I will be attending the Alliance of Artist Communities annual conference here in Chicago from October 19-22 on the Illinois Arts Administrators scholarship. Can’t wait to learn about innovative residencies and partnerships around the world, and to tour some of Chicago’s arts organizations.
Green
“Many associate the color green with nature and earthly delights. In recent years, green has become the color code of environmentalism. This exhibition will explore green as it falls between yellow and blue, as envy, as the almighty dollar, as our eco-future, as a childhood vegetable encounter …”
July 6 – Aug. 3, 2011
Opening Reception: July 6 7-9pm
Attleboro Arts Museum
86 Park St.
Attleboro, MA
www.attleboroartsmuseum.org
Here are 2 new wall pieces completed in 2011 – both are 12×36 inches and come about 6 inches off the wall. They are plaster, various rubbers, spray foam and fabric on wood. In these pieces I am thinking about aerial landscapes, as if one was flying over the surface of an unfamiliar planet.
Submerge
You can see why I hire a photographer for my main site, but you get the idea!
Chemical Sunset
I will be attending a residency at the Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, IL during the month of May. My project is to create a wall installation using found and cast objects and fabrics, similar in theme to my mixed media wall work but on a much larger scale.
Nordic Series #4, Mixed media on canvas, 20x25in
Upcoming Exhibitions in early 2011:
Biennial
March 2 – March 27, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3
6-8:30pm
A.I.R Gallery
111 Front St. #228
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hybrid
March 5-31, 2011
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 13
2-4pm
Old Town Art Center
1763 N. North Park Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Fiber Directions 2011
March 25 – May 8, 2011
Opening Reception: March 25, 5-7pm
Wichita Center for the Arts
9112 E. Central
Wichita, KS 67206
- Articport detail
Here is a photo of my installation, “Arcticport” in Hyde Park, Chicago, IL. It was an empty building owned by the University of Chicago that they are actually renovating and developing this year. The installation was a boreal landscape using spray foam, steel, wax, plaster, feathers, wood and brick.
Here are some photos from the opening of “Wool.art.nature”at Ryerson Woods. I had never visited Ryerson Woods before this show and it is a beautiful place. From their website,
“The Edward L. Ryerson Conservation Area, or Ryerson Woods, is a 556-acre preserve located near Deerfield, Illinois. With 279 acres officially dedicated as an Illinois Nature Preserve, Ryerson is home to several rare species, including the blue-spotted salamander, wood frog, eastern massasauga rattlesnake, red-shouldered hawk, veery, and purple fringed orchid.
Six miles of flat trails wind through a stately forest and follow a quiet river. They are open to hikers and–when snow is at least four inches deep–cross-country skiers.
Brushwood, built as a summer home by Ryerson Steel chairman and Chicagoland philanthropist, Edward L. Ryerson, houses the staff of the Friends of Ryerson Woods, as well as a collection of rare nature books and changing art exhibitions depicting the beauty and wonder of nature.”
Brushwood home, Ryerson Woods
Hybrid #5 and #8 in Wool.art.nature
Hybrid#4 & #7 at Ryerson Woods
The exhibition was at the Brushwood home and also featured work by one of my former colleagues at Lillstreet, Pamela Feldman. She is an accomplished weaver who works with natural dyes.
In addition to the exhibitions and events, they have small dioramas from the Field Museum that are available to the public to check out. Some of the backgrounds were painted by artists during the WPA (this photo is an earlier one that did not have a painted background). We also saw a mini farm area with chickens and sheep.
House Sparrow diorama
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The other night I attended a going away party for Rebecca Ringquist, a friend and former co-worker of mine who is moving to Brooklyn. Although I will miss her and wish I had seen her more often this past year, she is moving on to bigger and better things. She has very interesting work and a blog that really puts mine to shame, one of those blogs full of inspiration that you can read for hours. See it here!
Here is some more information about my upcoming show at Ryerson Woods in January:
Setting up my installation - Chicago, IL
Here are some photos of the setup of my new installation in Hyde Park, shot by Marc Monaghan (http://marcmonaghan.com)
I used expanding foam, steel, cardboard, wax, bricks, wood and feathers to create a bleak landscape combining elements of the natural and the urban. I will be adding to and changing it during the month of December and will post photos of the final piece in January.
The exhibition using a city block of empty storefronts to present artist installations was organized and sponsored by Hypa and the University of Chicago, both doing important work to establish the South Side of Chicago as a cultural destination. There are so many arts and cultural organizations headquartered on the South Side and the area definitely needs media attention for something positive for a change (rather than the nightly litany of south side crime on the evening news), so I really support the mission of Hypa.
Painting
Thinking to myself: what am I trying to accomplish here?
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