New show for May, opening party May 12th, 2-5pm
You’re invited to attend the opening party of the east2collective’s first curated art show. It is at Studios 201 and 228 at Spring St. The show is called 5by5by5 – the art will be no bigger than 5 inches tall, wide and deep. Artists include painters, photographers, designers, printmakers from everywhere – Houston, London, New York…
The show will be viewable until June 9th and at watch this space and the east2collective website for hours…
Photos of the Open Night at Spring St last weekend are here: click here…
Spring at Spring
Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Studios event this past Saturday. There are some photos of cute people interacting with the butterfly installation, which will be posted very very very soon
Today it’s Spring at Spring St – Saturday 28th April
Last year’s event was a lot of fun. This Saturday, April 28 at 3-9pm. Winter St will also be open.
Upcoming exhibitions
Spring St Studios is having the annual art event on April 28th, Saturday. Last year was loads of fun so make sure you make it there!
Also planned for mid-May is East2Collective’s exhibition 5by5by5 – watch this space. East2Collective is a collaboration between Holly Hoyt, who does fine art photography, and myself. We have big (and small) things planned for your viewing pleasure…
March brought an interesting topic to explore in an interesting art space. One of my pieces, ‘Nine’, was shown in a group exhibition ‘Giving Birth‘, at Houston’s The Artery. Alongside paintings, the event also featured live performance, music and a film. All part of Herstory month! Go girrrls.
This is a short (1 min: 5 sec) film that showed tonight at the Voices Breaking Boundaries art event/artists’ talk ‘What’s Color Got To Do With It?’ about love and culture. The topic threw up a lot of questions for me: what is love and are the differences/similarities due to culture, eras, or gender? I was inspired by the old Chinese legend of The Butterfly Lovers which tells the story of two people who were forbidden to marry, so they threw themselves into a grave and emerged as two butterflies to be together forever. I was interested that this romantic idea of love has so many similarities to the Western idea of love, of all-consuming passionate, true love. The butterflies I cut from an Asian newspaper and an American romance novel and is in reference to the Chinese paper cutting craft technique which often is of butterfly shapes. The symbolism of butterflies that I refer to in my paintings (metamorphosis, hidden strength, mortality) carry through to the paper shapes.
The music was composed and performed for the film, by a very talented young man, Jacob Preston, who is a mere 9 years-old. Thanks Jacob, for collaborating with me!
Thanks to Kafah Bachari Manna for inviting me to take part, and all the VBB people for providing the forum.
Group shows, February 2012
My work will be in a new group show curated by Kafah Bachari Manna with Voices Breaking Boundaries. What’s Color Got to Do With It? deals with race and color in interracial relationships. Head over to the Houston Institute for Culture, 708C Telephone Rd, Houston 77023 this Sunday night.
If you’re in New York, stop by Wayfarers Gallery where one of my newspaper butterfly pieces is showing in a group show called I Ch-Ch-Choose You. I was at the opening party this past weekend and was very impressed by the other artists’ work. Until Feb 26th, 2012; Wayfarers Gallery, Dekalb St, Brooklyn, New York City.
Open studio for January, today 2 – 5pm
The first Open Studio for the year at Spring and Winter Sts today at 2-5pm. Come and see the latest painting I’ve been working on in my studio, plus some new artists that have joined the building. It’s lovely outside, go for a walk to the warehouse! Entry doors on Spring, also Sabine. 1824 SpringSt. My studio is upstairs by the fire escape.
Opening party this Friday 2nd December
Make your way to Montrose this Friday to Roots the Salon. Brandan and Simon are showing my work at their salon and the party starts at 6. I’ll be showing my paintings on canvas and newspaper. Hope to see you lot!
1407 Richmond, between Mandell + Graustark), www.rootsthesalon.net. My work will be on show for a little while beyond Friday.
October
Studio wall of butterfly paintings
The October 1st/2nd weekend at Spring St showed that you all love art and thanks for getting out there and dropping by. Hope you are enjoying the pieces that you purchased.
I’ve decided to move the date of the Roots show planned for mid-October, watch this space…
