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making new stuff, art a whirl recap, & fun news!

May 29, 2011 By Administrator

Made some new stuff this weekend.  Also spent a lot of time lying in bed reading Judy Chicago’s book Women & Art: Contested Territory.  Had dinner with my friend Jade, discussed art, relationships, and life choices.  Feeling a little bit more clear-headed now after several days of feeling stressed and getting strange dizzy spells (I blame my stupid never-satisfied metabolism, grr!).  Of course, staying up until midnight blogging again (why does the motivation always come at 11:30pm, huh?) instead of going to bed is probably going to set me back to ground zero when I get up for work tomorrow morning.  The holiday pay will make up for feeling completely scatterbrained, right?

New on the table:

new puddles of paint

And I finished one of them:

Untitled (for now), Watercolor, 8" x 10"

Last weekend was Art-a-Whirl in NE Minneapolis.  I did some studio crawling on Friday and Saturday, art swapped, chatted with lots of WARM artists (some of whom I hadn’t actually met in person before, yay!) and on Sunday I helped with the photo booth at Suzanne Shaff Photography in the California Building (Suzanne is fairly new to the area, & I’m helping her out w/web and social media stuff).  We saw the tornado that hit North Minneapolis from the windows on the 6th floor, and promptly panicked and hid in the stairwell for a little while until the sirens stopped.  Pretty freaky.  Ooh and I met Amy Rice!  Love her work 🙂

Also received the happy news this week that I am one of eleven artists selected as Placemaker Artists in Springboard’s Friendly Streets project with Jun-Li Wang!  I don’t know a lot of details yet, but here’s the description they had in their call for artists which is a nice summary of what we’ll be working on:

Placemaking is people coming together and actively working to turn generic public spaces into community places where people can create connections with one another. By “activating” spaces with elements that encourage human interaction – from physical objects such as art, furniture and plantings, to activities such as parties and games, a generic space can be turned into a place where community gathers, happens and thrives. Springboard for the Arts believes artists play an instrumental role in creating place and creating community.

The setting is the Central Corridor Friendly Streets Initiative, a project addressing the design and use of the residential streets immediately north of University Avenue during construction and operation of light rail. The Initiative will host a series of block parties this summer to introduce residents to concepts and methods such as creative placemaking and traffic calming to make streets more user friendly.

I took a workshop on developing successful community projects with Jun-Li in November and am really excited to be working with her again & building on those skills.  I am also really excited for the Northern Spark festival coming up next weekend!  I am going on the Megalops at 11:00 with an assortment of friends, and who knows where the night will take me from there.  It’s another one of those “so much going on that it’s completely overwhelming and impossible to see it all” type of events.  Sometimes I wonder if our art community here, as loveable as it is, occasionally tries to do too much at once.  Maybe I’m just being selfish because I don’t want to miss anything.  How can one possibly choose between listening to sound art radio stuff on top of the foshay tower, playing laser tag at the soap factory, taking in the short film festival at the central library, watching the egg & sperm ride and video projections near St. Anthony Bridge, not to mention all the stuff going on at the Walker’s Nightshift?  And that’s just a small portion of all the events going on.  AAAHHHHHH…………………………………..

Filed Under: art Tagged With: community art projects, megalops, mnarts, northern spark, painting, placemaking, springboard for the arts, watercolor

new art full of questions

May 17, 2011 By Administrator

This one insisted on being finished tonight.  Would not let me go to bed.  I was so enthralled with it I actually caught myself making weird little sound effects for it while painting.  Apparently my tendency to talk to them is evolving…oh dear.

However, now that it’s “done” I’m wondering if it needs more brown “seeds” in the brown “scoops” that are surrounding the green “scoop.”  (I’m trying to come up with new descriptors so that I don’t pigeonhole how one might interpret it.  The seeds could also be eggs, or rocks, or eyeballs…or something else I haven’t even thought of yet.)

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 8" x 10"

Are the brown ones cradling the green one protectively, or are they getting ready to crush it?  This one seems a bit dark and threatening to me (ok I’ll admit, I intended it to be kind of ominous), but I think you could also read it the opposite way.  “Crowding” could also be “protecting.”  But what if Greenie doesn’t WANT their protection? What if she wants her independence, wants to feel the fresh breath of freedom in the wind?

Hmm, did I mention I’ve begun reading a lot of feminist art lit in the past couple of weeks? Think there’s a connection?  And do I need more eggs?  😉  IN THE PAINTING.

Recent purchases from Powell's Books in Portland

I’m working on organizing a feminist art reading discussion group hosted by WARM this summer, last Wednesday of each month at the Walker’s Open Field.  Currently taking suggestions for articles or short books that would be good discussion material (and would be fairly likely to be accessible via the library etc); help me out if you’ve got any!

