my sol lewitt moment + a give-a-way
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so.... i didn't really want to talk about this beforehand because i had NO IDEA how it was going to turn out. i got to have a sol lewitt experience. when i was asked to be in depth of surface at san francisco state the gallery director asked me to have a visionary moment outside of the building.
he said : we have a vinyl cutting machine. you make doilies. we'd love to make vinyl doilies and stick them all over the entrance doors. we have tons of students who can work on this. game?
heart racing as i had wanted to do this for years - in fact i researched getting vinyl doilies but couldn't afford to get them cut... i quickly said yes.
so several emails and an map i generated in illustrator later.... voila. they did it. and not only did they do it - they did it ALL over the building.
including the bathroom [that's me in the ladies room up top]. god i love enthusiastic students. so much. i feel blessed. i want to do this again and again in a big way. how to fund it? find the buildings to do it to? i don't know. but i want it. i could get used to being sol ... giving directions .... having it come together .... mmm hmmmm
and the other piece? i added wall drawings and crochet and felt bits around it ....
[sorry it's just not as exciting as the vinyl, huh?]
here are all the install shots [this is a pictobrowser image viewer - so it might not show up in a feedreader?]
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and the give-a-way? well - they gave me some extra doilies. so comment here with where you'd want to put one if you had one and i'll pick a winner next thursday :: 3/11.
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Now for the doily - it would be in my window - I live on the 2nd floor of a building on a main road, with a big bay/picture window overlooking the city and the sea....now if it was in fantasy I would put it in the windows of Galeries Lafayette in Paris or perhaps on the glass pyramid at the Louvre or perhaps on the shining silver outside of Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao - that would dd some colour......somewhere designed with vision to do justice to yours!
i think your artwork looks pretty magic too.
i would obviously put the doiley on my girls window :) - i havent found any curtains that i was happy with so it is still bare.
xxx
I would love to find a way to add some doilies to my vintage bicycle.. if that didn't work, I'd love them scattered around my apartment as little surprises/pops of color
i really wasn't commenting because of the giveaway, but i would put a doily in my studio or new house :)
If I get caught I can always say it's art...
;-)
I would put a doily on my bedroom window, so it would have the sydney city skyline peeking through behind it.
the entrance
made my heart stop.
doilies
in vinyl.
you are
magic girl!
i have a huge bay window in my apartment that looks onto a lovely tree lined street. my writing desk is in the window and that is what i'd doily in my home...
stunning, lisa. just beautiful.
There's a largish window in my bedroom that I stare at while I lie in bed in the morning, one of these would look awesome in it.
did you see that movie "herb and dorothy?" they had a sol lewitt piece that dorothy completed in their tiny nyc bathroom.
i'm torn about where i would put a doily. i'd either put one up in my work office window and leave it when i'm done here in april as my legacy of sorts (the office could use a little more color and creativity) or would stick it in our front window so everyone who walks by could enjoy it.
one would have been awesome on our old junker car, but we just gave him away.
i love how they look on mirrors...i'd place it on a mirror somewhere in my home.
okay, i would ask the staff if we could put one on the windows of the conference room, looks out onto the street from the gallery. xoxo, k.
Wow...what fun. I would like one for my daughter...on her big window facing a school yard...it would be great for her looking out and the kids looking up. Great pieces...I would love to get over there and see them up close.
Liz & Oona
As for the amazing vinyl doilies, I would definately use them to brighten up the living room in my shared apartment. My room is decorated with art and pictures but the living room is bare. I think it's time to give it some life =] thank you for the incredible giveaway!
Taylor
I'd put mine in my crafty room to inspire me to create and think outside the box. It would be wonderfully fun to put them in my kindergarten classroom as well (I'm a teacher by day). Oh, the possibilities!
~kelsey
My bedroom right now is totally bare so what an excellent start to an art collection to have a doilie that says Lisa S.!!
Best,
Annamaria
And as for the doily. I am not sure. On a round window we have looking out the street, or a large mirror or my girls' bedroom door. Many little bits of these house could improve by sticking doilies onto them :)
(I wish I could stick it at my daily work space, to embellish a very gray surrounding...)
I would prob. put mine in my bedroom, where I could look at it everyday.
If I was lucky enough to win one I would put it on my mirror - i found it at a second-hand market - it's oval, decorative carved wood frame, it was in a poorly state when i claimed it - i've dressed it up with some pink paint and a doilie addition would make it look extra lovely!
Thanks for the chance - definitely enjoyed sharing this! :)
obviously i'd love to put one in my window right in front of my desk.
thanks for your recent reading recommendations--the 'is this art' one was especially useful. xx
i forgot...
i'd put one
on the door
to my lab.
:)
ps i got
your package
last night!
your pieces
look so
wonderful
over our bed.
his over grub
hers over me.
xoxoxo
Saw these on flickr , but didn't realize how many there are-these are amazing!
Your new piece looks fantastic, too. Lisa, thank you for always inspiring :)
where would i put one? so hard to choose one place. but. when we bought this house 7 years ago there were mirrors everywhere - on closet doors and whole wall mirrors and everywhere. we've taken most of them down, except for one large smoky mirror covering a narrow-ish wall in the living room, and i would absolutely have to put my vinyl doily there for everybody to see. and i will be thinking about this idea now forever. oh my. xo.
xoxo
p.s. missing this space so much... looking forward to a long catch-up over the weekend :)
and I think I would put one in the girls' room, on the big mirror they dance in front of-
i would put one on the gallery doors at csueb in honor of such a talented artist and teacher. we miss seeing you around:)
ps-saw the sjica show-congratulations! it's a great exhibition!!