Weekly Update

I'm exhausted from a crazy crazy weekend but got alot done...with alot still to do (isn't that how it always works out?!)...Here's this week's update:

Current Exhibitions

111th Fleisher Faculty Exhibition
August 24th-September 19th, 2009
Fleisher Art Memorial
719 Catherine Street
Philadelphia, PA

Closing Reception: Sunday, September 19th 4-6pm

Upcoming Exhibitions

Spent the weekend working on the Vagabond show...a little more to do this week with an install on Thursday...Whew! Expect some more in progress shots tomorrow. The studio is a hot mess right now...


Step Right Up...
New sculpture by Darla Jackson
September-October 2009
Vagabond Boutique
37 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA

Opening Reception: Friday, September 4th 6-8pm

Also coming up...


My Face in Your Space
September 10 - October 2, 2009
Nexus Foundation For Today's Art
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA
Opening Reception: September 10th, 6-9pm

And...

POST Artist's Installations
Philadelphia Fringe Festival - Festival Bar
SW corner of 5th and Fairmount Streets
Philadelphia, PA

More info can be found at the Festival Bar Page of the Fringe Fest's website.

In October...

My studio will be open to the public for 2 days as part of the 2009 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. Come see the space I share with the fabulous Ms. Aubrie Costello.

POST Open Studio
October 3-4, 2009, 12-6pm
3237 N. Amber Street, Studio 3-3-A
Philadelphia, PA

And December...

Art House Gallery : Atlanta, Ga
309 Peters St
Atlanta, GA 30313
December 11 - 13, 2009

303Grand : Brooklyn, NY
303 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
February 19 - 21, 2010

Art and Shelter Gallery at The Salvation Army Alegria : Los Angeles, CA
2737 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
April 8 - 11, 2010

Soulard Art Market : Saint Louis, MO
2028 S. 12th St
Saint Louis, MO 63104
April 16 - 18, 2010

Home Gallery : Chicago, IL
1407 E. 54th Place
Chicago, IL
May 7th-9th, 2010

Work in Progress

Am still working on finishing up the pieces for Vagabond, as well as my Fringe Fest Installation...in progress photos tomorrow! Never heard back from the vinyl letter people...jerks!

Fall 2009 Classes

The upcoming classes that I'll be teaching this fall are an Introduction to Animal Sculpture Class through Pterodactyl Philadelphia (to be held in my studio...come check it out!) and Sculptural Forms through the Fleisher Art Memorial. Can't wait!!!

Now I must collapse from tiredness...I think all pregnant artists should be given atleast 3 assistants, paid for by our tax dollars. I vote yes to that...

In the Studio...

Step Right Up... Inspiration photos

Friends of CFEVA Guided POST Tour

My studio was chosen this year as one of the stops on the Friends of CFEVA Guided POST tour! See below flyer for details:

Weekly Update

It's been a while but I am going to TRY to get back to a regular posting schedule thins week...we'll see...!

Current Exhibitions

I currently have a piece in the Fleisher Art Memorial Faculty Show...I haven't had a chance to see the show yet, but many fabulous artists work there so I'm sure it will be wonderful!

Fleisher Faculty Exhibition
August 24th-September 19th, 2009
Fleisher Art Memorial
719 Catherine Street
Philadelphia, PA

Upcoming Exhibitions

Almost here is my solo show at Vagabond. I'll be finishing up the work this week and installing next week so there will be photos soonish...


Step Right Up...
New sculpture by Darla Jackson
September-October 2009
Vagabond Boutique
37 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4th 6-8pm

The My Face in your Space show at Nexus is a pretty cool idea. To be included in the show, someone who's already in the show asks you to do a portrait of them and they do one of you. You can then ask anyone you want to be in the show, but again, you have to do a portrait of them and they have to do one of you. I was invited by my friend Molly Mullahy and am excited to see what she does!

My Face in Your Space
September 10 - October 2, 2009
Nexus Foundation For Today's Art
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA
Opening Reception: September 10th, 6-9pm

Also I'll be doing a direct plaster installation piece at the Festival Bar Space during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival this year. I believe their opening day is Friday, September 4th.
More info can be found at the Festival Bar Page of the Fringe Fest's website.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival - Festival Bar
SW corner of 5th and Fairmount Streets
Philadelphia, PA

My studio will be open to the public for 2 days as part of the 2009 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. Come see the space I share with the fabulous Ms. Aubrie Costello.

POST Open Studio
October 3-4, 2009, 12-6pm
3237 N. Amber Street, Studio 3-3-A
Philadelphia, PA

And last but not least the Art House Co-op Traveling Sketchbook Show IV, starting in December 2009. This project is picking up speed and they're adding new stops...I'm looking forward to see the final lineup!

Art House Gallery : Atlanta, Ga
309 Peters St
Atlanta, GA 30313
December 11 - 13, 2009

303Grand : Brooklyn, NY
303 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
February 19 - 21, 2010

Art and Shelter Gallery at The Salvation Army Alegria : Los Angeles, CA
2737 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
April 8 - 11, 2010

Soulard Art Market : Saint Louis, MO
2028 S. 12th St
Saint Louis, MO 63104
April 16 - 18, 2010

Home Gallery : Chicago, IL
1407 E. 54th Place
Chicago, IL
May 7th-9th, 2010

Work in Progress

Am working on finishing up the Vagabond work this week. Will post in progress photos this week. And I just sent in a quote for vinyl letters for the wall...oh how I love vinyl letters!

