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Division
A couple of events happening around Tucson this weekend got me to thinking about the dimensions of cities and art. Mercury Portal at Monterey Court The Boneyard Project at Pima Air & Space Museum *** For me, smaller cities, towns and rural areas, by providing more space, physically, mentally and alternative uses [...]
New & Recent works by Rachelle Díaz and Gerardo Arellano
Flex-Space at Pump Project’s Satellite Studios presents New & Recent Works by Rachelle Díaz and Gerardo Arellano Reception: 8pm-10pm, Friday, October 7 – one weekend only show! Open Gallery Hours: 12-5pm, Saturday, October 8 1109 Shady Ln., Austin, Texas 78721 Two friends, one long overdue show. I have about an equal amount of wonderful art buddies [...]
Hybrid Art Summit notes
I’ve been taking an extended break from art-scene engaging, writing and reading, but like a slab of chocolate cake in the fridge, it’s constantly nagging at the corners of my mind. So it was pleasant to hop out of the internal hamster wheel and spend an afternoon listening in on two writing-centric panels at the Hybrid [...]
No Wave [autoritratti]
![No Wave [autoritratti]](http://www.artdivastudios.com/database/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nowave3-310x150.jpg)
After a creatively dismal 4th Quarter 2010, 2011 is already off on a highly productive note. I’m really interested in listening to music again, constantly, which as a general pattern with me indicates that sparks are a-flyin’! Scroll down for some recent hair/make-up/photog woodshedding. [inspired by ZE Records' Mutant Disco vol. 1]
Tucson Meets Austin in West Texas
I celebrated my husband’s birthday and New Year’s with my besties from Austin and Tucson in Alpine (’cause it’s cheap[er]) and a side trip to Marfa (my first real visit after driving through several times). Here are some of my favorite shots from the weekend:
A Musical Homage to My Pops
My dad’s musical taste in rock from the late 60′s and early 70′s inspired me enormously in my early teens, and still does to this day. So as a Father’s Day tribute, I made him a mix CD — I wanted to make it all prog/proto-prog but it came out as more of a mish-mash [...]
Less Doing, More Living
2009 was an expansive year for me… I had work featured in the finale of the major local runway fashion show this spring, styled models in my own fashion show segment (ok, only three outright, the other two were “borrowed” and I didn’t do their hair/makeup, but it was still a lot of concepting and [...]
Mind & Body
A couple of weeks ago, I happily finished two new paintings within a few days. Then my time got sucked up by the excitement of major (fortunately, positive) changes at the day job and my new board position. I felt “keyed-up” and had trouble sleeping both weeks, but the point of stress was different. When I [...]
Equations
I just had my first ever television interview on the local PBS station’s news magazine, Arizona Illustrated. I was really nervous because although I love to talk about art, I tend to clam up when put on the spot, particularly when questioned by “authority” (art institutional types, administrators, posh curators or artists, academics, media), so [...]
Houses I’ve Lived In
All the houses I lived in through childhood via Google Street View & Google Maps. 1980-1984 1985 1986 1987 1988-1992 1989-1990 1992-1993 1993 1993-1997 1997-1998
Semiotics of Relationships and Memory
I saw Easy Rider (one of my favorite movies for tragicomedy, fashion, weirdo characters, editing, music) in a movie theater last week. This scene stuck with me, I think because of the friends I saw the movie with. I started thinking about relationships, and how it’s not about who are what you are, it’s about [...]
You’ll ruin your eyes
Since beginning The Outside World links lists on Tu Scene, I’ve peeked into whole new art worlds: the state, national, global art arenas. Frankly, I find it incredibly daunting and rather confusing. One reads so much about so many things, it morphs into a viral canon about what’s hot and what’s not at the moment. [...]
Living in the present
Instead of being diligent and using my time off wisely doing constructive things, I totally slacked for two weeks over the holidays, reading, eating, sleeping, waking up, watching bad TV, eating again, reading, sleeping again. I can’t say I enjoyed it, in fact, I was bored most of the time, but in retrospect I can [...]
Creative Anxiety
Creator Class. Found this term coined on PSFK – a blog I haven’t read since it Piers Fawkes started it back in my Adholes-lurking days about 4 years ago (myspace for advertising/design/PR/copywriting geeks) about an emerging demographic within, or perhaps separating itself from, the Creative Class. Inspirationally-monikered graphic designer Gabriel Amadeus writes: “[Creator?] Hey, that’s [...]
What goes up…
After the 3-week creative high of launching my Etsy store (with some surprisingly [to me] positive initial responses, I might add), I’ve experienced a low: waiting for the paint to dry on my men’s shirts, waiting for my busy husband has time to model them for product shots, catching up on sleep but then lamenting [...]
US
DiverseArts and Ricardo Acevedo present US A showcase of local rainbow families that celebrate diversity New East Arts Gallery 1601 East 5th Street, Suite 106 Open from 12 PM to 6 PM, Monday through Friday, Saturday by appointment Reception: July 12, 7 PM to 10 PM DiverseArts is pleased to announce the opening of US, [...]
Galveston
Galveston is just about one of my favorite damn places in the world. It’s a place of bizarre beauty, shocking decay, bright colors and nearly all forms of decadence. I’ve been going there for the last 10 years every 4th of July weekend for an extended family reunion at a shorefront hotel. Long-overdue relaxation on [...]
Before their time
Before their time Pencil on paper May 28, 2008 In art class, my junior year of high school, we were asked to fill up a 100 page sketchbook over the course of the semester. This was the year when I starting thinking seriously (as seriously as a 16-year-old can) about art as a career. I [...]
(a lot of quanitifying parentheses)
shadyln: new student work in photography and digital media Pump Project Art Complex Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 7-10pm Gallery Hours: M 5-8pm; W-Sa 1-6pm Through April 26 The Photocomm students from my alma mater, St. Ed’s, are having an opening at PPAC this Friday. It’s classic liberal arts-influenced work, composed like a well-argued paper: [...]
The Art of MMVII
Here’s a list of things that caught my eyes this year, besides what I’ve previously written about. This year I seemed to miss all the well-reviewed and hyped shows and catch mainly the “off” shows. I still think the “off” shows were equally valuable experiences. The openings aren’t all crowded and noisy, you get a [...]
The Music of MMVII
I’m hard-pressed recall new music in 2007 that I liked, so I’ll be adding to this list as I remember things. Usually I don’t pay much attention to artists if there’s not a chance for me to see them play in town. This year was different because I didn’t have very many opportunities to catch [...]
respite
After a busy fall, I took some much-needed time off last month. Away from the studio, away from trying to write – I just read and read and read and hung out with my family. In 2006, I tried to go all out for the Holidays: hosting a cocktail party at my house, going to [...]
Absence makes the heart grow…
I’ve been too busy to post on, much less check, the wardrobe_remix group on Flickr for the last 6+ weeks. I’ve been a much happier person since I quit worrying about how many views my photos got, getting comments, acquiring new things to show off, being heavily influenced other people’s clothes. My absence has also [...]
I’m So Glad To Grow Older
I did this painting coming out of a bad relationship. The title is lyrics from a Morissey song: ‘I’m so glad to grow older / to move away from those awful times / I’m in love for the first time / and I don’t feel bad.’ 2000 Acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 28″ $250
