Carmen Neely and I have been collaborating for over two years now. This summer from June 19th – July 24th we will be exhibiting some of our collaborative mixed media works on paper at MoNA Gallery in Charlotte, NC. The work we will be showing was created by means of a bi-coastal snail mail exquisite corpse practice. Before we moved to opposite ends of the country we decided to cut up a collaborative painting to use as inspiration for new works. We took turns snipping away piece by piece until there was none. These pieces are what became the foundation of the series of paper works that can be viewed at MoNA Gallery beginning next week.
This week I will be participating in two art walks in different areas of Seattle. On Thursday, June 5th I will be exhibiting a collaborative and colorful installation combining painting and sculpture created by Krisna Schumann and myself. The installation is located in Pioneer Square at the ’57 Biscayne Artist Studios. Both Krisna and I have collaborated as a team for nearly a year, engaging in shared research and working processes that embrace two and three dimensional mediums. The Pioneer Square art walks are every first Thursday of the month. Click here for information about the First Thursday Seattle Art Walk and ’57 Biscayne Artist Studios
For the nearly a year I have been meeting with Krisna Schumann, a local artist and BFA graduate from the University of Washington to collaborate and discuss art on Sundays. For this reason we casually refer to ourselves as the “Sunday Painters.”
Tomorrow I will be participating in the Seattle Print Arts Open Studio from 1-3 pm at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. It is an informal and free event that gives you the opportunity to see a variety of artists from the area share and discuss their works on paper. I will be there with selected works from my Dollhouse Diaries series as well as selected oversized prints and collages that I created during a class at the Pratt Fine Art Center.
For more information and directions to the event click here
As a first year art teacher working in an elementary school, there is never a dull moment. Currently fifth and fourth graders are working on cut paper collages of organic and geometric shapes inspired by Henri Matisse. Kindergarteners and First Graders are working on Paper Sculptures demonstrating techniques such as: fringe, spirals, curling, cutting, and tearing.
Come see me this weekend at the Bemis Spring 2014 Art Show. I will be exhibiting my work alongside thirty or more artists and live musical performances. The show is held at the edge of Seattle’s industrial district in the Bemis Building, a renovated textile manufacturing plant that now houses artists lofts.
Shown at the City Hall Rotunda Gallery in Rock Hill, South Carolina throughout the month of January is a collection of work exhibiting an assortment of mixed media paintings created from 2011-2013. In this body of work the idea of portraiture is explored both traditionally in the representation of a figure and symbolically with assembled objects. Inspired by nostalgic mementos and collected knickknacks each painting is compiled of hidden narratives. Patterns and stripes dissimulate figures into their surroundings while objects and chairs personify portraits. Collages and assemblages are formed with sentimental memorabilia stacked and rearranged, torn until the context is stripped to something entirely new. This work exists in a realm between two and three dimensionality with objects protruding and fabric wrinkling above their surfaces.
Special thanks to Mike Gentry for installing the work and my family for transporting and documenting the installation of my work.
I have recently participated in a local print exchange coordinated by local artists Chris Rollins and Paul McKercher. This is the sixth year of the X Print Exchange, which is essentially a group of artists creating editions made of different combinations and methods of printmaking based around the same central theme that will be exhibited and collected together.
This Friday, October 11th come join me for refreshments at an informal reception at Stylus Salon and Spa during the Belltown Art Walk from 7-9 pm. My 2012-13 Dollhouse Diaries series curated by Ghost Gallery will be on view throughout October.
Once again I will be exhibiting at Hart Witzen Gallery’s interdisciplinary visual art competition. This year I will be unable to attend the show in person but will be exhibiting the last painting I completed in North Carolina before moving across the country. It is one of the largest paintings I have completed (51″x53″inches) as well as one of the longest ongoing projects I have had. It began in 2011 during my first of three Painting Projects courses taken at UNCC and ended this April 2013. All artists participating will be competing for the best in show prize determined by patron vote. The opening reception will be held this Saturday September 28th from 7-11 pm. The best in show selection will be announced at the closing reception which will be held Friday, October 4th from 7-11 pm.
For more information about the exhibition click here.
