Think Small 6

Last year I experimented with casting paper frames, to make the frame a significant part of the work. The two pieces for Think Small 6 provided a great opportunity to use a couple of the frames.

Art Space Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, hosts Think Small 6, an annual invitational fundraising exhibit. Artists are asked to create works 3 in. x 3 in. x 3 in. or smaller. The exhibit opens October 28, 7-10 p.m., and runs through December 18.

Cast paper experiments.

Red Tide Above and Red Tide Below, each 2 3/4 in. x 3 1/4 in. x 1/2 in., Cast paper, graphite, color pencil

Red Tide

Photoshop sketch, soft ground drawing and state proof for the first print of a triptych.

Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee

The New York Daily News wrote an article about Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee, an upcoming exhibit at Wave Hill in the Bronx. The exhibit features work about bees by 18 artists, including myself, with many focusing on Colony Collapse Disorder.

Hive Culture opens September 13 and runs through December 1. For more information checkout www.wavehill.org.

Image courtesy of Wave Hill. Please click to enlarge and read.

Samhain: StoneMetal Press print exchange

Samhain celebrates the transition point between the light half of the year and the dark, held at the end of harvest. StoneMetal Press Printmaking Center in San Antonio is honoring this tradition with a print exchange.

Recently, my transition took place with a move to Los Angeles to teach printmaking and drawing at California State University Northridge. Living close to the ocean in a sprawling metropolis has peaked my interest in how water quality effects the smallest of creatures, traveling up the food chain to the largest.

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes referred to as red tides, are on the rise along populated coasts, in part from run off altering the water's nutrient balance and feeding the algae. In the Pacific, Pseudo-nitzschia produces domoic acid, a neurotoxin to humans and other mammals. Harmful algal blooms play a role in marine mortality events, including the 35 plus tons of suffocated sardines in King Harbor near Los Angeles this past March.

For information on the exchange or StoneMetal Press please visit www.stonemetalpress.com.

Red Tide, Relief print, 5 in. x 7 in., 2011

Transitory: A Creative Collection vol. 1

Ken General of General Publishing put together a great collection of art and writing by 11 contributers from across the nation. The focus is on the theme transitory. 100% of the revenue goes to the charity Smile Train.

Contributors include Neil King, Michelle Rozic, Jarvis Jackson, Kyle Walke, Joel Enrique Hernandez, Emily Link, Trinh Nguyen, Dani Orchard, Jane Georges, Kenji Yukuzawa, Meelad Al-Arashi and Kaori Patel.

Transitory: A Creative Collection is available for purchase through Lulu, and soon through Amazon.

If you'd like to make a donation to Smile Train without purchasing the book, or want more information, visit www.smiletrain.org.

To make a donation through the group's Smile Train Fundraising page visit http://support.smiletrain.org/site/TR/Events/General?pg=fu.

Image by Ken General.