Wednesday, January 16, 2013

A stitch... with me



Join us Saturday, February 2, for a hands-on workshop with artist Joetta Maue. Drop in throughout the day for ongoing appliqué demonstrations inspired by the textiles of the Gardner collection. Workshop is FREE with Gardner Museum admission, free for university members, and $5 for college students. Workshop is best for those 13 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

The Studio is open Saturdays & Sundays from 11am to 4pm. No preregistration is required, but space is limited. Please visit www.gardnermuseum.org for directions and more information.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

office or studio?


Lately my studio has felt more like an office then a studio.  I feel like I am at the computer more then at the hoop, actually I don't feel, I know.   But today atleast felt productive.  I am finally caught up and getting organized on the down to sleep exhibit. Tomorrow I will finally get the announcement with artists names posted. 

It is going to be a truly wonderful show and I am so excited to see it come to culmination, meet some of the artists and build more community.  But woo-hoo every show I seem to forget how much work is was to mount the last one.  It must be that the pay off is so worth it I decide to do it all over again.

I am also really attempting to get more teaching happening as that is what I really want to be doing, really love doing and am pretty damn good at it. Anyone want to offer me a teaching gig?  HA, that would be nice. Until then I keep watching precious hours slip by applying, looking, proposing etc.  But I actually have some great things coming up so I am happy for that.

I am hoping tomorrow turns into some actual studio work.  How do we do so much?

meditate



Awhile back I saw the work of Patti Roberts-Pizzuto on Hand/Eye.  I was immediately drawn to the repetition and meditative state of her work.


I  prefer her more abstract and ambiguous works.



At their best moments the work reminds me of my friend and a favorite artists work, Emily Barletta, which can only be a good thing.


To see more check out her website  http://robertspizzuto.com/home.html and her blog, http://www.missouribendstudio.blogspot.com/

Monday, January 14, 2013

cast.





Interesting glass work by Jen Blazina.  

 

Soon to be on view at the Wexler Gallery.

goings on

Finished this one last week and am almost done with my second piles image.  Then I think I will focus on finishing 2 "in process" works. Tie up loose ends you know and I need to work on the other commission I have going on. I might be in avoidance mode with that one.

Otherwise knee deep in trying to find the time to get all the curatorial stuff in order. So much work to that- but the show is going to be awesome. And preparing for my upcoming visiting artist workshop at the the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. Details.

oh how we wish for more hours.


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Future Heirlooms- Sally Hewitt


In case you missed it check out my recent interview with artist Sally Hewitt.



Last chance


  -to see these exhibits with my work:


Hemmed In... in England

Self Fabricated in Massachusetts

3 women sewing in New York


what in next?


A lot of endings happening this weekend.  My shows in Massachusetts, London and New York all end this week. It is a little strange as I do not have much lined up after this.  I am in a very excellent group show at a university in the spring and then of course have my curatorial exhibit coming up. But that's it.  It feels a little strange. I do have these 2 wonderful bodies of work to promote and find exhibition homes for but...

It is indeed the cycle of being an artist always what is next?  What is next in the studio, where is next in the exhibition world, what is next... what can be better, moving forward, etc, etc, and in truth I know that no matter what level of success you get this is the cycle of an artists life.

I feel that right now I am finally at a kind of peace with it. For the last 8 years I have been going full force.  With graduate school and my 5 years in Brooklyn and now it seems like a time to look at all that I have done and all that I have accomplished and soak it in, mature about it to see what is coming next where will this work and experience take me.  So for now I feel just fine stitching slowly, for no exhibit, for no opportunity but the opportunity be making in my studio.

and that feels good.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

break, curate and we go again...


I hope your holidays were grand and full of cheer.  Mine were a-ok beside the WAY too much time in the car bit. But I also enjoyed a MUCH needed break from the blog, the studio, life.  Now I am back, whatever that turns out to mean. 



But in the awesome and wonderful good front, I am working hard on completing the curation of my next curatorial endeavor, Down to sleep. The submissions, of course, all came in at the very last minute, indeed I was getting nervous there at the end as I always do. But they came, they flooded in.  As always the show took an unexpected turn with the submissions but needless to say it is really going to be a great show. Tons of large scale totally awesome work, including a few installations. Surprisingly less narrative & literal work then I expected, lots of more poetic stuff.


I am waiting to finalize some last artists as I need to actually do some measuring and see how much work I can fit in the space. A lot of the work submitted was on the large side.  I cannot wait to start featuring the artists selected and not selected and announce the list of artists participating.

  
The images in the post are a sneak peak from details shots of 4 accepted works, from top to bottom the artists are: Rebecca Fricke, Hagar Vardimon, Michelle Urbanek & Jenne Giles.



how is your hem?


Oh, how I wish I could see the show, Hemmed In, which features my work amongst so many other totally wonderful, talented and awesome artists.  I am beyond grateful to be swingin' with this crowd. 

the curator Jamie Chalmers, with some of the artists.

As of yet there are not really any great photos of the installation but a few have popped up on the web-o-sphere so I thought I would share... they are pretty random selections from folks that went and posted on FB.



 
 
 
 
 



 There is my work, not hung as tight as I'd like but looking good.




Don't you wish you could go too...  Details (& artists names) here for you Brits. There are a handful of folks that are new to me and I am looking forward to spending some time checking out their work some more... when I have time. HA