Operation: HOT TUB

After about a year of searching, I have finally acquired a hot tub. I have been wanting to incorporate the fiberglass/acrylic shell of a tub into a piece, but have had little luck tracking down a free one. I was recently in Phoenixsville, PA and along side of the road my boyfriend and I spotted free, abandoned spas. The images below are of the spa we heaved into a pick-up truck, brought back to his house, and then I proceeded to saw it into sections. The following day we stacked all the pieces of the hot tub back into the truck and drove it back to my studio in Brooklyn. It was quite an effort to say the least.

Me with whole hot tub.

The underbelly of the basin.

Aftermath of the Sawz-All.

STUDIO Holiday Party

11/14 Work in Progress

A wall installation I am working on, still not quite done. Better image to come soon with not as harsh of light.

A wall painting in progress.

Building a boulder.

Small boulder mock-up.

Living Arrangement: Kansas City, MO

An installation view of the show 'Living Arrangements' in Kansas City, MO put on by PLUG Projects. The piece at the end of the room is the installation I made specifically for the show. The paintings on plaster panels are also mine. The other artists included in the show were: Alika Cooper, Julie Green, and Tom Gregg.

The piece I made for the show. The title of the piece is 'Tear Peak' and its materials are: Acrylic, vinyl, wood, drywall, foam, nails, laminant, and vertical blinds on wall.

My Studio Right Now

A wall installation I am working on.

Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of the piece I installed at PLUG Projects in Kansas City. This image was taken with my snapshot camera- so better quality and lighting to come soon. The piece is titled Tear Peak and it is 66x96in made out of Acrylic, vinyl, plastic, drywall, wood, and nails on wall.

Living Arrangements

I am in a group show opening on Friday in Kansas City at a new gallery called PLUG Projects. I visited Kansas City to install a wall installation along with some other plaster paintings. The group show is titled 'Living Arrangements' and if you are in the area you should take a look! It will be up for the next six weeks. http://www.plugprojects.com/

NEW STUDIO!

I have moved to Brooklyn, NY to start a yearlong residency with the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program in D.U.M.B.O. I am so excited to be moved into my new studio and start working again. The space is amazing and I feel very fortunate to be working in such a beautiful space. I am here with 16 other artists who have studios on the same floor.

A view of my studio.

The view to the left.

The view to the right.

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I am moving to Brooklyn in one week to start a residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program in DUMBO. Once I get settled I will post some pictures of my new surroundings. I will be living on the edge of the Park Slope/Crown Heights neighborhood with my friends Ben Peterson, Lee Johnson, and Dani Sigler. More to come soon.

'Off the Wall' at Caldwell College

I just finished installing for am upcoming group show I am in at the Visceglia Gallery at Caldwell College in Caldwell, NJ. The show is titled 'Off the Wall' and there are four other artists in the show as well: Cordy Ryman, Stefan Gunn, and Jackie Brown. Here is a link to the press release:

http://www.caldwell.edu/news/off-the-wall.aspx

Press on Small Crowd

Check out this review on the New American Painting blog about our show up at Mixed Greens:
http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/small-crowd-risd-mfa-painting-grads-at-mixed-greens/

Small Crowd at Mixed Greens

We are having a show at Mixed Greens this summer! The show will be up from June 16th-July 8th. It shows all the graduating RISD MFA painting students.
www.mixedgreens.com
www.risdmfapainting.com

Corydon Cowansage(left) and Field Kallop (right).

Nell PainterCorydon, Field, and myself.

Myself(left) and Keith Allyn Spencer(far right).

Mike Schreiber(left) and Collin Hatton(right).

Collin HattonAnna Plesset(left) and Mike Schreiber(right).

Out of Practice in NYC

I am part of a group show curated by Nudashank, a gallery from Baltimore, located at a pop-up summer gallery hosted by Art Blog Art Blog.