Savoir-Faire 2010!

Soho20 is hosting its second annual performance series!  From November 5 - 20, you can visit the gallery to watch and participate in exciting performative works by women artists.   Click here to view the schedule and here to learn more and help support the series via Kickstarter.  

Calling All Artists - 2011 Soho20 Studio Residency Program!!!

Deadline to apply is November 20th.  Click here for details and to apply.

"Between the lines" at Soho20

Photos from Soho20 Gallery's 2010 member group exhibition, Between the lines, which closed on October 2.  I was very excited to have exhibited work with this prestigious group of artists.

Work by (L-R) Darla Bjork and Martha Edelheit

(L-R): Francine LeClercq, Lannie Hart and Darla Bjork

(L-R): Carla Hernandez, Susan Hockaday and Eve Ingalls

Foreground: Kathy Stark; background: Anne McKeown

Work by Aphrodite Desiree Navab

L-R: Anne McKeown, Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Gayle Tanaka and Lannie Hart

L-R: Gayle Tanaka, Lannie Hart and Aphrodite Desiree Navab

Paintings on center wall by Diane Churchill; background: Eve Ingalls; foreground: Lannie Hart

L-R: Anne McKeown and Mariangeles Soto-Diaz

Foreground: Anne McKeown; center: Carla Hernandez; back: Darla Bjork

Closer images of my two pieces in the show:

Molten (I come when you call), 2010

acrylic and pencil on packaging paper

48 x 30 in.

Molten (I come when you call), 2010 - detail

Molten (I come when you call), 2010 - detail

Can Barely Contain Myself, 2010

mixed media assemblage with cut up postcards from my "Exploding Heart" exhibition

9 x 12 in.

This photo of me was taken in '97 or '98 by Jennifer Poole, a fellow visual art student at Rutgers University (and my next door neighbor in the Jameson dorms on Douglass campus).  I recall her asking me to sit for this portrait, taken from the opposite side of plastic sheeting, for a project that she was working on in which she asked every sitter to write down their biggest regret (mine was that I did not say "I love you" to my father before he passed away).  I like the dreamy quality of this image - it has a blurry affect almost like seeing through eyes welled up with tears.  It also makes me think of a vintage photo, or of how some memories appear fuzzy in the mind.  

Speaking of regrets, I lost touch with Jennifer after we graduated.  I ran into her once in Chelsea but don't know why I didn't do a better job of following up with that encounter.  I really enjoyed knowing her when we were in school and her work always impressed me.  Jennifer, if you by chance Google your name and this blog post comes up, drop me a note!  

Group Show at Soho20

I'll be in this upcoming group exhibition with several exquisite artists at Soho20 Gallery.

A Thrilling Offer!

I've been invited to attend the Vermont Studio Center in April 2011 for a one month artist residency!  The Review Committee has recommended me for an Artist's Grant and a Work Exchange Award.  I'm so thrilled that I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight - oh Happy News!!!

Exhibition Postpartum

Removing my name and exhibition title: a mourning practice.  

I didn't realize that the close of my exhibition would come with a wave of depression; a sense of loss, displacement and heartbreak.  I'd spent the last year creating an intimate body of work that had previously existed in the privacy and security of my home studio, then spent weeks preparing for the exhibition itself; exposed that intimate body of work to the public for nearly four (short) weeks, then took everything down and put it all to rest.  Three pieces were sold - a wonderful transaction but one that means I hand over pieces of myself.

And now to figure out what comes next; I feel immobilized and unmotivated.  Everything I'd been putting off because the exhibition was my priority now needs to be faced (finding a job is on the top of that list) and all the while I want to keep up the pre-show momentum I had built.  But I don't know how or where to start and am even questioning everything I'm asking myself to do.  

I googled "post-exhibition blues" and found this article on ArtistPortfolio.net, among other blog entries and articles.  I'm glad to know now that what I've been experiencing is normal.