Dec. 22

My buddies

Dec. 15

Moonrise Kingdom for Bazaar

Dec. 13

My little Christmas nook

dec. 12 -cayce zavaglia

http://vimeo.com/51107397 (i would have the video up running in this window but it looks like Blogger allow you to upload videos anymore NOOOO!) i met the father of this amazing portrait artist, Cayce Zavaglia, while I was working at anthro a few nights ago (her dad is an artist in wood carvings, himself). he told me about how his daughter transitioned from working with oil paints to sewing with wool thread, (first beginning when she started getting pregnant with her 4 kids and couldn't be inhaling the fumes anymore from the paint). -the result is an overwhelmingly captivating and intriguing way of recreating each unique, undulating surface area and form of her models (i know, because one of the portraits on her site is of her dad). www.caycezavaglia.com, www.coeur-de-larbre.com

Dec. 11th

Cy twombly, (untitled), 2001. Wood, plastic, pulp, and printed paper, plaster, synthetic resin paint, 39 * 40 * 29.8

dec. 5

sorry i've been m.i.a,


well!! the opening reception for the WAAS "Limbo" show was awesome!! I was able to meet a lot of  really great people in the art community here and also was so excited to get to meet all of the other artists; they were all so down to earth and fun to talk with... i made some new art friends!!! :)

like i was saying before with how the paintings for Limbo are made (in keeping with the loose concept of the show), they're responses to my painting, "Fizz" from 5-6 years ago that is dark and rich, simple, with sparsely placed pops of color

i was thinking a lot about my dad when i was making them and i ended up naming them "the other side, 1, ""2, and ""3.
it was ironic that a show that i was able to be in this fall/winter, after my dad's going home to the Lord, has been called Limbo because it really fits in a lot of ways to how my family and me are doing right now. it's a dual meaning for me in that "the other side" is waiting and transitioning (and trying to actually invision) being on 'the other side' of the mourning --and having us here and him there as more of a "normal" state of being for our lives here... Even more so, though, is the meaning for me that he is on 'the other side' and now it is a state of "limbo" for our lives in waiting to be there with him on the other side.
the paintings are dark with areas of beautiful, happy even, colors. the spots of color are separated by tense amounts of space (lonliness and separation); but the areas of colors in those placed spots are blurring in and out and push through the dark areas...not to sound cheesy but its a moment of being suspending in darkness and beauty. --darkness in the acceptance, hardship and pain but beauty in the waiting and faith for what is more than what we see.