Gallery Visit

My husband and I flew out to Scottsdale, Arizona last week and the first thing on the agenda was to deliver four collages to Xanadu Gallery. After unwrapping the art and checking out the new work in the gallery, we walked across the street to dine at a nice sidewalk cafe with the director of the gallery. While we were eating, the gallery owner sold one of my artworks that had been on display in the window! Nice start to a vacation!!! We went to the Celebration of Fine Art where 100 artists set up their art and create new work under big tents and are there from 10 to 6 every day for ten weeks. We also took several trips out into the desert and took a lot of new photos for my work. It was a really great trip. Tomorrow I'll start on a new piece - after I narrow down my subject choices!

In Print

Interesting week ...

- Art Buzz 2012 arrived in our mailbox. Rob and I submitted art to this juried competition in the fall because we liked the founder's mission. Instead of the usual juried show where you pay $30 to enter and send images, then ship the art to the gallery if it is juried into the show, Art Buzz publishes a hardcover book of the art chosen. They then distribute the book to gain recognition of emerging and mid-career artists. They send books to art dealers in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Naples, Miami, Santa Fe, New Orleans, Washington DC, as well as ones in The Netherlands, Russia, UK and France. We found out in December that we'd been juried in; I have one image depicted for Honorable Mention in "altered photography" and my husband won First Prize in sculpture so he has 3 images shown.

- One of my collages is featured on a full page in the current 96-page gallery catalog for Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. The catalog arrived this week as well.

- We were interviewed Saturday (along with another Galesburg artist with an image in Art Buzz) for an article that will run in the Galesburg Register-Mail next Sunday.

- I emailed the Peoria Journal Star about possibly doing a story on my husband and another Bradley University graduate who are having an art show together in February. The reporter looked at our website and decided she wanted to do a story on Rob and me instead! So she'll come to our studio on Thursday to interview us for the Sunday arts and entertainment section.

Fun stuff!

Busy start to the new year

How did it get to be the 4th week in January already?! I haven't done any postings as I haven't had a LOT of time in my studio, yet I've been very busy with art!



- I shipped the three Arizona collages to Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale. Xanadu is doing a catalog of art every month this winter and I'm on page 39 of the January catalog. They sent out PDFs of the catalog to each artist whose work is featured and put my art on the cover of my PDF - is this gallery top notch, or what?!


- I decided to remove my art from the gallery in Montana since the owner had decided to feature only two artists in the gallery each month of the summer tourist season and my art was in storage during high-traffic times. I'm currently looking at other galleries in the MT/WY/CO region. My friend picked up my art and is storing it for me; I've written descriptions and placed some of it on the Xanadu website.

- Friends had purchased two small collages a couple years ago and asked if I could make a third to coordinate so they could have all three hanging vertically together. This is a scene in Yellowstone National Park; I've layered pieces of topo maps of the park onto the rocky areas and art papers to accentuate the red plants growing in the rocks.


- I'm packing up eight pieces of art today to send to Campbell-Steele Gallery in Marion, Iowa. The gallery owners are going to rehang the gallery with works of abstraction and asked for more of my art.


They also commissioned a small piece to coordinate with another abstract collage I'd made out of old ledger papers; an interior designer wanted two pieces for a job she was working on. Sweet.

- I DID get a piece finished last week that I'd actually run out the prints for in November! It was for my Women's Art Workshop topic of "River." This piece is 6" x 12" and entitled "Passing By."

Mission Accomplished

I delivered my art to Xanadu Gallery in old town Scottsdale last Saturday and enjoyed seeing the gallery and meeting the staff. I didn't think my art would be on display for the Thursday night Art Walk as the owner was out of town for the week. However, I was delighted to find five of my pieces hung and viewable from the street!!! (You can make out "my wall" to the right of the parked car in the photo below.) I was also thrilled to find out that I'll now be moving from my spot waaaaaay down on the online artists part of their website to the top section of 25 in-gallery artists. GULP!
Update Thursday, Dec 15th: the gallery director called me today to tell me a couple came in after seeing my work in the window and bought the upper right piece to ship home to St. Louis - whooohooooo!

Going to Scottsdale

The collages above are all going to Scottsdale, Arizona, next week to Xanadu Gallery. I'm going to ride out with my friend, Linda, who will be wintering in Arizona, so we're going to hand deliver the art. The gallery owner has been very nice and fun to deal with via email, so I'm excited to get to meet him and tour the gallery. Linda and I then plan to go to Taliesen West, the Botanical Garden, maybe head up to Sedona, and also go on part of the Thursday Night Art Walk in Scottsdale before I fly home. It promises to be a fun adventure!