Someone kindly brought to my attention that I mistakenly called the City of Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission the Pasadena Council on the Arts.... An error by a preoccupied new mom... sorry! Seems I could fix the error in my profile but in the original posts, I can either delete the post or leave it be... so, I'm going to have to live with that mistake. Again, my apologies.
Good luck to those applying in this year's grant giving cycle. City of Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Installation and Opening Pictures
Whoa! It's already been 11 days since the opening?! Wow.... OK, here are some pictures... I've gotten comments via email, but if anyone's out there and wants to comment via the blog-- I'm curious what you think-- good, bad, indifferent, anything else-- really! I want to know...
View from across Fair Oaks Ave. and then looking north up the avenue:
Individual pieces as they appear on the fence, posted here on the blog as if you were walking south on the avenue, essentially a left to right read:
As you can see, the pieces are attached (with zip ties) to a fence within the bounds of the perimeter fence surrounding the property. Thanks to Jonathan-- Otis intern working at Side Street for the summer-- he's been checking the work daily and has secured the corners better than I did.
Here are some pictures taken at the opening:
The Armory Center for the Arts offered a workshop to any interested participants:
Some parting party shots-- Deborah Aschheim is wearing the black and white shirt; she's another recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena. Her beautiful work can be seen here: http://www.deborahaschheim.com/
View from across Fair Oaks Ave. and then looking north up the avenue:
Individual pieces as they appear on the fence, posted here on the blog as if you were walking south on the avenue, essentially a left to right read:
As you can see, the pieces are attached (with zip ties) to a fence within the bounds of the perimeter fence surrounding the property. Thanks to Jonathan-- Otis intern working at Side Street for the summer-- he's been checking the work daily and has secured the corners better than I did.
Here are some pictures taken at the opening:
The Armory Center for the Arts offered a workshop to any interested participants:
Some parting party shots-- Deborah Aschheim is wearing the black and white shirt; she's another recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena. Her beautiful work can be seen here: http://www.deborahaschheim.com/
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
My Proposal to the Pasadena Council on the Arts
There are several written components required when submitting a proposal to the Pasadena Council on the Arts for an Individual Artist Grant. Visual documentation is also required. I submitted a PowerPoint presentation as part of my proposal. This is, basically, what I submitted for the visual documentation (I'm not including every single image that was in the PPT file):
1. Intro Slide
Proposal: The Age of Revolution
Exhibition at Side Street Projects
2. Icons is an unconventional series of drawings made of hardware store materials: metal grommets pounded through 22 inch square plastic tarps.
3. The Icons are a hybrid of drawing and sculpture. I hammered hundreds of metal discs through each small tarp to create the images.
4. Double-sided Icons installed in the windows of the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Michigan were seen by pedestrians on Sheldon Boulevard and gallery visitors.
5. I made this piece from materials that Homeland Security recommended I purchase to protect myself from biological or chemical warfare. Instead I wound up using the duct tape and plastic sheeting to make Orange Alert, a stream-of-consciousness text piece.
6. In my installations, I’m interested in creating the maximum impact with the most economical means, in this case with simple cut paper. Dirty Bombs’ images are visual puns derived from various meanings of “dirty” and “bomb”. My 88 fragile cut-outs floated across the fourteen foot wide wall of the Santa Monica Art Studios, forming a loose narrative.
7. Grey Zone is another cut-paper piece deconstructing hidden meaning in language. I was struck by the term “grey zone” which is used by C.I.A. agents to indicate the state of being unable to distinguish allies from enemies. I pinned white cut-outs to a white wall to create a piece made of grey shadows giving physical form to an elusive idea.
8. Cost Cuts is a graphic representation of the sacrifices our soldiers are asked to make as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continues. (This piece is pictured in the previous post.)
9. I wanted to make a connection between sex and violence in the library, a place removed from both. I installed visceral paintings beneath the glass floor tiles in the human sexuality and the history of warfare sections of the Pittsburgh public library, creating a startling stained glass window underneath library visitors’ feet.
10. Preliminary sketches for my project The Age of Revolution at Side Street Projects.
1. Intro Slide
Proposal: The Age of Revolution
Exhibition at Side Street Projects
2. Icons is an unconventional series of drawings made of hardware store materials: metal grommets pounded through 22 inch square plastic tarps.
