piles of beauty...

Edge Rotation

Artist, Marcia Miller Gross makes some amazingly beautiful piles. What is it about piles that are so comforting?

Progression

use-re-use

Mass

Miller Gross states:

In my site specific objects and installations, utilitarian textiles are used to explore the potent history of use, and the multiple associations of a material... I make structures that address mass and void, weight, density, equilibrium, compression and release. Within these qualities, I find parallels in the physical and psychological states of the body, and the human condition. These intimate materials have an intense relationship to the body, and the capacity to carry traces, memory and former use. My interest in mundane physical actions of folding and stacking finds its focus in order and reduction. The expressiveness of a simple activity of the hand...

Yoko at the MOMA

image via the shining egg.

I went to the MOMA and their show Looking at Music had some truly lovely instructional pieces from Yoko Ono.

This is 2 examples of her pieces, so lovely, simple, and human.

Imagine all the people singing one day of the year.
That day:
a) lawyers will argue in court by singing.
b) politicians will make their speeches by singing.
c) teachers will lecture by singing.
d) soldiers of both camps will sing to each other.

from her blog 100 acorns

SNOW PIECE (1963)

Think that snow is falling. Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time. When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on the person. Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow.

wedding finger...

OK, for all you superstitious and romantic folks out there check this out.

Wedding Finger.

It is fascinating!!

image from spero photography at flickr

want a update?

So a bit of updates today.
The dentist was very nice, but told me not so great news.
The vet for the kitties was good, as in they are healthy. Yeah!!
I just finished the above piece yesterday, it is going to be part of a triptych.
I am happy with it.
Now I just need to find the other 2 linens to go with it.

Congrats to my friend Marcie Paper she got accepted into 20 x 200.
No surprise because her paintings are wonderful.


And congrats to me! My piece happily... got accepted into From Our Perspective, National Women's Art Exhibition.


And the rest of the day is me frantically cleaning for my sister in laws visit this weekend and
frantically getting happily... ready to ship.

Have a great day and weekend!

intense work...

I was looking through the Drawing Center's viewing program, while I was trying to get it to work for me, no luck!!!
And I found the intense but fascinating work of artist Tamara Kostianovsky.


I can't wait to see this intricate and shockingly realistic fabric carcases in person.
If I was not already a vegetarian these works might make me one.


on her incredible cool website she states:

For Argentineans the cow is a symbol of national identity...
By creating sculptural works where the cow appears skinned, tortured or dismembered, I intend to speak about the conflicting relationship between homeland and emigres, at the same time that I bring attention to the physicality of our existences, the escalating violence that we became accustomed to, and the longing that results when the body is displaced.

Eloquent, powerful, and frightening words and work
And if you are in NY you will get a chance to see her work this fall.

Thanks...

To guest blogger and excellent painter Michele Katen for featuring me at the very popular spot Black Eiffel.
It was great to have my work featured at such a great blog and ...


Michelle is a truly sweet person and though I have never met her she has been very helpful and friendly in discussing matters of being and artist over email.

So thanks Michelle!!!

and thanks to Nadia for drawing my attention to the feature...

nurture.

Today is about a bit of nurture.
I have a much needed dentist appt., I hope they are nice 'cause I loved my last dentist.
And then I am setting up appts for all my other doctors.
Gotta do a body good!

the magic of lace.

Wow, when I opened the new FiberARTS and saw Dorie Millerson's lace work...
my jaw dropped.
Not only are they technically beautiful and
structurally amazing...

I mean look at this bridge, IT's LACE!

But I so love the simplicity of the stories in her attachments series.
I mean I love this work, I want one in my home so badly.

And since lace is one of the things I have yet to learn, I am inspired to make it one of the things that I have.

Also excited to see artist Diem Chau on the cover.

Such exciting news...

at BAG

I have finally gotten a really great, I hope, job.
I have been so wanting to share the news, it has been in the works for 3 weeks now and finally got finalized late last week and today I bore the bad news to my current boss.


I will be very sad to leave my current job at the Brooklyn Artists Gym because everyone there are amazing wonderful people. I am so glad that I worked there to meet the wonderful folks, be introduced to the great community, and to have moved my studio to its much more "me" space.
And I will miss the sunshine from the windows.
But alas a job with more hours was needed and after a massive amount of work, time, and disappointment it has finally happened.

My new job is at a young gallery, less then a year old, Marc Jancou Contemporary in SOHO.
I will be doing the registrar work and shipping for all the art that goes in and out of the gallery. So I am a bit nervous about the work load and just getting into the swing of things, with new jobs it takes so long....
I am so extremely anxious about finding time to be in the studio and make work.
But mostly I am really excited!


And to try to force myself to be in the studio I am sending tons of show entries and such out this week in an effort to inspire me to get to the studio, so hopefully I get into some!!

Excited and then more.

So I just found out about artist Andrew Bush's photographic series Vectors, all images taken at 40-60 miles per hour from his car...I think on the LA highways?


anyway... I love them: his color, his framing, his impeccable eye for the good subject.
It is amazing how timeless all the images seem, or even vintage though they are contemporary.


And then I went to his website to create this post and just got super excited because of his:
His envelopes and business card series:



and his house series:



Simply amazing & someone I need much more time to research.