I’ve been going through a lot of rapid cycling lately. It’s because of school. I’m only taking three classes, but one of them is super intense. It’s the language class—Italian. I am beating myself up for accidentally taking the accelerated course. It’s a 5-unit class, probably because it packs so much information into such a short time.
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Reviews and the Constitution
This morning, I found out that I got a review in ArtNowLA written by Zara Kand. Does it count if we’re friends? Maybe? Zara writes for several art magazines, but she is also a great painter and practically my neighbor. She lives about a mile away, and what’s totally crazy is that we have the same landlords!
Continue readingLots-o-words About the “Relative Strangers” Show
It’s been a little bit, mostly because I was crazy busy in the two weeks leading up to the opening. I loaded up my car with more than 25 paintings and drove out to LA last Tuesday. I dropped off ten of those pieces at the scanning place and continued on to the gallery in Santa Monica with the rest.
Continue readingArtist in an Art Box
I’ve been having conversations with myself again—about a whole slew of topics. Then, applying the answers to my own questions, and turning them into projects, artist statements, and brainstorming things as notes and scribbles. I’m not sure where any of it is going yet. I mean, the ideas that are still abstract are maybe too abstract. Or something.
Continue readingCome Together
I feel like my show is fully coming together, sans finishing one last painting. Before the Tragedy has been sitting with a burgundy red/purple underpaint that is still drying. I think because it’s been so cold, it’s just taking eons to dry.
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