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Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan.
i've been going through some old sketches for a new series that i'm working on. consolidating old ideas with new approaches. revisting the figure, even.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop - November 3rd!
I'm dontating this piece to the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop's ArtBall 2006 art auction.
2006 Arts Ball
Friday, November 3, 2006
7:30 pm to 11:00 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
3rd and A Streets, SE
Thursday, October 05, 2006
art mondays.....
remember art mondays? do you even read this? i have no idea... anyway.
If'n we start it back up.. which i've been thinking about a lot more as we get into the fall.... i want to do it at the bar i went to last night.
fun fun fun place. creepy decor. great feel. i got some nice sketching done too.
hopefully mondays will always stay a bit slow in "The Atlas"
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Private Home/ Public Art
Here is a fun idea for some art for the public to see in the city.
Check out the site here
The Private Home/Public Art Project features artists who use the outside of their homes and studios to exhibit work. PHP Artists have complete aesthetic control over the work and direct and immediate access to the public. The public, in turn, benefits from a diverse, intellectually invigorating streetscape. The only criteria are that the work is designed as public art, preferably site-specific, and is accessible 24/7.
Check out the site here
The Private Home/Public Art Project features artists who use the outside of their homes and studios to exhibit work. PHP Artists have complete aesthetic control over the work and direct and immediate access to the public. The public, in turn, benefits from a diverse, intellectually invigorating streetscape. The only criteria are that the work is designed as public art, preferably site-specific, and is accessible 24/7.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Crafty Bastards
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Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan.
Crafty Bastards was wildly popular. There were tons and tons of people. good music. fun art. and some great breakdancing.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
crafty bastards - sunday
Crafty Bastards is tomorrow. I'm not setting up but i'll be there helping Rania with her booth.Shes been working like mad on a crazy amountof new stuff. come check it out!
:: Sunday, October 1st 10am-5pm ::
Marie Learning Center :: Adams Morgan :: 18th St NW & Wyoming Ave
more than most things, i find ruins fascinating.
i have always enjoyed things that have decayed, but especially architecture, industry, man made things. I like the vestigial parts of buildings, things no longer in use.
As a kid, i used to break into abandoned buildings to look around. I loved the ruins of the revolutionary war era forts and buildings in my hometown. I loved Ellis Island and the adandoned factories in the new york area. Things like that amaze me. They still do.
Yesterday i went on a tour of the old McMillan Sand Filtration Plant, which was a revolutionary and very advanced water treatment plant built in 1900, in my neighborhood of bloomingdale. Here are the photos i took.
at the DCAC. just some thoughts, not a critique, cuz i'm not a critic.
I saw the show about liminal space at the DCAC currated by two people i admore greatly, Margaret Boozer and Claire Huschule. I really enjoyed the concept of this show, The Space of Change. The time period/ thought process between distinct times or personas or mindsets. It's an element in my work that i didnt know had a name. I think of it as an everyday heroic journey, which is some form or another, is the theme to my works.
Still, i tend not to react to artworks based on their concept, but on what they look and feel like. sometimes how they are made. There were two series of works that i found rather dull... mathematical, even. One looked like a print out for a design of a music box cylinder, but was actually an overlay of the new york times with only the O's filled in. the other, appeared to be some type of changing graph readout, but was ( i think) the outline of words in the dictionary. both were a bit not my style or interest.
The prayer-bears, however were very fun. creepy. a bit cold. a bit easy. still, fun. The pods/seeds were the coolest to look at. Great textures/colors.
There was an automated piece that was a bit interesting. The concept was fun, and i always enjoy a bit of automation in art.
Amy Kaplan made the bears.
Martin Brief made the new york times and dictionary series.
Justin Rabideau made the pods and some photos i didn't care for.
Wendy Weiss and Jay Kreimer made the automated climbers.
The show is on until october 8th.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Black Rock.
Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD.
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, Maryland 20874
I am having a show here next year and wanted to gets some snaps of the place to think about the series i will create.
If i'm not mistaken, i think i saw the production of the "black rock"sculptures at a farm up thataways a bunch of years ago. They dug big trenched in the ground and poured the concrete into the hollows.
I've been to a wedding out there once. and a friend had an exhibit there earlier this year.
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, Maryland 20874
I am having a show here next year and wanted to gets some snaps of the place to think about the series i will create.
If i'm not mistaken, i think i saw the production of the "black rock"sculptures at a farm up thataways a bunch of years ago. They dug big trenched in the ground and poured the concrete into the hollows.
I've been to a wedding out there once. and a friend had an exhibit there earlier this year.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Start All Hallows Eve with an Art Party at City Hall!
crazy huh?
City Hall has recently purchaed a large number of art works from local artists and Halloween is the party to celebratre!
Here is the info
When- HALLOWEEN 5-7 PM Speaker at 6:00.
Where- The WILSON BUILDING 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW ( enter on the Penn Ave side)
Who- EVERYBODY. kids, seniors, ghouls and goblins, whatever.
Why- The city bought two pieces of my sculpture!
How- you MUST RSVP to CAROLYN.PARKER@DC.GOV OR 202-724-2042. Also you need photo ID to get in the building.
What- A reception for the artists, music by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Jazz Combo, food from the Whole Foods Market, candy for the kids.
Please come and show city hall how much we love and wish to support city sponsored Art in DC!
I'll email you the flyer with the names of all the artists, if'n you let me know you want it.
Please pass this around!
This purchase/ exhibition was all put together by Sondra Arkin
City Hall has recently purchaed a large number of art works from local artists and Halloween is the party to celebratre!
Here is the info
When- HALLOWEEN 5-7 PM Speaker at 6:00.
Where- The WILSON BUILDING 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW ( enter on the Penn Ave side)
Who- EVERYBODY. kids, seniors, ghouls and goblins, whatever.
Why- The city bought two pieces of my sculpture!
How- you MUST RSVP to CAROLYN.PARKER@DC.GOV OR 202-724-2042. Also you need photo ID to get in the building.
What- A reception for the artists, music by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Jazz Combo, food from the Whole Foods Market, candy for the kids.
Please come and show city hall how much we love and wish to support city sponsored Art in DC!
I'll email you the flyer with the names of all the artists, if'n you let me know you want it.
Please pass this around!
This purchase/ exhibition was all put together by Sondra Arkin
Friday, September 22, 2006
photostream
I have updated the information on my faux finish slide show. i have included more descriptions and will include more pictures continuosly.
See it HERE
If you click on the image, you can read the descriptions.
See it HERE
If you click on the image, you can read the descriptions.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
stone wall.
These faux stones are on two separate walls in a kitchen. One is over the stove, the other over a fireplace.
click to enlarge
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