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Artist Residency and Installation at Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Earlier this year, I had a residency at Proyecto ‘ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This residency was supposed to happen in 2020, but was postponed because of COVID, so it was a long time coming and I was so excited to finally arrive in February 2023! The project I had planned involved making an installation using printed multiples.
Upon arrival in Buenos Aires, like from the moment I exited the airport, I was so inspired by the city, the buildings and the plants. There are so many plants and flowers. People have plants all over their balconies and there are gorgeous public parks and gardens, little plant stands on the sidewalk (kinda like the newsstands in NYC, but with plants!) and plants are just growing everywhere. I started drawing the plants, these turned into transparencies for photo litho plates.
Proximate Magic
Last Fall, my solo exhibition, Proximate Magic was presented at Saint Joseph’s College Board Room Gallery in Patchogue, NY. A big thank you to John Cino, the curator, for inviting me to exhibit my work, and to Anna Malzone, the gallery director.
Much of the work in the exhibition was very new work that I had recently completed. Some pieces were made in 2018 and 2019, and some were made when I was in grad school, nearly 8 years ago. I was very pleased with the way the show came together. It was great to see the new work up on the wall, and to see how these three bodies of work made over the past 8 years, fit in context together. I could really see the through line from the earlier works to the most recent ones and I enjoyed seeing them all together.
Earth / Mother Portfolio
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Earth/ Mother is an exchange portfolio that was organized for the 2020 Southern Graphics Council Conference to be held in San Juan Puerto Rico. The conference was postponed because of the COVID- 19 pandemic. The inspiration for this portfolio came out of current events around women’s rights and climate change, Hurricane Maria, which had devastated Puerto Rico just the year before, an interview I had heard between Amy Goodman and Eve Ensler and Christine Schuler Deschryver. Some of these things were coming out in my personal work and I thought as a portfolio theme this would be timely, considering that the conference was to be held in Puerto Rico.
MAKE ART, WILL TRAVEL
End of Campaign Update and Thank You!
I hope this message finds all of you well. My campaign to raise funds related to two artists residencies has ended and unfortunately “Make Art, Will Travel” did not reach its funding goal. Perhaps I was overly ambitious, or maybe it was the bad timing of launching this campaign right before we came up against this pandemic. The uncertainty many of us are dealing with right now definitely affects my feelings about travel and attending residencies right now and just thinking about the future in general. Doubtless they will be postponed, however I am still very much looking forward to attending residencies at Arquetopia and ‘Ace in the future and will continue to work towards making that happen.
Getting Creative at Home during Quarantine
As an artist educator, something that seemed really daunting at the beginning of this whole self isolating period, was the prospect of converting in person classes into something that could be taught and learned online. I teach book arts and printmaking, so like many instructors of visual arts, this came as quite a challenge, mainly in trying to figure out how to deliver meaningful content that fulfilled the objectives of the course, without using special materials or equipment, that students could learn and practice from home.