Wednesday 26 September 2007

At it...

Preparing for Peel Here 07 show in Los Angeles, mounting a set of large hand painted stickers...These two might not make it over so I thought I will post them here...

Thursday 20 September 2007

London

Went to London for my birthday, spent time with friends...took some pictures, walked a lot and filmed a bunch also...and eaten ton of sushi as usual.


London

at chinese supermarket

London Chinatown

Saturday 15 September 2007

New studio wildlife!!!

We went for lunch at Harlow Carr Gardens here in Harrogate with my friend Clare and I got these 3 in their plant centre. They live on the window of the studio now...:)



Morty the Cactus
Morty the Cactus

Hubert the Lithops
Hubert the Lithops

Gertrude the Aloe
Gertrude the Aloe

Monday 10 September 2007

Talent Database feature!

Thrilled to announce that my profile got selected for
a feature on the main page of Art Portal at Talent
Database...click by and have a look!

http://www.talentdatabase.com/channels/1-Art
you are looking for this icon...
Tiny Little Chucklette

TalentDatabase.com

Sunday 9 September 2007

Melvin!!

This gentleman was originally cut out with a hot wire from insulation foam back in Amsterdam in 1998...traced him up yesterday to show him again...Enjoy!!


Melvin

Wednesday 5 September 2007

My work included in At the Edge show!

i copied this from the gallery website...don't know what pieces of mine made it into the show, Cathy Byrd, the gallery director and the curator of the show promised me photos so that is great news:) she selected what she liked in NYC, i have quite a lot of work at the Living Museum, i spent a long while at Creedmoor back in 2001-2002

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwgal


AtTheEdgeLogo
September 6 - November 8, 2007

Street Address:
Georgia State University School of Art & Design Gallery
10 Peachtree Center Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30303

For information or to speak to the gallery director, call: (404) 651-0489

Email: artgallery@gsu.edu

Gallery hours:
Monday through Friday: 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday: 12 - 4 pm

This two-part exhibition presents art by adults and teenagers in residential treatment. While their lives are enclosed, studio practice frees the artists to translate their unique experience into work that moves beyond confinement. Please join us in a critical dialogue about mental health and the creative edge.

The Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery
Georgia State University
Presents
Art from The Living Museum, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens, New York & Skylans Trail, Atlanta, Georgia

Youth Art Connection Gallery, Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Atlanta
Presents
Art from The Bridge, Devereux, Hillside & Laurel Heights

Atlanta Artist Mentors: Benita Carr, Angus Galloway, Patty Gregory, Daniel Hoover, Lynn Marshall Linnemeier and Paul Rodecker

September 6
Opening Events
First Thursdays Downtown ArtWalk
5pm – 7pm: Youth Art Connection Gallery Teenage Edge Reception
5pm – 8pm: Welch Gallery Edge Reception
6pm - YAC Gallery Talk with Atlanta Artist Mentors
7pm - Welch School Gallery Talk with Cathy Byrd, Project Curator and Welch School Gallery Director, Andrea Weyermann, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer and Lindsey Zimmerman, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University

September 20
3pm
In the Realms of the Unreal: Documentary Screening and Dialogue with Susan Richmond, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University
GSU Arts and Humanities Building, 4th Floor Screening Room

October 4
First Thursdays Downtown ArtWalk
6pm
Living Museum Documentary Screening and Conversation with Dr. Janos Martin, Museum Director, Lisa Armistead, Ph.D. and Walt Wilczynski. Ph.D., Psychology Department and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University
GSU Recital Hall, Arts and Humanities Building

October 9
7pm
A Beautiful Mind: Film Screening and Dialogue with Elaine Walker, Ph.D., Psychology Department, Emory University
Fernbank Museum of Natural History

November 1 Final Event
First Thursdays Downtown ArtWalk
6pm
The Interactive Edge, a participatory performance with the Art Student Union, the Graduate Association for Students in Psychology and the Poetry Society, Georgia State University


http://www.gsu.edu/artgallery
http://www.youthartconnection.org
http://www.fernbank.edu/museum

Tuesday 4 September 2007

new shop on Red Bubble!

i finally found a place that prints in real nice quality, so i am slowly uploading my designs to be available through there. all sort of things, cards, posters, framed prints, also t-shirts (but those i need to see first for the quality control...waiting for one to arrive) fingers crossed, i have a bunch of designs i want to go your way!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/mariaslovakova

here is the latest piece i completed this afternoon...titled 'Hello There!'


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