Mike Schreiber

My darling Mike has updated his website with new work and a new design. Soon he says there will be drawings. I am proud of him.


and this is currently the painting I look at every night while I eat dinner.

The Best Thing Ever

My Love for You posted this today. It is the best thing I've ever seen.



It is by Blu who has some truly beautiful wall paintings on his website as well.

Tamara Kostianovsky

Tamara Kostianovsky currently has a show at the Black and White Gallery in Chelsea until May 24th. I just discovered her work today and would really like to go see it before it comes down. You might think her work is gross because she seems to be creating meat carcasses out of fabric. But I'm more interested in seeing the way she treats the surface up close and I like the depiction of meat, body parts, and muscles in soft fabric. And I enjoy the juxtaposition of displaying these plush objects on real meat hooks.

Time

So so busy with work and family obligations and the feeling of not having a weekend and needing to catch up on sleep. Trying to have studio time could be futile, but I've managed a few moments here and there to try some new ideas. Not quite right yet, but still interesting.

Ed Bing Lee

I really love these pieces in Ed Bing Lee's earth crust series. I think they are very inspiring because I have been spending time thinking lots about strata and the affect it could have on my art. I love his mix of textures and knots and colors.

Happy Tubes

It's funny how expressing your feelings just a little can help get those feelings out of your system completely. I started making stuff, having fun with some felt and thread and stuffing. Nothing serious, but enjoyable and idea provoking. I always want to wear the things I make that I am happy with. If it's not on my head or draped around my neck every few hours during the process then it is no good. Thanks for all the good suggestions!

Art Block

I am completely and utterly artistically constipated. There I said it.

I haven't made anything in almost 2 months and it's starting to make me feel like a crazy person. I am not truly happy unless I am making art. This has always happened to me, long periods of art drought. It was especially a problem in college because I would have to make 3 pieces of art for 3 studios and have absolutely no drive to create anything. So I would bring in uninspired projects just because I had to and then get bad critiques.

I have trouble with the idea that an artist must always be creating. It's just not possible, not for me anyway. Especially after intense periods of making there is generally a lull afterwards. I can't stand the lull any more.

I think I need to come up with a system to find my way out of this. In the past, when I didn't know what to do and I needed to get my hand moving again, I made up a system of birds. I cut out and created a number of felt birds (28 to be exact) and each one had to be covered quickly and then I would move on the to next. It worked beautifully. I again remembered how to create intuitively and fluidly.

However I don't have much interest in embroidering any more. I'm more interested in constructing. How do you create a system of making that has to do with construction? I think it must be something like x amount of fabric + y amount of thread and stuffing and scissors = an object...maybe. In any case something has to happen because if I spend any more time staring at the wall blankly I'm going to have myself committed.


At least I have been drawing though and this is good, just not enough.