Tuesday
Oct022012

Villarte 2012

I am showing 2 small pieces in La Villita this weekend for the Arts Festival at a show called Little Village Has Character, curated by Naomi Martinez.  Come check it out- there are several open studios and galleries open this weekend, and I am doing an artist talk on Sunday, too. 

Nostalgia Takes a Smoke Break, 2012

I'm with Stupid, 2012

Saturday
Aug252012

FMEL, transnational collaboration, Free Pussy Riot

FMEL 5

The FMEL had an incredible program.  Check it out!

Organizers asked me to take a boom box and alter it, and by doing that, I would be part of a show at Co-Prosperity Sphere where sound artists from Mexico would make the sound that would come out of our sculptures.  The collaboration was taken one step further when Stephanie Manriquez came to get my work and then took it to the hair salon, where it was curled, styled, braided and accessorized.  It's called Free Pussy Riot. It was like an exquisite corpse!   Love that. 

This time last year, Charlie "Sonorama" Garcia was installing 10 speakers in my overgrown zucchini patch.  It was an environmental sound piece by Jalisco artist Yair Lopez.  100s of people came by during Pilsen Open Studios and experienced this.  Sounds included ladies talking, geese, goats, dirt roads crunching, and my tiny Chicago yard was transported, along with all my visitors, to a tiny town.  I wonder what it was like for the people on the other side of our privacy fence. 

Stephanie and Charlie and the whole FMEL operation, wow--keep an eye on them!  They make it happen. 

Thursday
Aug022012

1ro Bienal Continental de Artes Indígenas Contemporáneas

I have 5 pieces on exhibition in the First Annual Continental Biennale of Contemporary Native Arts at the National Museum of Popular Cultures in Coyoacan, Mexico City from August 9th till October 14th, 2012.  If you are in DF, come check it out.  I am not in the catalog or on the website.  More on this when I get back from the opening...

Edited to add:the show was great!

 

From El Dia newspaper. 

Tuesday
Apr102012

Frieze Fair

Hola, NYC!  I'm comin your way at the end of April to participate in the Verge Art Fair, showing with Antenna, curated by Saul Aguirre.  More as it comes.

Thursday
Mar222012

Michigan Mud 2011

This year, I participated in the annual Michigan Mud conference!  I did 2 demonstrations and I exhibited new work in the invitational show.  It was the first time I have presented as a professional ceramist, rather than a sculptor or artist in general, and showing a video as an influence to a clay project was well received!  I called myself a Feral Ceramist.  ha.