hear me blab
so... if you are in the area and have nothing to do tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 14th at 7pm...
i'll be talking about me and my work at CCA - on the Oakland Campus - in the textiles department [if you know where dick blick art store is on broadway - it's above that!]. i'm working on finalizing the order of my images and what the heck i'll be saying. *cough cough* i'm hoping there will be questions. [please let there be questions].
above is one of the pieces i sent of for my show at the richard levy gallery . besides the stuff that i'm constantly dealing with [domesticity, feminism, art + craft, etc] i feel as though i'm starting to talk more about history, about longing, about the past and how things change. i'm really getting into wallpaper - as pattern, as personality and more specifically as a marker for time. you know... if you hang a frame on the wall and it doesn't move for 20 years and you remove it - how the color shifts - it's like the wall has a memory. i'm also developing the idea of the beds and chairs having more personalities - not simply interacting with each other as stand-ins for relationships as they have been, but also as entities in their own worlds. what type of person IS this chair? where do they live? what does it say about them. i titled the above piece orange chair :: past and present - as if it's the same chair in the same room, but things have changed - and the thread is what ties the past to the present.....
if you come tomorrow night you might hear me say the above all over again..... OK i got to get back to prepping...
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I love that there is so much history in your work...the history of your thoughts and creativity.
Good luck on your speech tomorrow-I am sure there will be questions.
Wish I could come and ask questions...
Thanks for the shot of art in a long day!
Good luck with your talk!
I wish you the best!
"the past and how things change" - LOVE!!!!!!
it makes me think a little about amisha and the quilt she found for $5...what journey has it been on seen it was created..
wish wish wish i could be there..:) xxx
Maybe you could do a podcast some day..?
love to go...
i'd have
lots of
questions!
and the
wallpaper...
memory...
i am so
with you
on that...
good luck-
i am sure
it
will be
fantastic!
love that new piece!
i like the idea of history and objects having a history. i have so many old objects in my home, and i often wonder about their history. i would love to see the things they have seen.
this piece is awesome.
Good luck and I hope people show up and give you lots to think about
my kitchen could be looking half ok bu now except that I'm a bit hooked on the 7 layers of wallcoverings that were found as i removed the cupboards. not one of them is at all nice, but the history of it, and the fact that someone else thought they were nice, and yet applied them so badly (chunks missing, lumpy layers), something about that appeals to me.
it's like the mobile home version of uncovering an amazing fireplace behind some panels. to make it bearable to live with (it really was TOO gross) i painted it all white, but the patterns and textures still show so now it looks like a choice rather than an error.
when I pulled back one lauer of VILE paper in the hall i found it was hiding a head sized hole in the wall, which had been stuffed with plastic bags and a kids wellie boot! honestly, my desire to have an installation of the de-construction of my home was HUGE.
I loved the idea of those bags along a wall with the boots at the end, and the layers of wallpaper shreddings all stiched and framed with my thoughts and some history of the house around them.
Oops, i'm rambling again, but I don't know many other people who would understand that urge.
:)
good luck!
Well, ms. solomon - you have done it again, producing another corker of a piece! This is seriously great. I am loving all your thoughts on connection, time -place....so great how these transpire into your work. Having big art lust and envy all at the one time...chuckle chuckle.
Thinking of you and your talk! - know you will be great. Don't I wish I could be in the backrow to call out a question or two...then I'd shout you a beer for afters to celebrate!
hope it went well - looking forward to hearing all about it. xox
have a great weekend,
Tiffany
and thank you all for such kind kind words about my work. i am constantly amazed that anyone cares at all what i'm thinking about in my own little world.
tara! oh how i love frida - any connection you saw to her work is just so lovely. thank you!
cally... you story moves me in so many ways. i wish i could see pictures of what you tlk about.
julie... i'm not sure a podcast would work as you'd have to see images, but maybe we can figure out a way to do that. i'd love to actually answer any questions that you have!
kelly - figure out a way for me to get to DC and i'd be there in a heart beat !! i wish i had more of a travel fund!
Your work is growing stronger and so much consistency I find. Well done! You should be proud, really!