Sigh of Relief

I did it! I recreated my "Temporal, Cyclical" piece from last year and even made it bigger, per juror's request. For my next trick I will take it apart and rebuild it at the Foundry Art Center. I hope you can come to the opening. I'm putting some serious effort into my piece, and I believe I'm going to help install other work as well.

I'm less scared now, and more excited. I get to have brunch with Yolanda Lopez. How cool is that?

Photos of the work in progress will arrive shortly.

Art - The Good and the Bad

Uh oh. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I recently had a piece of art juried into an upcoming exhibition. The bad news is, I’m having a difficult time reconstructing it.

Yes. I have to reconstruct it. The piece that was chosen by the juror is an installation piece that I created in the fall of 2008. It’s made of yellow ginko leaves and torn paper from a poetry book. After sending in my CD of digital images this fall, I gathered as many ginko leaves as I could. After all, my installation stood up well into January on its original go-round, so it should be fine being reinstalled in the winter.

Well, here’s the problem. It was a wet fall. I foolishly put my leaf collection in a bag and some jars without first letting them dry out completely. When I dumped them out onto the studio floor it was quickly apparent that they were molded. I was able to salvage a few, but in general, my art materials are decomposing and my studio (also my living space) smells like mushrooms. On top of that, I have only a few short weeks to find yellow leaves if there are any around anywhere. I need to find a solution that will be beautiful and not too far off from the original photos that I sent to the juror. Oh, and did I mention that she asked me to make the piece larger for this exhibition? She would like it “to have more of a presence.” Oh dear. Wish me luck.

If you have any suggestions, or have a collection of ginko leaves that I could have/purchase/trade for, I would be very grateful.

Contemporary Women Artists XV

I will be exhibiting in 'Contemporary Women Artists XV' exhibition at the Foundry Art Center from Feb 12- Mar. 26, 2010. The show is being hosted by the St. Louis Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art, and was juried by artist Yolanda Lopez.

The reception will be kind of in the middle of the exhibition rather than when it first opens, so that the juror's presentation can be the same evening. Come to both!

Friday, March 5, 2010
6:00p Juror's Presentation at the Foundry
7:00p - 10:00p Reception for Contemporary Women Artists XV Exhibit at the Foundry

The Foundry Art Center is located at 520 N Main Ctr in St Charles, Missouri.

Also, on Thursday, March 4, Lopez will be giving a lecture from 7pm-8:30pm, location TBD.

Painted Shoes

Here are a few photos of some shoes I painted at the TOMS event. The black pair has glow-in-the-dark stars!