the dates, for real

For those of you interested in the upcoming show, the dates have been extended. And it also should be mentioned the dates are, um, incorrect on my website. Working on that.

So anyway, just for the record, the show is slated to open June 28th with lots of fine drink, snacks, and revelry, and has now been extended through November 30.

For further info, go to the source--

http://www.artcenter.org/museum.htm

Hope to see you there!

: website update :

http://www.littledrawings.com

oh hello there

In a forest pitch dark, lived the tiniest spark! That Bjork line goes through my head every time I step outside now. The garden's growing and I have a lot of work to do.

PS Is it just me or does Blogger wash out images? Hmm, not so in love with that.

upcoming show

Hey, I thought I added a post about this, but now I don't see it! Anyway, exciting news, even worth repeating twice. I have a show coming up at the museum in town, the California Center for the Arts. I'm organizing my work, figuring out what to show, how to show it, and feeling very energetic and a little nervous. We're going to call it Little Drawings I think. Yay! It opens Saturday June 28th, save the date!

portrait: man with hat

Drawing translated by machine embroidery, placed into a found frame.

elephant in a thistle

I picked up some art from an old show at the city gallery this weekend. I made the elephant with Sam when we were painting together with non-toxic kid paints on newsprint. We cut our pictures out and I stuck mine on some sixty year-old paper I had lying around. And cardboard, because I like to recycle. 

mat

Before Christmas I got it into my head that I would sew coasters. By the time I got through the second or third piece, this idea turned out to be boring in both process and result, and also pretty poor on consistency of execution. But I didn't mind sewing little random squares that ended up looking a lot like homemade pancakes, so the question became, now what to do? I re-classified a few coasters as something I'm calling "vase mats", and that made it more fun. And then with some others, I'm doing some patchwork experimentation. I haven't tried to set a vase on this one yet, I'll try that crazy triple fusion of ideas tomorrow maybe. It would be interesting if I had a lot more of them (i.e. more than one.). Check back in several many months from now...?