deFINE ART

My work, Time Frames, was selected to be in the deFINE ART show this year. Check out the events section on my website.

The Savannah College of Art and Design showcases the School of Fine Arts with the inaugural deFINE ART festival. The mission of deFINE ART is to establish an annual fall festival highlighting the School of Fine Arts on par with the nationally recognized spring SCAD Style festival. deFINE ART seeks to celebrate the achievements and outstanding caliber of SCAD’s School of Fine Arts that is actively shaping and giving rise to new artistic expression, dialogue and innovation. Highlighted disciplines include painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. November 14, 2009 – Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St., and River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 5-8 p.m.

I heart natural curiosities

I apologize for neglecting my blog!! I’m in the middle of working on my thesis (both visual and written components) so I have very little free time for anything else. I won’t be posting very often until after January because that’s when I’ll be finishing my thesis, but you might see me every once in a while.  Check out my new website!

I went to this really great lecture tonight and had to share this. Enjoy!

Christopher Wilcox – Natural Curiosities

I’m Back!!

I don’t know how it happened but it’s already June and I haven’t posted in such a long time. I’ve been super busy and got lost in the world of graduate school. I’m happy to say that I passed my 45 hour review and finished all my classes!! (which is kind of a big deal!!) Now I have to work on my thesis research/paper/show and then I will be finished!! I still have a lot of work ahead but it feels good to say that I’ve finished all my classes.

I’m going to post a gallery of my latest work. I’m also in the process of finishing up my website and I’ll post the link when it is ready.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on my last post. I really appreciate it. It’s finals next week so I’ll be posting an update about my work after March 13th. Thanks again!

I need lots of feedback!!!

I would like feedback on the following images. What do these motifs/forms/objects/materials make you think of? Do they evoke any sort of thought, feeling, emotion? Do you want to touch them so you can understand more or is the visual enough information? I numbered each image so if there is a particular images that is your favorite please let me know what number and why. Just list the first things that come to your mind. You don’t have to know anything about my work at all, I just want to know what these things make you think of. If you can spare five minutes please give me your opinion. Also I know the pictures don’t portray scale so keep in mind that these objects are small (most of them are 2-4 inches). Feel free to pass this on to all your friends because I need as much feedback as possible, thanks!!!

Combining materials

These are some of my first samples combining the technical processes that I’m learning in my metals & jewelry class with the processes that I’m using in the fibers department. Some of the samples are still in progress.

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Hat Netting, Linen, and Distorted Silk Dupioni

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Hat Netting, and Linen

Materials used: Copper, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Distorted Silk Dupioni, Linen

Materials used: Copper, Silver, Enamel, Embroidery Floss, Linen

Winter Quarter…

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post. I’ve been focused so much on my graduate work and before I knew it four weeks went by. This quarter I’m taking a metals and jewelry class in the hope of integrating new technical processes into my work. I chose to research casting, piercing, roller printing, precious metal clay, and color techniques on metal (enameling, resin, patinas, etc). You may be thinking, “WOW! Thats a lot of different processes to learn in ten weeks!” Yes it is a lot of processes and that’s why you haven’t heard from me is so long. So the past four weeks I’ve been exploring a bit of each process that I chose to research and decided which ones will be the best with my fibers work.

This is my casting sample. First I made a wax model and then during class I was shown how to cast my sample into bronze. I decided that this process doesn’t really fit in with my fibers work because the cast is to rigid and heavy. I want to still keep a sense of preciousness and delicacy while incorporating metal into my work.

These are a few of my piercing samples. I used a jewelers saw to cut out some of the silhouettes that I drew last quarter. This technique is very successful in fitting in with my work. I will use it to create pattern and motifs with metal and still be able to incorporate it with embroidery. Some of the next samples with show you what else I can do with the piercing.

This is one of my samples from roller printing. I put hat netting in between two pieces of annealed copper and put it through a rolling mill. It imprinted the texture of the netting onto the metal. I think this is my most successful roller printing sample. I really like the netting texture, but am not sure if I’ll continue using this technique. I can create texture in other ways that are more conducive to my work.

These are my precious metal clay samples. The top picture is before they were fired in a kiln and the bottom picture is after. Once the clay is fired it becomes 100% fine silver. This technique was really fun to experiment with because there are so many different things you can do with it. Most of the textures here are from some of my embroidery samples. PMC (precious metal clay) has definite potential as far as fitting in with my work because of the beautiful textures that I can create with it.

These are my enameling samples. This process is awesome and I will definitely keep using it! I can create textures with color and layering different enamels. I have so much more to explore because I’ve only started basic techniques, so stay tuned for more!

Yay for my birthday!

Since yesterday was my birthday I want to share a few special gifts that I recieved.

My friend Erica made me homemade ice cream!! (my favorite kind!! and really good cookies!) We had cookie ice cream sandwiches yesterday, yum! Check out her blog to see lots of amazing things!

My friend Audrey gave me a beautiful embroidered cupcake girl! YAY!

Check out Audrey’s blog to keep up with her graduate work and fun embroideries.

I got a lot of beautiful cards and gifts (and a little birthday party during our Seminar class yesterday!), thank you to everyone! I had a great day!

Stitch Spectacular

The Stitch Spectacular show opened last night!

The show was a huge success and all of the work was amazing!

This is the last panel that I finished over the break. Click here to see it on the Stitch Spectacular website.

Check out the website because they are posting all the work soon: Stitch Spectacular!

Sarasota and Stitch Spectacular!

I’m back from Florida and got the good news that I made it into the Stitch Spectacular show! YAY! My hand embroidered piece called Time Frames will be in the show. I have to finish one more panel and then it will be complete. It will be at Dimensions Gallery in Savannah, GA during the month of January so everyone in Savannah has to check it out!

I had a really nice time in Sarasota, FL visiting family and got the chance to go to the American Craft Show. It was nice to see the work that is out in the craft field and what is popular right now. I gravitated towards the glass and jewelry at the show (which probably isn’t that surprising..haha). A few of the artists that I liked are: Nancilee Woodyard, Jessica Fields, Erica Zap, Gertrude Graham Smith, Genevieve Yang, Mary Darwall, and Laurie Thal. There was also a SCAD fibers alumni at the show, Jen Swearington. It was exciting to see someone who graduated from SCAD at the show. Overall I really enjoyed the American Craft Show and would like to go to future shows.