Fall 2009 Classes

The upcoming classes that I'll be teaching this fall are an Introduction to Animal Sculpture Class through Pterodactyl Philadelphia (to be held in my studio...come check it out!) and Sculptural Forms through the Fleisher Art Memorial. Can't wait!!!

More tomorrow!

Step Right Up...

The Sketchbook Project 4 Tour

New cities have been added to the Sketchbook 2010 Tour that I'll be participating in! Here are the details...anyone interested should sign up at the website. It seems like it's going to be a great project all around:

There are now 5 stops on our Sketchbook 2010 tour!

If you have not signed up yet for The Sketchbook Project 4, visit www.thesketchbookproject.com to do so!

Here is the tour schedule:

Art House Gallery : Atlanta, Ga
309 Peters St
Atlanta, GA 30313
December 11 - 13, 2009

303Grand : Brooklyn, NY
303 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
February 19 - 21, 2010

Art and Shelter Gallery at The Salvation Army Alegria : Los Angeles, CA
2737 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
April 8 - 11, 2010

Soulard Art Market : Saint Louis, MO
2028 S. 12th St
Saint Louis, MO 63104
April 16 - 18, 2010

Home Gallery : Chicago, IL
1407 E. 54th Place
Chicago, IL
May 7th-9th, 2010

Back in action!

Hello! i just returned from a week+ long vacation...a terribly rainy, then hot and sweaty vacation, but a vacation, nonetheless...
I am still recovering but here's a quick update, with more to come this week!

Over the 8 days I was away, someone emailed me that Mara Zepeda of Neither Snow had a sneak peek of her house featured on Design Sponge...and that my Ladies are complicated... print was in one of the photos! How exciting!



I also started a small sculpture of my friend Molly Mullahy for an upcoming show at Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia. Photos and details to come!

This week I'll start up work again on the solo show I have coming up, as well as on an installation piece for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival's Festival Bar. Many a photo to come...

Oh! And very exciting upcoming classes that I'll be teaching this fall are an Introduction to Animal Sculpture Class through Pterodactyl Philadelphia (to be held in my studio...come check it out!) and Sculptural Forms through the Fleisher Art Memorial. Can't wait!!!

Yay!

Rain Rain Go Away

I love my studio, despite it's hotness in summer, and freezing-ness in winter. I feel like it's a great space, big enough that there's enough room to do everything I need to...HOWEVER, I HATE when the dingbats upstairs leave their WINDOWS OPEN FOR A WHOLE WEEKEND DURING THE MOST RAINY SUMMER EVER! URGH! I was so mad yesterday to come in and find that water had leaked through their floor, all over my stuff!

It leaked onto the current piece I'm making...

It leaked all over handtools, papers, etc....

It leaked on my books!!!

It got all over my desk!

And all over the floor!

I started to clean and fix the mess as best I can...so far the only thing I'm still REALLY mad about is the books that got wet...Urgh....

The South Philadelphia Boat Show

I went to the opening of The South Philadelphia Boat Show on Saturday, at Storage, a space headed by Jake Kehs, Gus, and Preston.

It was pretty awesome...the work was insanely varied but it all fit together really well. I took a bunch of photos and don't know who alot of this work is by but if anyone takes a peek and knows an artist whose work is shown here, I'll gladly add their name!

Fancy embroidered boat that I loved.

A lovely cut paper/pencil piece which I feel like I should know who this is by but I don't....it just looks very familiar to me for some reason.

Shark in the bathroom!

Blocks of cocaine in a mini boat! Hysterical!

No idea who this is by but I loved it!

I didn't know who this was by when I took the photo but thought it was awesome. I happily found out later that it's by the fabulous Ms. Kaitlin Mosely!

Who doesn't love a saggy sewn anchor...!

I'm assuming this is Tristan Lowe's, since it shares a title with the giant felt whale at the Fabric Workshop and that its printed on felt. I love the image and the texture of the felt.

This was a secret little video hidden in a hole in the drywall...!

This piece was done by my friend Jake Kehs, who said all the little floating and collaged bits were cut from a Harbor Freight catalog...upon closer inspection Justin and I cracked up...sure enough he cut tiny little tools out of the catalogs. Anyone who's ever ordered from Harbor Freight know that the catalogs come VERY often and so I thought this was a genius use of them.





A ginger-boat...made of candy and fanciness...it was awesome.


A great drawing of a habatchi and rubber band powered boat by Hiro Sakaguchi.

T-Pain as Neptune...I almost died laughing when I saw this. And it was made really well too, so it was doubly wonderful.

I have no idea who made these boats in beds but I am absolutely in love with them....

There were about a billion other things and I missed photos of them somehow...I didn't even get a good photo of my own piece! But for real, the show was amazing...