shots are no fun

yesterday when the garbage truck came the little decided that she wanted her robots to watch out the window too. almost every week she stands on her toy chest and waves to the garbage man as he picks up our trash.

she lined them up like this. i left them. because i love things in rows. [i think she's definitely my child]

she had to get 3 shots yesterday and man - that is the WORST. when she was a baby it was quick and her super duper chubby thighs seemed to prevent any long lasting effects. but now. now she can aniticpate - and by the 3rd one she was wailing no more mama no more. i'm so glad i'm not a pediatric nurse. do you think she'll believe me when she's older and i tell her it's just as traumatic for me even though i'm not getting stuck?



8 vinyl stickers
4 hand drawn doilies
9 real doilies
1 framed work of art
4 days at artMRKT in fouladi projects' booth.



i was included in this article on blogging with some really great folks.
genine
simply photo [hi jen !]
make something 365
all the mountains
the blog on the bookshelf
ollibird
you can make it easy
you are my fav
abbytrysagain [hi abby !]
jill wignall
my milk toof
pugly pixel

phew. many of these are new to me [since i don't get around much in the blogsphere - at least not like i used to].

and flow is a really beautiful magazine. i wish i could actually read dutch. but the pictures/projects are fun to look at none the less.

ok. i'm ALMOST done grading [finally]. and i have TWO 42x47 inch pieces of duralar tacked to my wall. time for some bigger work ! scary but hopefully good. and i posted on poppytalk again rivane neuenshwander .

happy friday

Red Work

my work is currently in an exhibition at nahcotta gallery.



i feel so lucky to be working with a gallery like this [actually i feel really lucky about all the spaces i work with.]

above is abbie hanging my work [kind of a pain - so thanks!]

but really - anyone who would write a post like this deserves a ton of respect in my book. so happy 11 years to nahcotta and thank you to deb for including me in this thread show !



i made all new work. based on the idea/history of redwork embroidery. did you know that so much redwork was done in embroidery because turkey red was one of the first colorfast colors that they made thread out of???



these are combinations of ideas for me. i'm continuing the dot doily paintings that i started with the newness show for artstream . adding them to my furniture explorations.



still thinking about relationships. how i can represent people via furniture. this is me and the little. it's called sit with you because that's what she asks me. mama can i sit with you?



and the clouds? well... i just like how clouds talk about dreams, another space [even heaven?]... also comfort - or an idealized comfort. who wouldn't want to lay on a fluffy cloud?

the whole show w/ complete and detail shots is here . and check out the work from the other artists in the show. i'm in good company indeed !

i'm also working on this:


an installation for fouladi projects at san francisco artMRKT . they'll be in booth #309... i'm installing some kind of vinyl [and perhaps real] doily installation along with drawings. if you are local and want a pass i might be able to finagle one for you - send me an email !



my grandma is on the right. tomorrow would have been her 93rd birthday. so i will be thinking of her. and thinking about how i wouldn't be who i am today without her influence. and how she in so many ways supported my art. probably more than she even knew.

ok. that's all i got. other than grading. but you really don't want to read about that do you?

fleeting beauty

so the show in italy.
i still find it hard to believe it happened. i mean who would think that a traveling art dealer from italy would come to my studio and then offer me a show? not me.

the show was in tandem w/ Donatella Spaziani [who sadly doesn't have a website]. and i could not be happier with the pairing. in fact my dad looked at her drawings and said - they look like something you might do. so true.

in the main room of the gallery i did a wall toxin   phendyldichlorasine AND



3 SCULPTURES. yes sculptures. and this i was most excited about. because really - my work has always skated between 2D and 3D - part of what it is ABOUT is that relationship. but i have always always wanted to make something "in the round" and just could never figure out how.

and finally. i did. they are toxins. doily covered molecular models. [and thanks mom for helping me crochet enough doilies in time to get these done !]



lewistie , 2011, crochet and glass balls, 16 x 11 x 4 inches

 

dimethyl mercury , 2011, crochet and glass balls, 17 x 9 x 5 inches



carbon tetrachloride , 2011, crochet and glass balls, 16 x 8 x 5 inches

and then i had a small room all to myself. so new drawings of toxins - ALL war nerve agents [yes scary].... and some of the deforestation paintings, and a version of the doily topiary corner installation, and a few doily trees all living together....









i was also really excited by this piece. the gallery had talked to me about doing an installation in this room where strings came from the walls or drawings and connected to other drawings/walls. i loved this idea, but never having been in the space i wondered how i could pull that off. instead i thought about making a doily piece that then connected to some of the drawings. in thinking about toxins and chemistry i thought about how in basic chemistry you could burn elements and find out what they were made of based on the colors you saw in the flame.



i decided to take the doily from each chemical drawing and actually make it [and i soon realized that i could create a rainbow]. it made sense to arrange them in a circle [like a molecule, like a clock, never-ending]. and originally i was going to have the threads that stream from the center of the doilies connect to the doilies in the drawings.



but once in the space i realized i like the thread balls attached - laying on the floor. as if the doilies were generating themselves almost.



one of my favorite drawings. sulfur mustard , 2011, colored pencil, acrylic, graphite, embroidery on duralar, 7 x 7 inches



VE - detail , 2011, colored pencil, acrylic, graphite, embroidery on duralar, 16 x 16 inches

read the press release from the show or read a review [translated]

here's the entire show [slide show - you may have to click out of your reader]

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer

also ... there's a new post on poppytalk : christine buckton tillman

happy mother's day weekend to all the moms out there !