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CoCA's 19th Annual Juried Exhibitionition:
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This piece will be in the show:

Cityscape 21 (Casual Explorations of Space), acrylic, ink, glitter, 30 x30" | 2008

Artists' Reception | Thursday, December 11 5pm-10pm
featuring performances by
Iyeoka and Seattle's National Poetry Slam Team Champions

This year’s juror is Riko Nakasone.

Riko Nakasone has been the director and curator of the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia for over 8 years. The Bau-Xi Gallery represents a broad range of emerging and senior artists creating both representational and abstract work in diverse media.


Show Runs | Dec 8, 2008 - Jan 14, 2009

Center on Contemporary Art

CoCA Ballard:
Inside the Shilshole Bay Beach Club
6413 Seaview Ave NW Seattle, WA 98107
Free entry and parking

Treasure

Treasure opens Saturday, December 6th --Immediately following Downtown Tree Lighting Ceremony!

Hand selected work by 15+ of AOT's favorite local talent. Ranging $5 - $500 be certain about what you are giving those special folks on your list. And, get exactly what you want with The AOT Wish List!

Join us at AOT for this not to be missed season of Treasures!
We'll be roasting chestnuts on an open fire . . . .

Artisans on Taylor

236 Taylor Street, Port Townsend, WA

Mini-Art Extravaganza!

I have nine paintings, all 4 x 4", in Ghost Gallery's Mini Art Extravaganza III!

Celebrate GG's 2-year anniversary with mini work by 20+ local and national artists, plus "tiny" music, live dj's, drink specials and more!

Opens Friday, Dec. 5th at 8 pm.
SOLO BAR
200 Roy Street

SWEET 100 at Suite 100

Oil Slick 1, 2 & 3, acrylic, ink and glitter, each 8 x 8" | 2008

They are in:

Sweet 100 November 14th thru December 31st Opening reception Friday November 14th, 6:00PM - 10:00PM

Suite 100 has 3 of my new paintings for Sweet 100, the gallery's 2nd Annual Holiday Exhibition, featuring 45 artists with over 100 pieces of work!

the canvas project

Memories and moments theme: "Tell a story in 5 frames"

Every day there are thousands of memories that we experience. Everything we do leads to another. Everything we do affects us as well as everyone you interact with and who they interact with. We are left with the inability to control these moments. No matter what you do, something will effect this wave of moments.

We want to see these moments captured in a painting or collage. We are going to send you five 3x3 inch canvases. What moment leads you to the next?

show opens December 12th, 2008
at Art House Gallery
309 Peters St Atlanta, Ga 30313
404-584-7967

I made this for the canvas project:





Drove All Night II
acrylic, ink and glitter
Five 3 x 3" canvases
2008

PUBLIC ART IN PORT TOWNSEND

If you've got any claim to Port Townsend, be it past, present or future, please make your voice heard regarding public art in Port Townsend. There's potential for new Public Art in Port Townsend and this is the time to get in your say while the process is in its earliest stages.

Public Art impacts everybody.

Consider public spaces, how you use them, how they could serve you better; consider what you like and don't like about living in/visiting Port Townsend. I encourage you to let the City of Port Townsend know what is important to you about this town and how art could support that.

Please, help get the word out far and wide about this opportunity--pass this along to anyone who might have something to say!

Thank you so much for your time.

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Here's the PTAC blurb and link to the public blog where you may leave comments:

The Port Townsend Arts Commission is seeking public comment on the draft 2008/2009 Public Art Plan. We have created a monitored blog so that you might easily participate in the public discussion about the Plan. We will monitor and keep open the blog until November 15, 2008 at which time the Commission will review the public comments and make appropriate modifications to the Plan prior to submission to the City Council. Alternatively, hard copy comments, signed, dated and with contact information, can be submitted to the City Hall, care of the Port Townsend Arts Commission. The Public is welcome to comment on this draft Public Art Plan at the Commission’s November 3, 2008, 1:00 pm meeting.

http://porttownsendartscommission.blogspot.com/

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Video Interview, Part II

http://jeane-artit.blogspot.com/2008/10/2nd-half-of-video-interview.html

Video Interview, Part I

Jeane Myers dropped in while I was working in my studio and made a sweet video interview! Visit her blog to see Part I of our fun chat. Thanks, Jeane!











http://jeane-artit.blogspot.com/2008/10/video-interview.html

Filter Vol. II

Pre-Order Vol. II! Copies will be available late October/early November:
Tinkferfinch Books and Art


















