08.06.2010

stacked

wishful thinking

07.30.2010


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A couple of weekends ago I went to see Petah Coyne's Everything That Rises Must Converge currently on view at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. This is the first time that I have seen a large body of her work in person, and I couldn't believe at how much I was pulled in by the textures and forms of the sculptures. I have only up until recently seen documentation of her work in books and on the internet and was always interested in the way she blends nature, the domestic, art history/history, and the personal. Seeing Coyne's work in person really brought out the the painstaking amount labor and attention to detail in the sculptures that for me pushed the themes she works with further.

wood, hay, soil, tar, black sand, white powder, silk flowers, wax, pins, velvet, taxidermy, ribbons, hair, wire, feathers

I swooned.

The work will be on view through February 2011.

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Next Saturday, August 14th, I am participating in AS220's FOO Fest 2010 in Providence, RI. I am so happy to get to participate with an installation. AS220 will be presenting for the first time its' Free Culture Award. This years recipients are Shepard Fairey & Brandon Edenswill. ESG is playing and I am very excited!

AS220 is a non-profit community arts space located in downtown Providence. They are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Their mission is "to provide an unjuried and uncensored forum for the arts. If you live in the state of Rhode Island, you will get an opportunity to exhibit or perform at AS220."

Wonderful Wedding Vanessa and Ben! Cake by Lisette Lopez
Booger Time
In progress
Obscured Canal


Working on a web page.
Going to spend time with my parents.
Looking for employment.

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I just watched Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo and The Holy Mountain this week. I am going to watch them again.

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immolate

Here I am.

Passage way.

Neighbor's little house.


Very very hot.
Not terribly original.

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Floral
Field
Forage

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Metal
March
Mechanic

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Arthur Ganson
Ganson TED talk
Fat Worm of Error

July

June

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Last Thursday I went out to North Adams, MA for Down Street Arts and the opening reception for Be Your Own Placebo (B.Y.O.P.). This is the first installment of a four part summer show curated by Jaime Lee Mohr. The artists in the show are Jessica Ciocci, Sophia Cara Dixon, Celested Dupuy Spencer, Toto Feldman, Megha Gupta, Natalie Purkey, Rose Marcus, Frankie Martin, Lauren Pakradooni, Erika Somogyi, and Jennifer Sullivan. Images from the show can be found here. I am biased towards these artists especially Lauren Pakradooni so I am just going to say go see it if you can.

Be Your Own Placebo 28 Holden Street, North Adams, MA
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sundays 10am-2pm

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Also up in North Adams at Gallery 51 is Sean Riley's Everything is OK. The show is a mixture of paintings and quilts. I find his paintings and collages to be really exciting. His quilt tops are nice as images (found on his website), but for some reason when I was looking at them at the show I was having trouble with them as objects. I think that within the context of the show and with the show's title they are interesting but as objects outside of that context I was having strange feelings about them............................................
(Maybe it is because I have been looking at tons of different quilts lately? Am I getting
hung up on craft? They are well sewn. Maybe I was feeling a bit or resentment to the
painting/quilting dichotomy and it was conjuring up thoughts about traditional women's
work/men's work and the history of sexism in the creative realm? Last summer two
women had quilts in a show I co-curated at the same gallery, just to call myself out.)
But I have since learned that he is making the quilt tops out of his father's clothes and I will admit that has made me appreciate them so much more.

Everything is OK is up until July 25, 2010 at MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main St., North Adams, MA
Open Daily 10-6pm

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If you happen to be in the Western Mass area on July 10th I recommend going to Burns Maxey's opening reception for Water, the second installment of her multimedia show Project Elements Easthampton. Her installation is located at 1 Cottage Street in room 1-06. The reception will be held from 5-8pm. Additional work my Maxey can be found at the Easthampton City Arts Gallery.

All the Trappings 6/19/2010



No, you feather your nest.


Can I put your ice in my mouth and roll it around.

I could eat french fries and paint my toenails and talk trash until the cows come home.

I did not hear about that, I have been right here all day.

This would look so good on you right now.


Here are images of the process and finished piece (maybe not the best photos but they will do for today).

I am in Issue NO. 2 of Super Arrow. Super Arrow is a biannual online journal for experiments in writing and art. To learn more about Super Arrow here is the link to their blog.

Also this Saturday is the opening reception for Pioneer Women & Wonderland curated by Terry Rooney at Paper City Gallery. The opening is from 5pm - 8pm and the gallery is located at 80 Race St. Holyoke, MA. I have a structure called "All the Trappings" in the show. Also there are so many great artists in the show, if you are in western Mass it would be nice to see you there.

