When I left you last, I gave you good reason to believe I would be working on my large piece, working title "ethereal".



However, I suddenly remembered on Saturday, that I'm meant to have made a piece for SAQA's upcoming trunk show.  Being unprepared for such a thing, I decided that my old stand-by of trees and/or birds would be the best thing to make on short notice, and given it's a small size (10 x 7 inches); I got to work.

Artist Kohei Nawa has done an installation of clouds that visitors can walk through at the 2013 Aichi Triennale.  No really! :) Check it out HERE. 
For the cartogrophy fans among us, artist Ed Fairburn has done intricate and emotive portraits using maps, HERE. If you're in the Denver area, you can see the in person at the Mike Wright Gallery starting January 17.



If you're in or near NYC Meg Lipke has a new exhibition of her mixed-media (paper and felt) works at Parallel Art Space opening tomorrow. In the meantime, Brian Edmonds at the Curating Contemporary Blog has written a thoughtful review of her work, HERE. 


Corydon Cowansage at Art Haps has done an interview with Ted Gahl that's a fun read. They know one another, and it seems quite apparent that they like each other as well, which always makes the read more enjoyable. In addition, Mr. Gahl (an artist with a schizophrenic ouevre) has a cheeky, somewhat irreverent approach to his art.  Bonus - rather than the standard one or two pictures that usually accompanies this type of interview, this one has loads of pictures. You can check that interview out HERE  And if you're in NYC, he too has a show opening tomorrow at Dodge Gallery.


Clarion Ferrono talks about her love of Emily Carr over at Ragged Cloth Cafe HERE



Collosal has begun a new project called "Paid in Full" in which they commission artists to make work to (more or less) give them a paid gig (Yay, Collosal!), and not only do they pay the artist, they film the entire process so we can watch. The first recipient of a commission is artist HOTTEA. Check out his work, and the video, HERE.


And in Robert Genn's weekly letter this week, he talks about "Faith-based Art Making". (It's now what you might think). Check that out HERE.*

Sheesh!

Have a great weekend, and see you on Monday with some more work in progress. :)




P.S. I meant to post this in my last s-linky post and forgot - it's an interview over at Textile Artist with Lesley Richmond. http://www.textileartist.org/lesley-richmond-interview/ Lovely work!

* Pink links go to the relevant article, green to related articles.

Cheers!

Happy friday!

First up, a really GREAT article that does a round-up of discussions on abstract art in 2013. Read that HERE.

Next - a video that looks at stunning textile work  - I don't understand the language, but if you're like me, you can turn off the sound and just look at the pretty. The site has many other videos of textile work to see as well. Check it out HERE.



There's an interview with Marcin Rycezk about that famous swan photo that went viral in 2013 HERE.

There's a post a Colossal showing the incredible work of ceramist Johnson Tsang HERE

And the breathtaking work of Vally Nomidou (seriously, if you look at nothing else, look at this one) HERE. 

I've made progress on the lunchtime project as well, but haven't yet taken pictures - so sorry - no pics this week!