beth
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
writing, etc....
ugh- haven't even started...my first mailing isn't until the 21st, so i'm just reading my brains out...thoreau, the history of american transcendentalism, and I'm supposed to read moby dick- THAT'S not gonna happen (2000 pages) so I'm trying to find critical essays....anyone meet with their AT's yet? Mine (Carla Herrera -Prats) and I have been in touch, trying to meet in march- that thing's due tomorrow!!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
writing the papers
How is writing the papers going for everyone? it can be tricky for me to switch gears from writing to making....
beth
beth
Feedback on an idea - Dirty Laundry
Years ago when we were back in Vermont, it turned out Janell and I were one of the last people to leave the campus. Every once in a while I would go over to the hall way for a drink of water. Each time I would walk by, this pile of dirty towels and bed sheets kept getting bigger and bigger. It also started to become more and more interesting to me because it started to touch on some of the ideas I've been playing with in my work. That's how we impact our surroundings and the physical marks that that leaves behind, along with the histories/stories these marks make. So I am going to show you the image I took followed by what I have in mind for a possible installation.
When I took this picture, there was a guy working and stacking the bags in the cart. So, I asked if it would be possible to not clean a pile of laundry (for a small fee thinking I could avoid transportation costs or at least reduce it) and he said NO. Can't be done. I haven't given up yet, but before I push the issue of finding out how I can get a pile of dirty laundry so I can install in the gallery, I thought I would ask for some input. I am thinking of having a pile of unclean laundry like this one in the gallery with digital images on paper of common household items hung near somehow like: sinks, toilets, shower heads, soap, trash cans, etc. I didn't like my digital images and how I had mounted them. I am thinking flat transferred photos on to paper and either sand or see what comes off in the printer and work with that. I would try and recreate the image of a sink, etc by drawing in pencil or ink like an architect would very straight lines. This would contrast with the faded image on paper and relate back to the idea of memory, histories, impacts, and the pile of dirty laundry next to the images.
Thoughts?
Space4art Gallery Opening - Feb. 24, 2011
This is a somewhat new studio/gallery space in what we call the East Village of downtown San Diego. There's a few live/work lofts inside, too. It is a huge space that takes up a whole city block. I am hoping to get a studio space if they think I am worthy. You have to be interviewed and demonstrate you are a "serious artist". I think you have to have paint or something on your clothes the day of the interview?
This is my favorite artist of the night: Claire Zitzow. She used photo images and used installation elements like the wood you see to create a dialog between the each of the pieces.
http://www.sdspace4art.org/
May-ling Martinez
I had met May-ling months before when she was working on the drawings of this huge piece. This is only a small section. It fills up two walls of the second gallery.
I don't remember the name of this art because I felt a need to get out of her studio before I became one of her installations. There was freshly cut oranges, sound, so there was this overwhelming sensory overload going on. Yes, that's fresh sod on top of the roof of her little house. She wasn't in the main gallery or a part of the opening. She lives in the space and just opened her studio with this installation, which many of the artist with studios there do on opening nights. She told me it was a work in progress and she was planning on including a performance of some kind along with the installation. The little character inside is looking at a broken table and there are large wooden spoons, etc hanging from the ceiling.
I'll try to keep posting interesting openings or shows that come up throughout the year.
M
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