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Oct
11
check out this article!
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Oct
11
Black Light Black Night
Dre Lopez, Sammy Lopez, Nathan Fiveash, and Lindsay Wiggin’s Alice in Wonderland, mixed media painting shot under black light, 2011. photo by Mark Green http://markverks.com/
Anastasia’s Gallery last Thursday had an art show titled Black Light, Black Night as part of October’s first Thursdays on Main street in Columbia. It was totally different from any art show that I have been a part of before and was honored to work on a collaborative piece with Dre Lopez, Sammy Lopez, and Nathan Fiveash. I also had two additional pieces in the show, but was hesitant in the beginning about working with such a different medium. It was fun experimenting with paints under both the black light and incandescent light. The collaborative piece was a nice departure from working solo and something I look forward to doing more of. Dre, Sammy, and Nathan are all artists whom I highly respect. We all work with vastly different styles which yielded some interesting results.
Black Light, Black Night was an ultraviolet art experience where everyone and everything was completely immersed in black light. The windows of the gallery were blacked out, and the gallery was completely transformed into a sea of black light illuminated with a combination of paintings, sculpture, mixed media and photography that are all black light reflective. Black Light artists included Amy Alley, Bohumila Augustinova, Jennifer Baxley, Michael Bolin, Anastasia Chernoff, Corey Rocbottom Davis, Scott Denis, Nathan Fiveash, Robin Gadient, Kara Gunter, Jonathan Inkley, Cade Kaufmann, Paul Kaufmann, Michael Krajewski, Amanda Ladymon, Whitney LeJeune, Dre Lopez, Sammy Lopez, Lauren Maurer, Lucas Sams, Jason Stroud, Joseph Tolbert, Lindsay Wiggins and Roe Young. It turned out to be a lot of fun and there was a lot of interesting art! My hope is for “Black Light, Black Night” to become an annual event that will grow bigger every year!
My little dog Smooch wanted to collaborate on the painting as well and even made it to Jasper Magazine’s blog! http://jaspercolumbia.net/blog/?p=553
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Jun
10
My preying mantis………
Heres an image of the preying mantis I have still been messing with. I must have at least 4 paintings to work on at a time or I get bored. I can not decide if it should be vertical or horizontal? Think I need to leave it alone for a while? Well, Buenas noches!
29
Jun
10
Painting I just started…….
Busy summer so far. Why I signed up for 4 classes this summer, I am not sure? Haven’t updated the blog in a while & I have tons of images to post. I just started this painting this past week. The largest I have done so far. It was fun wrestling it to get it stretched. I’m sure it looked hilarious. Not sure the exact dimensions but something like 4 1/2 x 7 ft? Pretty large. I love working big! It is actually linen. Another first for me. It is nice to paint on too.
I have fallen in love with Frida Khalo’s work after seeing it in Berlin. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1987853,00.html Awesome exhibit! My use of symbolism is very similar to hers and I didn’t really realize it before. I am doing an artist presentation on her for class as well. I really need to be working on it but instead I thought I would procrastinate and update this blog. Not to mention my other paper & Spanish homework! 
Painting I just started. Image from my phone (don’t judge I know its bad photo) Long way to go on the painting & no telling what it will look like…..Nice working in the studio at school with no one else up there! 
Lots of room I don’t have at home.
29
Jun
10
More of Kollwitz’s sculptures
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May
10
one of my favorite artists…….
May 14,2010. I went to the Kathe Kollwitz museum in Berlin and it was amazing. To see it up close and personal from only inches away. Her work is so powerful. I wanted to memorize every line sketched in each image. I got to see “Revolt” & ” March of the Weavers” and many self portraits. It made me want to get back into etchings. I haven’t done any etchings since December. My focus has been primarily on oil painting. It was hard to hold back the tears seeing her work because they are so beautiful and full of emotion. When viewing her drawings and prints of poverty I can not help but see the faces of poverty I have experienced in Honduras. I think my experiences in Honduras seeing the prevalence of poverty really brings Kollwitz’s work even closer to my heart. We don’t experience this near as much or on the scale in the United States. Kollwitz’s bronze sculptures were also incredible. It is hard to put into words seeing her work in life. I didn’t want to leave because I know I may never see them again in my lifetime. Oh, to be a fraction of the artist she was is my lifelong dream…..
The Neue Wache (New Guard House) is a building in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is located on the north side of the Unter den Linden, a major east-west thoroughfare in the centre of the city. Dating from 1816, the Neue Wache was designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and is a leading example of German neoclassicism.
I couldn’t get any images of course of her works on paper but I did however get some images of a few of her sculptures. These are images I took of one of Kollwitz’s sculptures Mother with Dead Son in Berlin. Her work all dealt with poverty, injustice, and suffering post WWI and during. She became an extreme Pacifist after losing one of her sons on the Belgian Front. This is the interior of New Guard House in Berlin. After German reunification, the New Guard House was rededicated in 1993, as the “Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny.” The GDR memorial piece was removed and replaced by an enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz’s sculpture Mother with her Dead Son. This sculpture is directly under the oculus, and so is exposed to the elements within Germany’s climate to symbolize suffering.07
May
10
making progress…………
I got nine canvases stretched today. Most of them are baby-sized but it took a while. Done with classes which is cool that I can paint without feeling guilty about not working on a paper. At least until June, but wait I will be in Germany. I can not wait to go to the Kathe Kollwitz Museum! Who I did a 12 page paper on. ( One of my Fav. artists) Not to mention a Frida Kahlo exhibit in Berlin? Can’t wait!
I need to sell some stuff! I have sold two pieces at school but I need to sell more. I am running out of room seriously! I love working big but I don’t like the result of lots of art consuming me and everyone else. Especially my little dog Smooch! 
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May
10
my friend is a preying mantis………
I am addicted to art! So I think I have a little problem. I can not seem to get anything done because the art always gets in the way. I can’t seem to leave this praying mantis alone. As soon as I try to focus on something else, like writing papers it lures me back up to fight with it some more. I think I hate it right now except one little section. It is always that way. The one little section that keeps me motivated to finish the rest. It looks like chaos right now. Oh, wait, I think they all look chaotic. All my work. Just like life, I try to simplify things and it never works.
This piece of the horses I think is finished?
Iam fighting with this one! I think it is winning too. It has a ways to go……
Close up of a section I think is the most finished part.
