the aim of waking is to dream

I'm back from my opening at Overtones Gallery in Los Angeles.  What a whirlwind 48 hours that was!  Thanks to everyone who came to the show, sent words of encouragement, and cheered me on.  Gallery director extraordinaire, Elizabeta Betinski, installed the show brilliantly and then threw a fabulous party to celebrate. So, without further ado, here are some photos of the show.

The view from the sidewalk out front:

 

Carole Silverstein and I collaborated on the front wall.  Carole lives in L.A. and was thus able to put in some time last week to paint calligraphy on the wall in beautiful shimmery paint.  I spent much of Saturday pushing buttons on photocopiers at various office supply stores on Venice and Lincoln Blvds, building the perfect hybrid creatures to perch on the calligraphic loops.

 

I was told that from afar, they look like jellyfish, but they are in fact mushroom-headed birds.  The gallery floor became my impromptu work space (since I didn't have time to build these creatures before I flew out to L.A.).

 

Here are some shots as you walk around the gallery:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of these collages are new, and I don't think I posted pictures of them yet.  This is a new group of small ones (8 x 10 inches each):

 

Deershrooms:

 

Weaselshrooms:

 

The Palms:

 

Gullshrooms:

 

There is also a grid of slightly bigger collages, 12 x 9 inches, matted and framed and thus larger overall. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the rest of the work in the show... 

Woodpeckershrooms:

 

Falconshrooms:

 

Duck Magnolia #5 & 6:

 

She-wolf with Snake:

 

She-wolf Series #10:

 

Snake Charmers:

 

Woodpeckershrooms #1:

 

I Have Found What You are Like:

 

Secrets of Living #1 & 2:

 

The Looking Bird:

 

Here is a detail of the possums in the painting above.  They are based on photographs I took of a non-nocturnal possum that comes to eat birdseed fallen to the ground in my backyard, in broad daylight. 

 

And that is the show.  Next on the horizon is a group show called Regime Change at Swarm Gallery in Oakland, CA.  I'll be posting a picture of the piece for that show later in the week.  In the meantime, here's hoping that March is on its way out like a lamb.

Comments

[Glenn Gissler]

The show looks beautiful! Congratualtions!

[Val]

Wow! I collect mushrooms & you just show their charm with endless possibilities. I must save to put my hands on one of your pieces. Im such a fan, congrats!

[Jiyoung emma Kim]

big fan .. i'm your big fan !
amazing creations I admire