3. The Icons are a hybrid of drawing and sculpture. I hammered hundreds of metal discs through each small tarp to create the images.
4. Double-sided Icons installed in the windows of the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Michigan were seen by pedestrians on Sheldon Boulevard and gallery visitors.
5. I made this piece from materials that Homeland Security recommended I purchase to protect myself from biological or chemical warfare. Instead I wound up using the duct tape and plastic sheeting to make Orange Alert, a stream-of-consciousness text piece.
6. In my installations, I’m interested in creating the maximum impact with the most economical means, in this case with simple cut paper. Dirty Bombs’ images are visual puns derived from various meanings of “dirty” and “bomb”. My 88 fragile cut-outs floated across the fourteen foot wide wall of the Santa Monica Art Studios, forming a loose narrative.
7. Grey Zone is another cut-paper piece deconstructing hidden meaning in language. I was struck by the term “grey zone” which is used by C.I.A. agents to indicate the state of being unable to distinguish allies from enemies. I pinned white cut-outs to a white wall to create a piece made of grey shadows giving physical form to an elusive idea.
8. Cost Cuts is a graphic representation of the sacrifices our soldiers are asked to make as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continues. (This piece is pictured in the previous post.)
9. I wanted to make a connection between sex and violence in the library, a place removed from both. I installed visceral paintings beneath the glass floor tiles in the human sexuality and the history of warfare sections of the Pittsburgh public library, creating a startling stained glass window underneath library visitors’ feet.
10. Preliminary sketches for my project The Age of Revolution at Side Street Projects.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Starting Up
My show The Age of Revolution will open at Side Street Projects on 2 May 2009.
Being a new mom-- my daughter was born on 21 January, this year-- has put the show in perspective for me in more ways than one... First, my progress with executing work is far slower than I ever imagined or predicted. Second, the content-- the work I proposed for this show touches upon my ideals and exposes my concerns related to politics, human nature, and being a citizen.
I'll explain more about content in upcoming posts. For now, the proposal in a nutshell was this: The Age of Revolution will be an outdoor exhibition of text based drawings on the site of Side Street Projects. The drawings, based on poetic recombinations of book titles found at a public library, will be made of durable industrial materials commonly used in outdoor applications: plastic tarps and metal grommets.
Here are some examples of drawings I've done using tarps and grommets:
Cost Cuts, 2007-- I was appalled, as I think many people were, by decision-- early on in the war in Iraq not to provide proper body armour to soldiers.
Work's Killing Me, 2007-- I think the text (the title is hammered into the tarp with grommets-- it's hard to read because of the camouflage) and the choice of camouflage tarp is pretty obvious. I'm in no way trying to be flippant with this work. I'm impressed by those who serve in the military, in particular the soldiers on the ground whose lives are on the line every day. I think it's an understatement to say being a soldier is a dangerous job.
Being a new mom-- my daughter was born on 21 January, this year-- has put the show in perspective for me in more ways than one... First, my progress with executing work is far slower than I ever imagined or predicted. Second, the content-- the work I proposed for this show touches upon my ideals and exposes my concerns related to politics, human nature, and being a citizen.
I'll explain more about content in upcoming posts. For now, the proposal in a nutshell was this: The Age of Revolution will be an outdoor exhibition of text based drawings on the site of Side Street Projects. The drawings, based on poetic recombinations of book titles found at a public library, will be made of durable industrial materials commonly used in outdoor applications: plastic tarps and metal grommets.
Here are some examples of drawings I've done using tarps and grommets:
Cost Cuts, 2007-- I was appalled, as I think many people were, by decision-- early on in the war in Iraq not to provide proper body armour to soldiers.
Work's Killing Me, 2007-- I think the text (the title is hammered into the tarp with grommets-- it's hard to read because of the camouflage) and the choice of camouflage tarp is pretty obvious. I'm in no way trying to be flippant with this work. I'm impressed by those who serve in the military, in particular the soldiers on the ground whose lives are on the line every day. I think it's an understatement to say being a soldier is a dangerous job.
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