As long as I'm sketching or taking a photo, etching a plate or smoothing a monotype print in the roller, I'm a happy person. I've always followed more of the fine arts path, but lately printmaking and etching have engaged me beyond belief. Hopefully, my love for my art work and my passion for saving the environment will mix one day and I'll be able to convince others to be more passionate about the environment and art in the world as well.

Theme by nostrich.

2nd December 2010

Video

So, in an effort to connect with people and share my art through a written exchange, I’ve decided on making Christmas/holiday cards this winter! I created seventeen 4x6” paintings of leaves and birds and winter-y themes and then scanned them at Ritz to make cards! They came out beautifully! I’m so excited.

And just last night, I showed and sold my art in the second annual “Who’s Art is it Anyway?” show hosted by Yusef Muhammad at the Art Institute, where 28 student artists got to sell their work for $1-$20. I sold a few pieces (awesome) and one to the history professor at AI!

http://www.phrequency.com/blog/art/Whos_Art_is_it_anway.html

()

13th October 2010

Text

Paul Strand exhibition at Aperture Foundation!

WELL! It’s sure been a while since my last post, but I’m eager to get back into this!

Friday the 15th, I am headed to NYC’s Aperture Foundation to hear my history teacher, Professor Krippner, genius in his field of Latin American history, discuss his new book on Paul Strand’s work, Paul Strand in Mexico, as no one has before! Along with various speakers from around the world, this exhibit is going to shine.

I’ve always appreciated Strand’s work, especially since I worked with his work first-hand this summer of 2010 when I handled my school’s special collections works, including Strand’s photographs. What an opportunity!

So, from this trip, I get to write about my experience as well as take photographs and write for my school newspaper when I get back. Looking forward to that too, but I just really can’t wait to see Strand’s work and hear my eloquent teacher speak.

Woo! NYC here I come!

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=695

()

22nd June 2010

Text

Second Saturday Art Showcase!

Hey all you Delaware County dwellers. If you happen to be around the upcoming weekend, July 10, stop by the Starbuck’s on Baltimore Pike across from ACME. I’ll be showing my newest printmaking (etching, monotype, silkscreen, mixed media) prints and there’ll be live music and snacks for all, as usual for Second Saturday shows. Prints are all for sale, reasonably priced, and uniquely beautiful!

If you have any questions regarding the myriad of Second Saturday events, call Dawn from Starbucks at:

(908) 216 - 0916

Hope to see you there! Show starts in the evening around 6 pm and goes for a month til August 9. The opening Second Saturday event, however, is just July 10.


()

22nd June 2010

Photo

Here’s a silkscreen print I did on a 16x20” paper using a 30x40” silk screen pre-stretched canvas . Using various stencils, I created the flying birds design; using the photographic technique of, essentially, burning the photo image onto the screen to print, I created the tree section. Pretty sweet, I think, and amazing to know there’s only one like this because all prints are unique.

Here’s a silkscreen print I did on a 16x20” paper using a 30x40” silk screen pre-stretched canvas . Using various stencils, I created the flying birds design; using the photographic technique of, essentially, burning the photo image onto the screen to print, I created the tree section. Pretty sweet, I think, and amazing to know there’s only one like this because all prints are unique.

()

22nd June 2010

Photo

Positively determined to make a difference in 2008’s Presidential campaign, I painted this comical but powerful quirky parody of Obama as a graffiti-spraying street artist proclaiming CHANGE and posted it in my school’s final art show. He also ‘wears the world on his shoulder’ (and the rest of him), carrying that great responsibility through the streets with his effectual spraypaint.

Positively determined to make a difference in 2008’s Presidential campaign, I painted this comical but powerful quirky parody of Obama as a graffiti-spraying street artist proclaiming CHANGE and posted it in my school’s final art show. He also ‘wears the world on his shoulder’ (and the rest of him), carrying that great responsibility through the streets with his effectual spraypaint.

()