Some Lights at Coos Bay Shore acres....
not to be missed cause of cookies and hot cocoa
Wishing you nothing but Joy this Holiday!
Beth @ robin press
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Bind-o-Rama 2009
Persian rug pattern sewn in decorative stitch on spine of
recontextulized found materials (I pulled apart one book
and from it made this one with the box and everything but
thread). 13 x 9.5 x 10.2 cm (in box together).
I have been included in the
Bonefolder's annual Bind-O-Rama
challenge and online exhibition.
Initiated in 2004, this year they elected
to make it an open, i.e. un-themed event.
This year 48 entries were received, a record number,
with participants ranging from seasoned
professionals to first-time exhibitors.
Adding to the excitement this year
was a very wide range of structures.
Thank you for the opportunity.
www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder
Friday, October 30, 2009
On the Cutting Edge...
Codega
Medium: Mixed Media Collage
Size: 8” x 10” x 3”
On the Cutting Edge:
West Coast Artist using Collage & Assemblage
is a group show at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon.
December 11, 2009 - February 13, 2010
Awards and opening reception on:
Friday, December 11, 2009 from 5-7 p.m.
235 Anderson Avenue,
Coos Bay, Oregon 97420
541-267-3901
www.coosart.org
Little Things 9
Support Art for the Holidays!
Little Things 9 is a group show of artwork 7" & under.
Kim Murton
Ceramics, Julia Gardner
Resin/mixed media, Ingrid Hendrix
Ceramics, Sara Swink
Ceramics, Alisa Looney
Metal, Karen Swallow
Calligraphy/mixed media, Annette Lansing
Ceramics, Dan Pillers
Fabric/mixed media, Hsin-Yi Huang
Mixed media, Diane Archer
Mixed media, Cynthia Hipkiss
Ceramics, Steve Winkenwerder
Silkscreen, Mar Goman
Painted rocks, Jenn Rawling
Paintings, Tripper Dungan
Paintings, Peg Johnson
Raku, Denise Graham
Beads/mixed media, Jamee Linton
Paintings, Kim Hamblin
Paper/mixed media, Terresa White
Clay/mixed media, Jennifer Hennig
Ceramics, Robert Huff
Photography, Hilary Pfeifer
Carved wood/paint, Flora Bowley
Paintings, George Heath
Polymer Clay & mixed media, Chris Haberman
Paintings, Scot Cameron-Bell
Ceramics, Beth Robinson
Paper/mixed media, Jamin LondonTinsel
Ceramics, Brigette Sarabi
Mixed media/encaustic, Holly Whitney
Paper mache/paint, Marcia Hindman
Oil paintings, Emilio Berwick
Raku, Stephanie Brockway
Carved & painted wood, Kurumi Conley
Fused/slumped glass, Janet Julian
Wood/paint
November 27th - December 27, 2009
Guardino Gallery
2939 NE Alberta, Pdx OR 97211
503-281-9048
www.guardinogallery.com
I will be showing about 20 piece all under a $100.
photo to come soon...
Night of the Dead
Shrine to those lost in 2009
Walking dead
Ghost Walkers
This is the night of the Day of the Dead 2009 in Pdx.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Self Portrait Exhibition -How I See Myself
Standing in the Shadowlands
Mixed Media Collage approx. 9"x 11"
November 6, 2009 - January 8, 2010
Juried by John Benjamin, Vinita Pappas, Greg Price, Elee Hadley,
J. Lynn Peterson and Renee Couture
Opening Reception Friday, November 6 - 5-7 pm
Music will be presented by RHS Choir
Umpqua Valley Arts Association
1624 W. Harvard Avenue,
Roseburg, Oregon 97471 www.uvarts.com
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Lord of the Dance
Lord of the Dance
Mixed media/ Paper - 9 /2" x 5" x 3"
$300
This piece will be included in the 3rd Annual Dios De los Muertos @ Guardino Gallery in Pdx, OR.
This is a memorial to my youngest brother, Jacob.
He was an amazing dancer.
In the summer of 2007 we lost him to juvenile diabetes.
2939 NE Alberta,
Portland, OR 97211
503-281-9048
www.guardinogallery.com
Please contact gallery for purchase.
