Now, on center stage... the Dress Project: origami style!!

this is a body of work that has been in the works for months!!!

And finally, it is ready for its 'close up!'

So here, on center stage, presented for your enjoyment... my origami dresses!!!

For many moons i have been folding anything that i get my hands on into a dress ~ parking stubs, museum maps, mailing labels, lollipop wrappers ~ truly ANYTHING!! I want to make a dress a day as a kind of diary of an event of the day, but alas, time.... I have really only been stock piling dresses with good intentions. But finally I got a series of dresses onto canvases and off to a gallery!!! Even with the mountains of snow that

have fallen on us up here in the Northeast, I got 7 pieces to

Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH for their Enormous Tiny Art show 9 (ETA9). very exciting!

I am particularly delighted with this series because each piece was inspired by a 'fortune' that you can come across in your everyday life ~ from fortune cookies or tea bags. Each piece is titled after their particular 'fortune' and the original fortune is incorporated in the collage.

Click here to see the pieces and see their titles.

I had so much fun making these ~ finding the appropriate material to capture the essence of the fortune.

With The Only Way to Have a Friend is to Be One I used telephone pages for the base of the collage, then added pieces of maps and stamps. When i was making it I was thinking of some dear friends that now live far away but are always close in my heart.

(Particularly a certain live-in mom :)

I also made some origami dresses for the Artist's Valentine and will shows those in the next post. And I plan to make more and MORE!!! I've got the making for an awesome crossword puzzle inspired 'frock'. So stay tuned!! & peace!!

info. about the show~

ETA 9 February 3- February 28; opening reception: Friday February 4, 5-8pm

stop by the gallery - it is a beautiful space with truly wonderful art and other treasures

OR if you are not nearby... you can shop ON LINE :)

nahcotta

110 congress street

portsmouth, nh 03801

603.433.1705

Openings!! Openings!! Openings!!!

Hello from Brooklyn, NY!!! where I am still buzzing from the wonderful opening reception of Cutting Edge at the Textile Art Center. Here are a few photos that a friend sent me from the opening ~ I will have more from my camera once I am back home. But it was a rocking event!!! Beautiful art, tasty beer, yummy food, great music and a wonderful crowd!!! the place was packed ~ and my creatures were right in the middle of it all!!!!

Yesterday was a great day ~ besides the awesome opening and spending the entire day wondering the streets of Manhattan, prowling galleries and yarn shops, I also received the news that my shadow boxes were accepted into the 11th annual Frances N. Roddy Open Competition at the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. This is really exciting news because I have been trying to get into this show for years and almost didn't submit any work this year because I was tired of the Roddy rejection. But my friend David Lang convinced me to do - 'always good to put the work out there' and voila!!! David's wonderful piece Sound Bytes also got accepted!! All very exciting. And last night I realized that at this moment i have work in 5 shows!! ~ ETA8, Portsmouth, NH; the Roddy, Concord, MA; In-Between, Worester, MA; the Portrait Show, Lynn, MA and Cutting Edge, Brooklyn, NY ~ and for this I am truly grateful!!!

The Roddy show runs from today, September 18-October 17 and the Opening Reception is this Sunday, September 19, 2-4pm. Sadly I wil not be there as I will be en route home from New York!! But if you are in the neighborhood do stop by, Concord always puts on a beautiful show!!
Happy weekend & peace!!!!

opening of ETA 8 @ Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth,NH

Just returned from a wonderful evening in Portsmouth where I attended the awesome opening of Nahcotta Gallery's ETA 8. I was so glad I could go and Hurricane Earl didn't dampen the evening at all. The town was bustling and Nahcotta was too!! Here are some photos I took - the place looked great - with all these little treasures adorning the walls. I met one of the artist, Terry McCue who does these beautiful pastels and was exhibiting some lovely acrylics for the show (sadly I didn't get a picture of her work -but check out her website). Here is a picture of my girls in all their glory ~ and there is a red dot there as well :) ~ hopefully more to come!!!

This picture is of the gallery's window which I LOVE ~ especially with the night sky behind it!!! the window was created by Jennifer Judd-Mcgee and Julia Rothmans for their show at Nahcotta called flora and fauna, last October.

It was a fun evening and I love Portsmouth!! The show runs until September 27th so if you are in the neighborhood you should stop by. And if you are not in the neighborhood ~ you should go... New Hampshire is glorious with the Fall foliage!!! :)

Peace & happy Labor Day!!!