COMVIDEO-- Vote Online Now!

My video is titled "Never Tell a Lie" (#90). Vote Online Now! EXHIBITION OPENING
COMVIDEO An Open Call Exhibition With an essay by Pinky Carnage Opening reception: Wed, Nov 10, 6-8 pm Including over 140 videos submitted from 19 countries.
Vote online and visit COMVIDEO at apexart. We invited artists and creative others from around the world to cut, dub, reverse, add to, and otherwise manipulate at least one broadcast commercial and submit a 60 second video. Add a critical element to the exhibition by helping us determine the best works. The top five finalists will have their work shown on a public screen in Manhattan, and the winner will receive a $2,000 cash prize.

i still believe that love is out there

Studio Update: October..

sketchbook drawing, ink and colored pencil

painting studies, oil on wood panel, 8"x8" and 12"x12" panels

one day, i will be a real artist. sketchbook drawing, ink and colored pencil

going nowhere. oil on wood panels, 10"x10" each

wild geese

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

the object and the negotiation

Art-making is a constant negotiation. Between the world, its movements, this city, a job, family, personal roadblocks. As a child, I looked at the artist as free from restraints, free to create, to make, to live outside of the every day negotiations that seemed to plague the non-creative. I see this as a faulted view now. No one is unrestrained. The artist almost has a more difficult relationship with these factors, as she is constantly clawing out time in the day to create, paving a route that walks between the fantastic creative spirit and the world. I wonder, if given all the time in the world, what kind of art would she create? I believe that it is this relationship with the social order, the daily grind, the negotiations made with time and interest management that make the desire stronger. The work is at times a response or a release from social restraints. It comes from a place that is here and now. The negotiation is as much a part of the art as the object.

Big Girl Job: Ink Drawings in studio

One should be able to seek inspiration from life's daily situations. So I have begun using my time spent in the office as subject matter for a new series of ink drawings, which will hopefully develop into a larger project. Much like the scenes of the suburbs, the American Dream, its loneliness and desires, can be seen in these seemingly mundane objects. The office chair, the computer, the window viewing out onto a bustling New York City street: they are symbols of progress, of success, of having what I've heard it referred to as a "big girl job". The objects, spaces, and technologies utilized to attain this concept of success are utilitarian and serve the purpose of connecting our bodies to our task. They can also seem distant, forgotten, and stark. A few recent explorations below:

Summer Inspiration

"if there is nothing in common between you and other people, try being close to things, they will not desert you; there are the nights still and the winds that go through the trees and across many lands among things and with the animals everything is still full of happening, in which you may participate.."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Dreams of Love: Brooklyn Studio move-in

Officially moved my art storage out of my bedroom and into a new studio space in Brooklyn! On a 90 degree NYC Saturday, my lovely friends helped move boxes, easel, table, etc down a 4th floor walk up and into an old creeky freight elevator off Grand Street. An exhausting few hours, but totally worth it! Didn't have the heart to actually set the space up properly yet, but I am excited to begin working on new projects and share the space with the talented Josh Bricker. Some photos of the day below:

view from our floor

inspirational quotes abound.

i think we should call this the magic throne

the space.

...and it wouldn't be a proper end to moving, without playing in the busted fire hydrant down the street :). I love Brooklyn!