On View in August

A couple more exhibitions in the waning days of summer...

Two collage pieces will be on view at The Studio Door in San Diego, CA, as part of "Endangered," an exhibition of artwork about the beauty of endangered and threatened species or habitats, running from August 5-28.

 Beasts of the Northern Wild

 Beekeeper

One of my recent embroidered pieces will be on view in the "Real People 2016" exhibition, August 4 - October 1, 2016, at the Old Court House Arts Center in Woodstock, IL.

All My Love, Wilma

The Man from Beijing

Henning Mankell, a master of Swedish crime noir, has written a series of novels featuring Swedish detective inspector, Kurt Wallender.  One of my favorite Wallender books is The Man from Beijing, and one of my favorite sections of that book follows three young desparate Chinese brothers fleeing across old China, trying to save themselves and stay alive.  Mankell creates a beautiful but brutal world for them and a couple of his descriptions beg to be illustrated.  Here's one:

A Dense Cloud of Butterflies

"The insects were transparent and yellow, and their flapping wings

sounded like rustling paper. San paused in the middle

of the swarm, entranced. It felt like he'd entered a house

with walls made of wings."

(Chapter 10, The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell, translation copyright  2010)

Red

Some Little Experiments with Composition...

Cubes 

 The eye

W

Collaboration Round-Up

Some recently-completed collage collaborations between myself and my good friend Sabine Remy of Dusseldorf, Germany:

 Collaboration No. 50 "Dolls of Evil" (started by me & finished by Sabine)

 Collaboration No. 51 "The Spa) (started by Sabine, finished by me)

 Collaboration No. 52 "Under Fire" (started by me & finished by Sabine)

Collaboration No. 53 "Voodoo) (started by Sabine, finished by me)

My Latest Project -- the Memory Veil

Memory Veil was inspired by an old photo album I picked up on (where else!) eBay.  It included a number of lovely small portraits from 1934-35 of someone's friends and family from a seaside town in New Jersey. I sewed these old photos, scraps of lace and fabric (some tea-dyed), and small pearlized buttons onto an old wedding veil.  It is wearable.

Anyone feel like tying the knot?

(By the way, modeling the Memory Veil today is a beautiful little sculpture we've had for years by a local artist.  We affectionately refer to as Zombie Boy...he looks quite fetching, no?)

ADDENDUM -- The Memory Veil was on exhibit recently at the 2016 Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival in La Conner, WA.  Thanks for including me, La Conner!

More Summer Exhibition News

A few more collage pieces are winging their way to exhibitions this summer, including:

Angels in America (No. 4)

Headed for a group exhibition titled "Collagism: A Survey of Contemporary Collage" organized by the Museum Strathroy-Caradoc, which will run from July 1 to August 1 in the Art Space at 34 Frank Street, Strathroy, ON.

Mother

Currently on view in an exhibition titled "Paperworks 2016" at Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, June 23-July 24, 2016.

Romy & Tinsley Are Welcomed Into Fashion Hell

 Have You Been Everywhere Yet?

 Grimm

These three pieces will be part of the Northwest Collage Society's 2016 summer show titled "Black and White with a Splay of Red," which will be on view at the Phinney Center Gallery, 6532 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle, WA, from July 20 - August 26, 2016.

Come and see us!