2025
Happy 2025 to all.
Excited to share that I have two pieces in the show Chroma, from the Orion Art Center in Lake Orion Michigan.
Henge 5 and Meteorite will be on view and available for purchase from the gallery during the month of January. I’ll be heading there at some point in the next weeks to go see the show for myself - let me know if you are planning to go see it!
Coming in March;
Another installation of the Chicago session of The Other Art Fair! I’ll be showing all new pieces at this years fair, taking place at Artifact Events March 27th - 30th. More information to follow.
Wishing you all a warm, safe and happy start to the new year.
The Other Art Fair Weekend
What a weekend.
Huge thanks to everyone who made it over to the fair! It was so lovely to meet and talk to new and old friends. My voice needs a few days to recover!
The venue was insane. The first day I got lost on a number of occasions, it was just a massive, magical maze of art everywhere.
very necessary.
I ended up running out of postcards on the final day, which was a bit of a bummer but also exciting to know 250 people were interested in what I make!
It was just so good to bring all the new work out into the light of day and really talk to people about it. Sometimes in my studio I feel like I’m just shouting into a void, so being able to have a conversation about the choices in the pieces was invaluable. Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by. I will be taking a few days off here to recover from the party, but will be back with more art soon.
New Work; Collage on Wood
I have been thinking about these pieces for weeks. Making sketches, writing about why I need to make them, imagining them coming to life, practicing with the saber saw…. and I finally got the time to start on the project.
These pieces are small combination of hard and soft processes. Of strength and delicacy, of force and restraint. The brush stroke is cut from the canvas, outlined on wood, cut from the wood and layered with additional pieces of painted canvas. It’s the meeting point of things I can control and things I cannot.
The process is both scary (hello power tools) and joyful. Watching forms come to life when cut from the canvas and take on a new meaning when applied to the wood is such an excitement that as soon as I finish one, I can’t help myself from starting another. I’m hoping to finish a small set of these for The Other Art Fair in a few weeks - would love to have people hold and feel their little existences.
Scroll down to see the process <3
/ cutting out the brush stroke /
/ first cut outs are applied to the piece /
/ painting the sides /
/ making more /
/ the hole in the middle was hard /
/ laying out the pieces /
/ ta da /
The Other Art Fair; Sneak Peek at the Work
Popping in here with a few little sneak peeks into the work in progress (+ basic prep) for The Other Art Fair - Chicago Edition.
I am really, really excited to share these new pieces.
The preparations for the show are proceeding on schedule; I’ve got my red dot stickers, acrylic placards for info, new postcards (see above!), chairs are arriving next week… I’m in pretty good shape I think.
And I ordered a new faux leather jacket for the show too. I left my old one on a plane back from Berlin - never to be seen again unfortunately.
I’m feeling prepared - but mostly just so, so excited to get these new pieces on display and get to finally talk about them.
The next sneak peek/update should involve the work with the saber saw… keep your eyes peeled!
Material Experiments - show closing recap
All good things must come to an end.
And as such, Material Experiments came down this week.
I signed on to do this show back in October, and decided within the first few days I would use this opportunity to share some of the new mixed-media pieces I’ve been working on with the community. All experimental, adventures in layering and paint viscosity, examinations of brushstroke and texture. It was a little frightening for me personally as it was a bit of a departure from my previous work - but I strongly believe in following my creative impulses - therein lies the basis of my work.
So thank you, thank you to everyone who came out to see the show, attended my talk for the opening, purchased work or just sent good vibes from afar. It was a fantastic 3 months and I am just so overwhelmed with gratefulness for all the people that have supported me and my work.
Special thanks to my studio assistant for popping over while I was out of town to mark pieces sold too.
AND! Humongous thanks to the whole team at Cahoots for the help in making this show happen. It was so amazing to have my work in the space.