Brains!

Using some brain power to carve some rubber stamps.  This first round is a collaboration with the Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Žuromskas (he did the painted paper).   These are heading around the world in the mail — more to come soon. 

End of Summer Mail Bag

 

Get busy, leave town, and don’t go to the post office for a few weeks and the box was bursting with new mail art.    Zines + mail art, altered postcards, rubber stamping, fabric sample collages, Fleur’s ongoing documentation of Oakland public art, Kathy’s moving pieces and a more patrons of the Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera.  Some of Kathy Barnett’s pieces get hung on my apartment door to entertain my young neighbors.   Here is a list of the artist shown this month: 

1. Eberhard Janke - Germany
2. MiM – Virginia 
3. Jean-Philippe Gilliot – Belgium 
4. Valdor – Catalonia/Spain
5. Pia Zaragoza – California
6. Debra Mulnick – Idaho
7. Carolyn Oord (aka Kerosene) – Québec/Canada
8. Rani Goel – California 
9. Fleur Helsingor – California
10. Jon Foster – North Carolina 
11. William Mellott – Taiwan 
12. Skooter Fein – California 
13. Patti Wren & Paula Currie – California
14. Margo Hill – California
15. Meral Agar – Turkey 
16. Kathy Barnett – Missouri
17. Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California

The Thorn Birds

It has been more than a year and I still am working on my Chaekgeori-inspired series.   

I usually do not paint the book titles in detail, yet many of the books in these paintings are still recognizable.  Viewers spot a few books they have on their own shelves and many of us read the same books.  In my latest painting you might notice a copy of The Thorn Birds — a ubiquitous title on the bookshelves of all moms of a certain generation.  Yes, these are my mom’s books and things.  And even though she has downsized (many of my parent’s books are on my shelves now), a true reader can’t help but fill a bookcase.  Also, like many of the paintings in this series, small pieces of my art appear on the shelves (look for the slice of cabbage).