Dia De Los Muertos Day of the Dead Show & Procession
The Guardino Gallery Presents:
A Feature & Window Gallery Group Show
Curated by Tabor Porter & Stephanie Brockway
3rd Annual Group Show
October 29 - November 20
Reception & Procession: Oct 29, 6-9
Month-long Public Altar. Come, Pay your respects...
More information about the street wide event:
www.pdxdayofthedead.org
September... lost in the leaves
First of all...
I just wanted to thank all of you
for taking the time to read these wanderings...
September has come and gone and with it my grandmother.
So, my studio time has been short and I find myself a little lost...
But working through it....
Be not afraid...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Immediate Release
The Robin Press Main Web Page has a new look.
Please fill free to check it out
and let me know what you think.
www.robinpress.com
Town Hall Meeting for Health Care
Peter Defazio
(the guy in the middle with the grey baseball hat:
Please forgive view, I am short)
talking about health care reform
@ Cottage Grove Town Hall Meeting
Thanks to Cottage Grove for being so courteous
and willing to listen to all members of the community.
I hope we will be able to find a solution.
Monday, August 17, 2009
A Return to the Studio - Lupus Journey
A new wolf journey begins.....
The wolf symbolizes free will,
the ability to escape, unity and toughness.
They also represent loyalty and friendship.
Often wolfs are leaders and run in packs.....
My own pack is again fighting.
Fighting to help my mom against a huge battle with Cancer.
Wish us your best....
This image will be shown in Groundwaters magazine's next edition.
Groundwaters is a non-profit quarterly literary journal
which showcases the writing and artistic talent of people throughout
Lane County, Oregon and beyond.
Their theme for the August edition is Journey.
Check out their web page at www.groundwaterpublishing.com.
Special thanks to
Jennifer Chambers and Pat Edwards for all their support.
Summer Adventure: Siletz Pow Wow
This is my friend, Frankie, dancing his heart out.
This is some of the folks he was dancing with.
At this Pow Wow gathering we were lucky to see and meet the
13 Indigenous Grandmothers...
Amazing ladies and people...
Thank you for letting me be a part of it...
Want to learn more about the grandmothers:
Carol Schaefer has written a book called
"Grandmothers Counsel the World:
Woman Elders Offer their Vision for our Planet"
A great tribute to my own grandmothers...
Summer Adventure: Waiting on a Old Friend
This is Heather, an old high school friend, and myself...
We found each other again on Facebook and
were able to spend a lovely time in pdx..
Cheers!
Summer Adventures: the OCF experience
Hanging with my family at the Oregon Country Fair....
Always a treat...
My favorite family member is my nephew, Corbin...
Summer Adventure: Funny Sunset & Futurism
My favorite piece from futurism was the little dog running...
I couldn't help but try my own with this pink light from the sunset...
Summer Adventure: Experiments in Futurism
Lucy, a dear friend of mine, came back to Oregon for a great visit...
and spurred a little futurism experiment
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Birds of a Feather Flock Together Show
"Missing Bird"
Springfield Museum, Springfield Oregon will present a group exhibition called
"Birds of a Feather Flock Together"
from September 1- 30, 2009.
The artist talks and reception will be on
Friday,September 11th from 5:30 to 8:00 pm.
I will have two pieces included "Missing Bird" and "In a Dream."
Hope to see you there.
Guest Curator Shannon Weber.
Staying Cool at the River
Loki & Max Coolin off in the heat
Have you been wondering what has been happening @ Robin Press...
Well, to tell you the truth I have been enjoying summer. I thought it might be good to sit by the river and chill. But things are starting to heat up again...
Just a Big Thank You
Nick Working
I just wanted to say thank you to Nick and Ann for all their help and letting us take over SideShow for our show.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Artist Talk for Where Do We Go From Here?
I often create visual metaphors inspired from paging through books. In creating these surreal images I have found myself moving toward a more photography feel.... this media supports a sense of reality while keeping a nod to the Mannerist.
But the book arts is still my first love.
I have felt that many where disheartened by the actions of the pervious administration, causing a questioning of our personal and national culture and identity. The title "where do we go from here?" inspired me to create a small collection of realizations and tools for realignment. As with any loss I have found it is good to take stock in the things around you. Evaluate where you have been, what your doing right now and where to go from here... In the beginning of a body of work I like to pick a place on the planet to focus on either by visiting or learning all that I can about that place.