Filed Under: art Tagged With: art, book club, books, feminism, feminist art, painting, questions, watercolor, women artists, women's art registry of minnesota, work in progress

Eggy Easter art

April 24, 2011 By Administrator

Hey guys, I need titles for these, suggestions welcome!  Tell me what they remind you of.  “Scan0001” and “Scan0002” are not really very descriptive.

I suppose I could just leave them as “Untitled.”  Hmm they are two separate paintings but the juxtaposition of one on top of the other is interesting…sometimes I think I should digitally collage the “characters” from my paintings together in new ways.  Maybe animate them.  That would be sweet.  And time consuming.

I’m off to buy some new plants to keep me company; it’s become my yearly Easter tradition.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: Easter, eggs, gardening, painting, plants, stones, suggestions needed, watercolor

fungi art…

April 18, 2011 By Administrator

Ready to see the art that came out of that random mushroom inspiration from a few weeks ago?

……..

Mystery Artwork

Too bad!  It’s top secret until the Art 4 Shelter Benefit on May 5th, 2011 at Circa Gallery.  Come to the warehouse district and see if you can figure out which pieces are mine among the hundreds of 5x7s on the wall (I made three).  You can even take one of them home, for only $30!  Supports Simpson Housing Services.

Preview: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m

Sale: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Thursday, Cinco de Mayo, Circa Gallery, 210 North 1st Street, Mpls, MN

(Don’t go to the address on the envelope in the photo!  Oh, wait, it’s a PO Box, so that’s pretty obvious isn’t it.  I’m a lil sleepy.)

Filed Under: art Tagged With: art 4 shelter, benefit art sale, cinco de mayo, circa gallery, events, Minneapolis, mnarts, mystery art, painting, simpson housing services, top secret

update on Intermedia show

March 14, 2011 By Administrator

I now have a list of all the artists participating in The Arts of the Community II at Intermedia arts, opening this friday.  I went for a sneak peak on Saturday and it’s a very diverse show with lots of intriguing stuff.

Artists include Barbara Lea, Bouky Labhard, Christopher Anderson, Donna Dralle, Eddie Hamilton, Eyenga Bokamba, Iggy Beerbower, Jane Powers, Jeanne McGee, Jenny Jenkins, Kat Corrigan, Kate Van Cleve, Katie Sherman, Leann Johnson, Lisa Petersson, Megan Moore, Nicole Houff, Pamela Gaard, Robyn Hendrix, Steve Brooks, Maghan Rangitsch, Marcos Montano, Steven Berg, Jessie France, Jeremy Smith and Stephanie Aichinger.

And in case I haven’t drilled it into your heads enough yet:

Opening reception is this Friday, March 18th from 7pm -10pm (I plan to be in attendance for most of the evening, so come check it out and keep me company!)

Here’s the facebook event.

Building Hours are 10am-6pm Monday-Friday and 12-5pm on Saturdays.  Show is put on by the South Minneapolis Arts Business Association and lasts until March 30th.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: events, exhibit, intermedia arts, Minneapolis, mnarts, painting, smarts

all my March event info in one place

March 6, 2011 By Administrator

My mom asked me to post exactly which of my paintings are in which shows in March, since she can’t be here to see them.  And since yesterday was her birthday, I better do what she says (Happy Bday Mom!).  So here it is, all the event info for March all in one place:

Climb, Watercolor on Paper, 16" x 20". Sold.

Climb is on view in the Grain Belt Bottling House as a part of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) member show Temporality, showing through March 31st. The building is open Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, and is located at 79 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN

Thirst, Watercolor on Paper, 16" x 20"

Seedlings 2, Watercolor on paper, 10" x 13"

Incubators, Watercolor on Paper, 16″ x 20″

Thirst, Seedlings 2 and Incubators will all be showing in the SMARTS Arts of the Community II exhibit at Intermedia Arts March 11th-30th with an opening reception March 18th from 7-10pm.  Intermedia is open Mon-Fri 10am-6pm and Sat 12-5pm.

We had a great turnout on Friday night for the WARM members show Temporality.  Click here to see photos!  I had a great time meeting lots of artists whose names I knew from emails and statements but hadn’t met in person yet.  It’s great to see the excitement & potential of the organization growing.  I have been really impressed with the excellent quality of our members’ work.  We are, for the most part, a very professional and yet very unpretentious group.  In short, we take our art seriously, but don’t take ourselves too seriously.