Filter is a hand-bound literary journal that features original poetry, prose, art and erasures. The book is sewn together by hand using various colors of waxed Irish Linen thread and an exposed spine binding with a modified button-hole binding technique. End papers are hand torn and come from various sources including Japanese Washi paper, pages from Apgar’s Plant Analysis Adapted to All Botanies (1892) (some of which include the notes, illustrations and actual flower pressings of a Mr. D.A. Powell made in the Spring of 1904), and color plates from Travelling With The Birds (1933). Books feature an accordion-fold erasure booklet made from hand torn Rives Heavyweight paper, each hand printed using 10 separate ink screens and slipped into hand made envelopes created from pages of old books about magic and maps featuring nations that no longer exist. All of the color artwork is tipped in by hand. There are two different cover designs (Aardvark & Aardwolf) by Amy Jean Porter (Jubilat, McSweeny’s). The covers are each screen printed by hand, using 3-4 screens and 7 colors.

List of Contibutors:

Mary Jo Bang, Jennifer Borges Foster, Matt Briggs, Rebecca Brown, Elizabeth Colen, John Cross, Rachel Davis, Dana Elkun, Emily Kendal Frey, Johana Fuhrman, Adriana Grant, Carol Guess, Matthea Harvey, Maggie Jackson, Ariana Kelly, Counsel Langley, Kate Lebo, Norman Lock, Erin Malone, Ben Mazer, Brian McGuigan, Tatyana Mishel ,Sierra Nelson, Nico Vassilakis, David Mitsuo Nixon, John Olson, Roberta Olson, John Osebold, Deborah Poe, Amy Jean Porter, Trisha Ready, Bob Redmond, Zach Savich, Amy Schrader, Claudia Smith, Kary Wayson, Deborah Woodard, Corrina Wycoff.

These two pieces from my recent Cloud Atlas series are in Filter Vol. II

AOT in October

In October I'm presenting Cloud Atlas, a series of new paintings inspired by David Mitchell's novel of the same name. The book consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to the far future after a nuclear apocalypse. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next. Mitchell has said of the book: "All of the [leading] characters except one are reincarnations of the same soul ... identified by a birthmark. ... The "cloud" refers to the ever-changing manifestations of the "atlas", which is the fixed human nature."

And, heldover by popular demand, Harold Nelson's SlowART. Art is catching up with food in it's need to step back, slow down and be conscious. Robert Hughes puts it this way "We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water; art that grows out of modes of perception and whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in 10 seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media." Nelsons are is literally slow to creat, handmade, not digitized or mechanized. Its message is layered with complexity, both visual and emotional. Take your time.




Installation photo by Rachel Ganapoler

Sugar Maker I, from Cloud Atlas series

acrylic, glitter on board
30 x 30"
2008

[SHOWN: full shot, followed by three details]

NELLIE YOU'RE MY HERO!

FEATURED MUSIC INFLUENCED VISUAL ART FOR SEPTEMBER

Nellie the Elephant by MIKE FIELDS

Inspired by the Toy Dolls rendition!! WATCH THIS! I LOVE THIS SONG!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti21PVHXrg

Seattle Time

Just got back from Seattle where I met with the folks at Mithun to talk about a show I'm going to do there next May. I'll be presenting all new, site specific work. I do love architects! I've wanted to do something like this for some time now. Very excited.

While in town I had the pleasure to meet Laurie Kearney, the force behind Ghost Gallery. I left a bunch of paintings with her for an upcoming show at Stylus (see previous post).

I also delivered this painting to Flying House Productions for their upcoming fundraiser auction. Great art, good cause, fun fun.






In addition, Emerald spent a couple of hours being in an music video for a new "Awesome" song called What They Do.

And we went to the zoo for Dare's 2nd birthday.
[zoo photos by David Nixon]

































And Emerald discovered that she has her first loose tooth.
[she's wearing a Britney Davis necklace]

STYLUS

More new work

acrylic, glitter on board
30 x 30"
2008

[SHOWN: full shot, followed by two details; the last detail shows this painting in late evening; bright sunlight slanting in through the window.]

New Work, Part II

. . . just the tip of the ice berg mind you:

New Work, Part I

Using digital images of my originals I am selecting details, repeating, flipping and cropping until I'm satisfied. Then I have them printed with lightfast inks on archival canvas which I can stretch and paint on. Haven't settled on how to present them, but they keep coming anyway.