Seams: Contemporary Art to Wear - Hanging the Exhibit

Here are some in-progress shots of the hanging of the Seams exhibit that I'm co-curating. It's going to be a fantastic show. Time intensive though, since the work has to be placed just so to be presented at its best, but it will be worth it!

Noyes Museum of Art

733 Lily Lake Road

Oceanville, NJ 0823

1-609-652-8848

May 16- August 24, 2008

Reception May 16 from 5-8pm

The Noyes Museum is also celebrating its 25th anniversary on Friday!

I'll have pictures of the finished installation after Friday. If you're anywhere in the area, it's worth seeing the exhibit.

What On Earth Is This?

It's been a busy week working on the NYC restaurant commission. This certainly doesn't look like my palette, does it! But it's an interesting project anyway. Huge though, about 22 feet long by 11 feet tall. Stay tuned for more images, it's actually too big to put on my design wall to photograph, even in parts!

In the meantime, I finished Cattus Island Sunset #2 for the L.A. couple. It's a different size and has softer colors than the original and will be shipped tomorrow.

Also got the contract for the Atlantic City Medical Center project, so it's a go. I made the 20x20 studies of the Marshlands Triptych as my proposal and that's what they approved, but at double the size. So I'll be working on those as soon as this project gets out the door.

Today's weather is just horrible. Nerve-wracking actually. We've already lost another one of my beloved trees because of high winds. That's the second in three days because of the weather. I keep thinking one is going to crash on the house and my studio faces the woods. Zoe, our border colllie, is under my feet because she's nervous too. I can't imagine what the people who homes have been ravaged by the recent tornadoes have gone through.

P.S. I just checked my site stats and saw that I had a few visitors from Texas already today....hint, hint.....this project does have something to do with Texas, after all it's a barbeque restaurant!

Back to Work

Well so much for taking lots of pictures. I only got these in between rain drops and it's as cold as it looks. No kayaking, no bike riding either... oh well, next trip.

Today it's back to work with deadlines looming.

OH! I did get my lobstah and chowdah though. Yummy.

A Short Vacation

I'm off to Cape Cod for a few days to visit my parents and my sister is visiting from Florida too. Should be fun and I need a couple of days off.....

......because I found out yesterday that I'll be doing one of the "feature" pieces at AtlantiCare Medical Center in Atlantic City. That means a triptych in one of the elevator lobbies, and it's due at the end of June.

So, I'll go right from the restaurant project into the hospital project. Not complaining for sure! I'm so lucky to have a job that I love.

Taking my new camera with me. I used to take lots of Cape Cod photos, and then I stopped because going "home" became too familiar I guess. I never lived there myself, but grew up in Lawrence, MA which isn't quite as picturesque as the Cape.... and that's a major understatement. It's a shame, actually. Anyway, my parents have lived on the Cape for over 30 years now, so I guess it's as much home as anywhere.

Two New Invitational Exhibits

Here are two exhibits I'll be in this month.

The first is for the grand opening of the brand new building of The Oncology Wellness Institute in Meadville, PA. They have an artist program there, both for exhibiting and resident artists and I was invited to show in their gallery. Selections from my Environmental Series will be exhibited.

The second is a Group Show at James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. I did have several sales during my solo exhibit there, and they chose Cattus Island Sunset for this new exhibit.

New Project and Networking

Just got the go ahead for a new project. This one will be for a NYC restaurant and is interesting in that it's going to be quite different from my usual work. I'm looking forward to the challenge.

In the meantime, I'm still working on a commission for the private residence in West L.A.

Because I truly believe in networking as a great tool, I created a group for fine artists, consultants and other fine art professionals working in the hospitality, healthcare, corporate and public art sectors. I've called it the Professional Fine Art Network.

You can join it either on LinkedIn or Facebook and I've also set up a blog (click on the logo above). There are over 500 people listed as artists on LinkedIn alone and thousands of corporate and other entities who have art in their offices. Since LinkedIn has not been responsive in the past concerning adding a "Fine Art" component to their listings, I thought I'd take matters into my own hands (as if I need more to do !).

You all know how important networking is, or you wouldn't be reading this or have joined LinkedIn or Facebook in the first place. I've started putting links to members' websites on the blog and will continue to do so. It's a work in progress, so be patient.

Last Leaves Gone

Got a call from James Gray Gallery last night. My show came down on Sunday, hard to believe it's been a month already. But they called with good news, because they sold Last Leaves yesterday!

That was one of the last pieces I made for my show, it had a very soft feel with printed and painted organza over a duplicate printed image, with lots of paint and medium and hand stitching.

I'm speaking at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ to a fibers class on Friday and then heading out for my friend Joan Dreyer's MFA thesis show opening in Philadelphia. I'm looking forward to seeing it after seeing much of the work in progress over the past two years. Her thesis is about the "Home Front" and how war affects those at home as well as those fighting.