Brilliance

A gift to the Burchfield-Penney Art Center included dozens of top notch glass sculptures. This one was mesmerizing. Sculpture has advantages over two dimensional work, and I find myself jealous at times. 
 

Textile Large Scale

Ann Clarke's exhibition 'Interior Landscapes' is at the Burchield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. We made a field trip to see these breathtaking fulled (knited then felted) works today.Here's a person to guage that large size. A close up detail shows the color changes. Wonderful textile art. 
 

Flatterer or Imposter?

Today was a trip to the Albright Knox Art Gallery (the AKG now) has Frida Kahlo's self-portrait, and across the street, at the Burchfield Penney Art Gallery, is John Copoulos' Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo from 1989. What fun to see both, and to ponder imitation, admiration, or just fun being someone else. 

 

Art in Craft Media

The Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo's exhibition runs to November 28. I'm always happy to be in a crowd of others. Other media, other regions, other voices. The catalog is top notch, so I'll share it here with you. If you're near Buffalo, it's a swell show to see.
 

Printing Differently

Part of the fun of being in Art in Craft Media is to see what others are doing in the field of High Craft. This is the work of Courtney Haeick "In Motion". Each print (that is, I think they are blueprints) is 84" x 30". Each is a figure at life size.
 

We Were All Smiling

After my little talk at the Burchfield Penney Art Center about my work (top left) I promised to post on this blog. We had fun, a good discussion, and saw fabulous art from "Art in Craft Media". If you're in the Buffalo, New York area, don't miss it. And thank you kind audience!
 

Give Me Air

It's so rare to have work hung with such an amount of white space around it. The lighting is perfect, the juxtaposition of the works develops a dialog among the pieces, and each piece is allowed to breathe. If only each exhibition could afford to treat the works with such dignity.

Getting Captured

I spoke tonight as part of the Burchfield Penney's artists' talk. You can see me on the little phone shot. The Art in Craft Media show has my work "Take Two: Sharks and Jets". Tonight I described why the piece had a rumble.

There Are More People in This Room

It's hard to explain how great it is to have my work hang with so much air around it. I tell people to live with their work, to experience how different it becomes in multiple situations, and to know how it reacts to the given space. This is about as perfect as it gets.

Let Me 'Spain Myself

Art in Craft Media, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, hosted tonight's tour with artists that participated in the show. Bill Stewart, well known for his wild and wonderful ceramics, explains his involvement in the arts. We all listened. You see my piece (behind him) leaning in as well.

More Art -- Stainless Steel This Time

The Art in Craft Media really makes the statement that a medium makes the message. Here is Tom Breen's "Yin Yang Lounge Chair" with two parallel sheets of perforated stainless steel held with fasteners. He said that it was possible to sit in many different positions. So, functional, too.

Fiber Like Tangle

Jesse Walp's 2011 work "Tangleberry" was on view at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Made of walnut and basswood, it is a positively lovely tangle. I would have sworn it was metal.

John McQueen and Storm Debris

We had a wicked wind storm night before last and the yard is littered with twigs. Something that would inspire John McQueen. His work is at the Burchfield Penney Center in Buffalo. They call him one of the world's leading fiber artists. Clever, for sure.

More from Art in Craft Media

Ani Hoover and her work "Astro Dot Net" had me stop in my tracks. It was made with rings of painted paper, the back side of which was a vibrant pink. The reflection from the pink made the wall glow. I could not capture it in this very blunt photo; you have to see it to experience it. Beautiful.

Burchfield Penney Gallery

Hillary Fayle's work "The Bay" seen at the exhibition now on in Buffalo called Art in Craft Media 2011 just blew me away. This photo does not do the work justice, and it was a series of bay leaves that had been sewn. And then pinned to the perfectly white wall. Amazing! If you have the chance to see this show, up until January 15th, go.

http://www.burchfieldpenney.org/collection/object:l2011-006-017-the-bay/