Showing at the High Risk Gallery, opening 09/06/05 from 7-9 pm. These two pieces are made from two of the colors in my condo: pink, and blue. The first piece I called Spring Fling, it's meant to capture the mood of dancing in the street or smelling all the flowers in the field, a playful, happy piece made with potato prints, broken colored glass, pointy dots, and paint spatters.



The second piece, Amore Perfect Union was a 4th of July piece. It's a taste of the broken edges we are currently living, a vision of a prettier future drawn from love, and a call to action all in one. Inspired by an article about the Iroquois confederation, a lyric from the Prince song Push, and the New Orleans fiasco.

Also showing will be In the Birchwoods.

That is the title of the current Art House show, which runs through Oct. 14th. I have 5 pieces in this show, which I think is a record for me. Three are pieces that fit in the show as far as I am concerned, because Randy and I were trying to figure out what the heck that technique was of an artist named Wanda Buta who we met in Arizona at an art fair. I came up with a pretty plausible technique which we have since been using here and there, of applying paint with string (thread, etc) and in some cases applying the string itself to the piece. In these pieces there are stings attached on two of the pieces, and just used to apply paint in the third.

Also showing are Coastal Spring and Rising Sun.

Finally I'm getting my little lady online. She's the first clay thing I've made since I was a kid, and is covered with pieces of shattered glass and mirror. The piece is called "What You See Is What You Get" and she's at the Art House this month.

I have two pieces for this show. The first, In the Birchwoods, was a lot of fun to make - mostly by smooshing and smearing oil paint on wood using junkmail.

I'll get a picture of the other one up soon.
The opening is at the Art House, July 15, 2005, 7:00 PM - 10 PM.

So Melissa came to town to visit in June, and Liz' found object art workshop seemed like a fun thing to do. It was fun, despite the torrents of rain that decided to fall right when we went out to forage. Our found objects included bottle caps and beer cans, broken car window glass, a robin's egg shell, an asphault shingle, cardboard, a license plate frame, etc. to which glue, paint, chalk and feathers were applied.
Melissa's: And mine:

the Opening Night Reception is Friday, May 20, 7-10 pm, and the show runs May 20th through July 8th 2005. I have two pieces in this show, maybe three. My Aloe Vera from the previous post is in the show, to which I've added a black frame with white "dots" (they point out kind of like chocolate chips) that echo the dots in the painting.


When I was a little girl I would draw variations of the same picture over and over and over again. There would be a tree on the left hand side, rolling hills in the background with a river or stream coming forward. The sun in the right corner, with rays extending out to a couple of clouds, from which a rainbow would arc, and raindrops (three) would be falling. There would be flowers and mushrooms in the foreground and as many animals as I could squeeze in, a mouse, a squirrel, a skunk, a rabbit, and some birds in the sky. So it seemed appropriate to do such a painting for the Landscapes show. Since this scenario is my paradigm for nature, I imagine I'm not the only little girl who drew such pictures, I called the piece Archetype.



The maybe piece is called Interior/Exterior. It's two sided, bolted together, and fairly self-explanatory. Believe it or not, the sun/moon imagery was completely accidental. I have it pictured a little backwards, the blue side is the interior part, and is prior to the orange side which is exterior. It's a maybe because I've completely missed the set up deadline, and with the two sides, it requires special consideration for hanging. So we'll see.

I've been so busy no time to do art... but I did take an oil painting class in which I produced this fine puffin having his supper!

And not too long ago I overlaid an old pastel of an Aloe Vera plant with acrylics.

So there's been a little progress... and I'm getting some new pieces ready for the Art House and HRG, so will be posting those soon.