glorious time in charlottesville, sadly I have somehow misplaced my cord which lets me download my photos. hopefully I can find one tomorrow.

this morning I am off to Charlottesville for a few days of meetings and studio visits.

a detail of the encaustic I worked on today.

happy bday Mom!

more artomatic

I was interested how much fabric was on exhibit at artomatic. From Deb Jansen's carharsis&karma to Caitlin Phillips wonderful book purses. I really liked the idea of Elizabeth Crisman's stitched photographs and this little cloth and encaustic collage who's name I didn't catch.

Megan Van Wagoner

Artifact or Artifice

artifact n. any object made by human work; esp. a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.

artifice n. 1. a clever expedient 2. trickery or craft 3. a sly or artful trick —syn. see art, trick

Through the artifacts that remain we believe we understand the stories of places and times we have not personally experienced. In reality we have no way of knowing if those artifacts reflect a reality or if they are artifice.

In my sculpture I capture moments in a narrative and express them as artifacts (or sometimes artifice). In many cases the narrative is autobiographical, but through the reduction of the story to a few simple objects I hope to make the narrative more universal and at the same time create an air of personal mystery.

The work included in Artomatic 2009 is titled “Comforts of Home.” It is through the title that clues about the subject are given to the viewer, but little is revealed. The narrative is yours to imagine.

visit Megan's fascinating web site here

another artist I really enjoyed was Erica Riccardelli, beautiful mysterious photographs. Her web site here

been busy lately, lots of good work getting done at NIH, an interesting walk through at the construction site of the medical office pavilion at Stafford, working hard to co-ordinate samples for my MJH meeting on Monday. More posts about artomatic coming this weekend....

one of the artomatic renwick award winners

nice spot about the flora show on www.weta.org see it here

artomatic

I went to artomatic yesterday. What a perfect way to spend a rainy Friday afternoon. Plus it was empty so you could really move through the space quickly.

what a rainy spring its been, but on the bright side, great for the flowers

This is an image from a studio visit Crystal & I went on last April to see Jean Meisel. Yesterday we had a delightful time taking Jean and a friend of her's, Judith, on a tour to see her exhibits at NIH. Jean is showing in the West Gallery as part of our changing exhibits and also has a show up on the 4th floor that is an indefinite loan. Come see them if you can! up through the end of the month.