Going to Athens

...Alabama!  This is the power of the internet...I was contacted a few weeks ago by an art collector looking for White on White paintings. She put those word into her search and found me! I'm shipping off a 5"x5" piece on Monday and this may (or may not) lead to a commission of a larger work.  wow!

Michele Banks and Kendall Nordin at the Cafritz Art Center

 Michele and Kendall are both talented fellow artists of mine have a beautiful show up at the Cafritz Art Center. The show runs from January 12-March 9.

The opening is on February 9 from 6-8 pm

the following information was taken from Michele's blog, ARTOLOGICA

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Our Small Rooms at the Cafritz Arts Center

A little more about the Montgomery College Show, which opens today. (Essential info is here)

This exhibit is part of a year-long series that Montgomery College is sponsoring called "Intersections: Where Art Meets Science"

Some background about the artists - we're both based in DC. I mainly work in watercolor and collage, and most of my work over the last few years has been focused on scientific themes. I was recently featured on the Scientific American arts blog, Symbiartic, talking, among other things, about how I got started painting scientific subjects.

One of the paintings in this show, From the Cells to the Stars, was created in response to a friend's death and Carl Sagan's idea that humans are made of "star stuff". I blogged about it here and it was featured on Brainpickings. This show will be the first time the painting is exhibited in public.

I also feature paintings of bacteria and viruses (those are viruses above). Although we normally consider these to be invaders, viruses and bacteria are a huge part of our bodies playing vital functions in everything from digestion to cognition.

Another piece, Portrait of a Human, is a series of 16 panels, each with a specific cell type, from retinal cells to bone marrow to neurons. This is a brand-new piece created specifically for this exhibit.

Kendall Nordin is a multi-disciplinary artist. For the past decade her practice has focused on visual art, performance, and music. Her visual work has been exhibited in the US, Australia, and Estonia and is included in the viewing program of The Drawing Center, NYC. In the past year, exhibition venues for her work include the Container Space Gallery, Low Lives Festival, the DC Convention Center, Pulse Art Fair in Miami, Porch Projects, Gallaudet University, and the (e)merge Art Fair.

Nordin's video piece, Artists Throwing Rocks (see it here: http://vimeo.com/nordin) was selected for the (e)merge Art Fair in 2011. Her work for this exhibit consists of a site-specific installation on the theme of the cell.

More of my work can be found here and Kendall Nordin's here

VOICE/MEMORY

For the Sound Project portion of my installation at DCAC I had planned to do a multi-layered poetry piece but with my non-existent background in sound I was not satisfied with what I created and had to shift gears in the final days. What I came up with was an interactive sound piece based on the idea of the memorial portion of the daily obituaries.

 I named it Voice/Memory, got myself a google-voice telephone number, and a subscription to hipcast. I learned how to set up google voice, learned how to transfer files on hipcast-very easy! and even made business cards for the project.

 The idea is that people will call in, leave the name of a person they miss (living or not) and share a memory about that person.
 It hasn't caught on yet, maybe never will, people may be hesitant to share, though i think the voice message aspect makes it more private and intimate.

The telephone number for VOICE/MEMORY is 202-656-1639 please call and leave a message!

WE GOT PRESS!

Last week Stephanie Merry of the Washington Post ran around interviewing all the DCAC decathletes
(Shanthi Chandresekar, Lee Gainer, Mary Woodall, and me)

Lucky US!!!
 Now we are in the POST! Weekend section Page 19
The article is titled

 Stretching their artistic talents and it's a full page. Shanthi Chandresekar's beautiful photograph (see below, right)  gets top billing with good reason.

Here's the link to the POST article just in case you missed it above!

The show opens tonight 7-9

also don't forget these shows, mentioned a few posts back
Kristina Bilonick (Pleasant Plains Workshop) is in a group show opening at the Arlington Arts Center-
she documented DC CHEER, a group cheerleading/performance art piece which debuted at (e)merge art fair in fall 2011.
Buck Downs, myself, AND Adam Dwight, Carolina Mayorga, Becca Kallem, Judy Byron, Amanda Nash, Jon Lee, and Chanan Delivuk were all team members.
E. Brady Robinson was our official photographer!

The Harmon Art Lab (Thomas Drymon and Peter e. Harper) is having the closing for Peter e. Harper and Joren Lindholm's current show. GO! it's just moments from DCAC!

AND Last but not Least...My good friend Jackie Hoysted is presenting Yar Koparulin and Jessika Dene' Tarr at her Countdown Temporary ARtspace in Bethesda from 6-8:30.
Myself and Jack Mctiernan were the inaugural artists last month, it's a great space and lots of fun. GO!

Install at DCAC Tommorrow

Finally! This is a tentative view, and will change at install, but all the components are there.
finished sound today...

DCAC Decathlon One Week Away!

Friday January 13, 7-9 p.m.
2438 18th Street NW
202-468-7833
 I'm in the finishing moments for the show, doing the sound piece and final on the painting.

Also, sidebar here! Hays and Ryan Holladay (DCAC Commentators) are running a final boombox walk at the Botanical garden on Saturday January 14th

There is a LOT going on the night of the 13th.
Here is a list of shows featuring or put on by artists I am friends with:

Kristina Bilonick (Pleasant Plains Workshop) is in a group show opening at the Arlington Arts Center-
she documented DC CHEER, a group cheerleading/performance art piece which debuted at (e)merge art fair in fall 2011.
Buck Downs, myself, AND Adam Dwight, Carolina Mayorga, Becca Kallem, Judy Byron, Amanda Nash, Jon Lee,  and Chanan Delivuk were all team members. Brady Robinson was our official photographer! She is also having a talk THIS Sunday at The American Art Museum.

The Harmon Art Lab (Thomas Drymon and Peter e. Harper) is having the closing for Peter e. Harper and Joren Lindholm's current show. GO! it's just moments from DCAC!

AND Last but not Least...My good friend Jackie Hoysted is presenting Yar Koparulin and Jessika Dene' Tarr at her Countdown Temporary ARtspace in Bethesda from 6-8:30.
Myself and Jack Mctiernan were the inaugural artists last month, it's a great space and lots of fun. GO!

Artist Talk at Busboys and Poets in the Hyattsville Arts District

 

Fri, January 6

• 5.30pmFirst Fridays: A Local Arts Exploration (Hyattsville)

 

 I was invited to be part of a group of artists speaking about our careers. 

The other artists involved are 

Hermione Rhones, Dancer and Poet

Justin Fair, Painter and performance artist, artist in residence at the Gateway Arts Center.

Ilana Silverstein, Dance artist and community organizer

I'm putting together a slideshow and informal talk right now, I'm also  in the final stages of the DCAC Art Decathlon...