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.

New painting, getting ready for Radium Girls exhibition, and Kombucha goodness...

I've got a new Women in Water painting in the works....I stretched and gessoed the canvas myself and decoupaged tissue paper (and my last remaining piece of tissue-paper thin dress pattern), so I can get the desired surface to paint on.

Five of the seven Radium Girls masks....the exhibition is coming up quickly! We install on
Monday, 1/13/14!

I got a Kombucha Start Kit from Cultures for Health. I am so excited to be making
my own Kombucha, but it will take awhile....

The SCOBY in the sweet tea (with white vinegar to inhibit bad bacteria). This will need to sit
30 days before it is reactivated.

Some Pics from the Studio!

Here are some pictures of the Radium Girls masks in relation to the
fabric that will be part of the January installation at Future Tennant Gallery.

Another shot of the Radium Girls masks.... two in the back are unfinished.

Here, I'm working on a linocut for the Pittsburgh Print Group online gallery.

"Rocket Girl", a framed, mixed media work, is on its way to a
collector in Mission, Kansas.

"Women in Water: Freckled Mrs. Goldsmith" is also on its
way to a collector in Mission, Kansas! Hooray!!

Radium Girls exhibition, Woman in Water, and Light Grey Art Lab's 2013 Art Swap!

Working on Radium Girls exhibition pieces. Under the larger drawing may look
familiar. It is a page from the graphic novel in progress,
titled "The Color of Silence is Radium Green".

This drawing will be part of the Radium Girls exhibition that will appear
at Future Tenant Gallery this coming January.

Another "Women in Water" drawing is underway!

Savannah is participating in Light Grey Art Lab's Holiday Art Swap!
My art swap partner is Minneapolis-based illustrator Sam Lorang.
I can't wait to see what he creates!

Things are happenin'!

This week, while waiting on a new manuscript I'll be copy-editing, I've been
working on finalizing some of the drawings for the Radium Girls exhibition,
which will appear in the windows of Pittsburgh's Future Tenant Gallery next
January. I'm not in the studio here, but in the living room, watching all those fun
court shows (like Judge Matthis) that run on network television during the day.
So entertaining!

"Magic Snail" has been accepted into Limner Gallery's
"Small Works" exhibition. The show will run between the end of
January and the end of February at Limner's Hudson, NY location.

"Women in Water: Pisces" is on its way to a collector
in Kansas, along with....

"Women in Water: Jeanette Dreams of Laundry". They
should arrive today!