34 posts tagged “art”
My love, Mr. P, has a new solo show opening at Irvine Contemporary in Washington, DC on October 30th.
The work is fabulous (I should know, since I live with it!), so if you'll be in the area between Oct. 30th and December 12th, come see it! He'll also be giving a gallery talk on the evening of November 12th. More information about the show can be found on the Irvine website. And of course, more of Mr. P's work can be found on his website.
The last few weeks have been crazy busy-- lots of stuff going on, including my hitting the road for work once again. Just got back last night from my first multi-day out-- the first of many to come. In the midst of all of that we had to say au revoir to our dear friend Carrie.
I've been busy making stuff, too....
And we took in what is prolly the last harvest of the year. (I had planted peas for fall, but the bunny ate all the sprouts, so no peas for us :( )
Tomatillos and sweet red peppers...
And hot peppers. I put them all together for dinner the other night....
Tomatillo and Corn soup with sweet red peppers (and a few hot ones, too). Delicious!
In the meantime, Mr. P has been busy building a person out of wood. :)
I blogged earlier about the Real Small Art League show at VCU. Well, someone was so very enamored of Richard Garrett, Jr.'s real small pieces that they couldn't risk having the pieces go out into the world in the usual RSAL way where they might lose them-- they snagged them out of the locker. Someone stole free art! It's a bummer that someone felt the need to break in an steal them, but good to know that they inspired someone to that point...
We were at Artomatic on Saturday night for meet the artist night:
Rebecca and I enjoyed Dale Hunt's funhouse like paintings. Of course we both like his work in any case, since we both have pieces by him from Artomatics past.
It was lots of fun. Artomatic is pretty superfantastic this year-- great space with lots of interesting stuff. Go visit while it's still going on-- through July 5th!
I spent a bit of the weekend out in the garden, though not as much as I would have liked. Sadly, I spent most of it doing my least favorite gardening task-- weeding. I got about half done, but now it's raining, so I'm sure that all my work will be for naught, as it's meant to rain for the rest of the week.....
We are still having serious earwig problems. They seemed to abate a little when I swabbed the deck (literally!) with homemade insecticidal soap, but with the rain washing away the effects, I'm thinking they'll be back in force. They've started chomping on the zucchinis and beans and peas, which I'm rather unhappy about. And boy howdy do they looooooove the flowers I have on the deck.
Last night was First Friday in Richmond (I mean, it was the first friday of the month everywhere, but it was First Friday in Richmond), so we went to a couple of openings. The first was at the VMFA Studio School, where we got to chat with friends and look at art (some very nice prints, and I managed to more or less sell the one I liked best by someone I know to someone else I know). Then we headed on down to VCU for the opening of a neat show that includes two friends of ours-- Tiffany Glass Ferreira and Richard Garrett.
It's a small show, only a few artists, of which Tiffany and Richard are two. (Tiffany on the left and Richard on the floor).
Artomatic has opened! Lots and lots of inneresting stuff. We started off by watching our friend Bink perform-- including our wedding song. He was great as always-- come see his second Artomatic date if you missed the opening night show! And buy his CD!
We all walked around quite a bit, and by the time we left I was totally beat. Phil actually made it through all the floors. I actually saw the 9th floor, and sort of saw the 8th and 7th, and then was too pooped to really go on. But I did see lots of friends that I haven't see for a good long while, so it was a good night. We saw friend Anita, who has some lovely metallic prints up on the 9th floor. Her son Ben is in the space next to hers.
Our friend Erin Antognoli is also up on 9, with a really well put together display. Our friend the Reverand Pat Padua (he officiated at our wedding) is also on 9 (which is clearly where the cool kids hang out) has some really great pieces. Go see Salvatore Ferro's work, also on 9-- he's gone in a new direction with his work. Our friend Brett Davis is on the 6th floor, and is pushing the boundaries of what photography is with these pieces.
Dear friends Rebecca and Eric, of Antomatic fame, has brought the bugs back, this time with a great bee sound installation. Also on, yes, the 9th floor. She also had the most fabulous dress in the place, and they were very generous in hosting us for the night and plying us with middle of the night popcorn. Thanks guys!
