May Update
Just a little context... if you're wondering why I am doing this blog-thing, which I often ask myself, you can find out in the "My Intentions" post from January.
Since my last post....
So, truth be known, when I added a monthly visit to NYC to my grant proposal, it was a last minute, this sounds like fun, afterthought. I never realized that it would become such a large item on my monthly to-do list. I've found that, as exciting and stimulating as NYC is, it takes a lot of planning and preparation to get there, and a lot of research and strategy to see the best exhibits. I actually think I'm seeing more of NYC that when I lived there (during my art school days) and probably taking in more exhibits that the average New Yorker. These visits have certainly pacified any romantic ideas I've had of moving there, at least for the time being.
In lieu if NYC, April presented itself with an invitation to teach as a visiting artist in Chicago, so I added on a 3 extra days to get my art fix. Not only did my students post a blog about a talk I gave, but they gave me some great recommendations of what to see which included...
Day 1 - The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute (Fab!), along with being totally wowed by the architecture! My foggy memory of my course in "History of Modern Architecture" got a workout and I rode 'the Loop' just to take it all in. Dinner with Greek hubby Christos, at the Parthenon in Greek Town, made the day complete.
Day 2 - Breakfast at The Yoke, a visit to Magdalena Abakanowicz's Agora, followed by a gallery marathon in the West Loop and River North districts. In the spirit of having a complete Chicago experience, this vegetarian even ate an authentic Chicago hot dog!
Day 3 - The Cultural Center, a second hit at both the Art Institute, a visit to Frank Gehry's Pritzker bandshell, a collision of sculpture, architecture and landscape with the Chicago skyline as it's backdrop and Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate.
The plane barely landed and I had to hit the ground running with a day of teaching as a visiting artist at the Hyde School in Bath, Maine. The students (I love them all!) used clay to create negative molds. Next, they poured plaster into the cavity to create a positive form, hence turning a negative into a positive. To further the challenge the students were encouraged to sculpt a personal symbol that stood for something in their life that is negative, but they are working to make positive. Example: Procrastination (negative), into Time Management (positive) = A Clock (symbol)
For May, back to NYC...
For May, I returned to the big apple. Here are some great shows to see if you're in NYC and worth looking at online if you're not...
My work was also on view at Momentum X at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, ME. This is the exhibit annually features work of the AAG Grant Recipient along with that of the finalists. This exhibit ended on May 27th, but you can still see and read all about it here...
Since my last post....
So, truth be known, when I added a monthly visit to NYC to my grant proposal, it was a last minute, this sounds like fun, afterthought. I never realized that it would become such a large item on my monthly to-do list. I've found that, as exciting and stimulating as NYC is, it takes a lot of planning and preparation to get there, and a lot of research and strategy to see the best exhibits. I actually think I'm seeing more of NYC that when I lived there (during my art school days) and probably taking in more exhibits that the average New Yorker. These visits have certainly pacified any romantic ideas I've had of moving there, at least for the time being.
In lieu if NYC, April presented itself with an invitation to teach as a visiting artist in Chicago, so I added on a 3 extra days to get my art fix. Not only did my students post a blog about a talk I gave, but they gave me some great recommendations of what to see which included...
Frank Gehry's Pritzker bandshell
Christos and Magdalena Abakanowicz's Agora
Day 2 - Breakfast at The Yoke, a visit to Magdalena Abakanowicz's Agora, followed by a gallery marathon in the West Loop and River North districts. In the spirit of having a complete Chicago experience, this vegetarian even ate an authentic Chicago hot dog!
Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate
Hyde students making molds
For May, back to NYC...
For May, I returned to the big apple. Here are some great shows to see if you're in NYC and worth looking at online if you're not...
Richard Avadon at Gagosian Gallery
Anish Kapoor at Gladstone Gallery
Brice Marden at Matthew Marks
The Stein Collection at the Metropolitan Museum
Anish Kapoor at Gladstone Gallery
Brice Marden at Matthew Marks
The Stein Collection at the Metropolitan Museum
Exhibits Just Past...
Executive Director Wayne Atherholt with my work at the Morean Arts Center
My kinetic work was part of a exhibit Wax: Medium Meets Message show at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. The exhibit ended on May 28th but lives in internet infinity in these online reviews...
Quantum Revival at Momentum X
Exhibits Up Now...
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Switchback, encaustic, 24x36 at Bowersock Gallery
My newest works will be on exhibit at Distinctly Encaustic, Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown from Friday, June 1st with a reception from 7 to
9pm, through June 19th. And I currently have some new work at Arden Gallery in Boston, MA.
Traces of Motion II, encaustic, 24x24 at Arden Gallery
The Engine is a creative art center and in Biddeford, ME with an ambitious mission to propel the creative community. This large, high ceiling, wide open gallery space poses a unique opportunity for me to exhibit, not only Stuff Moves, my recent body of kinetic sculptural work, but my large kinetic installation Bardo State along with Wave Phenomena. It will be a first to see all this work together.
Wave Phenomena
June 15th - July 21
Reception June 15th, 5-7
Artist Talk, June 15th at 6:30
Biddeford Art Walk, June 29 5-8 (non stop art walk talk, yikes!)
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