I am thrilled to report that In Verdant Sight (number 2 of from my series of mountain collages), was selected for a juried art exhibit called “In Good Company” to celebrate SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day 2016, held at the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center.
The works are all on display from March 2 through May 1, 2016 at the Bankhead Theater Visitors Center and Gallery.
I’m taking an excellent collage class right now, and our assignment was to do a narrative collage. I made these two collages in class.
I’d been inspired earlier in the week by an exhibit I saw online at the McNay Art Museum called Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn, in particular, a piece by Alexandra Exter titled Scene Design for an Unidentified Production. I just thought that would be a great concept for a collage series, so these are a really early attempt. They ended up being more surreal than dramatic, but they were pretty fun to do.
As I was going through a bunch of collage stuff lately, these two clippings surfaced. To me, it is as if my past self was telling my future self that this might be interesting: Save it and throw it in a box.
I looked them up and they are both pretty interesting:
Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban
Jonah Freeman – Museo Magazine
And weirdly they go together:
(Joseph Urban on the left, Jonah Freeman on the right.) I’d say they are both architects of urban dreams.
I’ve been into mountains lately, and got on a roll recently, knocking out quick little watercolor sketches of mountains – or maybe better described as big hills. At the time, I thought that I was doing the same thing over and over again, so it’s interesting how different they look.
