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Windows on Cedar Installation

August 29, 2014 By Administrator

On view now through the end of September 2014:

Contraptions

Watercolor on Denril drafting film, Custom Window Installation, 2014
Susan Hensel Gallery – learn more at susanhenselgallery.com
3441 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN

Come for a visit in the evening for best viewing, then walk across the street for a Juicy Lucy at Matt’s or go down 35th for a stroll through Powderhorn Park.

Getting the layout just right
A detail while work was in progress
Pieces piled up waiting for installation

Installation day!
Thanks to assistants Gideon the dog and Dylan the human.
Passed Gideon’s inspection.

Full view of the windows at night
Smaller panel on rust side
Rust side

Detail of rust side smaller panel
Detail of rust side
Blue side detail with Matt’s reflection

Blue side

Filed Under: art Tagged With: Susan Hensel Gallery, watercolor, window display

Elevator Paintings…

January 31, 2014 By Administrator

This might sound really odd, but the original inspiration for these came from the see-through elevator in a West Bank parking ramp near the Rarig Center in Minneapolis. I was walking between Fringe Festival venues in August and was distracted and fascinated by the inner workings of the lift that could be seen through the glass. Those mechanisms started out more literal in the first painting and evolved a lot, unexpectedly turning into something that reminds me of lungs (a subconscious throwback to the Phantom Organs paintings I did three years ago?). That moment was also what spurred me to add the phrase “my curiosity about the similarities between the things we build, and the things we are built of” to my artist statement – long before I had actually made the paintings. Constantly trying to catch up to my brain.

Elevation 1 Watercolor on Paper, 2014. 8″ x 10″

Elevation 2 Watercolor on Paper, 2014 8″ x 10″

Elevation 3 Watercolor on Paper, 2014 8″ x 10″

 

I’ll be installing an assortment of my work at One Yoga studio in Minneapolis on Saturday. It will be up for two months and I’ll post more details and photos once the show is up.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: architecture, elevator, inspiration, one yoga, painting, watercolor

Busy September!

September 3, 2013 By Administrator

This semitransparent painting experiment I’ve had in progress for a while is taking shape, and I’m finally putting my foot down, applying for window display opportunities, and forcing myself to figure out how to actually hang it. Feeling optimistic. I ordered some earth magnets this week! Here’s the beginnings of a hypothetical installation arrangement, missing a few more blobby droplet thingies that have yet to be added (can you tell they’re painted on the BACK? So fun!), along with more painting segments (or a separate grouping maybe?).

hendrix1_installationlayout

It’s sounding likely that I’ll be doing a window display for Susan Hensel Gallery sometime next year, and some other exhibition ideas/opportunities are in the works. I also recently confirmed an exhibition at One Yoga in Uptown, Minneapolis next February and March. When I stopped by to check out the wall space Claudia Poser‘s work was there! I love her stuff and she and her husband own one of my paintings. Yay for good vibes. My little seedlings, podlings, bubbles and ladder thingies are ready to get their Namaste on. I’m considering titling the show Vrksasana (tree pose).

In the more immediate future though, The Land of Parcheesopoly will be back at Open Streets in Saint Paul at University Ave & Hamline with ARTIFY on September 15th AND in North Minneapolis on Lowry on September 21st! Come roll the dice with me and see what happens! Also, I need volunteers for both those days! Hit me up. It is seriously a kick in the pants watching & helping people play and make up rules.

 

Filed Under: art Tagged With: installation, painting, watercolor, work in progress

New artwork 2012-2013

May 11, 2013 By Administrator

I finally have a full series of new works photographed to share. I have been working on these over the past year, some at a quicker pace than others. The first one is on transparent Denril paper; the rest are watercolor on Yupo.

Untitled. Work in Progress, Detail Section. Watercolor on Paper, 9″ x 12″
Segmentations, Watercolor on Paper, 2013 20″ x 16″
Podlings 5, Watercolor on Paper, 2013 8″ x 10″ (SOLD)

Untitled. Watercolor on Paper, 2013 8″ x 10″ (SOLD)
Nesting. Watercolor on Paper, 2011 8″ x 10″
Untitled. Watercolor on Paper, 2012 16″ x 20″

Escape, Phase 1. Watercolor on Paper, 2012 16″ x 20″
Escape, Phase 2. Watercolor on Paper, 2013 20″ x 16″
Escape Phase 3. Watercolor on Paper, 2013 16″ x 20″

 

 

Filed Under: art Tagged With: painting, watercolor

New artwork. It’s purple!

April 11, 2013 By Administrator

We interrupt this regularly scheduled programming of CCLI lab logic model development, CDA child observation & behavior homework, and craigslist apartment hunting, to bring you…new artwork!

I had my scanner plugged in anyway, so hey! How about something for your eyeballs to look at that isn’t snow. Here’s a new little painting:

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper. 2013. 8" x 10"

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper. 2013. 8″ x 10″

Title suggestions welcome since “Purple Untitled #1” is…well…not very exciting.

