Yay, my work was in an actual gallery!
October and November 2007, I had my first ever solo gallery show at The Moon, in Oakland, CA. The Moon is a new gallery run by Cory Gunter-Brown, Sasha Solomon and Cassidy Wright. The gallery runs shows for two months at a time, and also has a store section, where they sell beautiful and useful things hand-made by artists. Visit their (at the moment somewhat basic) website:
Title: "Moon Lives"
Date: August 1, 2007
Media: Digital photography, pencil drawing, and photoshop-ery
This is my take on Illustration Friday's theme for the week of July 27, 2007, 'Moon,' - I had an entirely different idea originally involving a photo of very pale tiny polished stones and the little cut glass jewels I keep finding on the streets of New York to represent the Moon, but it simply didn't look ethereal enough with the original photograph, so I added various other elements - if you look closely, the original photograph is still in there, obscured by the darkness!
Title: 'Poem, via Exquisite Corpse Method'
Media: Digital photograph
Date: July 25, 2007
My take on Illustration Friday's theme for the week of July 20, 'Poem,' which I thought would be fun to illustrate using the idea of pulling random words and phrases from a box and gluing them down pretty much as they came out to make a poem.
Title: 'Personal Discovery'
Media: Digital photograph, Photoshop-y tweaking
Dimensions: Variable
Date: July 18, 2007
This charming clay figure is my response to Illustration Friday's theme for the week of July 13, 'Discovery' - our bodies are always such a delightful mystery, both inside and out. What a discovery to make, eh!
Title: Geeky!
Media: velvet, inkjet printable fabric, inkjet prints on paper, sheer fabric, holographic paper, laminate
Dimensions: 10 by 11 inches
Date: July 2007
My creation for Illustration Friday's theme of the week of July 6-13, 2007. How awesome (and appropriate) is it that the week I discover Illustration Friday, their theme is "Geeky"!
Photograph taken with Nikon D80 Digital SLR
July 2007
From "Sculpted Portraits" series
I've been making very small sculptures of faces out of air-dry clay and then photographing them against various backgrounds, and experimenting with various types of lighting. This image was created by covering my air-dry clay guy with glitter and gold leaf, giving him features found in trashy magazines or old art catalogs, and then photographing him on the table in my living room. I believe I used the built-in flash on my camera for this one.
Photograph, taken with Nikon D80 Digital SLR
July 2007
From "Sculpted Portraits" series
I've been making very small sculptures of faces out of air-dry clay and then photographing them against various backgrounds, and experimenting with various types of lighting. This is just the ambient light from my window, at 8pm in July in New York, and the sculpted face is lying on his background on my table, with the light coming from "underneath" him, that is, his head is pointed away from the window. Gives him kind of a haunted look.
Title: Stories Told by Scraps #1
Media: Found book cover, packing tape, fabric, thread, solvent-transfered photocopies on watercolor paper, and various found and leftover bits and pieces of things from previous art projects
Date: 2002
I created this book as a way to give new life to various bits and pieces of scraps that I could not bear to get rid of from previous projects. Never throw anything away.
All of these photos are of the book, "Stories Told by Scraps #1" - The front and back cover, several page spreads, and images of the book's pages fanned out are shown here. Click on photos to see larger versions.
Title: Diary Quilt, About Love (from vintage photo)
Media: polyester curtain fabric, confetti, sheer fabric, fabric paint
Date: 2007
Title: Diary Quilt, Child with mask, foliage, phoenixes, flowers
Media: inkjet printed fabric, cotton, polyester, commercial embroidered fabric, fabric paint, zipper
Date: 2007
Title: Diary Quilt, Candle Cave
Media: silk, velvet, upholstery, studs, iron-on transfers, photographs
Date: 2007
This quilt was sold during my show at The Moon gallery in Oakland, CA, and is now in a private collection.
Title: Diary Quilt, Forest Mountain Collage
Media: cotton, silk, polyester, upholstry fabric, buttons, paper, iron-on transfers, felt, fabric paint, permanent marker
Date: 2007
This quilt was purchased during the October-November show at The Moon gallery in Oakland, and is now in a private collection.
Title: Diary Quilt, An Ingenious Pun
Media: vintage handkerchief, inkjet printed fabric, iron-on transfer, cotton, laminated images
Dimensions: 8.5" by 10.125"
Date: 2007
The text in the talk-bubble reads, "Isn't it an obvious and ingenious visual pun?"
Title: Diary Quilt, Mini Gallery #1
Media: Velvet, sheer ribbon, studs, felt, cotton & synthetic fabrics, iron-on transfers
Date: 2007
This quilt is now in a private collection.
Title: Diary Quilt, Red Landscape
Media: Fake fur, sheer fabric, confetti, iron-on transfers
Date: 2007
This quilt is now in a private collection.
Title: Sitting Girl
Media: Sheer fabric, upholstery fabric, embroidery floss, lace ribbon, iron-on transfer
Date: 2007
