Snow Woman With Curls

The Dive #4

The Dive #4
Platea Project IV, The Dive

The Dive # 3

The Dive #3

Platea Project IV, The Dive

The Dive #2

The Dive #2
Platea Project IV, The Dive

platea project IV: The Dive

The Dive #1

Platea Project IV, The Dive

From September 8 through 10, I'm participating in "The Dive", a public performance art project organized by the @Platea collective. It's kind of strange but also kind of fun. Learn more about it at http://plateastweets.blogspot.com/2009/08/project-iv-dive-september-8-10.html.


@Platea is a global collective of individuals interested in the power of public art carried out in the digital megacity of social media.

Hitchhiker

Fireworks on Ustream

Fireworks from the comfort of home!

North Dallas Artists Studio Tour

StayBites Exhibit at UTD

Icy Railing

Christmas pancakes with Batter Blaster

Finally found Batter Blaster in this area so we thought a taste test was in order. So, Christmas morning while everyone was here, we made the pancakes. Batter Blaster comes in a squirt can like whipped cream. It was fun and easy to use. We had a great time and gave them thumbs up!

Holiday Lights

One of the many things I love about the Holidays are all of the lights.

Santa at Irving Art Center

White Rock Artist Tour

Silhouette

View From 69th Floor

View of downtown Dallas from 69th floor with State Fair in background -middle by horizon.

Begging For A Picnic

Trapped Inside

New Mexico Sky

Touring Santa Fe

75 Dollar Gas Fill Up

Car is in shop so was able to borrow car for week - Yeah!! But, then, I needed to fill up - with premium. Ouch.

Colored Pencils

Bromeliad

Leaves

Backlight Clouds

HCG Gallery Opening - July 11

I enjoy the artwork of both Michael Ledoux and Shane Pennington. Their art looks great together, and looks great in the HCG space.

Michael's work is intriquing. He applies resin to certain parts of the painting creating an interesting 3D top layer that mimics the patterns of the painting while seeming invisible when viewed from certain angles. Very cool technique.

Shane donated the proceeds from this artwork (below) to the Contemporary's new building fund. Very cool of him to do that.

He had several other pieces that incorporated small (really, really small) figures. I was admiring the great trees with long roots, that cast really great shadows on the wall, when I realized there were small figures standing on some roots. The little models reminded me of railroad modeling and architechs models. Sure enough, Shane said he used to be into railroad modeling as a kid. The photo below shows the great trees with Shane talking to fans about them.

Michael and Shane's exhibit will be up through July 27. Be sure to check it out.

Benito Huerta at Latino Cultural Center

Benito Huerta's demo at the Latino Cultural Center on velvet painting was great! More photos from the demo here.

He has several velvet paintings in his exhibit which is fabulous! One is on black velvet and one red velvet. Stop by the Latino Cultural Center and check it out.

Wheel

Chair Shadow

Wrought iron chairs and table in front of Cameron Gallery cast interesting shadows.

Grid

Walkway

Cool Thursdays at Dallas Arboretum

Cool Thursdays Concert at Dallas Arboretum featuring the band, Dallas Unlimited.

Notes

Concert At Arboretum

After The Concert

Ramp

Sign

Fern Shadows

Gecko

Brad Oldham Talk at Pan American Art Project

Pan American Art Project hosted a fundraiser for the Video Association of Dallas.
Brad Oldham, artist and product designer, presented a video, “Collaboration, Not Isolation”, a look into the philosophy of collaboration at his company. Very interesting, check it out here.

Brad Oldham

In the spirit of the evening, Brad and his sister, Robin Oldham, a mosaic artist who owns Smashing Times, collaborated on a mosaic piece. They invited everyone to join in and add to the mosaic.

Robin Oldham with collaborative mosaic.

Contemporary Fundraiser at Victory Park

This was a fun event to benefit the Contemporary’s capital building campaign. The shops at the base of the W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residencies contributed 10% of the sales from the evening to the Contemporary. Kenichi Restaurant provided yummy sushi, spring rolls and pot stickers - definitely worth a return trip for lunch or dinner. The shops were all very fabulous with lots of fun must haves. Christopher Martin’s new-ish gallery location is in this block of shops. It is always fun to visit with Christopher and see his latest work.

Christopher Martin

While in the area, I had to check out what was on the giant video screens. Since there was a Stars hockey game, the screens were playing the game and other hockey related videos.

Victory Park Plaza Super Screens.

Also in the area is Gachet Coffee lounge & books that is featuring Julie Richey’s new series of mosaic drops.

Julie Richey Mosaics

Gallery Openings - May 10

Conduit Gallery
Conduit Gallery was the first stop to check out the work of Ellen Berman, Robert Munguia and Briar Bonifacio.

Ellen’s paintings were so realistic. My favorite was Onion Bundle, which looked like the onions were really sitting there ready to be chopped.

Ellen Berman

Briar’s work, in the project room, was an interesting mix of found objects presented as both framed pieces and sculptural pieces. I liked the hand written notes on the wall beside the artwork.

Briar Bonifacio - art and hand written info

Pan American Art Projects
At Pan American Art Projects, Isabelle DuToit had fabulously detailed paintings of birds. They are painted to scale then perched in large-scale spaces, as if seeing them in a window.

Isabelle Du Toit

In the front, there was new work by Rusty Scruby, Charlotte Smith and Ellen Tuchman. It was interesting to see their artwork grouped together. Their work is very different, but they all are working to have the art project off the surface. Very cool!

Rusty Scruby


Charlotte Smith.

Charlotte's art on right, Rusty Scruby's on left.

Brooke Berman Gallery

Brooke Berman, in her new gallery space on Leslie, featured art by John Miller, Lisa Nersesova and Angela Thornton.

I liked Lisa’s use of string to create line drawings pinned directly onto the walls. One of her pieces reminded me of the background of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Lisa indulged me and posed in front of the piece.

Lisa Nersesova