Foxy, foxy on the wall, Who’s the most vulpine of them all?
Now complete with stiffened core and edge stitching she’s ready for grommets and installation!
Building a fox
Author: Rachel Mello
New Miniatures
Long Night of SOS Prep
That point in a long string of late nights in studio when the only reasonable response is an unreasonably large sushi order. Oh, and also, I’m making a lot of really cool new work, and you should come see it this weekend.
www.madoysterstudios.org
Aunties
In about six months, I’ll be hanging a solo exhibition at Laconia Gallery in Boston. I began the design process by built this 1/2″ scale model to help me design how the overall installation will come together.
Here “Patricia” and “Eunice,” named after two of my aunts, take in the work.
Call and Response at VSC
Tonight a most wonderful thing happened. A group of 14 visual artists and writers, being supremely generous with their time and creativity, participated in a collaborative project I coordinated here at the Vermont Studio Center. I offered them each their choice of miniature cut-silhouettes, the ones I cut at Danger!Awesome to use as studies for my larger pieces. Asking them to use it in any way they wanted to make a new piece, and knowing what an outstanding group of people this is, I still could not have imagined how each person would put themselves into the project. If my work involves world-building, these artists showed me 14 new countries in this world. I’m blown away.
As my new friend Gary Hawkins said, “Better Art Together.”
Work shown by Alison Stine & Molly Gallentine, Sharron Diedrichs, Aaliyah Gupta & Staci Schoenfeld, and Judy Schneider.
Sketches to Vectors
The designs for my cut silhouette paintings start out as sketches in my sketchbook. From those I create freehand loose drawings of how that sketch could work as a silhouette, taking careful consideration of the structural concerns of the material. If I’m going to cut the piece on a laser cutter (rather than by hand with a saw) then I need to redraw it again as a vector file that the laser-cutter can follow.
Playing with lasers
Today I’m playing with lasers, cutting new silhouette shapes. These are the beginnings of a major solo installation in the Fall.
Sketchbook Show reviewed by Evolving Critic
The Evolving Critic writes that we have, “Some really swoon-worthy sketchbooks in this show.”
This image is from a sketchbook of poet and artist, Gary Hawkins.
Read the full review at
EvolvingCritic.net
Wall Drawing Wish Fulfillment
How long have I dreamed of having a chance to make a series of wall drawings as part of a gallery show?! I can’t even say. But here I am with Ellie Laramee-Byers and looking forward to being joined by Gary Hawkins tomorrow in preparation for the 2016 Sketchbook Show at the Nave Annex Gallery.
SAC Artist of the Month
Honored and delighted to be selected as the “Artist of the Month” for Somerville this month! I’m humbled by the company of artists here, every day. Our city is full of so many great artists… let’s all work to keep it this way!
somervilleartscouncil.org/artistmonth/mello