Recent Work

In the aftermath of my thesis exhibition, I've started making work again!  All of these are 12" x 12" monoprints with some pen, chine colle, and graphite thrown in there somewhere.  Since they are so small, and my other work is much larger, I found it difficult to get a great amount of variety in my marks.  That was something I had to concentrate a lot on when I was making.  It really tested me to make sure I kept mixing up my marks and to concentrate on the speed and scale of each individual mark.

Transit

Text

Structure

Soda Pop

Shine Through

Immersion

Erase

Conflict

Maryland Federation of Art Small Wonders Exhibition

I'm going to have some work in Maryland Federation of Art's Small Wonders exhibition.  It opens December 2nd and there is a reception and awards announcement on December 4th from 6:00 - 8:00.  Here are the two pieces that got in:

     Sheer Genius, graphite, marker on paper, 5" x 6.25"

   Underneath, graphite and cut paper, 6" x 6"

Ordered Chaos Images

Here are some images from my MFA thesis exhibition.

    the column with "Up" on it

   "Sophisticated" and "Mountains Out of Mole Hills"

   close up of "Solitude"

   "Solitude"

   "Below" and "Chaos" with some of Penny's work

   "the Routine"

It's finally here!

My MFA Thesis exhibition opens today!

Baker Artist Awards

Hi everyone, vote for me!

Baker Artist Awards

:)

Yessssss!

Framing

No new artwork to post, but I do have some progress pictures of the frames I've been making. It's been quite the experience, thankfully my parents are awesome and let me completely take over the first floor of their house to build these massive things.

(my mom likes plants)

frames with spacers

more frames with spacers

the "woodshop"

trusty assistant #1 Jake, always with baby in mouth

trusty assistant #2 Izzy, she's so pretty

trusty assistant #3 Rufus, my short man

Thought for the day

This quote always makes me laugh, enjoy!

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things."

-Pablo Picasso

Anna Joelsdottir

So I found this really great artist, Anna Joelsdottir.   I showed her work to one of my students the other day and she really responded to it.  What I find really successful is how the drawing seems to be bursting from it's structure.  It's beautiful, yet kind of destructive.  She is also represented by Zg Gallery, a fantastic gallery in Chicago.

Weekend Quote

So this quote was kind of a mantra for the painters in undergrad, but I'm pretty sure it still applies, now so more than ever, so here goes.... "It's not that you don't have a life, it's that art is your life."

Happy Sunday!

It's almost here.....

Ordered Chaos: MFA Thesis Exhibition

Video Stills

I've been working on this stop animation video for over a year now.  Hopefully it's going to be displayed in my thesis exhibition.  Here are some of the stills from the newest video I've shot.

New Monoprints

I finally finished!  Here are some of my newest monoprints.  All are 30" x 30".  All three have chine colle of some sort and graphite or pen in there somewhere.  

   Pristine

   Revealed

      Resist