I saw the most beautiful exhibition at the Rochester Art Center last week. Chiharu Shiota: Presence in the Absence is unbelievable. It is a site specific installation that fills the Burton and Judy Onofrio Gallery. It was vulnerable, eerie, lovely, lonely, warm and welcoming...truly one of the best shows I have seen in a long while. It is amazing what a person can do with 600,000 feet of black yarn. The following images are from Ms. Shiota's website. Please go take a look. You won't be disappointed.
the day isn't ever long enough....
what with snow days, and sleepovers and dinner making and laundry doing....there hasn't been a lot of time for the studio. Today though, I watched five episodes of the first season of "Arrow" and painted my 3-tiered cake. No pictures today...camera shots won't show up in my photo stream. Have to get IT (husband) on it.
a fabulous find...
in Inspiration
at the Half Price Bookstore yesterday..."Push Paper," curated by Jaime Zollars for Lark Books. I love this series of books. Each is curated by a different individual and each book explores nearly 30 contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of their craft. This is paper that is cut, layered, sculpted, installed; paper doing anything and everything. One of my favorite artists is included, Elsa Mora, who I have mentioned on this blog. Rob Ryan is also featured, and his paper cuts were the first I ever fell in love with. His works are so delicate, romantic and lovely, in both image and sentiment.
And then I discovered artist Chris Natrop's room sized cut paper installations. I can't even imagine how he conceives of these. They are beautiful and intricately cut, and all the more interesting for the shadows they cast.
And once you start googling paper cut-outs and sculpture, you find so much more.
and another....
in Work
the last of the series so far.
I have a friend who is a doctor of Hematology and Oncology at the Mayo Clinic and she has asked that I make her a drawing of a blood vessel. I'm not yet sure of the words to accompany it. Thoughts?
another drawing...
got some work scanned...
in Work
and ready to list on Etsy.com. This drawing is one of a series of three that I would like to sell as limited edition prints. The paper is 8x10 inches and the drawing made with ball point pen. I think ball point pen is my most favorite drawing tool ever. It doesn't make the big, majestic charcoal figure drawings of my youth, but it makes the loveliest of lines. It reminds me of a lithography crayon line, without all the levigating of stones. Every year for Christmas I get two boxes of Bic black, fine ball point pens in my stocking. Looks like it is time to start drawing.
a fork....
in Work
It leans a little, but not nearly as much as it did. I think once it is in place with the figure and cake it won't be noticeable.
a new cake....
is in the works. It is a little Dr. Suessian; each tier sort of leaning a different way. I've been playing with frosting, and I think I have found a method I like without having to use a cake decorating kit. I am thinking a lemon yellow color for the cake and pink frosting. There is also a figure and forks. So much still to figure out.
