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Studio news from His Room as He Left It
July 2023 drawing the to-be-inked letters for Drey’s diary
April 2023
sometimes Drey consults his FEATHERMATIC TUFTOMETER
Tufticity levels determined by cresticulate apex over hopbobulant mean
Acrylics, aluminum, colored pencil, glass, graphite, magnet, needle, plastic, polymer clay, vellum, wire, wood
remake of a piece from 2005
with thanks to Allison Cook
march 2023
am feeling deeply honored:
to have some Pop Poems included in Ma Turner/grey windowpane/mazozma’s Fruit of the Spirit magazine. thank you, mikey
here
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to have four Blob sculptures in this show at this place with these people. thank you, josh
here and here
The March 2023, Looky Here will host (A/Z Outer Connections) Mystra Art Show!
W/ Dawn Cook, J Burkett, Nora Charters, Shannon Ketch, Erica Pinto, Troy Curry, Andi Magenheimer, Phineas Roy, Alto Jeffro, Anthony Pasquasrosa, Ariel Kotker @ more.
There will be an opening on March 10th 6pm w/ Junk Orbit (Tony & Kryssi), Wednesday Knudsen, Arkm Foam, Allysen Callery, Dusty Miller, & Tarp Big Band
5 february 2023 very exciting to all but finish drey’s bed (still needs a few touch-ups, and of course bedding) and finally place these three pieces of furniture together in the spot where they’ll live.
this allows me to begin the floor and walls, and also to put the smaller sculptures on display in drey’s room.
12 Nov 22 Turn-a-Mot clip comb
Been wanting to make this for years. Based on my beloved blue Allston Pharmacy comb. Turn-a-Mot Taxi and News is where the Sparkleton Crier is published, and where a poignant scene in our story takes place.
Ink, aluminum leaf, and acrylic ink on Shrinky Dinks with acrylic ink on polymer clay over wire; dyed thread
Nov 8, 2022 thank you all who came down to open studios, friends and strangers alike. It was a delight to see you and engage in interesting art conversations or just hang out. I wish I’d gotten more visitor pix, but of course living in the moment is just as good. thanks also to eastworks, everyone on the planning committee, and everyone who helped me!
my goal this year is to finish Drey’s bed and other cardboard furniture, and construct walls, also from cardboard. then you’ll be able to walk into the room and experience it in a more immersive way.
27 october Acus Oculus hem-lock Needle and Leave tea
This tea was given to Drey by Alexandra, who arrives in Sparkleton shortly before Drey leaves. it will go with his WELL camp cup.
Box: colored pencil on cut, folded, and glued Bristol
Tea: Shrinky Dinks, colored pencil and acrylic on cut HMP inside cut, folded and glued found fabric; colored pencil on paper with wire and twisted thread
october
I’m in great company in the Hosmer Virtual Gallery at Forbes Library
and i’ll be in great company at Eastworks for open studios Nov 5 & 6. come on down! i’d love to see you. but please wear a mask! i’m immunocompromised.
october 9, 2022 WELL camp cup from start to finish.
Years ago during a Traveling Scholars trip, I bought a green camp cup at a thrift shop in Penna. i’ve always wanted to make one for Drey, and here it is. mine is plain, but his has an image of shooting a well, as northwestern PA holds the home of the earliest producing wells.
Ink and acrylic ink on cut, shaped, and glued aluminum flashing and embossing tin
this is part A of a finished sculpture. Part B is coming soon…
14 july 2022 Bridal Veil Falls (in winter) ashtray with Oak Smokes
delighted to be working on this. it’s not done yet, it needs matches.
acrylic ink on polymer clay, ink and embossing on HMP, oak leaves, shaved paper, burnt wood
June 4
i’ve only been able to get to the studio six times in six months, that’s chronic illness for you. but saturday was the seventh time, and I’m working on Drey’s bedding. he’ll have a blue tick mattress, a hexagon-snowflakes sheet, a soil/dirt style blanket, and a green grass quilt with daisies.
December 2021
Drey’s bed finally coming together after ten years! This is the primer/base coat, with faux wood grain to follow. First picture is in my old studio/childhood bedroom at my mom’s house in 2010. Fourth picture is me and Jenna sitting on the in-progress bed at Kevin’s Find & Form show, 2015. Photos 8-10 are from last night at Eastworks
Cut and glued cardboard with paint, and more paint coming soon…
nov 7, 2021
THANK YOU to eastworks, everyone who came by to open studios, and to my wonderful helpers! how lovely it was to see everyone.
September 2021 moon drops and open studios
last september i had a lovely opportunity to participate in the moon drops project. thanks, lei & todd! take a look at this terrific collection of cards:
moon drops
and please come down to eastworks (if it safe to do so come november) for open studios:
https://fb.me/e/2LljtG8zy
i’ll be sharing things now and then on IG at:
June 2021
“studio/news”: new studio
thanks to all the helpers today!
Jan 29 Here is Edith Roder’s old yo-yo (with a better hemlock needle camo paint job than before). It’s funny how art-brain works sometimes. years ago, i thought, “there should be a character named Cass Roder”. She lives with the other Olders at the Rest Home. There’s an interview with her by Jim Grint for The Crier, partly about how she lost her yo-yo in the woods. Henry and Drey found the yo-yo, which is why it’s in his room. An earlier version had Cass’ name on it, and only later did I realize it could be a generation back, her mother’s yo-yo… whose name should begin with an “E” in order to spell “eroder”, because handily the “Roder” was already there. And that’s what we’re all are in the end, eroders, which is of course a big theme in my project.
