Things We Already Know: 2011

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Lucky?

This is a "lucky" rabbits foot that I bought recently and put on my key chain. But it kept falling off, so I am wondering if this specific one is actually as lucky as it is supposed to be.

This is a drawing from a photo that was taken of my brother and I for halloween when we were little. joe was a happy ghost and I was a pretty witch. I don't exactly know who took the photo or our exact age. The rug is still in our house and permanently engrained in my memory.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

I currently have a piece up in a show titled “Who am I?” in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Here is the statement for the show that I wrote with Teal Wilson.

The Kansas City Art Institute printmaking department has everything a traditional shop has, from presses to acid baths, from lithography stones to silk screens. We also have independent desks and work stations, where we can explore and create our own concepts. Our group is close and loud, and our voices and ideas collide and overlap with each other to make an even more inspirational space. We are individual artists but together we are printers and we function like printmakers whether we are producing an image off a stone, through a screen, from a metal plate or piece of wood, or even if we are not making a “print” at all. Our work extends beyond the presses and the ink slabs, and what we see from each other or over hear in one section of the studio works its way all around until we each get to try out that idea. We are printers because we work together even when we are working on separate things, and when one person needs help, we are there to sponge or lift or offer a pair of clean hands to handle that absorbent, white as sugar sheet of BFK. We are printers because we collaborate, and we make things accessible to each other. The works presented by our department are not just an etching or a screen print or a lithograph or a woodcut, they are a conglomerate of ideas and processes particular to the trends we fall in and out of. “Who am I?” The answer is, of course, not only an artist but a printmaker.