Catching up...
The Skateboard show was awesome! All the work was so fantastic!! This felt like the perfect show for my re-entry into the art world!
Launch Pad Gallery show
Leif and I each had a piece in Launchpad Galleries' last show before closed their doors.
This meant many, many late nights making art with my husband...so much fun!
Leif did yet another stunning book carving! The curator at the gallery said this was one of her favorite pieces from the show!
Handsome and talented...what a man.
My very favorite artists at the show with me!!!
There where hundreds of people at the show that night!
It was a great turn out!
Leif suggested that I re-visit my "Home" concept...and he is pretty smart, so I did. It felt really great to dive back into my old concept with a new frame of mind.
For me my "home" series started years and years ago in college and was
conceived of pain, sadness, fear and anger.
I created that series to get those awful feelings out of me.
Now, my perspective of home is so different. It is one of happiness and satisfaction... hope renewed. Laying that series to rest so many years ago felt like closing doors, but revisiting it with this new perspective felt like re-creation manifested.
(Also, I just realized that based on these two gallery opening photo's of myself it would appear that I only have one dress...Or that perhaps I only have one dress that I wear to art openings! )
What are we doing now?
I am working on 5 pieces for a "Circus Freak" series with a great friend and artist Alea Bone. The show goes up October 1 at First Cup coffee shop.
There will be 10 or 11 pieces total, and it's going to be a totally amazing show!!
Next, Leif and I will be working together to create a show that will go up I believe in February at Space monkey!! Leif is planning some new carvings, as well as a newly created product that he is in the midst of prototyping! It is brilliant and I cannot wait to show you all!
Cheers!
Alexis
