8 posts tagged “exhibition”
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 :)
I have a couple of pieces in a show that opens tomorrow, June 6th, at the GlaveKocen Gallery here in Richmond. So if you're in the area, come on down and check it out! It's work specific to the show, and very different from the stuff I usually do... but it's been interesting working on it, and I may do more in that vein.
My parents came to visit for about thirty seconds last weekend, bringing some long lost stuff, including a dining room table that I've owned for more than a decade but hasn't made it out of the box, despite having moved to at least three states. It's still in the box, but in my dining room instead of my parents' basement, which I know delights them to no end. There was a whole lot of other stuff as well, none of which has made it out of its respective carrier.
Meanwhile, I went out to water the garden this morning before leaving for work and discovered a cornucopia, nay, a veritable menagerie of animals attempting to feast on my garden. Squirrels. Rabbits. Birds. At the suggestion of a farmer friend I'd recently covered much of my container garden with bird netting (though something still chomped down on the last of the thyme, resulting in the death of the last of the stuff I'd tried to grow. Three packs of thyme seeds and zero yield, though some animal has a belly full of herbs). P covered the main garden with the same netting last week after seeing one of the family of bunnies poking around. (I see those damned rabbits every day. EVERY DAY. They are ravenous little bastards). When I made it out to the garden this morning I found that one of the black birds wasn't flying away. Why? Because the nasty little bugger had gotten UNDER the bird netting and was trapped inside the garden, flapping violently at all my cucumbers, including the fragile little transplants. DANG. It took some doing, but I got him out. That said, sheesh, how many animals could be attacking my garden all at once?? I may never get the chance to eat anything out of it. I live in a city that is in the top 100 largest cities in America.... I know it isn't like I'm back in Brooklyn, but jeeeeez, I hadn't thought that wildlife would be quite this much of a problem. But we've got squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits (lots of rabbits), all manner of birds.... and they will not be deterred....
We went to a farm party at the lovely home of friends and providers of our produce-- the Collins clan at Victory Farms-- last weekend. (We're CSA members). It was great to see them, and great to see the field where the zucchini I'm putting in tomorrow's lasagna came from. Of course, we were wildly jealous of the spread...
P and I drove madly to get up to D.C. for artists' night at Artomatic.
There's heaps and heaps of stuff going on, beyond the thousand artists whose work was hanging-- a film room with movies playing constantly, a poetry lounge where I could hear people reading their work, bands playing non-stop, an education room with lectures and workshops.... even a tattoo parlor across the floor from my space:
Among those I got to see, briefly, while we were up there was my dear friend Mas, whom I miss terribly. I had spoken to her on the phone a little while ago, and was lamenting the loss of my herb garden to heavy rains, saying that in a few weeks I should drive around the neighborhood looking for where my basil and oregano landed. So she came to see the exhibition-- with a bag full of seeds so that I could replant:
In other news, P is getting very close to completing the darkroom. He's so handy!
Busy? Yes, ridiculously busy. So busy I haven't been blogging or, you know, anything really very fun. Although I've been able to do a liiiiiitle gardening. Only to watch my efforts wash away. Again. For the fourth time. Fifth, this morning, when I jumped out of bed at 4 am to try to save my plants for the latest deluge. SIGH. The few bits that sprouted in the herb garden after the big wash have sprouted and.... nothing. They're the same little sprouts they were when the sprouted two weeks ago. In the meantime, it's been pretty much non-stop fighting with my new computer... it was supposed to make things faster, and the processor is definitely faster, but it has vista on it and vista plays with NOTHING.... so many many many hours have been dedicated to trying to find work arounds that will make the computer more than a place to set down my coffee.
In the middle of that I went and hung my stuff at Artomatic!. It opens tonight, so come on down! I'll be there next Friday, May 16th, for Artists' Night.
So, the 411 on AOM 2008 is:
Opening night is Friday, May 9 and the show closes on Sunday, June 15, 2008
Capitol Plaza I
1200 First Street, NE
Washington, DC
Wednesday | 5 pm – 10 pm | |
Thursday | 5 pm – 10 pm | |
Friday | noon – 2 am | |
Saturday | noon – 2 am | |
Sunday | noon – 10 pm | |
| Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays | ||
My space is on the 12th Floor, SE Quadrant, Space C7. I will be there on Friday, May 16th from 7:30 on for Artists' Night. So come say hey, take a look at the pieces I have up, and come for the view:
Phil (Mr. Dr. Birdcage) is having his first solo show this month at Irvine Contemporary, and of course, you should make sure to get there to see it! The opening is Saturday, January 12th from 6 to 8 pm. The show runs from the 12th through February 16th, and the gallery is located at 1412 14th Street, NW in D.C. (just south of P Street).
There was an article about the show in Thursday's (January 10) Washington Post Style section (on page C13 in the hard copy). You can read it here. Unfortunately, the web version doesn't include an image, though the paper version printed the image of the soldier on the Irvine Contemporary website.
Hope to see you there!
There is an opening tonight over at DCAC of Manon Cleary's lovely cloud paintings. So you should head out there! You'll get to see some great art by a maven of the Washington art world, and get to see some awesome folk down there as well. Not to mention that my dear friend Lea Bigelow, who is whip smart, has a fabulous eye, and both sharp and enjoyable insight, has curated the show. Make sure you read her essay!
So get down there! Goes from 7 to 9 pm, 2438 18th Street, NW, second floor, up in Adams Morgan.
But hi ho silver ride
hi ho silver ride
Takes another ride to get me home
Get off the air
I'm on the stereo stereo
My baby baby baby baby baby
Gave me malaria hysteria
I've had this Pavement song stuck in my head since I picked up film yesterday morning. This isn't as random as it seems. I promise. The film I picked up is the first roll from a stereo camera I got a couple of months ago. The results weren't exactly what I thought they were going to be.
This one kind of looks like it's in stereo, I guess, though I've seen images made with stereo cameras before and they look more like double exposures... one slightly off center the other. Rather than two images of the same thing next to each other.
Actually, this stereo shot isn't the norm.... there's a whole lot of weird strings of stuff on the roll.
Okay. How did this happen? There are two images of the same thing-- a graveyard on a hill-- and then two images in the middle-- of different locations. ???? Or this one:
On the left and right are basically the same shot of a pig sculpture on U Street in DC. The Rob grafitti is a couple blocks away. But that other bit in the middle with the ladies? That's Honfest. In Baltimore. Which is not in DC. The pigs and Rob were shot five days after I went to Honfest. This is scanned directly from the negative. How could this happen??
So if you are in the DC Metro area you should come on down this Friday for the opening... and then come again over the next month, because with over 430 visual artists showing their work and performances, workshops, and film programs every night you could come every day til the show closes and not see everything.
Phil and I are showing in room 6D36. Come out for the Artists' Night opening on May 4th and we'll see you there!
