For the past five years I have been collecting and filling moleskins with drawings. They have accompanied me in my travels overseas, across the country, to different cities, waiting rooms, teacher meetings, airports - any place that I visit long enough to capture in pen. Below is my most recent journey.
This weekend, April 1 - 2nd, I will be exhibiting in the Bemis Spring Arts Show. I will be featuring a new site specific installation, The Not so Still, Still Life, made of hanging assembled and found objects (shown below) as well as miniature tin assemblages (shown above in video).
Tiny Human Moments is a collaborative installation created with artist and art educator Amanda Amsel. It is currently on view in Amazon's western window in South Lake Union Seattle, WA, on Harrison and Boren St. This project is supported and funded by Shunpike's Storefronts program and will be exhibited from March until July 2017.
I am excited to be participating in the show, Everyone's in 3D, at The Alice gallery in Georgetown, Seattle WA. This is an annual tradition at The Alice that will be exhibiting participants work in a large wunderkammer-style exhibition that will run from December 17 - January 14. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, December 17 from 5-8pm, and the closing will take place during Georgetown Art Attack on January 14.
Top Left: Drip, Top Right: Cut the Sugar, Bottom Left: Plow Boy, Bottom Right: Patch
Next week I will have new miniatures on view as part of the 10th Annual Holiday Mini Art Exhibit at Ghost Gallery.
Opens Thursday, Dec. 8th 5-9pm during Capitol Hill Art Walk
On view through Feb. 5th, 2017
These works explore the aesthetics of advertisements used to promote the everyday consumer object. Mini tin collages are created with repurposed retro advertisements and packaging of home goods; inspired by the color, type and graphics of bygone American consumerism culture. Marketed vices range from Jamaican rum to drip coffee to chewing tobacco and corn syrup with imitation maple flavor. Cut, rotated and nailed together these labels are reconfigured with trademarks of household necessities like Band-Aids and glue.
Breaking from the restraints of the square or rectangle, my work is constructed of parts taken from specific times and places, moments and histories. The parts that I assemble are considered for both their narrative as well as their formal qualities. These artifacts are personally found and collected as well as gifted and inherited, serving as conduits for memories and metaphors. When arranged together as a collective set or composition of color, shape, texture and form, they rouse the senses of unspoken and interpretive reminders and possibilities. The words of Rebecca Solnit materialized as I sifted and contemplated my collection of objects in an attempt to follow the objects back in time and decode the secret constellations of the past.
Detail of The Old Diner with the New Chicken Recipe, 2016
New miniature assemblages will be available during First Thursday's Art Walk in Pioneer Square as part of the 57'Biscayne Artist Studios' third annual 100 Under 100 exhibition.
(Left) Old Diner with the New Chicken Recipe, (Middle) Punch, (Right) Lunchbox
Click for more information: event details.
Detail of The Search for the Right Key, 2015
This coming Halloween weekend I am participating in the Bemis Arts 2015 Fall Masquerade themed show. My latest assemblage series will be on view from 12 - 8 pm Saturday, October 31st to 12 - 6 pm November 1st. This series embraces 'chance and choice' configurations of found materials. Focused on musical themes, puns and narrative, these works are constructed with, but not limited to, salvaged and collected: wood, tin, piano keys, as well as guitar and violin parts.
For more information about the show refer to the Bemis Arts site.
The animation above playfully demonstrates my creative, experimental and collaborative process of working alongside Krisna Schumann. Together we have worked diligently as 'painters who don't always need to use paint' to create the installation, Spaces Between Places, currently on view in the storefront at Amazon on the corner of Boren and Harrison St. in the South Lake Union Area of Seattle, WA.