Bali, for some reason came to me.
"In Bali this locating on the planet is very imperative into the geography of their culture. The whole idea of Bali is a matrix, a massive and invisible grid of spirits, guides, path and customs. The Balinese know were everyone belongs on this great, intangible map. They are human GPS.
The Balinese don’t let their newborn children touch the ground for the first six months, newborns are gods sent straight from heaven.... and it wouldn’t be acceptable for a god to crawl around.... So, for the first six months the babies are carried and revered as minor deities... if it dies before the end of the six months it is given a special cremation ceremony celebrating its god status...
But if the baby lives a big ceremony is held...
Family and friends watch as they lightly dip the baby’s feet in a bowl full of holy water, placed above a magic drawing encompassing the whole universe, and they touch her soles to the earth for the first time... when they lift her back up into the air, damp footprints remain. This orients the child at last onto the great Balinese grid, establishing who she is by establishing where she is. and she is now one of us... a human being with all the risk and thrills that are involved. And for the rest of her life she will answer"
where are you coming from?
and where are you going from here...
I’m going to weave in and out of these images...
pulling some of the symbols to your attention...
quoted from "eat love pray"
History: Only in a dream...
3.5" x 4" book board, tin type like process on glass, feather
The first image is looking back on history.
There is a widespread and ancient belief after death,
the soul leaves the body in the form of a bird.
Many religions have heavenly beings or spirits with wings:
angels, cherubs or seraphim for example.
Consequently the bird is a symbol of the spirit.
Birds can be mediators between gods and men,
and even act as vehicles for the gods.
Birds are seen in myths involving a Tree of Life,
and are sometimes depicted fighting
with or carrying a serpent, symbolizing the uneasy
balance between the sun (as bird) and the waters (as serpent).
And of course this comes from our own agricultural beginnings.
In most religious art the subject boils down to
the struggle between good and evil.
This piece symbolis how history handled good and evil
by the use of the mediator.
I think in the last sereval years the
appreciation of the mediator was lost.
Realization: Once there was a way home...
4"x 6"mixed media digital image on blank old photo album
I return to this issue again again...
it is something I really struggle with in my own practice...
This really embodies the idea that you can never really ever return to way it was or that moment...
this is loss and grief but depending on how you choose to move forward with it or not...
And this being the only photo of an empty photo book...
a reminder you cannot go back in history and live there
aka.. you can never go home again...
(pick up photo and read the back...)
You are mourning when there is no cause to lament,
and yet you speak words that seem to be wise.
The truly wise lament neither for the living nor the dead....
don’t lament but live in the present..
Present: Self Portrait
But before moving forward
it is best to stop at this moment and
evaluate how things are running...
have a 1,000 mile check up of sorts...
Future: Standing in the Shadowlands
8" x 10" heavy weight paper, hand colored digital mixed media image
From this present state comes a link to the future...
but again to not get lost in the thinking of
the future but just an judicatory....
Tools 1: Luck
3"x4" digital image some hand coloring, beads, dice
Then I began to make tools...
to reaffirm the skills acquired in the evaluation.
Buddhist and hindus often wear strings of beads called japa malas.
This is used to stay focused during prayerful meditation.
The beads are held in one hand and fingered in a circle...
one bead for each mantra.
The Crusaders admired this technique then created the rosary...
I have transfered it to luck...
Malcolm Gadwell just wrote a book on the secret to success....
He feels talent had little to do with
it but boil down to hard work and luck...
& everyone could use a little luck...
Tools 2 : Seeing by Skull Light
7" x 9.5" cut to image boards, stands, digital image some hand coloring
When you see things by deaths light you see the world in its truest form....
This is based on a folk tale about a girl named Vasalisa
and her journey back from the dark forest
where she was sent to die by her step mother and sisters.
This image is the moment on the journey she almost
throws the skull away but it reassures her.
"Don't throw me away. Keep me. You'll see."
Seeing things by skull light is not forgiving:
the old are elderly; the beautiful, lush;
the silly, foolish; the unfaithful are infidels...
yet things that are amazing become miracles.
She is thinking of the pain it causes
to know about self,
others and
the nature of the world.
see also posting from 1/20/09
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