Drawing goes where it wants to...

This drawing I began last night for one of my donors for Drawing for ARDS. I started out with the intentions of drawing something that matched the words that she had sent me. However, the drawing just kept going in an alternate direction. I don't like to stop myself when a project is going someplace unexpected, so I just continued. Perhaps she will like the drawing, or maybe she won't. It didn't turn out how I expected, but I like it.
Materials used: watercolor pencils, graphite on rag paper.

New Drawings

Here are a few new drawings I have been working on.
They are all 8X10" and are done with watercolor and graphite on rag paper.

Abbie Miller at the Teton Art Lab

Abbie Miller is exhibiting this week at the Teton Art Lab, In Proximity Tender: Render.

I have been to her studio and her work is amazing! This piece was done with fabric, zippers, and a wooden frame. You can see more of her work from a review of Centrifugal Force, a show at Russell Industrial in Detroit.

"Miller’s sewed sheets of vinyl together with an evolving repetition. While building the sculpture, she sewed into it two-hundred-foot-long zippers that, when zipped up, spiral the fabric into cylinder-like forms that rest – or loosely teeter - on two built wooden frames. Each piece has two forms that counterbalance each other with a strand that reaches across the room like pulled taffy.The texture is ribbed with folds of vinyl that sometimes bubble or pock with a vigor that has a mind of its own. The human-scaled forms help viewers relate to the “controlled chaos” or “organized erratics” they exhibit.From the excesses of fashion to the repetition of cancerous growths (like berle wood), references can be drawn from the sculpture. But the artist refused to share her intention, other than to say she was exploring the interactions between materials and focusing on the “ambiguity” of the forms." ...continue reading the review of her current show.

Abbie recently began working with the Teton Art Lab as head of exhibitions. Congratulations on a great show and the future growth of the contemporary art scene in Jackson Hole.

From Our Perspective

Last night we attended the opening for From Our Perspective: A National Women's Art Exhibition. There were quite a few nice pieces at the show. Kitty and I in front of my two admissions, Waves and Rain.
Work by the artist Crystal Wagner, Aggregation. I was really drawn to this piece. I loved the folded intaglio prints and her line sensibility. She used layering and translucent materials to make a beautiful installation.
detail

Sculptural Flowers by Zoe Bradley

I have been working on some large flowers out of tissue paper these past few days, so this artist really caught my eye. Zoe Bradley makes beautiful flowers and clothing out of paper usually for window displays or fashion designers. To see the sculptural paper artist zoe bradley’s work in person, her work will be on display at kate’s paperie soho in NYC from September 5th on.

Yarn made from old newspapers

I don't knit much and I have never learned how to weave, but I am quite inspired to do both with this yarn.......
A graduate from Design Academy Eindhoven, Greetje van Tiem, has found a distinctive and creative way to recycle old newspapers. Van Tiem completed a project that turns newspapers into yarn. Read more.

News: OCC hosts national women's art exhibition

From Our Perspective, the 18th annual national women's art exhibition at Oakland Community College was featured in Hometown Life. I am excited to be a part of this exhibition and have two pieces showing, the opening is Thursday, September 18, at 7:00 PM.

Studio turns to play room

I was determined to clean out my studio to make more room for another table and more work space. I soon realized what I needed more then more work space was something for my daughter to do while I was working. Kitty is almost always in the studio when I am drawing asking for this or that and wanting to play. I decided to bring in some of her things: kitchen, dollhouse, car garage, cash register as well as her art supplies. So far it has been working well and she plays much more and is less distracting in my studio. She really enjoys cutting paper as you can see in the second photo. So good bye more work space, hello play land!

Getting Ready for an Exhibition

Example of wall groupings made up of thumbnail images of drawings for upcoming show.
I have been thinking of ways of installing Deep Breath, Drawings to Benefit Lung Health. It seemed like an overwhelming task to decide on grouping and placement of the drawings. I decided to print thumbnail images of each drawing that will be in the show, then tape them together on a larger piece of paper. This has allowed me to expand my thinking about the space and how each image works with one another. This was a very basic, hands on process; made possible with some scissors and a little scotch tape.
This week I will be installing my drawings at the Anton Art Center for the opening on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. I will soon find out if this preparation process will speed up the hanging time.

my bed was a boat.....

When I was sick in the hospital with ARDS I hallucinated that my bed was a boat and I traveled across the world searching for a cure. I found this illustration online and it fit my story well.