Now I’m getting ready for the SMARTS show at Intermedia.  Framing in progress:

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Unfortunately I made a dumb move yesterday and broke the glass in one of my frames.  The paint on the frame was kind of banged up anyway so I don’t feel too bad about having to replace it (especially since my piece in the WARM show was bought by fellow artist Claudia Poser!  She and her hubby are so adorable, and I really love her artwork, so it makes my heart smile that she’s buying my painting).  So I have two out of three done.  Plus I was reminded why it’s important to know what you really need BEFORE you get the framing supplies.  I ended up with some foam core backing that’s way too thick for the frames.  Oops.  Framing is such a pain, but it’s so exciting to see them all done.  They are like my little babies, and now they are all dressed up and ready to catch the bus to go off to kindergARTen!  Aww.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: events, exhibit openings, framing, intermedia arts, Minneapolis, mnarts, painting, WARM, watercolor, women's art registry of minnesota

Orange Crush

February 22, 2011 By Administrator

Stress sucks, but it also can be great inspiration.  Sometimes I wonder if we artists create more drama in our lives than is really necessary because we crave that dark-night-of-the-soul kind of inspiration.

Crushed, Watercolor on Paper, 8" x 10"

Filed Under: art Tagged With: painting, watercolor

new watercolors

February 7, 2011 By Administrator

Here’s some newly finished work from December:

Red Berries, Watercolor on Paper. 16" x 20"

and the piece I just finished on Saturday:

Incubators, Watercolor on Paper. 16" x 20"

Still feeling unsatisfied with these titles.  maybe “seed pods” would be better for the second one…or maybe I should just keep them untitled.

Finished my SMARTS entry yesterday.  If I get in it’ll be the second year in a row that I have simultaneous exhibits in March.  Must be a good month for me.

This is the one that will be in Temporality, the WARM members show, at the Grain Belt Bottling House March 4th-31st:

Climb, Watercolor on Paper, 16" x 20"

Would just like to point out they are much better viewed live & in person 😉  I’ll be sending along more show details soon.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: berries, gardening, incubator, new art, painting, plants, seeds, untitled, watercolor

new work in progress, with a side of something silly

February 2, 2011 By Administrator

Really really in love with this new painting I’m working on.  Based on one of the drawings from my art house coop sketchbook project…

watercolor work in progress

Hoping to have it done in time for the SMARTS Call for artists for the 2nd annual Arts of the Community Exhibition.  I might title it something like “Incubation” or “Incubators” or something incubating-related.  Which makes me think about hatching baby chicks in 6th grade…

Oh gosh, while I am posting and babbling randomly I guess I should put this in to.  I made a silly picture:

SnuffleARTagus

Springboard put this “I <3 Art Because…” sign in their spring workshop flier for people to fill in & post photos of.  I had gotten into a goofy tweet conversation with Springboarder Noah about artimals (cuz in his pic he is an Aartvark…other good ones included the hippopARTamus and the plARTypus).  The workshop flier sat on my art table for several more days, and I couldn’t think of anything that I could say about loving art that would be better than being a SnuffleARTagus.  And the empty paper towel & tp rolls in my recycling were calling to me.  So there you go.  I made a goofy picture.  Somehow I always end up taking weird photos of myself in my bathroom.  I guess the lighting is really good in there.

Incidentally, Noah is teaching all ten of Springboard’s Work of Art workshops this spring, and they are awesome & super helpful so if you are an artist in the Twin Cities wondering what you need to move your career forward I highly recommend that you check them out.  You can buy in bulk and save money!  They are packed full of good info like how to price your artwork, marketing, copyright laws, using social media, etc.  And Noah tells funny weird stories and does strange things like making a really big deal out of not liking strawberries when you bring them to class and then taking a video of himself eating the strawberry and not liking it.  Practical art career guidance + meeting & networking w/other artists + sense of humor = win!

Hmm I did not intend this post to be mostly about Springboard.  I intended it to be about how excited I am about my watercolor painting.  Mleh.  Gonna go eat something and go back to painting now.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: art career, artimals, ladders, minnesota art, mnarts, muppets, painting, professional development, smarts, south minneapolis arts, springboard for the arts, twin cities artists, watercolor

Berries

January 16, 2011 By Administrator

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 2011

Here are a couple of smaller berries paintings in the new series I’m working on.  Now that the holidays are over lots of new art opportunities seem to be popping up again so I hope to have an exciting and productive year!  Plans for the WARM members show at the Grainbelt are going ok.  I’m sure February will be a really busy month getting ready for it.  I’m curious to see what kind of submissions we got for the “Temporality” theme.

I’m also nearly done with my sketchbook for the Art House sketchbook project; they extended the deadline and I’ll be mailing it in on Tuesday.  Just need to get the last two pages done and I’ll try to scan some more of it before sending it off.

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 2011

Happy New Year!

Filed Under: art Tagged With: berries, ladders, painting, watercolor

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