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waaaambulance

Published on December 29, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

waaaah I am so busy
waaaah I am so stressed out
waaaah I have so many feelings
waaaah I miss my family
waaaah I never get enough sleep
waaaah waaaah waaaah

ugh ugh ugh Neurotic Phu made a guest appearance in my life this morning as I irrationally started getting irritated with myself for not having an exhibition plan of my own work for 2010 (I try to have my work in 3-5 shows a year), which is dumb because HELLO, it is NOT EVEN 2010 yet. what is my problem??? I obviously need more booze and fewer emails in my life. someday…

This is coming up next week, details very soon:

idea time

Published on December 23, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

ideally for this very specific space I love in Philly

and conveniently, there is a deadline soon.

black lines starting in the lecture space; debris across the floor, even beside reception desk; it slowly accumulates along the threshold, below and above, leading into the space; growing up from the ground and then creeping along the wall until there is a burst of darkness and line and ink and hair and silk; and facing, from the window light, opposing masses of black lines are white/clear/dirty/translucent marks, opposite in pigment and even dirtier as you inspect them; grid of drawing squares; prints on methyl cellulose hanging, floated, from the wall surface; alternating wax and glue. 3 installations to fill the room.

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Given how accessible and public this here blargh is, I never use this thing for hashing out my in-betweens; So public with product and private with process, but maybe, maybe, maybe I’ll change it up a little.

to do, to do, to do, to do, tomorrow

Published on December 3, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Just got home from a lovely evening with my neighborhood buddies, watching the annual Monument lighting ceremony. I don’t know what it is about this time that gets me all shmoopy, but the lights blinking in every window, hiding behind poofy sweaters and scarves, shoving my little hand into the pocket of your coat, all of that gets me so corny and smiley and happy to be nostalgic and alive. Fireworks, too.

My To Do list has grown a To Do list; pretty soon it will just grow some legs and run around my apartment, taunting me.

All for good reason though, which is of course this year’s Annual Holiday Heap!!!!

we’re gearing up and pretty darn excited. With each show we do, I love that we get better and better, and I’m honored to be showing with my little crafty family here. I have piles of new day planners, all collated and wanting glue. some new upcycled materials using some cool oooooold book covers with the original marbled paper. bookmarks. tyvek.

I had ambitious intentions tonight of finishing a few bindings, but this work week so took it out of me that I will dare go to bed NOW and wake up way way way early (did I mention? I don’t think any of us Mafia members will be sleeping at all on Friday) to get done portion 1 of 54269786327856349287326479 of this monstrous to do list. And then we’ll have the show, and then there will be lots of thumbs up. (and hopefully mama treatin us to dinner, wokka wokka).

See you at 2640!!! If I don’t sell out of everything (and there are always some things left), I think try my hand at a blog giveaway. That’s enough though! ambitious to bed!

almost here…

Published on November 24, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

wild turkey + apple cider

Published on October 1, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

theartists

In MFA-world, we called it Post-Partum-Show-Depression, that every time you have an exhibition, you celebrate and then completely crash. The feeling can last anywhere from a day to months. I’m sure we all experience it in different ways–you spend months, years, latelatelate nights churning out this beast, show it off, go on a celebratory bender for however many days you have friends in town, and then you come home in the evening and look at your desk that is no longer covered in horsehair, silk, wax, or paper scraps. “now wut?”

What to do? The dishes that have piled up, not that you’ve had the time to cook a proper meal all month. Sort through your bedroom floor’s mountain of dirty clothes blending into the clean clothes you were too lazy to put away. Scrub that shower curtain. oh, right, and remember what it means to take care of yourself again: cooking (for real though), hot yoga, returning social phone calls, getting more than 3-4 hours of sleep. it’s totally glorious! not spending Friday nights with your creative cohorts at the hardware store? amazing.

This time around, the post-terrain-malaise only lingered for ~48 hours. not bad! It certainly helped that my old studiomate and BFF Mandy came for the festivities, so instead of nursing my headache (and liver) under the covers all day, we had our little nerd-out slumber party and talked shop and offset artist books, gossiped about boys, drank recovery smoothies, and shared food stories. I’m thinking about my next drawings and some upcoming deadlines, but for now it’s nice to be slooooow.

So, you know I have a Tumblr for dumping all things inspirational/cats/sharks/90’s/venn diagrams. I mostly source from other art blogs (BTdubs: biiiiiggggesssstttt tumblr/blogosphere pet peeve: NOT SOURCING THE ARTIST WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SHOW OFF SOMETHING COOL. HATE YOU GUYZ. SOURCE THAT SHIT, OKAY) and through the usual sleepy-internet-metaclicking we all do, I found this great art blog by Siong Chin. I like his blog more than the usual Art Dump Blogs (fecalface/boom/ffffffffffffffound/beautiful decay/brightstupidconfetti/etc.) because it’s way narrative and personal, and not just a “oh here is something cool to look at, peace”. It’s easy to wander into Twee-land when you’re doing stuff like this, and he keeps his posts poignant, candid, and sincere.

how about some Hexagon updates for ya:

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crunch tiiime

Published on September 25, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: .

