Friday, October 10, 2008

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







Thursday, September 25, 2008

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

Friday, September 19, 2008

Sugar Maker I, from Cloud Atlas series


acrylic, glitter on board
30 x 30"
2008

[SHOWN: full shot, followed by three details]






Monday, September 1, 2008

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

Friday, August 29, 2008

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]


Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Friday, August 1, 2008

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.]

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

FEATURED MUSIC INSPIRED ART FOR JULY

FEATURED MUSIC INFLUENCED VISUAL ART FOR JULY 2008


Singer by COREY TATARCZUK
Portrait of singer Buick Audra, 8mm film still, 2007

UPCOMING ARTISTS:

JULY: COREY TATARCZUK
AUG: ARABELLA PROFFER-VENDETTA
SEPT: MIKE FIELDS
OCT:
MATT HOOKER


STILL ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER: Your music inspired image with a link to your site featured for one month. DEADLINE IS ONGOING/SEND SUBMISSIONS TO contact AT counsellangley DOT com Up to 4 entries per artist please. JPEGs preferred, 72 dpi, 900 pixels maximum on largest dimension.Thanks!

CHECK OUT THE PAST: here

Monday, June 2, 2008

FEATURED MUSIC/ART FOR JUNE



Tracy Sings American Boyfriend by DAVID NIXON
who also happens to be a musician.

UPCOMING ARTISTS:

JULY: COREY TATARCZUK
AUG: ARABELLA PROFFER-VENDETTA
SEPT: MIKE FIELDS
OCT:
MATT HOOKER


STILL ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER: Your music inspired image with a link to your site featured for one month. DEADLINE IS ONGOING/SEND SUBMISSIONS TO contact AT counsellangley DOT com Up to 4 entries per artist please. JPEGs preferred, 72 dpi, 900 pixels maximum on largest dimension.Thanks!