Monster tag sale

Studio 05/25/2010

Let's address the mess.
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Yesterday I quietly worked folding and packing fabric up for my employer's move away and listened to stories of people remembering people and news on the oil spill.
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Construction of perpetual war.
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Gulf Hair Boom Program
My friend Hilly sent me this link on Matter of Trust's webpage. This group is making a boom out of hair, feathers, and wool stuffed into nylons to soak up oil from the gulf spill.
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On Sunday Joshua, Jess, Adam, and I went to Wassaic, NY to check out the Wassaic Project and Beacon, NY to go to Dia Beacon. I am very excited about the Wassaic Project.

pacemaker
peace maker

weasle in a woodstack

Echo-cardiogram

I got to see my father's heart today and listen to it beating.
I got to see into his stomach yesterday.

I am in New Hampshire
in and out of the White Mountains
it is spring and
I think it is beautiful.

Sketch 04/27/2010
Dismantle 04/28/2010

Move 04/28/2010

Rebuild 04/29/2010

Video taping 04/26/2010

I meant to write this before I left Omaha, but it didn't work out that way.

I am now back in Western Mass. I left Omaha on Friday, April 30th. The last week at the Bemis was a flurry of activity, friends, cleaning, moving, packing, and documenting. I am now working with video footage that I recorded while at the Bemis Center and will hopefully have something cohesive to pull together.

Saturday Joshua and I went out to Mass MOCA. Maybe I have said this before, but I love Mass MOCA so much. I love the buildings, I really appreciate and am excited by the work that they exhibit, and I like going out to the Berkshires. I think it may have been the last weekend for the Guy Ben-Ner videos so I was really glad to catch them one more time before they left. Right now in the galleries are Material World, InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception, and Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With (Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle). At Kidspace they are celebrating their 10th year anniversary with Delectable Decade: Kidspace Retrospective and You Art What You Eat. And there is the ongoing Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective.

I instantly was attracted to Orly Genger's Big Boss, which is apart of Material World. It is large, red, and undulating. The piece starts out as neatly stacked large crocheted rope "sheets" that create a wall that breaks through a gallery wall to spill out and create a sea rolling material.

I am very excited because on May 29th Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge opens.

After french fries 04/14/2010

Calm down time 04/15/2010

"You're making a big mistake, Fox. You won't be cute forever." Fox replied, "Maybe just long enough, sir. Maybe just long enough."

Earth day is Thursday.

This Friday we will be having open studios, if you are in Omaha please come by.

Open Studios
Event Time: Friday, April 23 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Additional Info
WHAT: Open studios of current artists-in-residence
WHO: Peter Schulte, Angela Zammarelli and Jia-Jen Lin, Nathan Ritterpusch, and Willy Chyr.
WHEN: Friday, April 23rd from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Second Floor of the Bemis Center, 724 south 12th street, Omaha, NE

Portal 04/11/2010

Mound 04/10/2010

Video 04/11/2010

Car Windshield 04/12/2010

I finally broke down and started sleeping in here.

This is my last week of production while here. I have started to play around with my video camera and the objects that I have made. I am hoping to tie up some loose ends and prepare for open studios next week.

Pigeon Piss Passage

Winner

Studio view 04/04/2010

Mother Nature? Hairy Beast 04/05/2010


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I have a hairball in my throat.

We hope that a reunion can be arranged before she expires.

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For the chewing on: The Future of Food is a 2004 documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia on the genetic engineering of food crops and the role Monsanto played in changing patent law in America to include living organisms.

Dolls

Bed

My last month at the Bemis has begun.

I am sleeping on the floor in different spots of the studio this month just to see if anything will come of it. I have heard that having your bed in direct line with the door is not a good thing but I'm still going to try it.

This morning I started reading Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture. The book contains essays about contemporary American culture related to Jung's Puer/Puella archetype.

In progress collaborative drawing between Joshua and I. At this point we each have had two turns with it. He has it now.

Sketch 03/29/2010

Sketch 03/29/2010

Interior front left corner of cardboard structure 03/29/2010

Hoop dreams.

Joshua's Haircut

Sketch 03/22/2010

Joshua has come to visit this week.

Stuffing balloons 03/22/2010

Doll hospital circa 1926. The doctors pictured are Charles F. and Ada E. Turner. This image is from the Durham Museum's Camp Fire Girls exhibition.

Sketch 03/19/2010