New Narratives: Stories and Messages in Contemporary Art

New Exhibition which Includes my Work:

National all-media juried show

Juror: Peter Bruun, artistic director,Art on Purpose, Baltimore, MD

Nov. 10-Dec. 10, 2009

Cade Center for Fine Arts GalleryAnne Arundel community College

Thursday Nov. 12

12:30 p.m. artists' talk

6-8p.m. reception

Information: 410 777-7028

Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition Philadelphia Inquirer Review

The verdicts are in
By Victoria Donohoe
Philadelphia Inquirer Friday October 30, 2009
What a difference a judge makes. By that, I mean judges of art competitions, not necessarily judges seeking your vote Tuesday.
Julien Robson, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' contemporary art curator, judged the Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibit at Main Line Art Center. It's the sixth annual juried show in a series very closely watched by ambitious artists. Robson, a Scot trained in London, came to the Academy in '08 from the Speed Museum in Louisville, Ky.
One clue that venturesome artists once again have flocked to enter this display, enticed also by its unusual single prize of $1,000, is that artists of serious intent from as far away as the Hoboken artists' colony and Bethlehem are rubbing elbows here with fresh local talent. In fact, Karen Steen of Bethlehem won the show's only prize.
The result is a show in which nearly everything on view is worthwhile. Nineteen artists are featured, each showing one to four works. The exhibit has a very "now" look about it.

Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition

Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition

Promoting Experimentation and Pushing Boundaries: (10/16/09-11/16/09) at the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Juror: Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

I have two large paintings in this exhibition.

For more information go to:

http://www.mainlineart.org/event_detail.php?id=37

Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices Exhibition at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago

Chicago, Illinois - Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of 'Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices,' a group show with art in a variety of media by 23 women.
Juried by artist Pritika Chowdhry, this exhibit includes works of artists from diverse locations and heritages, whose creations embody individual acts of memorialization and remembrance.

The artists in this show have each taken on subject matters that are difficult and perhaps even controversial, but their artistic practices show a critical engagement with their specific material and a commitment to building bridges across cultural and national barriers through the visual arts. The works reveal a broad range of engagements with memory - some are about collective memories of large-scale traumas, some are about familial or generational memories, and others are about individual memories. These acts of remembrance reference and create connections between the geopolitics of India, Korea, Latvia, Sri Lanka, Germany, America, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, and Trinidad, among others.

Participating artists are Nandini Chirimar, Sun H. Choi, Anda Dubinskis, Frances Ferdinands, Karen Frostig, Sharon Harper, Katherine Harriott, Juarez Hawkins, Tehniyet Hussain, Shalalae Jamil, Naomi Kasumi, Susan Lenz, Judith G. Levy, Regina Mamou, Shaghayegh Mazloomi, Samanta Batra Mehta, Neli Ouzounova, Darlene Wesenberg Rzezotarski, Karina Schafer, Romy Scheroder, Pallavi Sharma, and Kari Souders.

The Artist Reception is on September 4 from 6 to 9 p.m., and works will be up through October 10, 2009.
For more information go to:
http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=group&gallery=transdiasporic2009&pic=1

American Style Magazine Advertisement

My piece titled Minuet I is in the top left corner of this advertisement in American Style magazine. The work was choosen to be fetured and represent the Artists Who Teach organization. It will be on news stands August 25th 2009.

I also have some upcoming events to list:

8/31- 9/30/09, Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Practices, Women Made Gallery, Chicago.

10/09 Blurred Boundaries: Fabrications Exhibit, Kalamazoo, MI

One person Show 2/4/10 - 3/4/10
BodyQuilting: Walton Gallery, George School, Newtown, PA

Minuet I

This piece is part of my new Marie Antoinette Series.

This series continues my tradition of juxtaposing the new with the old while commenting on our modern day obsession with physical beauty and its relationship to the past. Words such as (Augmentations, Plucking, Lasers, Peels, Dying, Rhinoplasty, Face Lift, Transplants, Liposuction, Durmabrasions, Lasik Surgeries, Botox Injections, Restyline Filler, Juvedurm) represent the rewriting on the surface of our bodies that has become our modern-day ritual. The work also includes bits of quilts that are composed of bits of cloths and fabrics that elicit the body. We see our flesh as compartmentalized fragments that can be resurfaced, patched and transformed into new canvases piece by piece. In essence, we are quilting our bodies with the evolving text of culture and the visual standards of desire.
The series is an attempt to layer dialogue and mutate fragmented parts in order to experience a montage of past and present, in and out, over and under, until they merge into new realities. They are patched, stitched, quilted and interwoven with both history and current obsessions. They symbolize our woven lives, where past and present coexist.

Spring Garden

This is an image of my garden. Joy comes from giving pleasure and creating life that sustains the people we love. It is an important creative outlet for me as well as something special I share with my daughter. In early Spring before we sow the seeds we look toward the garden with eyes of hope and the promise of renewal, revival, awakening, rebirth, recharging, recommencement, refilling, reformation, regeneration, rejuvenation, reopening, replenishment, restoration, resumption, resurrection, revitalization.

Piazza San Marco

This is another example of a two-dimensional surface photograph of an architectural structures that blocks the viewer from any deep visual space.

I like surface qualities and textures of things like wood, brick and stone. It is interesting finding contrasts between graphic surfaces. I also enjoy photographing two-dimensional surfaces like fronts of architectural structures that block the viewer from any deep visual space. I admire Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn and Dorothea Lange’s pictures that depicted 1930’s American lifestyle. I recommend looking at examples of all of their work especially in today’s political climate.

Via Veneto

This is a picture I took from a rooftop restaurant in Rome. I was on the edge of the Via Veneto in the very heart of Rome, with the 17th Century Triton fountain sparkling directly below.

This photograph displays the present, while reflecting on art history. I try and
Break down some of the boundaries between painting and photography. My computer-manipulated photographs are similar to a painting in that they are created over time.

The camera photographs an instantaneous fraction of a second. In a painting I move my hand and brush over the canvas in a temporal manner that reflects the movement of my eyes. My photographic process has become more like the process of painting. I use computer technology to piece together a more temporal photograph by continually surveying and manipulating small details.

Recursion One

Oil and beeswax on canvas

This is an introduction to my work for viewers to see on my new blog. I have included the full painting and a closeup.

I selected Recursion because it shows that painting and computer ideas can have intrinsic parallel universes.

WIKIPEDIA defines Recursion as follows:

Recursion (computer science) is a way of thinking about and solving problems. It is, in fact, recursion one of the central ideas of computer science. [1] Solving a problem using recursion means the solution depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem. [2]
"The power of recursion evidently lies in the possibility of defining an infinite set of objects by a finite statement. In the same manner, an infinite number of computations can be described by a finite recursive program, even if this program contains no explicit repetitions." [3]

This painting is about defining one solution form an infinite number of smaller instances.