Installation Assistants

A shot from when these pieces were installed...the lovely Courtney Coolbaugh, intern extraordinaire and Olivia Rae, baby extraordinaire.

Hello???

Holy crap...Its been one of those months...where I'm hugely busy but feel like nothing is getting done...and I'm behind on everything (Hellooooo taxes?). Well I'm trying to catch up and wanted to share some photos I've been sitting on from the Animal Show. I have no idea which work is whose, since there were no labels but I loved alot of the work. I'm sure a simple google search would easily point out which work belonged to which artist but I just finished my taxes and my brain is moosh. Sorry.

Oh wait...here are some easy ones...I made these two:

And I know who made these too! The fabulous Katie Henry!


No idea who did this piece but I loved it...


I was a big fan of this one too...

And to whoever made these prints, they are amazing...

And this piece was Olivia's favorite...The fluffballs slowly vibrated their way around the floor and O kept calling them "Doggies! Doggies!"


This has hardly been an eloquent review of this show, but forgive me, as I mentioned above, my brain is "post taxes" fried. It really was a great show. Thanks to Pterodactyl Philadelphia for having me!

Animal Show Opening Rescheduled

Yay! I got this email from Pterodactyl today:

Hello from Pterodactyl!

Last Saturday's opening of Animal Show was canceled at the last minute because of a 4 alarm fire across the street. See more info about the fire here. We are rescheduling the opening for THIS SATURDAY, April 2nd at 8pm. Hope everyone can make it!! Details for the show are below.

Animals become a canvas onto which we humans project our myths, fantasies and ideas, making up our own meanings. Animal Show explores ways in which animals are transformed into such unwitting actors. March 26-April 15 / Opening Saturday March 26 8-Midnight 3237 Amber Street, 5th Floor, Phila, PA 19134 With work by Katie Henry // Ann Klicka // Emma Meetz // Darla Jackson Matthew Lucash // Oranit Solomonov // Amy Scheidegger Skuds Mckinley // Kevin Galloway // Kristen Solecki Caitlin Carouge // Sarah Goodreau Eleanor Grosch

Yikes! Opening Cancelled due to Fire across the street!

Photo from Pterodactyl Philadelphia's Facebook Page

Saturday's Animal Show opening at Pterodactyl Philadelphia was canceled due to a scary fire across the street from the building. As soon as I saw that on Pterodactyl's Facebook page, I asked Justin to drive over and check on our space (our studio is in the same building as Pterodactyl). He couldn't get in as the street was blocked but he atleast saw that the smoke was blowing away from our building and that the fire seemed to be contained. But still...super scary and made me imagine what would happen if it had been our building?! Too scary to think about! Stay tuned for the new opening date for the Animal Show!

Featured Artist: CFEVA 9th Annual Benefit

I'm excited to have been chosen as one of 10 featured artists for the Center for Emerging Visual Artists 9th Annual Benefit on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at The Center for Architecture in Philadelphia! Should be a fabulous and wonderful event, benefiting an amazing organization!

Below are the 10 featured artists. For more information or to purchase a ticket, call 215-546-7775 x10 or email julia@cfeva.org.

Rita Bernstein





Noah Addis





Greg Brellochs





Danielle Bursk





John Karpinski





Maggie Mills





Ron Tarver





Benjamin Volta





Darla Jackson





Kimberly Witham

Flip

Coming soon...Some short videos of what happens in the studio via our little Flip video camera thing. Yup. That's it. For now...

Fancy lady style

So I've been cleaning up, throwing out, hanging up, sorting, stacking, unpiling, etc in the studio, all in the name of making it a nicer place to work and to make the space make more sense now that Justin is in there with us. One of my sidebar plans is to make my sculpting area an amazingly beautiful and fabulous place to be, so that when I walk in I want to throw down all my bags and run over and start sculpting immediately. And here is one little piece of that, my new fancy sprayer, which is oh so much nicer than a shitty old Home Depot spray bottle, no?