Northern Virginia Magazine featured a blog post about my upcoming exhibit at the Arts Club of Washington – “D.C. Collage Scapes.” The posting, “Collage Art Makes a Comeback,” focuses on my creative process as well as the series of collages that will be in my upcoming February exhibit.
I’ve created a few collages of the Washington Monument over the past couple of years, but here’s the first one of the monument at sunset. This makes me think that it might be fun to do a series of D.C. landmarks using arbitrary color…
Anyway, I just have one more scape collage from this series to share.
And here’s the finished collage. There’s only two more collages in this series that I have yet to post. And once I have, I’ll be taking a bit of a breather from all of my art-making so I can relax and recharge my creativity.
It seems as though life just gets busier and busier with each passing year. I am so grateful that I had so many amazing art opportunities in 2012. So, to celebrate the upcoming New Year, here are the top 10 highlights from 2012:
1) My artwork was accepted into a museum’s permanent collection for the first time. “Flamingo Dancers” and “Mallard Duck” are now owned by the Ward Museum.
2) Second-ever museum group exhibit. The first time my work was on display in a museum was in 2008 at the Smithsonian Ripley Center.
3) Artwork and article published in an arts anthology on DC artists. This was the first time I was part of project that was funded by a Kickstarter campaign.
4) Several collages were accepted to be in an upcoming book on Wildlife Art.
5) First group exhibit in New England – “Strange Glue.”
6) First solo show at a convention center – and first time having my name show up on a sign.
7) Had a large body of work on display in a solo show in a beautiful gallery in Manassas, VA.
8) Had my work published in several newspapers and online publications. It’s always fun to have people discover your work through unexpected press.
9) Redesigned my entire portfolio website – something that dominated my time during the month of December. It took a lot of work, but overall, I’m glad I finally did it. The last redesign happened about three years ago.
10) Decided to take a break from exhibits next year so I can take it easy, get more rest, and experiment more with my artwork. The problem with having lots of exhibitions is that you find yourself making work for upcoming shows, and not spending much time on exploring and experimenting with different projects and techniques that can help your work grow.
Anyway, I hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year! 🙂
It’s always interesting comparing my finished collages to the pictures of the sketches I did. The work of art really does change through the whole process. And it seems to change a little with every layer of paper added. Anyway, you can see that this piece is more colorful than the previous landscape/cityscape collages I’ve done in this series – which have more earth tones. I suppose I was getting a little tired of working with grays, browns, blues, and greens, and had fun changing things up.
Anyway, I’m off to do some late-night art-making. And happy almost-December!
My new landscape/cityscape series has given me an opportunity to intensely study my gray color palette surroundings in DC. When I decided to collage the National Gallery, I realized I needed to change things up a bit. Thus I created a composition where you can see bits of the building behind several trees. This added a little more color, and made the layout more interesting to tackle.
There’s a lot of gray in DC, which has worked its way into several of my cityscape collages. So I decided to change things up in my series a bit by doing another natural landscape. There are clumps of natural landscape here and there around the city, and I based this piece off of a series of photographs I took. I had fun incorporating a lot of texture in the ground.
Inspired by a warmer day in DC when the tourists were out paddle boating. I like collaging water – it’s fun using so much color and working with reflection. I also like how abstract water is. It gives me a bit of variety as far as my subject matter goes.
Anyway, I’m off to enjoy the weekend. I hope everyone is having a happy November thus far!
And my DC cityscape/landscape series continues…I’m getting close to the end of this series, just a few more to go. I’m currently working away on a new collage as I hide away from Hurricane Sandy. I hope everyone on the East Coast is staying safe!
And it’s finished! This museum really has a unique look, and I enjoyed working on a collage of it. I had fun incorporating all the colors in this.