Artomatic 8th Floor

I love these paintings by Valentine Wolly – they show images with weird visual distortion – but unfortunately I can’t get a good picture with all the glass (wow, that framing job must have been a real pain!) so you might want to go to her website : http://www.valentinewolly.com/index.htm

By Jody Isaacson and Andrea Hull – the top piece is a print, the bottom piece is made of wax.

A very subtle oil still life by James Halloran

Detail of a map-based work by Nikolas R. Schiller

Print by Meaghan Busch – again, the reflections get in the way, here is her website, though I can’t find this piece on it: http://meaghanbusch.com/home.html

Work by Novie Trump – again, I like this bcause I find it subtle – guess my vocabulary isn’t too creative today.

One of  Tim Tate’s reliquaries – not sure I need to post one because they already get a lot of attention, but they are so cool.

Artomatic Floor 2

I was at Artomatic Friday and covered 3 floors, taking some pictures of my favorite things, if I could narrow it down.  Here are some of  my favorites from Floor 2:

A.R.T. installation by Michelle Herman – when you look in the microscope (where nothing is visible, so I thought the joke was on me), it activates the center screen to show the view upward from the viewpiece and the two other screens to begin videos.

Large paintings by Zachary Vaughn across from my space.

A rather minimal pairing with art by Matthew Langley on the left and J.T. Kirkland on the right, who instead of hanging art on his wall altered the wall itself by drilling lots of holes in it, which aren’t easily visible in this photo.

Art by John M. Adams (left) and J.T. Kirkland again, collaborating with Matt Sargent who did sound, though I couldn’t exactly hear it since there were multiple things going on in that corner of the building.

“Flying Together” – an installation by Philip Kohn.  When visitors walked into the space, it would film them and send their images floating through the clouds with lots of previous visitors.

Artomatic Poem

I got a poem on my Artomatic wall from the poet Brash (an artomatic regular), I find that pretty cool though he/she posts a lot of poems:

Sunday May 24 – Artomatic Installation

Robin and I completely installed my display for Artomatic yesterday  – I had previously painted the wall, but we needed to hang the art, put my sign up, install and properly wire the lighting, and set up a table with postcards and a comment book.  We were there more than a few hours, but i forgot to check the time!  This was the last weekend before opening and people discussing last year’s event made it sound like it would get pretty crazy with a long queue for the freight elevator, but it wasn’t bad at all.  I guess the real bad day will be for people who are waiting to install until tomorrow (the last day).

Here is Robin contemplating picture alignment:

Here’s me re-considering picture alignment:

Here’s the final result:

The plywood walls are set up in sort of a shallow zigzag configuration – you can see an interesting painting by Michael Torra to the right.  In the left background, another artist paints his wall.  Because some of my art is dark and behind glass, it’s hard to see it at certain angles, but it shows up okay if you’re there in person. It was a lot of work but satisfying.  I’ll be back there again next week for my first volunteer shift.

Artomatic Space

I did manage to get a space in Artomatic this year, and got to pick a space on the “overflow” day about a week ago, here’s my space:

This saturday I went and painted it – it was a good day (unlike how the next two weekends will be) because there was no ballgame, so easy parking all over!  A very easy building to get to via subway, right over the Navy Yard station, but I’m not bringing my art via subway.  I’m jealous of anyone who could finish this weekend, but my art isn’t framed yet.

Wall in progress:

Pretty full of knotholes, which I filled with wood filler.  Hopefully the filler will stay in place for a month since it didn’t seem to be completely dry when I painted over it.  I also ran out of primer, and painted over it immediately, the finished wall looked good wet, though I’m not sure it would withstand close scrutiny:

Teeny Tiny Snake

Here’s a tiny snake I found in the yard, wanted to post picture:

artomatic – maybe

After viewing Artomatic last year and deciding it was something I would like to do, I registered for Artomatic this year (the large Washington DC art free-for-all that fills a large building, see their site here if you don’t know what they are) a few days after registration opened and it was already full for 2-d visual artists so now I’m on the wait list. Someone told me I have a good chance because some more spots may open up but I might not know until the end of this month.  I’m working hard on some large pieces since I may have to fill a large wall (though if I get one of the last-choice spots, perhaps it will be a small wall!) and will post them when they’re done and I have good photos.  My photos haven’t really done justice to larger works recently, thus the dearth of newer material.

I’m also working on updating my website, which is very outdated in some ways, but time is always a problem I’m trying to solve.

a few small pieces…

Oil pastel on paper – 7″ x 5″

Oil pastel on paper 3.5″ x 2.5″

Really belated January Work

This is a tiny work – 2 1/2 x 3 1/2

Mixed media on paper

January 2009 – Where you can see my work right now

Maryland Federation of Art
Winter’s Member Show – opening Jan. 8
Circle Gallery
18 State Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401
http://mdfedart.org/

Adornment
3600 Clipper Mill Road (Meadow Mills Building)
Suite 130
Baltimore, MD 21211
http://www.adornment.net/index.html

Antreasian Gallery
1111 W 36th Street
Baltimore, Md 21211
http://www.antreasiangallery.com/