Saturday, May 28, 2011
Encaustic!!
The new encaustic painting. So far there's an ink jet print, some clear and some transparent blue wax, and a drawing of myself in oil pastel. I think I'm going to draw a squirrel in there, and then a paint a self portrait of my face all super pale and scary, with all cool colors and tons of white.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
2011 Thesis Exhibition
I'm finally done with school, and this was what I had to show for it. It felt so good to finish, but I'm not sure it has set in yet. I'm anxious for what's to come, and I feel like I need to stay busy. I am planning on entering Art Prize this year, so wish me luck on that.
This is the Gallery space I got to show in. Since I was the recipient of the 2011 Studio Excellence Award in Painting, I got this really nice gallery space to show in by myself as opposed to the classroom converted into gallery space with the other students.
This is the other room where the other Thesis students exhibited. Susan Dennison's work right here. She is awesome. She was working with dance and movement. All her work was based on actual dances that she translated into 2-D paintings/drawings/cut paper.
Kalee Fix's work here. Her paintings are portraits of people and their totems are painted into their portraits in subtle ways. The painting closest to the camera is of a woman who's totem is a salmon, so her slip is painted with the iridescent scale patterns of a salmon. She too is awesome!
To the right (sorry I don't have a more close up picture) is Adam Wolgamott. He paints oil paintings with encaustic frames of animals, focusing on the ways in which they've evolved to fit their environments. He has such a detailed and sensitive approach to paintings animals that you can't help but be seduced by their forms and their evolved abilities.
I wish I had more photos, but I really didn't have the attention to photograph everything really well. There were lots of people, and as usual, I was anxious the entire time. It was good though, and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to do it.
Even though I'm graduated I think I have lots of plans for the summer. Today, Josh and I are going out to paint in the park. Tonight, or tomorrow night I'm going to work on entering Art Prize. For June's Art Hop I will be showing some work at Gazelle Sportswear. Also, in August, I will be showing in an Exquisite Corpse and alumni show at Midtown Gallery. All the while I will be working more on this idea I explored during the last year and a half of my BFA. I hope to continue working in this method on this scale, but in the immediate future I'm going to try my hand at doing some smaller scale encaustic and oil paintings. Still layering, still working with internal thought processes, and still trying to find the sweet intimate subtleties of the human portrait.
This is the Gallery space I got to show in. Since I was the recipient of the 2011 Studio Excellence Award in Painting, I got this really nice gallery space to show in by myself as opposed to the classroom converted into gallery space with the other students.
This is the other room where the other Thesis students exhibited. Susan Dennison's work right here. She is awesome. She was working with dance and movement. All her work was based on actual dances that she translated into 2-D paintings/drawings/cut paper.
Kalee Fix's work here. Her paintings are portraits of people and their totems are painted into their portraits in subtle ways. The painting closest to the camera is of a woman who's totem is a salmon, so her slip is painted with the iridescent scale patterns of a salmon. She too is awesome!
To the right (sorry I don't have a more close up picture) is Adam Wolgamott. He paints oil paintings with encaustic frames of animals, focusing on the ways in which they've evolved to fit their environments. He has such a detailed and sensitive approach to paintings animals that you can't help but be seduced by their forms and their evolved abilities.
I wish I had more photos, but I really didn't have the attention to photograph everything really well. There were lots of people, and as usual, I was anxious the entire time. It was good though, and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to do it.
Even though I'm graduated I think I have lots of plans for the summer. Today, Josh and I are going out to paint in the park. Tonight, or tomorrow night I'm going to work on entering Art Prize. For June's Art Hop I will be showing some work at Gazelle Sportswear. Also, in August, I will be showing in an Exquisite Corpse and alumni show at Midtown Gallery. All the while I will be working more on this idea I explored during the last year and a half of my BFA. I hope to continue working in this method on this scale, but in the immediate future I'm going to try my hand at doing some smaller scale encaustic and oil paintings. Still layering, still working with internal thought processes, and still trying to find the sweet intimate subtleties of the human portrait.
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