Vacancy at Future Tenant and glimpses of zine pages for Stacks!

Future Tenant Gallery had a fantastic fundraiser a few weeks ago at a vacant building (soon to be a Thai restaurant) in Pittsburgh's East Liberty. Michael and I had a fabulous time, and I included two pictures below from Future Tenant's wall of photos from the event. I had two pieces of art in the raffle, and I'm overjoyed that "Sister Moon" went to the really nice young woman who was manning the virtual graffiti wall. I'm still not sure who took "Oracle" home, but I was so grateful to be part of the raffle and see my works next to so many beautiful pieces. Michael and I were really fortunate to have won a gorgeous, ceramic bas relief by artist Thomas Rehm. 

Me at the virtual graffiti wall at Future Tenant Gallery's
awesome Vacancy Fundraiser!



A view of some of the art at Vacancy!

"Oracle" and "Sister Moon" between two Vacancy attendees!

 See all the Vacancy photos and great staff members of Future Tenant by clicking here!

A page (in progress) for my 'zine for Light Grey Art Lab's Stacks exhibition, which will open
August 1st!



Another double-spread, in-progress glimpse of pages from the 'zine that is destined
for Minneapolis in July for the August exhibition!

The Blair Mountain Comic is still underway, and more glimpses of that will appear here shortly. Stay tuned!

Work images and framing works for the Vacancy fundraiser at Future Tenant!

Front and center is Women in Water: Miss Quentin Compson; "Sister Moon"
is to the right, and pages for my Blair Mountain comic are all around.

Remember "The Dream Chair"? I painted it back in 2012, and I was working on a
hand embroidered upholstery cover....like, forever. I'm still working on that embroidery.
However, I started thinking about putting it in the Women in Water exhibition, and while
the fabric here is not what I'll be using, there is something equally cool that is being
printed at Spoonflower right now. Details to come once I start the upholstery process.

 

 

 

Working on framing two works.....

"Oracle" and "Sister Moon" are all framed and ready to go to the
Vacancy Fundraiser for Future Tenant Gallery!

Make-Your-Own-Radium-Girl Collages and their Makers!

The January 24th Gallery Crawl at Future Tenant yielded some fantastic collages and art by visitors. Here are a few examples, and some photos with the Make-Your-Own-Radium-Girl creators!

Check out the next image for what's really inside this girl's head....

First batch of pictures from Gallery Crawl at Future Tenant!

Part of the first table, with information about me and
Hannah Höch, the inspiration for "Make Your Own Radium
Girl" activity!

Michael snapped a picture of me at the activity table before the gallery
opened.

My Mom makes her own radium girl here!

Caught the awesome producer JakeisRain in action as
he mixes music.

The excellent C Street Brass performed live in conjunction
with JakeisRain (you can see him ducking down to adjust
an amplifier.

Folks working at the Radium Girl table...and a great crowd for the music!

Folks, working on radium girl collages, filled
all the tables.

The man with the baseball cap (center) also made a radium girl, and later
asked me to "pull his finger," when a sequin stuck on it. :-)

Michael, looking very handsome, at Gallery Crawl

The Radium Girl installation by night!

Stay tuned for images of visitors' Radium Girl collages! They'll come in the next post!

Radium Girls Exhibition at Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh!

Hooray!! You've seen me talking about it for months as I completed pieces for the show. Now, the "Radium Girls" window installation is now on view at the awesome Future Tenant Gallery! It will be on display from January 14th through January 25th at Future Tenant, 819 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On January 24th, it will be part of Gallery Crawl, and I'll be doing a Make Your Own Radium Girl collage demonstration, using the works of German Dada artist Hannah Höch as a guide.

Below are some pictures I took of the installation process. Thankfully, Michael was able to come with me. He made the armature on which the pictures hang. I couldn't have done it without him!

Just arrived and moved the table into the space.

Unpacking all our goodies....

Taking the bubble wrap off the ladies here....

Newspaper clippings and graphic novel text are up! Time to set the table....

Masks are up, radium-colored cloth distributed, green rope light stretched, teeth scattered across cloth, and
explanatory text is in front. Michael is putting together the armature. Hey, nice shadow, Savannah.

The Radium Girls banner is up, and Michael is putting the numbered drawings on
the armature with wire ties.

Another in-progress shot....some of the masks look a little distorted here for some reason.

Before we added the black curtain in the back.....the graphic novel pages are in the front
window now, too.

From the side.....

With the black curtain! All done!

And a 3/4 shot of the window.