Archive for the ‘art (mine)’ Category

Two years ago today, this very day, I bought my  McDonald’s Cheeseburger. To commemorate such a beautiful occasion, I bedecked her in crystal rhinestones with the date on it. Since I don’t eat meat, I have just kept her in a corner of my studio where I can look at her every once in a while. She is wrapped in her original wrapper, but nothing else, really. For a while she lived in a granola bar box. Aside from a/c, she has never been refrigerated.

Nothing  has any desire to eat this, no mold, no bugs, nothing. The natural world just doesn’t recognize this as food.

She smells a little gross, like a 2 year old cheeseburger.  The meat patty has dried up and the cheese has dessicated, but all in all, she has aged well.

Art™ gallery view

Oglethorpe Gallery

406 E Oglethorpe (@ Habersham)

March 19-31, Mon-Fri, 10am to 6pm

Reception March 26, 6-9 pm

Some images

Quote Sampler™ and cockroach detail

Family Portraits™ installed and some details

click on thumbnails for larger image

Mall of America Map Sampler™

Cookie™ & detail

Cotton floss on white silk, Kantha style

Barcode™

QR Code Quilt™

Secret message encoded within.   This is a working QR code that can be read with a smart phone.

Social Networking Dress

Designer Toilet Suite™

Acrylic latch hook

Social Networking Dress™

Quilt™

Rug™

These two little guys have been stored at room temperature, wrapped, but not sealed since the day I bought them and glued the date on in rhinestones.

Hooray! I finally finished this piece; not including design time (roughly 20 hours) the stitching in this piece took 134 hours, 24 minutes and 29 seconds.

21 x 19 inches. Tea dyed linen; cotton, silk, linen, velvet, wool, metal, and synthetic floss; rhinestones, crystal and glass beads.

The pictures don’t do justice, you will just have to come to the show and see the piece in person. I found the quote in “No Logo” by Naomi Klein, although it originally appeared in an article in the Wall Street Journal. The layout  is loosely based on a 200 year old Quaker sampler.

(drumroll, please)

Why I have been spending all of my time stitching and not posting:

March 19-31, 2010

Oglethorpe Gallery

406 East Oglethorpe (at Habersham)

Savannah, GA

open Monday- Saturday 10 am to 6pm

reception March 26, 6-9 pm

This is a solo show of my MFA thesis work, 4 years and thousands (millions?) of stitches in the making.

This is the back side of a valentine gift I made for my handsome husband. Wool on linen.

I think it looks beautiful, in its own quiet way.

I am hoping this will be the last piece I have to make for my thesis show (March 19-March 31), it is a bit different, a quote sampler based loosely on this old sampler:

For our edification, yours and mine, I am keeping time on my progress.  This pictures is at 0:00 hours (not including 12-14 hours of design time. I have laid out some basic colors.

After  5 hours and 28 minutes this is what you get:

The white mesh is a waste canvas, which provides the structure of a cross stitch fabric, for even stitches. When I am done with the extremely challenging lettering, I will be able to remove the waste canvas.

One of these I hate, the other I love. One of them feels like it will never be finished.

I have been working on this piece since last spring, drawing, sampling and finally stitching. I estimate it took 203 hours of actual needle time. I think it might need a little bit more tweaking. This is based on an actual purchase I made in the Maldives in the Indian ocean

Ta Da!!!!

It is 14 inches wide by 8.5 inches high, white dupioni silk with cotton floss, kantha style.

I forgot how much

I like peas, frozen–not canned

Bursting tiny green

Baltimore, Md. (Dec. 29, 2009) — NICHE magazine, the exclusive trade publication for retailers of American and Canadian craft, has announced the finalists for its 2010 NICHE Awards program.

The NICHE Awards competition annually recognizes excellence and innovation in North American craft.

NICHE magazine also honors the artistic achievements of students enrolled in North American undergraduate, graduate and certificate arts programs with its NICHE Student Awards program. Finalists are determined by the editors of NICHE and AmericanStyle magazine and the staff of the Buyers Market of American Craft.

I have been nominated for an award in the decorative art category for my Barcode. Visit their website here.