2008 Blue Yule
artists who made ornaments for this year's Blue Yule !
Robert A., Paul Abbott, Rita Barnard, Mary Benedicto, Sue Benner, Kimberly Bradshow, Tish Brewer, Emily Cheek, Alan Cobb, Sue Cobb, Lui Collie, Ruth Collie, Dean Corbitt, Paul Covington, Sharon Covington, Sheila Cunningham, Mary Curtis, Paul Curtis, Jane M. Damon, Annie Davis, George Davis, Henry Dees, David A. Dreyer, Brenda Dreyer, Lucas Dyson, Nancy Ferro, Jen Gilson, Steve Giovinco, Kelly Girnas, Paul Rogers Harris, Rita Harvey, Kenny Hensley, Kelli Holmes, Jenny Hopkins, Juli P. Hulcy, Simeen Ishaque, Susan Shiels Johnson, Natalie Jordan, Chris Lattanzio, Susan Lecky, Peter Ligon, David Linneweh, Autumn Lopez, Eli Lorenz, Cynthia S. Mondell, Lyric Dawn Menges , Greg Metz, Ray Miller , Loren Montgomery , Pamela Nelson, Valerie Ontiveros, Sarah P., Anna Palmer, Manuel Pecina, Shannon Phillips, Laray Polk, Robin Ragin, Francy Renz, Lynn Richardson, Daniel Rivera, Shawn Saumell, Carol Vystrcil Scott, Rusty Scruby, Diane Sikes, Alison Starr, James Michael Starr, Debbie Stinson, Ivan Stoychev, Jeanne Sturdevant, Madeleine Terry, Martha Watson, Staci Whitten, Bonnie Wilber, Dahlia Woods, Greg Metz, and even more
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Mac Member's show
so this is the piece i have come up with so far to take to the MAC for the annual Member's show....as usual, I am questioning if it is good enough before i suck up my courage to display a work....
the show is about the effect or roll food plays in life....basicly.....i'm sure it could be more than that, but that is the definition i have placed on it for myself artisticly....
the show is about the effect or roll food plays in life....basicly.....i'm sure it could be more than that, but that is the definition i have placed on it for myself artisticly....
this piece is made of the plastic doll's head, wire, an antique bed spring, three jars of pickled peppers, cloth, and paper which i have written on....
The dolls head was actually a night light of sorts, given to me by my grandmother when she had an antique shop...the bed spring, i picked up at a neat store in Frankston, Texas called Pandora's box...and the Pickled peppers were from my father's garden and i pickled them myself for the first time ever, this week...
all of the elements used, are somehow connected, if not by memory alone, to visions of childhood...
like my Dia de Los Muertos piece from The Bath House Cultural Center 2007 show....this piece is fill with my grandmothers....and, this time, my father is represented with items from his garden....it is funny, but i didn't actually think about this until i started to type this up..
as a child, i had fond memories of the garden...running through the rows of vegetation....trying to hide behind corm stalks or discovering new bugs and critters attacking various plants...
This piece is called " Bitter Sweet: You are What You Eat"....
( i think it is funny)
This piece is called " Bitter Sweet: You are What You Eat"....
( i think it is funny)
Sunday, July 6, 2008
i had no idea....
so, in e spirit of my fellow 'ego surfers' who have had some interesting connections inmy world...i decided to go for it myself...put my name into the search engine and see what migh tpop up...and LOW AND BEHOld.....
i found this.....
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/10/bringing_new_life_to_day_of_th.php
weird...i never saw this before today....but, then, i guess maybe it has been THAT long since i ego surfed....
i found this.....
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/10/bringing_new_life_to_day_of_th.php
weird...i never saw this before today....but, then, i guess maybe it has been THAT long since i ego surfed....
two works, one show
so, I got off my backside and took my work up to the Visual Art League Center in Lewisville...a 25 minute drive, and very easy to find....
701 S. Stemmons FWY. #115
lewisville, Texas 75067
if you are interested..... it is in a strip shopping center off Fox street and has the words ART GALLERY in bright blue on the from of the storefront gallery.....
i had never been there, as i said, but was pleasantly suprised by the location and the setup of the rooms....the front two, full glass with white walls, and two other rooms in back, filled with artwork lining the walls....
