Abstraction At Its Best

I have two cut-paper collages in the Capitol Arts Network, "Abstraction At Its Best" juried exhibit in Rockville, MD through August 26, 2013. These mixed media artworks incorporates cut paper and copper wire over monoprints.

Atomic Woman No. 29 Series - #2

Atomic Woman No. 29 Series - #1

Last Days of Member Exhibition at Pyramid

 

I'll be taking my artwork home today from the Member Exhibition at Pyramid Atlantic Art enter in Silver Spring, Md.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Members Show

One of my collages was juried into the members show on exhibit through the end of April. This pictue is from the opening. April 9.

Her Black Self

 

I finished up two collages for the "At Her Age" juried show at A.I.R. Gallery in New York. The show explores womens concept of body image at different stages in life. My work incorporates text, paste paper. wire and vellum. Some research shows that Black women and Asian women have a more positive body image than Caucasian women who are more bound to societies rigid and often unattainable standards of beauty that are predominantly European.

Explorations in Collage

 

I continued working in the studio today exploring cut out shapes to use in the artwork for the A.I.R. show. I like how cut out shapes create both positive and negative spaces. The shadows play over the surface creating another dimension.

San e psa

What is happening. Things are happening (San e psa) was the title of an exhibit at Pulcri Studios in The Hague featuring Kurt Nahar and Marcel Pinas (both from Suriname) and Patricia Kearsenhout (The Netherlands). The title was conceived by Nahar and referred to his idea that youth in both Suriname and in the Netherlands know little or nothing about critical historical and political events in Suriname and in particular events of the eighties. Nahar and Pina's controversial art installations arouse interest and beg an explanation. Kearsenhout's art incorporates text as the basis for her work and were equally engaging. The exhibit ran from March 13, to April 4, 2010. Luckily I had a chance to meet both Nahar and Pinas while in the Netherlands and talk and share our work.

Rinaldo Klas exhibit in The Hague

I met several artists from Suriname while visiting The Netherlands in late March including painter, Rinaldo Klas who had work exhibiting in The Hague.

On To France

Just heard today that one of my collages that I submitted to the 12th International Collage Exhibition/Exchange in New Zealand, will be going to ArtColle, the museum of collage in France. It used to be situated in Sergines, but now is housed in a stunning building, a 17th Century chapel in Brittany.

At Her Age at A.I.R Gallery

I'm working on some new collages for the "At Her Age" exhibition on Women, Sex and Age curated by Martha Wilson, artist and founder of Franklin Furnace. The exhibit is part of an exhibition series called Currents. “At Her Age” will examine how women at any period in their life, old or young, view their changing bodies.

A.I.R. Gallery, in Brooklyn NY, was founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States. 

New Zealand Exchange

 

In my push to go global in 2010, I submitted thirteen 8" x 8" collages for an international exchange of art from artists around the world to New Zealand. I rushed to the post office to meet the March 20 deadline. I printed out the pigment prints on my Epson printer on bright white watercolor paper and then cut and paste geometric images I painted and collaged other images on top.

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Black Is Blue Is Black

I susbmitted this mixed media collage peice for the Black Exhibit which closes with a reception Sunday, January 10 at the DC Arts Center in the Adams Morgan neighborhood from 5 - 7:00 p.m. This group exhibit features art by BADC (Black Artists of DC). Come and meet the artists.

connecting with lifelong friend

Gail Shaw and I were in a art collective back in the day when I was at Howard University as an art student. We called the group Saba and we exhibited all over the D.C. metro area. There were 7 of us, all printmakers. Kabuya Pam Bowens, Gail Shaw, Mark Montgomery, Calvin Reid, Kamala Subramanian and the late Aden Hachman. This summer I ran into Gail who I hadn't seen in decades. She's still active making art in New York City.