I am making some new fungus forms using orange sweaters I buy at thrift stores. The colony is growing day by day. Vesna and I are trying to show together in the gallery space in the Art Annex at Loyola. We will both be showing work dealing with fungi and decay. I will include this piece and the ceramic works. Vesna will show really large photographs from a pinhole camera. We just need to set a date with the department.
These are my plasticine models for the next generation mountain stickers. “Mountain Stickers” will be an affordable installation art product that creates a collaboration between the collector and me, the artist. The work will be small scale, low relief mountain ranges that are easy to arrange and affix to the collector’s wall. The collector will have the option of leaving the material of the molded mountains exposed, or painting over them with their wall color to create a seamless installation. An exhibition label completes the piece and the collaboration.
I hope to have these ready for market and sale in a couple months.
Posts Tagged ‘selling’
Work in Progress- Orange Sweater Fungus, Mountain Stickers
Monday, January 19th, 2009Beautiful Decay
Friday, December 19th, 2008
New work created at Loyola from the past semester. All pieces are glazed stoneware. These are installed in my studio. I now need to find a place exhibit them. They can be installed easily with screws into any wall. They are the beginning of work I’ll be exploring, which is purchasable installation art. The work can be bought and installed by the consumer, transferring some of the art experience to the consumer.
Beautiful Decay looks at the beautiful and transformative quality of death and decay and reminds us of the cycle of destruction and creation.
Leftover Leftovers
Monday, October 27th, 2008
These four works are leftover from the Leftover’s show. They are great pieces, two latex tubing pieces, and two masking tape paintings. Don’t be the last people on the block with out one of my pieces! Contact me for more information!
Showing and Selling at Mini Dutch
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Thank you to everyone who came to the Mini Dutch show this past Saturday. I had such a great experience. It was really my first experience selling my work and I loved it. Not nearly so much for the money, which was nominal (prices from $1-$50), but because I saw my art making people happy and going to good homes! I learned so much from this show, lessons that will take years to manifest.
If you haven’t seen it yet head on over, and no not ALL the good stuff is gone, but about 1/2 is.
Mini Dutch Gallery
3111 w. diversey first floor
chicago il, 60647
773.235.5687
open Sundays 11am-3pm or call/email for appointment
minidutchgallery [at] gmail [dot] com
Fungus & Ceramics
Monday, September 15th, 2008
So, I haven’t written yet about my new, and most likely temporary teaching position teaching hand building in ceramics at Loyola! Its going really well, even though I was given such short notice (three days). I owe much of my success to Vesna, who has helped me out tremendously!
One of the great things about teaching this class is not only the added experience I’ll be gaining, the great students, and the money, but I will be making some ceramic art for the first time in a while.
I’ve been fooling around with some old ideas, but have been unhappy with them, feeling like an imitation of myself. But this weekend on the El platform there was a new idea- fungus. This orange folded delicate organism, peeking out from between the boards.
This new idea will hopefully continue another piece I made a while ago, but sold this weekend at the mini dutch show. “Mountain Stickers” are latex casts of small mountain ranges, each about one to two inches long, painted white, with double sided tape on the back. A woman bought all of them, and was so excited about them! I asked her what she would do with them and she started drawing in the air and explaining how she would make a mountain range somewhere in her apartment. I became so excited about this. She was going to go home and have a creative experience with the art she bought. I love this idea. Hopefully these new ceramic fungus pieces will work in the same way, but probably not at the same price point.
Reality Check
Monday, March 17th, 2008Art Advice is a helpful website I just started looking at.