"Please, we are just trying to stay out of your way" 02.29.2012 for Pressing Matters

02.27.2012

VT 02.25.2012

02.23.2012

02.29.2012


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please, gal get it right next time. please. please

02.18.2012 view from the bike trail (Carolyn Clayton has a show at ECA in March!)

02.18.2012 I have been thinking about Robert Gober a lot lately.

02.21.2012 Solar panels on top of mausoleums in Spain. (original photo taken by Albert Gea)

02.17.2012 blockage be gone (baking soda and vinegar)

02.19.2012 (see below)

02.13.2012

02.18.2012

02.21.2012

02.21.2012 (mask making)


On Sunday I got to print the blocks pictured above at Big Wheel Press in Northampton, MA. Ali Osborn did the printing, but I would try and help him by holding the finished prints and I made a lousy attempt at mixing my ink colors. The print will be a part of a print portfolio that I will share more about at a later date. The other artists involved are....

Sally Curcio, Taiga Ermansons, Sean Greene, Raphy Griswold, Amy Johnquest, Louise Kohrman, Jane Lund, Holly Lynton, Nancy Milliken, Teddy O’Connor, Ali Osborn, Stephen Petegorsky, Scott Prior, Stephen St. Francis Decky, Mara Superior, Nanny Vonnegut, Carolyn Webb, Angela Zammarelli

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I am leaving next week for North Carolina for the first two weeks of March to do some work at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro. I am collaborating with Mary Rothlisberger and J.W. Gamble we have been commissioned to make the artist-in-residence residences more hospitable. I am excited to go back to Elsewhere it has been almost four years.

Maybe when I am there or when I come home I will tell you why I love Elsewhere and think that is an important institution in the current American climate.

The installations I did while there in residence:
2006: There is a Story I Forgot to Tell You: This is How We Lived Before You
2005:"So Sylvia...."

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There has been no snow here and it has been so warm (in the 50's today). Is it going to be a very dry spring (drought)? How thick are the ticks and mosquitoes going to be this year? Things are sprouting and syrup is flowing. It makes me a bit uncomfortable (maybe I shouldn't be?). I have been told the air currents are flowing further north this year keeping the cold air over Canada, but for some reason it isn't making me feel any better.

02.04.2012

02.08.2012

drawing by Anna Slezak

yes! 02.08.2012

February issue of Mothers News: List Issue (I have a list inside)

laundromat 02.11.2012


Flying Object in Hadley, MA hosts an online series called Photo Opportunity that asks a person to take photos using a disposable camera. I did this month's set. If you would like to see the pictures they are here.

01.30.2012 Articulate (read below)

01.29.2012 wheat paste

01.27.2012 (please, we are just trying to stay out of your way)

01.31.2012 carving

01.28.2012 Boston

01.22.2012

01.19.2012 sizing up

01.22.2012 slippers for friends

01.31.2012 electricians are orderly

I am a part of a book curated by Alex Moore and Emily Smith called Articulate. I received my copy Monday and have been enjoying going through it.

From Alex Moore’s introduction to the book:

“With its rigid steel back, and conveniently included washcloth, this art book would fit nicely between the canned food and the matches in a home emergency kit. Preparedness is important when living in the contemporary landscape: as expressed by one artist, this is “a very safe city, except for the part that’s on fire.” The unacknowledged fire may be the repressed sexuality of men kept in the closet by society’s continuing homophobia, the ecological damage we continue to repackage for consumption, or the intrusive reality of protesters being killed in a far away land. Or it could be the literal truth that, fairly often, Los Angeles is on fire. Whatever the danger is, many of the works in this collection articulate a struggle to make a home in its presence."

Articulate is the second collaborative book project curated by Alex and Emily.

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“there was nothing on the walls but a clock, as if no one knew how to decorate for death.”

-Mary Roach, Pg 243 Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers

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On Monday when I got home from work I found our shoes put back in their usual spot but arranged so neatly I felt strange but also delighted. The electricians in the morning had said they would try to put things back the way they were. But they are so much more careful than we are.

They are removing the knob and tube wiring from the house.

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oh shit.

Mike Kelley thank you for sharing your brain.

R.I.P.

that is that.


Art21 Segment: Mike Kelley in "Memory"