Friday, March 26, 2010
Skull
Deer Skull, glass, real antique red coral beads, real south sea pearls, real antique mother of pearl beads. Black glass around eyes. I really, really dig this piece. The skull was a gift. Or, rather, was given to me to pass along to somone 6+ years ago. I made it into art, as I doubt I will ever see the intended recipient again. And, anyway, I had a vision and had to make this.
Pink and Black Abstract
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Working with what is around
The reason I work with the media I do is because it is what is around, it is free, and it is usually thought of as trash. I absolutely look crazy picking up stuff from the side of the road, in gutters, on railroad trax, but I am recycling and picking up trash when gathering my art supplies. We all win when I look insane. The only non-found stuff in my work is the foil and adhesives, which I can get in most cities.
I was in Chicago, my hometown, visiting for an extended amount of time. I was expecting I could just quit Art cold turkey for a couple of months, and I was wrong. My father builds things, so I had access to wood. My parents enjoy the wine (which, thank Bowie, because visiting is made much easier on the grape!), so there were plenty of bottles, and I admit to breaking these on purpose for Art's sake. I do not normally break glass, as there is always plenty around, however, They live in the suburbs, so there isn't much to find around their home. In addition, there was a large broken vintage blue Mason jar in the garage. Anyway, these two pieces were created with wine bottles, a vermouth bottle, a Mason jar and some old nail polish my sister left when she moved out years ago to make the flowers pearlescent. Beads at center were from a bracelet one of my nieces broke.
The imagery isn't ground breaking or exciting; I had to get my yayas out, in the parlance of some time. Maybe it was all of the Monets at the AIC.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Architecture
I've figured out that my work photographs best outside in direct sunlight, however, I need to work on my framing or photograph on fabric; pardon the grass. I love this piece. Idea was deconstructing/reconstructing of cities/history. Bits of oddities peek out amongst copper gilded glass, milk glass. Fragments of tiles with pigment painted scallop shells. And a whole panel of found glass painted with this antiquing stuff my mother sent me. On found, not completely flush wood, painted in pigment.
It captures the sense of pride that a building must feel as it stands tall and stark, even in the face of an economy that is no longer using it as it once did, it is still a tactile reminder of greatness.
Full piece, close up of top, close up of bottom.
Labels:
copper foil,
painted glass plate,
pigment,
pottery,
shells,
tile fragments
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
In Cairo
Monday, March 8, 2010
Landscape, Rigel 7
Guadalupe II
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