Kaleidoscope Art

Art Art Art 2011 Re-cap

 

I am a huge fan of Year in Reviews. I love reflecting on the year that Has Been and looking forward to a New Year with fresh enthusiam. 2011 has proven to be a year of many art endeavors, some planned and well executed, some taking on a grander scale than anticiapted, and some art travel to the wonderful-art-land of Banff.

This year has made me appriecate that much of my art career is instable and constantly in evolution. There are no certainties and I have a constant striving to move forward, take on new challenges, and get up each day to pursue this murky, mystifying, undulating path and create some kind of order to it (likely to be colourful and fluffy)

I have fixed up my web site with a pile of photos from this year. These here holidays may be a good time to take a look-see at what I've been up to over the past months. There's also a blog post at the Fieldwork site. The word sculptures in the field are holding up just fine...they'll be up till April 2012, so if you're heading to or from Toronto this winter, take the senic Highway 7. The field is only a 5 minute drive off of the highway, and worth the slight diversion. 

 www.Fieldworkproject.com

 

 

2012 is bringing a re-visiting of the Lost Mitten Project. I'm sewing up all the mittens I collected in 2001-2004 to build a Lost Mitten Mountain/Montagne de Mitaines Perdue. It will be exhibited at the NCC's Nothern Passion Nordique exhibition in Confederation Park during Ottawa's Winterlude in February. It nice to re-connect to my past project and make use of the mittens I collected.

 I wish you the best for the remaining days of 2011 and look forward to many new endeavors in 2012! 

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At Banff Center Residency

I'm working as a Banff Artist in Residence from Oct. 7 until Oct. 28. The view from my studio is amazing. Will get lots of work done here. Bliss!

Go see my giant HooHa at Fieldwork

Guest blog post on the the Fieldwork site.  More pics coming soon! Enjoy the field!

FYI: *do not climb on the sculptures*

Online review at Frontenac News. SWEET!

Working for Feildwork

I am working on something BIG for my upcoming exhibition at feildwork opening Sept 11. It is an outdoor, site-specific, experimental art gallery in a feild just outside of Perth, ON. I am working on a giant W in this photo...well not excatly working on it, but trying out its dimensions. Scale is something of a challenge for this word work. As is material: I am working in tarps. The installation will be out all winter so it needs to durable and weather proof. What have I gotten myself into?...

(Photo credit: Jenny McMaster)

Text-ing at the City of Ottawa Public Libraries starts tomorrow!

Its going to be a few hours of letter pillow fun at the St.Laurent Library tomorrow, Wednesday July 13 from 10:00am-Noon. Come and 'write' your favorite word, rest or lounge with the letters, take pictures, upload and share! Text-ing will be making appearances at other libraries over the next few weeks.  Follow the link below for locations and schedule:

Text-ing at the City of Ottawa Public LIbrary is brought to you by the Community Arts Program at the City of Ottawa.

ArtsPark and The New Art Festival and...

Spring for Spring!

Text-ing at Hintonburg’s Artspark

 In collaboration with the City of Ottawa’s Community Arts Program, Text-ing will be presented at Hintonburg’s ArtsPark as a public intervention from noon-2:00pm on May 28, 2011. Text-ing has appeared as public interventions, a pangram, text messages, and general pillow play since 2007.  In a time in which text messaging is a direct and common form of instant communication, Text-ing as a sculptural project is a much appreciated diversion in our relationship to text. The public is invited to manipulate the pillows to form words, rest or lounge with their favorite letter, and take pictures. Watch for Text-ing to appear at City of Ottawa Public Libraries in the summer...word fun!  
http://www.hintonburg.com/

 

 

The New Art Festival

I will be at The New Art Festival with my KBergmans.com Clothing Line: cozy, comfortable, handmade and one-of-kind garments. Each item is unique and will soon be a wardrobe favorite. I will be located at 2 South Pathway. TNAF takes place Saturday & Sunday June 4 & 5, 2011, from 10am to 5pm, Central Park (just off Bank St, south of the the 417), in the Glebe (Ottawa).  See you in the Park!

For more info and a map of the site, please visit http://artinfoboy.org/ or find them on Facebook!

 

Chinatown Re-mix

I have a pillow word (Mandarin in Mandarin) at Shanghai Restaurant for Chinatown Re-mix. This exciting community event is causing a buzz in the city.  With over 40 artists exhibiting in unconventional spaces, its worth taking a walk along Sommerset Street and taking a look at the local talent to be found in the city. A walking tour map can be found at http://www.ottawachinatown.ca/.  Chinatown Re-mix runs from May 15 to June 15, 2011

new work: "Award Winner"

I made a new wall work recently entitled 'Award Winner'. I have a fondness for those ribbons and awards one might get for show jumping, or dog grooming or sometimes for an art piece.  This work takes that idea little further. A friend gave me the crazy background fabric and I knew I had to something with it. I made all the little 'awards' and love the bits that dangle off. It is fun, shiny, sparkly and functional: the black feather boa is removable for any boa emergency and the flower second from the left is removable and wearable as a hair clip. Love.

 
 

Metal Cutting

We bought a steel bed frame and it was too big to fit in the house. So we rented a compound mitre saw with a metal cutting blade and cut that bed frame apart. I ilke the sparks.

 

JACKPOT!

I am taking a little trip later this month and I thought I needed a new purse for good luck. Can you guess where I might be going?  I've had this sequence-y piece for ages, (it was from an thrifted t-shirt, how impractical?!) and have been trying to figure out how best to use it. Obviously, I need to turn to my trusty clear vinyl and finally sew a zipper (I try to avoid those). I'm super pleased with the way it turned out.  Its nice to work on a small project with good results.  JACKPOT!

Pics and Links

Here's a link to pics of my show in at the MVTM Almonte. It came down last weekend. It went really well, and now all the work is back at the studio.  Its always a funny feeling when a show is over...there's a 'what's next' feeling. Its also a strange time of year, this january business, because the year is still so new and unsure of itself. 

This was one of my favorite pieces from the show, the says Mandarin in Mandarin. I have now hung it on a wall at home, suitable for upcoming Chinese New Year. Cheerful!  Here's to 2011!