The Missoula Art Museum has put out a call for artists for this year’s Artini auction, which takes place in February of 2010. (For those like me who haven’t yet wrapped their minds around this, 2010 comes in just about a month!?!)
As seems to be the case every year, they’ve changed things up for the Artini auction. Last year it was the whole “Artini: In Your Face” thing, which I covered live. This year, the theme is wearable or otherwise functional art.
Here’s the art call; the deadline for submissions from artists is Dec. 1. [Read More...]
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Well, it was a long day, and fruitful. I’m home now, kinda bummed that we didn’t manage to score the artworks that we (my wife and I) bid on. Oh well, that’s life at an auction. Bidding was fierce at times; though only one piece sold for over $400, it was clear enough that people were turned on by the works in the show.
Anyway, to complete the circle, I thought I’d post up pictures of the completed works. Click through to see… [Read More...]
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Courtney Blazon looks up from the drawing in her lap and sighs deeply.
“This is the time of day when I usually give it a rest,” she said, grinning and blinking her eyes hard. “But not today.”
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Stephanie Frostad steps back from her easel and ponders the challenge that she has set up for herself.
“I was thinking I would make this figure very light on a dark sky background,” she says. “But now that I’ve been working on the sky, it feels too stormy and so he’s looking more angelic than I intended.” [Read More...]
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Emmy Cho grins widely when asked if she’s feeling pressured by the time constraints of her day creating art at the Missoula Art Museum.
“Not at all,” she says. “It actually feels more therapeutic.”
As she speaks, Cho is dabbing acrylic paint onto a sheet of clear vinyl hung over a large, taped-together tapestry of black-and-white print-outs. The print-outs were created from an image that Cho captured from CNN.com yesterday, of a chimpanzee named Travis that had been shot after attacking a person in California. The story made headlines across the country.
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Bob Phinney looks up from his work to ask what time it is.
“About 2:30,” I tell him.
“And I’ve got how long to finish?” he asks.
“I think you’ve got til 7:30,” I reply.
“Good.”
Given that Phinney has already arrayed some 32 monotype prints on tables around him, it might seem strange that he’s feeling concerned about time. But to his way of thinking, he’s hardly done. [Read More...]
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Kerri Rosenstein sits quietly in a corner of the MAM’s Carnegie Gallery, pocketknife in hand, carving tiny diamonds out of carrots.
“I’m working with several layers of ideas about what diamonds represent,” she says as she slowly shaves slivers off an increasingly smaller chunk of carrot in her hand. “The idea that diamonds are forever, but I’m using a material that’s completely ephemeral, so the essence remains despite the impermanence of the material.” [Read More...]
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Jonathan Marquis stands over an array of print-outs, scratching his chin.
“I’m trying to decide whether to add the super-hero, or just work with it as it is,” he says. [Read More...]
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Dustin Hoon hunkers close to his easel, gingerly inking detail onto a sheet of paper, where an image of a fish, surrounded by visual cacophany, is emerging.
“In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, the fish is often symbolic of Jesus Christ,” he explains as he works. “So there’s a redemptive aspect to the fish. Around it there’s this mouth-of hell-imagery: Judgement Day. The fish in relation to the surrounding damnation is fairly straightforward; it’s a western tradition, we’re all used to it in some way.”
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In a small plot of grass on the north side of the Missoula Art Museum, Brad Allen is flipping space inside out.
“I’m trying to cast architecture in the negative,” he says. “Other than that, I don’t know what will ultimately come into play.”
Working with plaster, coal, black iron oxide, travertine marble, and other organic matter, Allen aims to create three works to put into tonight’s Artini auction. Each is built around an idea of pseudo-shadowboxes, with architectural forms — houses and barns — inside heavy plaster forms. [Read More...]
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