Siobhan: New Painting, post show.

I just finished this painting for a juried show, hopefully it makes it in! The show Finding Friendship has been up for about a month, and the opening was great. I was so exhausted afterwards with my new job starting, I never even updated the blog (sorry!). For information about the show and images, check out the companion blog; findingfriendship.wordpress.com; or lobotgallery.wordpress.com for information about the closing TOMORROW! I hope taking the show down goes smoothly, I don’t know what we will do with all this wood- maybe time to put up a ad on craigslist “free lumber, some monsters painted on it- nbd” .

I’m trying to establish a more regular scheduale to update this with work! Bare with me and stay tuned- weekly updates coming soon!

More hard work

This is what Sam and I worked on today. The platform is going to be a stage, the paintings are on plywood. The painting with the brown circles is going to be one of those stands where you can stick your face in the hole and have your picture taken. The other painting with the red/orange body is going to go outside so people know when they’ve found the LoBot! We also found out the apartment we thought was being saved for us wasn’t. So that was disappointing, now we need to find a cute one bedroom in North Oakland, that allows puppies and nice couples. I think we are both feeling the pressure of jobs staring, art openings approaching, and the need for a home, but hopefully we can keep it together and continue to Find Friendship!

June/July 2011 Small Works

I made these watercolors during my collaborative artist-residency with Sam Weinberg, at the LoBot Gallery! We are loving Oakland, and have found a way to stay here after our residency. It is very exciting to be living some place so different, though I miss my friends and family on the east coast. The art scene in Oakland is very vibrant, and I am glad to be joining it!

These drawings were not made collaboratively, but are filled with influences from life with Sam. I plan to continue to make more for our show opening August 26th, Finding Friendship. The title of our show was inspired by my west coast cousin Laura Reyes and her adorable and friendship confused dog Austin! Her beautiful art can be seen at The Aura In Laura.  Stay tuned for sneak peaks of  the rest of the Finding Friendship show!

Installation is FINISHED!

After a long day of installation, and alot of TLC from my mom, the installation is finished!

Day 1 of installation

My family and boyfriend came and spent Mother’s Day helping me install my show. We were only able to do half of it since there were some walls destined for other spaces parked in my space. But how lucky am I to have such an awesome Mom and family!

Updated Flickr WITH NEW IMAGES!

I just updated my flickr account with work from before I graduated! Its unfortunatly not my most recent work, but please check it out!

Preliminary Road Map!

This is our initial driving plan for our trip across country- we’re giving ourselves the month of June to complete this trip. Click HERE to see a detailed Google Map with our main destinations.

Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Destinations to explore? Places you’ve stayed?

Yellowstone maybe taken out- it being the most off track!

XOXO

Jurassic Park

Last night, I had a very exciting dream about Jurassic Park– it had opened and was filled with guests, children and adults ready to ride the rides, and see the “monsters”. Of course everything went horribly wrong, much like in the movie and terror ensued.

When I woke up all the Dinosaurs had gotten me so excited to get back to work on my imaginary friends. I finished classes about a month ago, and now have four months without school to get ready for my Thesis Exhibition. Hooray!

I am also getting ready for a very exciting change this summer. I was born and raised and college educated all within the state of Maryland. I also have fallen in love with a terrific artist and educator. We both are from the East Coast, and have so many friends and buttloads of family here. Neither of us have lived substantially anywhere other than the East Coast, and we are ready for a new adventure.  SO we are planning to move to Oakland, CA! We have just started the application process for an artist residency @ LoBot Gallery, and I am already looking at what kinds of dogs the animal shelters have.

The next few months will be a flurry of activity, getting ready to move across the country, and receiving my Bachelors degree in May! My goal for this New Year is to blog more frequently, and to keep a record of our planning, our goals, and our accomplishments. Not to mention documenting my awesome art!

Speaking of which, here are some horrible pictures of a collage I made last night, mostly monkey parts from NatyGeo (National Geographic) and the pile of small sculptures I’m attempting to finish today.

Finished Painting! No name yet… any suggestions?

I finally finished this painting, after getting much inspiration from the Walters , manuscipt display of medival monsters. I am very excited to start working more on my other painting! Hope you all like it!

Works are Progressing!

 

Here are some things I am working on. The paintings are both still being painted, and the small Sculpty sculpture, is going to made into a diorama!