September 1st, so please stop by and check it out!
Eskhara explores the psychological precursors to
physicality through a series of watercolor paintings that focus on the
material relationship between art and trauma; more specifically, art and
healing psychological wounds or scars.
I'll have a participatory art piece for you on the night of the reception, so be there, Bmore!
Make sure you get down to ArtScape this weekend! You can see this piece (looks waaaay better in person) at the Artist Run Art Fair at the Charles Street Garage! My work is there in support of Force: Upsetting Rape Culture.
Masonry, 2009, watercolor on paper, 22" x 22"
This piece portrays the complications of sex, love and trust.
She physically becomes a guarded, solid mass, as if her body is made of stone. As seen through the closed up, walled off nature of her posture and position, she's entirely exposed, and vulnerable to the blast, yet remains steadfast and unflinching.
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They'll also be showing the quilt square I created for The Monument Quilt. The way out...
Then come check out the large figurative work on paper by me, that will be exhibited July 17-19, in the FORCE Project Space during
ArtScape 2015!My piece, Masonry, will
be shown for the first time, along with the Pelham Artist Residency
work from Labbodies. I also worked really hard on a quilt square to be
included in The Monument Quilt -- but if you know me, you already know
that I used glue and paint, and a rather loose interpretation of "quilt
square"instead. ;)Looks like FORCE will be located in the Charles Street Garage at the Artist-Run Art Fair during ArtScape weekend.
~ ANDCOMING UP ~
My next solo exhibition, Eskhara will be debuting at Jubilee Arts on Saturday, August 8th, with a reception from 4-6 pm. The show runs through September 1st, so please stop by and check it out!
I have been working on this extended series since 2002 and have created over 600
paintings of varying sizes encompassing the subject of circles.
However, rather than the subject matter itself, my focus is on the
material relationship of art and trauma, more specifically art and
healing psychological wounds or scars.
I have dubbed these
circles as internal, intuitive, and ‘about the body’, but I think
there’s something more...wholeheartedness, vulnerability,
comfortability, and seemingly ritualistic acts of painting. The pieces
are acting as a scab or a tattoo; they are the permanent external
product of internal emotion, and yet they are for me, ‘a way out’. This
exhibition could be seen as a form of mapping, scarring, stumbling, and
scumbling.
Mercury in retrograde, where to start with that guy...y'all...
You might remember my missed encounter with the LED Baltimore billboard earlier this year (detailed here). It seems I have gotten a second chance! The day after Mercury righted itself, I got an email that my work would be up last/this week. I got a few shots of it in its 52-foot glory on Friday, and I think it's up through Wednesday. It was very exciting for me, and worth the wait!
At around the same time I was finishing up this piece about my old pal, Mercury. Tricksters gotta trick...
Retrograde: Contempt for Mercury
And in other FORWARD momentum news, I picked up the postcards for my upcoming solo exhibition at Jubilee Arts in Baltimore! The reception will be on August 8, 2015, hooray!
Last night was the opening reception for Putting the Pieces Together at Baltimore Clayworks! Quite a few people I knew came through, and I knew several of the artists, as well. It was very, very hot in the room where my work was located (just from sheer number of bodies). You can actually see that I'm fairly sweaty, in the second photograph of me with exhibiting artist, Tamara Payne.
In the meantime, I created this piece, in the same vein as what's currently showing at Clayworks...
