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Thank you so much to my husband who braved the temperatures to get some shots of my piece at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts fully installed!
"Ligatures" is up another month or so if you would still like to see it.
I can't believe it is March. I hadn't meant to go so long between posts, but after finishing the piece for the MN Center for Book Arts, it was time to jump right into class prep and planning. And then it was time to go to class. I am teaching Drawing 1 and 3-Design this semester. This is my second semester of 3-D Design and I think we are getting some pretty good results. My students just finished a helmet/headgear piece dealing with line and planar shapes and I am really pleased with the results. Take a look at two:
Another two got into the Juried Student Exhibition. Congratulations!
was recently in Hi-Fructose magazine, which is where I discovered her. Look at these fabulously creepy photos. I have been thinking of creating little tableaus for my dolls that I could then photograph, and these have me so excited.
"Parsonage Parlor"
"Red Bedroom"
"Attic feet"
Much of her work flirts with fear and death. You can visit her website here.
Congratulations on the Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grant! It is well deserved.
I can't wait to see the work that gets made by Keren this year. She paints these lovely, large multi panel watercolors that are map like depictions of memory. Her use of color is really quite lovely. But I think one of my favorite parts are the negative space shapes. Please visit her website to see more work, and venues at which you can see it in person. She is booked out nearly three years!
"Unquiet Mind"
"Gray Matter"
"Gray Matter" detail
"Abstractions/Constructions"
I just love her work. Love. I wish I could see one in person. Please check out more of her work at her website.
"Wolpertinger"
"Wolfgirl"
"Butterfly Lights"
"Girl and Fawn"
"St. Forest"
these. These squares were hanging on the wall at my exhibition "Stitch and Rend." Each square was actually suspended by different length stitches that ran from the square to a nail and back again. When it was time to come down, I asked my friend to cut the threads at the nails, and send the squares back to me. I just love how the thread becomes hair like from the hook and eye scab. I think I need to make more. Many more, that then might be attached by hook and eye to one another, quilt like, hanging on a wall.
I don't remember how I first found her images...maybe while googling "contemporary embroidery?" I am so excited I did. Stephanie is a fiber artist working with wool and felting techniques. These drawings make me shiver....
"Bird Leg Gesture 1"
"Blackbird Chorus" detail
These drawings are made on paper with the wool fiber as the mark. Stephanie pokes the fibers through the paper with a felting needle, layering and anchoring the fibers to create her value system. The edges of the shapes are just so lovely.
More recent work includes these felt objects with porcupine quills. They are wonderfully animal like, with strange gestures and odd personalities.
"Calamus plicatus"
"Calamus eris"
"Loricae"
"Loricae" detail
And this piece is a part of a series with chain mail. Check out her website for some other fabulous work.
I watch television on my computer while I stitch. And I listen to archived episodes of "This American Life." I have spent a lot of time stitching over the last couple of weeks...and we dumped our cable and subscribed to AmazonPrime and HuluPlus. I rewatched the first four seasons of "Justified" with Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins. It is brilliant television based on an Elmore Leonard Character, Raylan Givens. The second season with Mags Bennett as the big baddie has been the best of the seasons. I plowed through the first season on "The Good Wife." I have no idea why I never watched it before. I fell in love with Agent Coulson on the first season of "Agents of SHIELD." (I am not doing the periods, I know.) I got caught up on the second season of "Arrow" and decided I really need to learn to fight like Mr. Queen. I need a new project...I have another four seasons of "The Good Wife" waiting for me.