The color palette is partly inspired by a clearance color discovery – “Purple Madder” at the Art Cellar.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: new work, painting, purple, watercolor

inviting, framing, bubble wrapping…

September 6, 2011 By Administrator

Resurfacing

Artwork by Robyn Hendrix and Deborah Splain
September 12th-October 21st, 2011

The Minnesota Women’s Building
550 Rice Street, St. Paul, MN
(Just a couple blocks north of University Ave and the state capitol)

Opening Reception Friday, September 16th 5-8pm
Regular building hours 9am-4pm Monday-Friday
Free and open to the public

Part of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota exhibition series.  Please RSVP here.

Installation happens tomorrow.  On my birthday.  🙂  Framing is now finished!  Time to wrap them all up, print up some artist statements, and get some rest.

Matted and ready for frames

"the big kahuna." this is not the real title. it's just really big (30" x 36")

happy little paintings

Filed Under: art Tagged With: art, events, exhibitions, minnesota visual arts, mnarts, painting, resurfacing, watercolor, women's art registry of minnesota

painting some brains

August 20, 2011 By Administrator

Brains!

Work in progress:

brain painting, work in progress

brain painting, work in progress

Deborah and I are getting all the details set for our September WARM show.  We are titling it Resurfacing and the opening will be Friday, Sept. 16th, 5-8pm.  More details coming soon!  I will also be showing at the Baroque Room in Lowertown in St. Paul, November through January.

We had our final Placemaking Block Party with Friendly Streets on Friday at the Greater Frogtown Community Development Corporation garden.  I posted some photos on my facebook page here.  With both Fringe Festival and Placemaking over, I am having a major case of end-of-summer blues.  Good thing I have lots of exciting things coming up to distract me.  Still in denial about this thing called “fall” though.  I went to the lake today to soak up some sun while I still can.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: brains, painting, placemaking, watercolor, women's art registry of minnesota, work in progress

A Heart and a Yam

July 24, 2011 By Administrator

New painting started and finished all in one day yesterday.  The idea popped up a couple weeks ago and has been living inside me aching to get out.  I think it’s the beginning of a new series, and I’m a little hesitant to throw it out to the world immediately.  Almost as if it will jinx it somehow.  Here’s a small sneak peak though of only part of it:

Detail of Phantom Heart 1, Watercolor on Paper, 2011

Comes from the idea of phantom limb syndrome, except for organs instead.  I have visions of phantom ears and phantom livers floating around inside my brain; it’ll be interesting to see where it takes me.  Oooh, a phantom brain would be freakydeaky amazing…

I also brought more food inspiration home from work the other day:

Yammmmm (or sweet potato?)

Would it be possible to paint a heart that looks like a yam?  Or a yam that looks like a heart?  The really long tip on the end reminds me of a blood vessel.

Placemaking block parties are going well so far; for more news about that and pictures come on over to my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/robynhendrixart and also check out the Hamline Midway Coalition’s Friendly Streets Page for block party dates & locations!

Plus we have our next feminist art chat on Open Field this Wednesday evening coordinated by yours truly, and hosted by WARM, more details here.

Okay, off I go to do a google image search on brains.  Mmmm brains.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: block parties, feminist art, heart, open field, organs, phantom limb, placemaking, watercolor, women's art registry of minnesota, yam

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

dentist office co-win-kee-dink

May 23, 2011 By Administrator

So, I had a dentist appointment this afternoon.  Not generally blogworthy, right?  Except that when I sat down in the chair, just as the dental hygienist was asking me if I had any specific concerns about my teeth, I looked at the large photograph directly in front of me on the wall.  It was a photograph of Whale Rock at Wilson’s Promontory in Victoria, Australia.

Whale Rock, Wilson's Promontory, Australia

I was completely unable to answer the hygienist’s question about my teeth and probably made a weird noise while I pointed at the photograph in disbelief, finally managing to exclaim “I’ve been there!”

Rewind 6 years and a few months:

Whale Rock, Watercolor Sketch at Wilson's Promontory, Feb. 11 2005

Detail of Whale Rock sketch, Wilson's Promontory

I was there winter term of 2005 on the Carleton College Studio Art in the South Pacific study abroad program.  The dental hygienist was very excited to learn more about the photo since she had no idea where it was or what it was about.

Of all the dentist’s offices in all the city, I had to walk into that one…

Adding to the coincidence is the fact that directly after my appointment I met up with my friend Megan who was picking up a painting I am donating to her Hand in Health fundraiser coming up June 19th at Intermedia Arts.  Megan was on that study abroad program in Australia with me and was equally amused by the story of my strange dentist office discovery.  Oh, and did I mention, she happens to be studying dentistry at the U of MN.  Strange circular connections abound.

I suppose Whale Rock is a very frequently photographed landmark, so I was bound to come across a photo of it somewhere eventually…but I still like to enjoy the magical quality of moments of serendipity like this.  Humor me, aight?

Filed Under: art, regular life stuff Tagged With: australia, carleton college, coincidence, dentistry, sketchbook, small world, study abroad, watercolor, whale rock, wilson's promontory

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