process 06.26.2011

process 06.26.2011

process 06.26.2011

metro north 06.26.2011

back and forth with Alicia Renadette 06.28.2011

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The process pictures above are of "All the Trappings: (s)wallow". The structure is being installed in the Maxon Mills building as part of The Wassaic Project's summer 2011 festival.

(more info to come next week)

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(s)wallow

wallow:
1. to roll or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, the like, as for refreshment.
2. to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel; to wallow in luxury; to wallow in sentimentality
3. to flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty

swallow:
2. take in so as to envelope; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb
3. to accept without question or suspicion.

(definitions from dictionary.com)

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The shy homebody can construct.

I eat my eyelashes.

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The Interrupters
2011 documentary
I hope to get to see this.

06.04.2011 summer time

06.03.2011 compute problem


06.04.2011 hollyhocks

06.04.2011

06.01.2011

canal 06.04.2011

I can't hear you

winders 05.25.2011

morning outside 05.25.2011

05.28.2011

05.28.2011 SCHURT KWITTERS

web cave 05.24.2011

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I hit a dog with my bike yesterday morning.
The dog is okay, he is a large dog.
I smelled like him all day at work.

05.28.2011 Arts All-State (see below)

06.05.2011 back and forth with Alicia Renadette comes back

06.05.2011 back and forth with Alicia Renadette comes back

06.05.2011 back and forth with Alicia Renadette comes back

06.04.2011 stack task



06.04.2011 old rubber mill/cottage street studios


05.20.2011 for Adam

05.20.2011 in progress re-working "Shut Up Spacemaker, You Talk Too Much" video portal

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Two weekends ago I participated as an artist mentor in the Massachusetts' Arts All-State held at the Worcester Art Museum. This is my third time. It is an interesting experience that every time it is so different. My mentor partner this year was David Shapleigh.

Arts All-State is a 36 hour intensive program where a pair of artist mentors work with a group of 18 juniors in high school (they don't know each other ahead of time and come from all over Massachusetts) to create a large scale installation. Each group is given a studio space and only three materials to work with (two of the materials are chosen ahead of time by the artist mentors and one material is a surprise).

Here is a great blog put together by Kristi Oliver the current chairperson of Massachusetts' Arts All-State at the Worcester Art Museum. Kristi documented each of the studios and uploaded pictures on the blog. The studio I worked with is number 202.

Opens June 4, 2011 (see below)

05.18.2011

05.21.2011

05.18.2011

05.20.2011

Material Matters: MCAD Students and Alumni Explore Fiber Arts
Juried by Elissa Auther

Opening reception June 4, 2011, 6-9 PM
Main Gallery at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2501 Stevens Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404

The show runs from June 4 - June 26, 2011

Participating artists:
Christopher Alday, Amelia Biewald, Arlene Birt, Ernest Bryant, Kate Cassanova, David Edgar, Gina Glynn, Tom Gormally, Anne Hand, Sarah Hedlund, Marliss Jensen, Greta McClain, Marc Manke, Cheryle Melander, Jenny Moxley, Niamh Lamb-O’Connor and Danielle Pebbles, Mari Richards, Eric Rieger, Molly Roth, Ariella Schreck and Victoria Martinez, Karen Searle, Brian Severns, Jessica Sowls, Anne Suget, Pam Valfer, Melissa Wagner-Lawler, and Angela Zammarelli.

Preview images of some selected pieces can be found here.
(My "Portable Doll Fort" is included in the show.)

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has organized this show in conjunction with:

• Northern Spark, Minnesota's first all-night arts festival, is taking place from sunset on June 4 to sunrise on June 5. For more information about this participatory event, visit northernspark.org.
• Confluence, the 2011 International Surface Design Association Conference, will be held in the Twin Cities from June 9 to 12. For more information about this conference, visit surfacedesign.org.

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May 28, 2011
at BODEGA
253 N. 3rd. St.
Philadelphia PA

Starting at 7pm:

Performances by
Oceana Boontown, Horse Spirit Penetrates, Tumble Cat PPP, Plan d, and C.S.Ward

I will have a video installation from "Shut Up Spacemaker, You Talk Too Much" in the window for this night.

05.08.2011

05.01.2011

05.08.2011 (workshop)


My piece at the Brattleboro Art Museum was reviewed by Stephen Orloske on the blog Vermont Art Zine. I am pretty excited about what he observed and wrote.

"Everything is comfy, everything looks miserable."

a note: the headphones are connected to the inhabitant's mouth so that the missing co-occupant can put them on their head and listen to the inhabitant.

when I was in high school some people called me mouse, I'd like to link this at this moment

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at least once a week I think about how Curley kept his hand covered in Vaseline in a glove

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Last weekend I took a workshop in Moku Hanga with Annie Bissett at Zea Mays Printmaking studio. The last picture above shows the prints I pulled on Sunday. Annie is a great teacher, she shared a lot of information in a short period of time but it didn't feel overwhelming at all. Also do please check out her web page and see her prints!

04.20.2011

04.19.2011

commute 04.16.2011

All the Trappings: Best Laid Plans (with a viewer) 04.10.2011 see more here

2. back and forth with Alicia Renadette this is how I received it 03.26.2011

3. a back and forth with Alicia Renadette how I am sending it back 04.13.2011

springtime 04.09.2011

van ride 04.03.2011


It has been a while.

lazy about the computer.

I accidentally erased the first image of what I sent to Alicia for our back and forth.

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This week assignments for "& In One Another", sketchbook project began. Organized by Katherine Romansky and Adria Sutter, 50-60 participants are given a sketchbook (hand bound with a silkscreen cover). Every other day a phrase is sent by text or email to participants for the next month. This is the second year of the project. I am excited to participate and see how we all respond to the same words/ideas.

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Installing for In the Zone III went great. The show is now open. If you find yourself in the Brattleboro, VT area (or if you live there) between now and July 3rd I would ask you to please go to the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and check out the show(s) (thanks).

I posted images of what I am showing on the "images of work" page of this site.

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highs and lows

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I have soupy lungs today.

03.17.2011

03.25.2011

chorus member 03.30.2011

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I am preparing for "In the Zone III" opening April 9th at the Brattleboro Art Museum.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
10 Vernon Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 802-257-0124

Gallery Hours
Open 11 am – 5 pm, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Gallery Admission
$6 Adults
$4 Seniors

$3 Students (ages 6 to adult)
Free to members, children 5 and under, and staff of other museums

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A woodpecker flew across my path.
A woodpecker flew across Joshua's path the day before.

good foundations

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"I Want, Want, Want You" developing again 03.12.2011

03.14.2011

dumpster score 03.12.2011

awaiting 03.11.2011

lunch break 03.08.2011

02.26.2011

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wishy, washy, wishy, washy, wishy, washy, wishy, washy, wishy, washy, wishy

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Flimsy Attempt
I will make you french fries in my toaster oven only to pass the time until you leave.
They will be stale and taste of the freezer.
tick, tick, tick, ding
Welcome, kind of, into my space.