As is par, the show allowed for 3 works to be entered for the entry fee, and i took advantage of that....scouring my rooms for works done in the last 24 months that i felt were at least "ok" to display....
i ended up taking, " Of Butterflies", " upside down is better", and " Vin 2"......
I never have been one to know what to expect from these things....jurored shows that is....i have concluded that I will never really be able to figure out what a juror might want for a show....i have only been accepted into a few jurored shows, and not a single one of them could i have predicted what might have been chosen out of the work entered....
This time, " Of Butterflies" was jurored out...and i will have to go pick it up this week....
which is funny....because it is the peice that got me invited to be a part of the 'El Corazon' show back in february.....and just goes to show how little i know about what people like...or not necessarily like, but are willing to display....if that makes sense....i dunno...
this is an issue i am still working on, for myself....
and some i will surely write about more in the future, as it is part of my process of developing as an artist....
but, having said that, the other two peices were accepted into the show....YAY!....i am very happy about this....and the opening and reception is next saturday from 7-9.
So, it looks like i will be trying to swing two openings saturday night...the VAL show and then swinging back by the Bath House Cutural Center for their next show....and hopefully visit with James Michael Starr. We will see how that goes in my space time continuum...
I am off to East Texas this afternoon....heading first to Canton to walk through their 'junk' and see if i might spy some art inspirational findings....then to Lindale to pick up kiddo, who I haven't seen in over a week and am dying to kiss his beautiful face....then we head to my parent's farm where kiddo and my father have planted sunflowers that are ready to be cut...again, a source of inspiration and hopefully some good pics to display here as well....
701 S. Stemmons FWY. #115
lewisville, Texas 75067
if you are interested..... it is in a strip shopping center off Fox street and has the words ART GALLERY in bright blue on the from of the storefront gallery.....
i had never been there, as i said, but was pleasantly suprised by the location and the setup of the rooms....the front two, full glass with white walls, and two other rooms in back, filled with artwork lining the walls....
As is par, the show allowed for 3 works to be entered for the entry fee, and i took advantage of that....scouring my rooms for works done in the last 24 months that i felt were at least "ok" to display....
i ended up taking, " Of Butterflies", " upside down is better", and " Vin 2"......
I never have been one to know what to expect from these things....jurored shows that is....i have concluded that I will never really be able to figure out what a juror might want for a show....i have only been accepted into a few jurored shows, and not a single one of them could i have predicted what might have been chosen out of the work entered....
This time, " Of Butterflies" was jurored out...and i will have to go pick it up this week....
which is funny....because it is the peice that got me invited to be a part of the 'El Corazon' show back in february.....and just goes to show how little i know about what people like...or not necessarily like, but are willing to display....if that makes sense....i dunno...
this is an issue i am still working on, for myself....
and some i will surely write about more in the future, as it is part of my process of developing as an artist....
but, having said that, the other two peices were accepted into the show....YAY!....i am very happy about this....and the opening and reception is next saturday from 7-9.
So, it looks like i will be trying to swing two openings saturday night...the VAL show and then swinging back by the Bath House Cutural Center for their next show....and hopefully visit with James Michael Starr. We will see how that goes in my space time continuum...
I am off to East Texas this afternoon....heading first to Canton to walk through their 'junk' and see if i might spy some art inspirational findings....then to Lindale to pick up kiddo, who I haven't seen in over a week and am dying to kiss his beautiful face....then we head to my parent's farm where kiddo and my father have planted sunflowers that are ready to be cut...again, a source of inspiration and hopefully some good pics to display here as well....
Saturday, July 5, 2008
making it happen
so, i made myself get up out of my super comfy bed to drive to lewisville and enter a jurored show...i took three peices and await hearing if any of them got in...this is how it goes in the jurored art show world...you hope, cross your fingers, and wait....i will hear something tonight, maybe....and then will have to go pick up my work....
but, this is about the effort for me...the actual forcing myself to get out the door and do this thing...to make myself get out there in the world and attempt to be a part of it...
and I am patting myself on the back for rolling out of bed to do so....
but, this is about the effort for me...the actual forcing myself to get out the door and do this thing...to make myself get out there in the world and attempt to be a part of it...
and I am patting myself on the back for rolling out of bed to do so....
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