Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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

Friday, November 28, 2008

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"




Thursday, November 27, 2008

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"

Thursday, November 20, 2008

It's finally here!

My MFA Thesis exhibition opens today!




Sunday, November 9, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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

Saturday, October 25, 2008

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

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

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!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

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.




Saturday, October 4, 2008

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