I got to spend a lot of quality time with my brother, which ranged from just catching up to discussing art. It was a chance to go out and explore the galleries of Chelsea, and I also got to explore the Museum of Art and Design. All in all, it was a great chance to get out and see all sorts of art, ranging from innovative and crazy uses of materials, to astounding minimalistic installations consisting of nothing but a couple taut strings in a room. My brother has a write up of some of it on his blog.
While I as in NYC, I was lucky enough to be posted on two exciting blogs. The Urban Outfitters Blog decided to highlight my work, as part of a continuing stream of cool and interesting things that they find. Kitsune Noir, a blog of art and design, also decided to mention my work and the collaboration with my brother. As a long follower of Kitsune Noir, I was completely flattered by this! However, as a side effect of all of this attention, I’m about completely out of work that’s for sale online! I’m going to have to recall a few pieces from galleries this weekend, so I can more available for sale. There will also be all new work coming up in April, after my next wood firing.
The collaboration piece with my brother isn’t finished yet, since we couldn’t find a kiln that was firing while I was there. We’ll be seeing the results in the next few weeks. In the meantime, you can find some fun in-progress photos here.
It seems like I have all sorts of shows coming up, all over the country! Between looking forward to my next firing, and planning my trip to Japan, it’s looking like it’s going to be some very busy months. I’ll also be heading to NCECA in April, which should be a lot of fun. I’m really looking forward to tracking down ceramics friends from across the country, and some even from around the world!
The first show to open is “Endangered“, at the Gloria Kennedy Gallery in Brooklyn. It was an international juried show, and is viewable as of today, but the opening reception will be on February 5th, as part of a First Thursday art walk. I will actually be flying out to NYC to attend it, along with taking some time to catch up with my New York friends. I will also be working on a collaboration sculpture with Dan Funderburgh, my brother, who’s also in NYC. I’m going to bring bisque fired critters out to him to do underglaze designs on. I’m pretty excited about it.
The day after I return from NYC, I’ll be heading across Puguet Sound to Bremerton, WA, to attend an artists’ reception for CVG 2009. CVG 2009 is a juried show that collected submissions from more than 260 artists, mostly across the state of Washington. The show will opening on Feb 1st, and run through the end of the month, at the Bremerton Collectives Visions Gallery. The show will also be open late on Thursday, Feb 5th, for the local art walk. I’ll unfortunately still be in NYC that evening.
Also in Washington state, I’ve been invited to a show in Tacoma. “The Path of the Flame” is a show of Pacific Northwest woodfire artists at Gallery Madera from Feb 19th to April 4th. The opening reception will be on Feb 21st. I’ll have more information about this as it gets closer. So far it looks like really great list of folks, including Terry Inokuma, Hiroshi Ogawa, and John Benn.
The last show is also far enough away that precise information will have to wait. Jamie Adams, a cool print artist in Pittsburgh, who I really respect, has asked for me to be part of a show tentatively titled “The day before yesterday/ The day after tomorrow”. It will be going on in March, in Pennsylvania. I will put up some more information about its post-apocalyptic goodness once March gets a bit closer.
Here in Seattle, we’ve been snowed in since last Thursday. We’ve gotten a total of nine inches, with another couple predicted tonight. In most cities, this would be no problem. However, the city of Seattle has about 25 snowplows – less snow removal capability the the SeaTac airport. Even as the city’s been warming up, the roads have been freezing again every night in to two inch thick sheets of ice. Between that, the city’s use of sand (not salt), and the fact that no one up here knows how to drive in the snow, we’ll probably be stuck here until New Years. Well, at least I’ve been staying useful.
I recently got myself a scanner (well, maybe it was an early Christmas present), and have been enjoying the heck out of it. I’ve gone through my old sketchbooks, finding interesting sketches to scan. I made one or two nice prints for people, recreations of early sketches of critters they now own. I’ll upload a few more sketches the next few weeks.
I also took the time to finally finish up another time lapse video. This the the video for the creation of “Conversation #3”. The music from the soundtrack to “Paprika”, a truly bizarre and spectacular anime movie by Satoshi Kon. I recommend going to youtube to watch the timelapse in higher resolution.
Just a short update on the silent auction that’s coming up at the Holiday extravaganza. Since I know of several people who are interested but aren’t in Seattle, I’m going to try and figure out some sort of remote component for the silent auction. It will most likely be something as low tech as email or text messages. If you’re interested in being involved, send me an email and I’ll keep you updated.
This last Saturday, I got posted on Notcot.org, a really cool design blog. I’d been enjoying it for a while, and their recent posts about ceramics inspired me to send in a link to my site. They were kind enough to post it, and for the past few days, people from across the entire globe have been stumbling onto my site! I decided it would be fun to collect some of blogs from around the world that have been posting my work.
I had a whole lot of fun looking over this site with a Russian speaking friend of mine. Their commentary is really interesting. Also, the phrase “Keramicheskie Monstryi” totally made my day.
Google Translate appears to have a bit of trouble with this one. However, I’m posted in between a post about an igloo cake tray and a Simpsons action figure set. I’m in good company.
