Pink Week

Pink is admittedly not the most common color in my palette.  But with 365 pieces for the 2011 Project, there were inevitably going to be a few pink pieces.  This one titled Keep This Coupon is going up to Sacramento for Pink Week.   

This year’s Pink Week show will be at Bows & Arrows at 1815 19^th Street in Sacramento.  The show opens November 2 with an opening reception from 6-9 p.m. and runs through December 5^th, 2012.

Keep This Coupon, 4"x4", mixed media on canvas

Travel-Themed 2011 Project Pieces

Travel was a theme that came up in many pieces for the 2011 Project.  And many of the mixed media pieces used travel-themed ephemera like maps, postcards and ticket stubs.  This Sunday, on September 16^th, my new installation Imagining Val Travel opens and it will include some of the travel themed pieces from the 2011 Project.  

Featuring Magazine

Issue 2 of Featuring Magazine has an article called Mapping it Out. I am one of three artists featured in the article that talks about my work and the 2011 Project. Plus there is a photo of one of the new pieces that will be included in my installation Imagining Val Travel as well as one of the pieces from the 2011 Project.  

Another look at Sidewalk Topography

I just got a peek at the second issue of Featuring Magazine.  It is due out any day now.  There is an article about my work and I see this is one of the images they selected for the article.  I forgot how much I really liked this one and am reminded that I still need to do a much bigger version of Sidewalk Topography.

Travel Stuff

Some of the travel-themed pieces from the 2011 Project

Travel was a recurring theme last year as I did the individual pieces for the 2011 Project.  I certainly enjoy travel, but it also is not surprising considering my collage boxes are full of travel ephemera (yes, I keep boxes of treasure just waiting to be used in art).  In September I am showing over 30 pieces of new work, all of it travel themed.  It is all part of site specific installation called Imagining Val Travel (it opens September 16, click here for details).

Beach Day

Beach Day, mixed media on canvas, 10”x10”

I still keep coming up with ideas I wish I had thought of for the 2011 Project.  This is one of those examples.  I did use some sandpaper in one of the pieces, but I hadn’t thought of encrusting the edges of the canvas in sand as I did with this piece for my upcoming installation.

I added the sand and some sandpaper because I knew that Beach Day needed more than vintage postcards of beach scenes.  The cards have beach scenes from Florida to California with a heavy dose of Cape Cod including Kalmus Beach.  Kalmus is a beach I grew up near in Hyannis, named for Herbert Kalmus who donated the land.  He was also the inventor of Technicolor.  While a motion picture film process, where would the sky in old postcards be without the influence of Technicolor?  Beach Day itself refers to a certain type of summer day, when the weather is just right, and it’s a perfect time to go to the beach.  If you live near a beach, you know….

Prints of this piece are available from Society 6.

Happy Birthday!

75 and still looking fabulous.  The Golden Gate Bridge from the 2011 Project.