PACK YOUR BAGS SOMETHING SMALL I sit in the middle of the intersection (of art, design + craft). It is safe to be here as an artist. Some doubt that–but is it art? If the artist is showing… it is. Is it forward looking? Yes. Poetic? Very. “I have a portable home that I always carry with me which is literature and memories.” — Writer Azar Nafisi about her life
TEXTILE SKETCHBOOK II (Quiet Jenny) Pencil, indigo-dyed textiles, paint, thread, colored pencil, old book pages Textile sketchbooks are my way of reasoning. Of working through, and of accepting and embracing randomness and pushing forward. If a part lands a certain way, I try not to move it. I have dozens of these pages; if I am lucky one of them works and shows me the way. The yellowing and brittleness
MAD et LEN is a Parisian artisanal scent company with a quote from Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” at the core of their work. They recently chose one of my IMPACT drawings on Instagram as graphite inspiration for their Monochrome Graphite parfum: scent of grey, of cropped Japanese hinoki wood. THE SMELL AND TASTE OF THINGS REMAIN POISED A LONG TIME, LIKE SOULS, READY TO REMIND US, WAITING AND HOPING FOR
For the #artistsupportpledge, I am offering NATURE +1 and TEXTILE SKETCHBOOK I. The #artistsupportpledge is an Instagram movement conceived by Sussex-based artist Matthew Burrows to provide a platform for artists to share and sell their work through a straightforward, artist-to-patron, artist-to-artist formula. Artists post images of a work for sale for no more than £200 ($230), and when their sales reach £1,000 ($1,155) they promise to buy another artist’s work for £200.
COMING UP, COVID WILLING SHOW: Cloth2Paper at Paper Circle, Nelsonville OH This show will be a continuation of my series on cloth on paper. The shapes are reminiscent of classical origami forms, without folds.
We Move Lightly… Un/Common Threads A solo exhibition by Bay Area artist Barbara Bryn Klare exploring art and sustainability through a rich and complex practice weaving together rescued textiles, objects and natural elements. Now through June 6th. of the day: We Move Lightly by Dustin O’Halloran
IN PURSUIT OF ERROR This image is a blurred lower right section of a John Gossage (b. New York, 1946) collage from the series “Hey, Fuckface” showing at Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco. John Gossage is a photographer noted for exploring under-recognized elements of the urban environment, abandoned tracts of land, debris and garbage. The series consists of collages made from silver gelatin prints and torn-up, used craft paper with
ragged tattered patched wrecked beauty + decaying form . things fragile, handmade or in need of repair boro inspired
Huffington Post contributor Bill Lichtenstein reviews WHERE Were You Harassed? and other art pieces in the light of current events and mounting claims of sexual harassment in all realms of American culture and politics. Read the review.
Indigo-dyed cloth on paper 22” x 28″ 2017 On display at DZINE Gallery, 128 Utah St, San Francisco, as part of Tracks and Echoes, which runs through April 2018.
Quiet, Stillness and the Right Kind of Noise My art practice so far consists of me, sitting at a low table in my studio, with my face pointed away from the door, hunched over my drawings. My studio is on the second floor of a building that once was the headquarters for officers in the Air Force; the building and the field around is now for civilian use. The ceiling