We also met up with Todd Gardner, who has a whole bunch of new work that I like very much. In years past he has shown pieces from a large portrait series that he has been working on for quite a while (I sat for one), which I liked a lot, but it was really interesting to see the new work, and also good to see him. He is next to one of several bondage themed spaces. Ah, Artomatic.
She's on the 8th floor-- don't miss it.
Sooo much to see-- I'll need to spend more time working my way down to check out other floors. What are you waiting for? Get on over to Artomatic!
So come on down!!
55 M Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
Navy Yard metro stop
It's going to rock!
P and I drove up to D.C. to install my space at Artomatic. What would I do without him? (Answer: not have an installation)
It is a good thing that he was there. Even if he looked grumpy. He wasn't actually grumpy, he just made a grumpy face when I took his picture.
I'm on the 7th floor, space number 5. It's a good spot, near the Peeps, near a window. And close to toilet island.
There are, of course, this being Artomatic, all sorts of interesting things going on. Lots of exciting events, lots of interesting installations, lots of wackiness. Isn't there always wackiness? Some of the usuals, some that I hadn't seen before, but more than a thousand visual artists and a bazillion performers, so all well worth a visit. Everyone should come this Friday, as it is opening night-- always a blast-- and our friend the indominable Bink is playing the Cabaret stage at 8pm. He's going to play our wedding song, which is called Gas and Matches. Phil is his tallest fan :)
So come on down and enjoy the spectacle!
A place I hardly ever see. I was gone all week, and when I came back things were sprouting and growing and all sorts of things in my absence.
Oh, and an annoyance. In the form of Verizon. Because, yet again, we had no internets for four days. Not just the regular hour or two hour drops in service (for which I can not get Verizon to compensate us, or fix), but four straight days, no service. At all. *sigh*
Okay, so when I complained about the bunnies who live in the neighbor's trees and eat all of my herbs, one of the solutions I'd imagined for it was not that I should walk out onto the back deck to inspect the herbivore damage to my herbs at 5:30 in the am just in time to see a pair of feral dogs rip bunny apart. They chased him round and round neighbor's house, he slammed himself into the chain link fence in an effort to escape three times, and was caught by the larger of the feral dogs, who looks to be half lab half pit bull and wears a collar. Poor, poor bunny. I yelled at the dogs and threw things at them, but they paid me no mind at all. Soon, they'd hauled bunny off, and a few minutes later I heard what sounded like the two dogs fighting each other (one would imagine over who got to eat bunny) on the other side of neighbor's house. Not a good start to the day. Actually, I'm still pretty traumatized... poor, poor bunny. P pointed out that if we were in Arizona, it would have been a coyote, that it's the natural way of things. But if it were a coyote I think I'd feel less bad about it, because it would be the natural way of things. But feral dogs (and P's spotted the same dogs running wild around the 'hood numerous times, and they were out there yesterday morning chasing squirrels that got away for having climbing abilities) aren't the natural way-- they are the result of human irresponsibility. When I called animal control about them and mentioned the collar on one of them she asked if I'd looked at the collar to see who owned them... uhm... let me think about this.... did I approach a pit bull I don't know other than as the beast I saw savage a rabbit ten feet from my back door to see what his collar says? That would be a no.
And, that said, over the last two days something still ate what remained of my cilantro. All of it.
Shortly after the sad passing of bunny I headed north to Arlington, first for breakfast pho with friends Mean Louise, Fish Innards, and Tracy Lee. There should just be more breakfast pho.
Breakfast Pho was followed by some hanging out and then I went to a event shoot for a client. An outdoor event. On a day when it was 100 degrees. Oh well. Event went well, and the main thing was a concert by Everclear. They put on a good show, heat be damned.
And ended with singer Art Alexakis riding around on the Arlington County promo guy's segway:
And if you're in Richmond, come down to the glavekocen gallery for the show that's up now, including a couple of pieces by yours truly :)
