My on going blog about this show:
4.2.07 10:30 pm
This show was started in March of 2007. It was inspired by Julie from Creative Genius. She offered me the opportunity to show in May at her gallery and I said yes. We determined that the site could hold @ 30 6" x 6" images. I have recently moved into a new (to me) home and have experienced a new love for the meaning of "save your money" so this show is being made w/ all stuff I already have.
When I owned a gallery in Medford, a very good artist I know gave me a stack of wood sheets, primed and ready to be turned into paintings. I used a few of these (8 to be exact) and cut them up...4 per sheet...making 32 pieces. When I talk about this show I call it 32 pieces. It has press going out about it as well. The press will be calling this show...bottoms up. I named it that before I started making them...back in December I had made a piece out of coffee and a cupcake wrapper. It was the first time I ever glued "Trash" to a painting. I have been trying to incorperate "trash" into my paintitngs for 2 years ...it took me 2 years to glue stuff into my paintings...what is wrong w/ me? What was I so afraid of?
So I had told Julie about this big moment and she was like...I'd like to buy that painting...cupcake & coffee...of course I gave it to her :) And thus a seed for a show was planted. A few months later...we figured this all out and the show was going to include 30 pieces all made from beverages...and then we brainstormed and I could not help it. My college days laughed out "let's call it bottoms up" and so the first name was given to this body of work.
I don't have much to say about my work, or even my life. I really do feel that it speaks for itself. I have a hard time explaining why I make what I make...but I can tell you this, when I hear / read about artists like Andy Goldsworthy, Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keefe, Alice Neel, Janet Fish, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, SARK, Peter Max, Elizabeth Murray, Shepard Fairey, Daniel Johnston, Kiki Smith, Richard Diebenkorn...(I will add more as they come to me), when I read about/ watch films featuring these artists I feel like I understand myself more. That it is ok that I am driven like this about this stuff. I feel like they are my "family". I realize this may sound presumtious, however it is what it is. I was like... that is what I feel like when I make art.
I am not even close to being on the same par as these folks (or maybe I am) time will tell, however I feel like them. I will work and work and work and work at making my art...and my art will tell you what it is trying to say...I would say that it would tell me, but I don't pay attention to them in the way that they should be paid attention to. I think that is why money can be paid for a piece of art. If you pay a few hundred or thousands or millions for a piece of art... you will probably take the time to see what it says...or at least I hope you would :) And you know what I mean when a peice really speaks to you. SOmetimes they are free...but as the value is seen by others the price grows...naturally.
Money makes you put a value on something. Personally my work is all worth nothing and everything. But it absolutly has a value that the average person in Medford, NJ will pay for it...art collectors will pay more...and very wealthy people that have private art delivered to thier homes by interior designers will pay even more. I am just beginning to learn about this world of art for sale. And the knowledge I gained so far gave me the idea to price everything for this show at $50 before the show opens and $100 after the show opens ( I will ensure that they are worth the money). The show opens May 19th. My goal is to sell them all by the end of the show...and sadly...even if they all sell...it does not even cover 1/2 the price of the Mac I desire, or my mortgage...but it does put 32 pieces on the walls of friends and family, and art appreciators...and that is really all that matters right now.
I love the art that I have already purchased from other artists. My collection includes work by the following artists- Nicole of KOARTPRO is one of my favorites...everytime I look at her paintings I see something new...like a little present. I new bit of color or some text I never saw before. I also love her father Gary's work, the works of Jason Ostroski, Lee Whitehead, Jasmyn Tardif, Gary Collings, Tracey Femiano, Chuck Hosier, Matt Brader, Michelle Emenecker, Nemo, Julie Bastello Holt, Catherine MacMichael, Elise Dilger, Chris Ward, Carin Ward, Candy Lipincott, Steven Kuzma, and Chase Mackenzie...I have many other artist friends that I love thier work...however I do not own anything from them yet :) I am always on the prowel.
As far as my recent art goes...I am trying not to think...quite opposite from how I was taught to paint...the beginning was always the most important part it was the bones of a piece. Now I still make beginning bones, but I have no thought in the beginging...just raw go energy. It is always scary and fun and scary again because after I mark the first splats and blobs, I am like...crap, now what...and sometimes they sit for awhile, until I know what next to do, or I have the amount of time I need to do it.
For right now, in the begining my pieces are always fun and free, no thinking allowed...and as they progress in the end I am always using a size 0 brush and everything is very precise. My work is about paint and line. It is made where paint lays against paint and lines are formed.
Now for me, that place where paint lays against paint and a line is made...that is the moment. Making the line, making the place that paint meets paint....ahhhh :)
I am tired right now...sorry for the typo's. I will edit this tommorrow...or the next day :) Thank you for treading this as always... :)
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