Monday, October 26, 2009

Print Portfolio


I'm in a print portfolio exchange with Towson University and this is my print that will be included. It will eventually be an edition of 50, I printed 8 on Sunday, it was nice to get some things started. I've named it Swarm and it's 5" x 5" printed on 11" x 15" Arches Cover.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Happy Sunday!

I'm not sure how to upload videos from YouTube to this site, so I'll just give you the website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA

I saw this video on the BmoreArt blog and couldn't resist. This is a great talk from Elizabeth Gilbert at the TED Talks about creativity. It's nice to know that other people out there think about this stuff! Enjoy!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Slowly getting there

Something that I'm working on. For about a week I thought it was done, but I've decided it could go a lot futher.


Creepers, graphite on paper, 24" x 16"

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Good news!

I am the newest juried member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery! You can check out my work, and the gallery, here.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Art Quote for the Day


Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

~Scott Adams

Monday, June 1, 2009

Statement

So I've taken a short hiatus from art making to really focus on getting my art seen. Part of this effort is re-writing some of my basic elements of my gallery packet, including my Statement. I've tried out a bunch of explanations, and this is the most comprehensible manifestation (s0 far). I'm sure there will be many revisions in the near future:

This body of work started with small sketches. I would make these drawings in a completely intuitive manner, and I began to notice that on different days I had different types of mark and various outcomes. I began to explore why each drawing was so vastly different. I would track my moods, daily activities, and concerns during those days and began to realize that the marks, colors used, and speed of the mark all remained the same from the days in which I was doing or feeling similar things. I then started intentionally going to certain places, listening and feeling the energy around me and translating it into marks. I started combining an entire day’s marks into one composition to see what would happen. I started to notice a new energy emerging on the page when marks would combine or overlap with other marks. This intentional and unintentional tension really appealed to me. The marks that would develop by themselves and then intertwine and intermingle with other marks on the page, were the most interesting, yet unintentional. The energy that emerged on the page appealed to me.

I started thinking about the combination of the different types of mark and how that could be interpreted. In one day I wear many different hats. I am the random girl on the Metro, a daughter, a soon-to-be wife, a gallery coordinator, an artist, all these different things, but yet no one person has the same experience with me. Different people interpret all of these different roles, and many of those people have very different interpretations of me. No one sees me like I see myself. The relationship I have with myself and my own interpretation of myself is completely unique. These marks on the page represent the different “interpretations” of my day; the different relationships I have with other people.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

WV Wesleyan College Collagraph Workshop

Recently I got the chance to go to West Virginia Wesleyan College to do a three day collagraph workshop with their printmaking students.  We had a lot of fun and made some really interesting art!  Here are some photos of our time:   

   the printmaking studio

    workshop table

   student work

   student work

   Carol's print (printmaking instructor)

   my plate on the press bed

   
   finished product


Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Escape at the American Contemporary Gallery

Here is the postcard for the group exhibition, Escape, that I am a part of at the American Contemporary Gallery.  Other artists exhibiting are:  Anna Foer, Gerald Ferstman, Bart O'Reilly, Christiane Pape, and Kristina Zallinger.  It opens March 6th from 7:00 - 10:00.   I have seven pieces in the exhibition, four that have never been shown before.  All are works on paper, with various types of media, all built around monoprints.  I'm pretty excited about the exhibition because it is my first exhibition since graduate school, from works that are made since graduating from graduate school.  


Monday, March 2, 2009

Some new work

   Fantastical, monoprint, graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper, 30" x 22"

      Figuring It All Out, monoprint, ink, intaglio on paper, 30" x 22"

       Cowboy Take Me Away, monoprint, ink, colored pencil on paper, 22" x 30"

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Spontaneity, Randomness, and Gesture Images

As promised, here are some images of the exhibition in Sleeth Gallery at West Virginia Wesleyan College that I curated. 

   right side of the gallery

   far wall

   left side of the gallery

   Lauren Peterson and Leslie Shellow's work

   Lauren Peterson's small monoprint/collagraphs and Ellen Durkan's drawing

   Leslie Shellow and myself

   Tiffany Jordan's mammoth drawing and Leslie Shellow's small paintings



   one of Leslie's small groupings

Friday, January 23, 2009

Systematic Disorder Images

Here are some images from the Systematic Disorder installation at Rogue Community College.  It's always interesting to see how someone else interprets your work, especially something like an installation piece.  The images aren't the greatest, but you can get the idea. 









Thursday, January 22, 2009

Spontaneity, Randomness, and Gesture at West Virginia Wesleyan College Postcard



This is the postcard for the exhibition at West Virginia Wesleyan College, that I curated. The exhibition is based on the Abstract Expressionist movement and how artists today are embracing the ideas behind the movement and making adding their own spin on it. All of the artists are women. While there were many women who painted in the expressionist style, especially after the 1950's, the art created was largely seen by the critics of the time as male dominated in its scale and spirit. All of the artists in this exhibition were born after the Women's Movement and do not see Abstract Expressionism as a male dominated territory. They do not feel the weight of Picasso or DeKooning on their shoulders and are unconcerned with the critical history of the movement. Rather, they look to art from the past that seems to answer formal issues and that presents a structure through which they can explore their own interior visions.

Installation images to come later!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Leslie Shellow MFA Exhibition


Systematic Disorder opening at Rogue Community College

Happy New Year!

A two person exhibition featuring work by myself and New York-based artist Luisa Sartori will open January 5th at the Wiseman Gallery of Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, OR.  Pics and postcard image to come later!