3 pieces finished, one to go, touch-up wheat paste, erase pencil marks, buy brighter floods, focus lights, clean up, pick up old studiomate at the bus station.

except for my one large wall drawing, which keeps getting installed and re-installed every few months in a totally, completely different form (one time time it was a straight line, another time it filled a historic ballroom, another time it dripped from a ceiling, this time, it meanders along the wall’s surface, 16 feet long), I’ve been living in this white-on-white space. I’m sort of in love with it. I visualize a low, sleepy pulse, as one might meditate at night, heartbeat syncing with breathing.

I’ve been really happy working with this much space… it’s such a contrast from the last show, where there were ~20 installations, and this time it’s just the three of us. tonight, a few of the resident artists were catching up in the kitchen/stage, I wrapped up my work for the evening and walked across to turn off the floods. this piece that I’d finished yesterday, a grid of 84 drawing squares of hand-waxed hosho paper, suddenly morphed into this like… stone optical illusion. before, with gallery lights on, there were clear shadows; the perforations and scratched lines cast themselves onto the wall in nearly direct translation. with the gallery lights off, the line between shadow and paper edge was simply blurry, and it was pretty amazing to see the piece melt into itself. it even caught one of the gallery folks mid-conversation.

don’t you love that though? unexpected turns when you’re working one way and then another new, always-there way dumps itself into your lap. one installation at a time, I say.

sneak peak

Published on September 18, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

I’ve been drawing like a madwoman this week. Also had some good news the doctor today, which hopefully means a little less stress. here is a sneak peak of what I’ve been working on for the show…

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sorry if that runs into the sidebar… too lazy to resize

One element of the show is a little grid-installation of these drawings. What I like about this series is that they’re all mark without addition… I guess there’s subtraction. I’ve been doing a lot of this white-on-white stuff because I’m compelled by the line and how it’s formed *from* the paper, not that it’s on top of the paper, and yet there’s still surface. So these drawings are on Hosho/mulberry blend paper that has been made translucent with soy wax transfer, and then I apply the marks with a variety of awls and sewing needles. some of them have horse hair woven in, to make little baubles. maps, constellations, grids, the way of no way, you know.

in other news, Sam Winston, please art-marry me, please please:

Announcing: Hexchange!

Published on July 21, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

All that busy-ness I’ve been alluding to? Here’s a tiny fraction of it.

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CALL FOR PRINTMAKERS:

The Hexagon Gallery is pleased to announce Hexchange, a Baltimore-themed portfolio exchange for emerging printmakers. Hexchange will be on exhibit during the month of October, with an opening reception on Saturday, October 10th, in conjunction with Second Saturdays, a new initiative from the Station North Arts & Entertainment District to bring community arts and music awareness to the area. Following the exhibition, Hexchange will become a part of the permanent collections at the Hexagon Gallery and the International Print Museum in Southern California (and possibly more). Hexchange is also receiving promotional support from the Bmore Art Blog, the Contemporary Museum and the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.

There are 50 spots in this portfolio. Hexchange will first open registration to Baltimore/DC printmakers (immediately). Starting on August 3rd, artists from outside the Baltimore/DC region can begin registration. All artists participating in the exchange will receive a portfolio of 50 different prints.

To register for the exchange:

1) send the following information to Hexagon Gallery coordinator Phuong Pham at artart hexagonspace.com:
Name
Email Address
Mailing Address

2) send payment:

Checks can be made payable to Phuong Pham, or payment can be sent via Paypal (please inquire for paypal invoice)

The Hexagon
attn: Phuong Pham, Gallery
PO BOX 50015
BALTIMORE MD 21211

Fee: $10 for artists in East and Central time zones, $15 for artists in Mountain and Pacific time zones. Artists outside the continental US will be given a payment estimate upon inquiry. This modest payment will cover constructing portfolio mailers, return postage, and exhibition postcards (also to be sent to each artist prior to the show). Your registration will not be complete until we have received your payment.

3) Start printing! Print requirements:
-edition of 55
-11×15 inches
-paper choice and bleed are up to you
-Baltimore-themed
-sign and number prints

***Important*** All editions must be received, with interleaving, (address above) by September 18th, 2009. No extensions, as this will give us just enough time to collate, construct cases, and hang the exhibition.

Questions? Contact Phuong at artart hexagonspace.com

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The Hexagon is a community run gallery and performance space in the Station North Arts Distric of Baltimore, Maryland. The focus of the space is to eliminate segregation in the community by providing a forum for collaboration between artists of diverse backgrounds, to mentor local arts organizers, and to provide educational public arts workshops. Our facilities and services are made available to all artists who need a place to exhibit, perform, or create their original artwork, especially those who cannot obtain space to exhibit or perform from traditional sources because of financial or other limitations For more information about the space, please visit http://www.hexagonspace.com.

Gosh

Published on July 12, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

I just love everything and everyone right now!

One day to go…

Published on June 19, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

…until this year’s Pile of Craft!

Here’s a little sneak preview of one half of my bench at home:

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I spy: some hand-dyed tyvek, vintage book covers, new pocket-books, and paper, paper, paper. That shiny pointy thing above my pen and pencil is my new ornamented steel awl that I purchased at the book fair a couple weeks ago. Pretty enticing, eh? Come see more tomorrow at Pile of Craft!! xoxo

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