Driving to Houston from Austin I saw a build board with a photo of s'mores advertising one of those lazy river resorts. My whole body immediately filled up with joy and happiness. Such great memories of camping and cooking out with family, friends and s'mores. As a result I am starting a new series -" s'more memories". I am casting sticks with marshmallows on them. A few sticks alone and some in groupings. Below are the first 6 pieces before spruing. I will also cast a bunch of independent marshmallows to place with the sticks. I can't wait to share the memories.
"gust"
Sunday I started 8 color monoprints for my gust body of work. I started with black and red and today I added silver. Gust is a series of bronze new hats caught by a gust of wind that abstract as they tumble, toss, and blow. The first phase of the bronze series will be completed this time next year. I will show them for the first time in the new MFAH Glassell exhibition space.
gust
11" X 15"
I decided to use the red because my first hat (I was 4 years old) and these will be my first gust monoprints.
Me with hat and dolls 1961 ish
"gust"
Is a series of bronze sculptures caught in a gust of wind. I started the series a few years ago and will complete the first phase of the series this time next year.
This is week I have finished chasing the surface, recreating the felt texture.
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Glassell - foundry lifers
I am on the left with my friend and Studio suite mate Vanessa Nasta. We are Glassell foundry lifers. @TxRx labs. We both have pieces is the 2017 BLOCK XVI show in the the interspace gallery in the old Nabisco factory building (the temporary location of the MFAH Glassell studio school).
Every wire tells a story....
When you stop and look- I mean really look you will see the memories it holds, the sorrow it marks, the imagination it embellishes.
I was cleaning up my dirty studio in preparation for a studio visit by a premier Houston curator and a gallery owner/art historian. I picked up these two scraps that had broken off a bigger piece of wire and fallen to the floor. I pinned it to my wall to take a second look when I can take more time to listen. I snapped a few pictures before going home yesterday. And over coffee this morning I am entwined by the expression these two discarded pieces of wire cloth have. I am not sure the narrative, yet but in time I will figure it out.
You are invited
BLOCK XVI group spring show open thru 4/7 at the #MFAH #glassellstudioschoolofart 2450 holcombe Blvd entrance #81 on the second floor near the main stairs from 9:00 am- 10:00 pm. Also in the show are @sarahfisherportraits@vannastaart @nell_gottlieb @shangyihua @kareneiseleartist @dpw_art and boo Kennedy#wire #woman #dancer #walking
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"entropy" 2017
"Saturday, January 21st, 2017" 2017
found object wire cloth and led light
"photo finish"
I am reworking a wire-cloth sculpture that was not as successful as I would have liked. It went from being an abstract of a male dancer leaping, into an abstract of a runner trying to cross the finish line first. In sprint photo finishes you will notice they stick their chest out to cross the tape first. in photo finishes the lower part of the runners legs are blurs. This hangs close to the wall and cast shadows of another runner.
El Oado Museum of Fine Arts
Texas highways gets it right. I love this museum it truly reflects border heritage.
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral - III movement
The merry gathering-
My interpretation of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, Pastoral 3rd movement. The piece depicts a merry gathering of folks in the country celebrating in dance. I used lively pastels and ink to express the joy and festive feeling of the music. I choose the brown paper to represent the country.
Detail
BLOCK XVI spring group show
BLOCK XVI group spring show opens today at the #MFAH #glassellstudioschoolofartlocated at 2450Holcombe Blvd entrance #81 on the second floor near the main stairs from 9:00 am- 10:00 pm. Also in the show are @sarahfisherportraits@vannastaart @nell_gottlieb @shangyihua @kareneiseleartist @dpw_art and boo Kennedy#wire #woman #dancer #walking
" Saturday, January 21st, 2017
28" W X 55"T X 20" shadow is variable
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suffrage
New photo by Will Michels http://madebywill.com/
SUFFRAGE 2014
10" X 20" X 30"
bronze and distressed gold leaf
With close inspection this piece is evidence of the strength of the suffragettes and Victorian equestrian women. Every fracture, crevice, split, gap, and rift is an inscription of their courage, their athletic ability, their drive to overcome oppression, and eventually tallied their right to vote.
Suffrage
Www.madebywill.com does it again. Will Michels took this beautiful photo of my bronze sculpture.
Photo by Will Michels
Patina - faux bois
A great patina on concrete comes with exposure and time. With 5 years the patina on this small table is coming along nicely.
Detail from a small table I made in 2012
Finding the roots of my artistic voice in the Guadalupe Mountains.
Rushing into my garage on Wednesday I saw this broken branch laying on top of the trash can. My husband had picked it up earlier that morning on our patio and was disposing of it. Feeling like I was 6 years old and he had thrown away my favorite doll I grabbed that broken branch, and set it aside where it would be safe and jumped into my car to go to my studio.
I thought about that 36" long broken branch and the feelings it aroused in me when it caught my eye as it sat - goosebumps, heart skipping a beat, and protective. These were weird reactions to a broken branch. Thursday still perplexed by why I was so moved by it, I finally sat it on the pedestal in my garage work space and stepped away.
It was so obvious - it is not a broken limb, it is an abstraction of the Guadalupe Mountains. This broken and discarded limb to my eye oddly reflects the lines and shapes of the vast landscape I absorbed in my youth. The landscape that 50+ years later still influences my artistic palate. The landscape whose lines are so see deeply rooted in my subconscious that I am drawn to even when I do not recognize them.
The Guadalupe Mountains - view from the side of our old house in Dell City, Texas
This is the view from my bedroom window until I as 7 years.
in color - I took this December 2016. I had not been back since I was about 10 years old. Honestly I did not even remember these majestic mountains. .
"My Guadalupes" My next bronze.
happy dog VI mono print
Detail
New series of mono prints- work in progress
I am experimenting - these are after the first layer. They are in order as I worked on them. There will be many more layers to come. You are supposed to start with the light colors first. I decided to see what happens when I break that rule so I started with black.
Mark making with the roller
This I am working on as I clean up my inks.
Kinder Morgan Gallery - "murmur of the water"
Photo by Vanessa Nasta
MURMUR OF THE WATER
79" X 50" paint, ink, and pastels on stonehenge 2015
murmur of water
On view in the window exhibitions n space at the kinder Morgan gallery
"gust"
30 lbs. of bronze to pour 1 hat.
Still working on the series- we poured another one today, (of the three I sprued up last fall). There were a few voids. I am hopeful they will make it interesting.
It looks good from this side. :)
"gust"
Thursday I will grind off the sprue nubs with my angle grinder. Then texture the spots where the sprues and vents were. Then patina it when all of them are finished.
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