January 24 a tube and a half of krazy glue, several silver sharpies, a cut thumb and a sore finger later, here’s the finished mica.
slide 2, “accidental blood layer” :)
slide 6, always thank the model(s)
January 2021 working on Drey’s piece of mica. have been using mica in FECIT collages and wanted to do an homage to mica for Drey. Just so happens, it’s shaped like Pennsylvania.
Layered sheets of plastic with pencil, paint, marker and aluminum leaf.
November 1
POST PAUSE exhibit
hello! i’m deeply honored to be included in this virtual show alongside some really powerful work by western mass artists responding to the strange, sad season of 2020:
https://www.easthamptoncityarts.com/galleries/post-pause/
POST PAUSE is an online exhibition of artworks created during this time of pandemic in recognition of the expanded community of artists working in Western Massachusetts. Works created after Friday, March 13, 2020 were considered and artists working in any media in Western Massachusetts were encouraged to apply. This exhibition is made possible by support from Easthampton City Arts' Artist Grant Initiative and is curated by Maggie Nowinski. Selected artworks will be on display in Easthampton City Arts’ inaugural Virtual Gallery as the current exhibition from November 1st, 2020 through February 1 2021 when the show will then be housed on the ECA website indefinitely. There was no submission fee to apply nor is there a commission on work sold through this show. Instead, artists were asked to donate a sliding scale submission fee to one of two local organizations: 413 Stay Woke, Stay Active in support of their new space The Ethnic Study in Springfield MA promoting BIPOC artists and The Pioneer Valley Workers Solidarity Fund offering support to undocumented workers who lost employment status during COVID.
POST PAUSE artists are: Jason Montgomery, Andrae Green, Daniel Feldman, Nancy Diessner, Lyn Horan, Melissa McClung, Liz Chalfin and Sheldon Carroll, Lynn Peterfreund,, Denise M. Riggs, Meredith Broberg, Imo Imeh, Fafnir Adamites, George Ramirez, Ellen M Broadhurst, Baird Soules, Melissa Pandina, Scout Cuomo, Priya Green, Jacin Giordano, Linda Batchelor, Katy Staddon, Coe Lapossy, Lynn Sisler, Anita Hunt, Bobby Salthouse, A. L. R. Keaton, MarÍa José Giminéz, Martha Brouwer, Chris Nelson, Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz, Adell Donaghue, Connor O'Rourke, Sandy Litchfield, Lydia M Kinney , Jace ``Rascal” Smith, Chelsea Dupuis, Audrey Hyvonen, Brantner DeAtley , Ellen Mary Hayes, Mary Witt, Peter O. Zierlein, Seth Koen, Megan P Campbell, Thomas Matsuda, Paulette Griswold, Rob Kimmel, Simone Alter Muri, Rochelle Shicoff, Jessica R Poser, Amy Johnquest, Robert Salthouse, Jotham Stavely, Ariel Kotker, Dave Rothstein, Sharon Ligorner, Eric Jacobson, Doris W. Madsen, Brittany Arita, Catherine Gibbs, Bobbie Salthouse, Madge Evers, Lily Fariborz, Esther S White and Solomon Kahn, Zoe Sasson, Terry Rooney, Dean Nimmer, Robert Markey, Bonnie Sennott, Jacob Capone, Amy Thompson Avishai, Jean Minuchin, Gabriela Sepulveda, Megan P Campbell, Kim Carlino, Amy Dawn Kotel, Anne Taylor, Mary Cleary and Hannah Prosenbaum.
july 4
and here is Drey’s carpenter’s level, from the first water/straw test to the finished thing, plus a video about materials.
ps, if you gave me this level i used for reference (vs. me finding it at a tag sale), my apologies! i don’t remember where it came from, but it is beautiful, thank you
june 20
here are some rocks Drey has picked up off the ground for use with his slingshot. once i make hinges for the carrying case, the slingshot will be finally finished. colored pencil (with occasional ink or glitter) on air-dry clay
18 may
well, the burr is finished, which means Drey’s Blue Sweater is finally finished after 4 years! see “finished pieces” for finished piece.
10 may
burr all glued and ready for paint! then will be sewn onto drey’s sweater sleeve.
march 28, 2020
burr progress, with pencil for scale. the whole burr will be painted burr-colors after i’m done glueing on the aluminum tines. i wanted so much to use paper for the whole thing, but these tines do a darn good job at behaving like a real burr. they’re a lot sharper than they look!
January 18, 2020
Burr in progress and Looky Here show
So happy to be working! Here is the burr which will be stuck to the cuff of Drey’s blue sweater. I will keep adding painted flashing until it is covered, then will attach it the cuff.
And in FECIT news, I am honored to have these three shapes
included in Looky Here’s first gallery show of the year. Thanks to Hannah, Jenna, Beverly, and everyone involved. The opening is Sunday the 19th. I’m not well enough to attend, but I am sure it be will a magical evening!
Looky Here 2020
Looky Here Greenfield, MA
