Review of "Cotton Candy Bunny Ears"

This is what happens when you create a pithy title for your exhibition...... (you can either click on the title of this blog entry or cut/paste the following URL: http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/16549740.htm).

I'm still working on the "You Made Your Bed" piece, but tomorrow and tonight I have to begin getting my act together for the workshop @ the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Yesterday I worked on my homemade thank-you cards (my secret weapon, and fun brainless activity). I ordered some slides, hopefully which will arrive this week, for exhibition submissions, and in February I have two workshops to prep for, one listed below.

This is a great workshop for people who don't want to commit a ton of time to learning these techniques. It's a good, basic, quick study in the techniques I use in my textile assemblages. The sewing, quilting, embroidery, and embellishing techniques are all hand-worked, no sewing machines used (allowed! ha, ha).

!!!WORKSHOP INFO!!!
Jennifer Reis
Embellished Textiles
February 10th from 12-4
KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART AND CRAFT
$40.00 for KMAC members, $45.00 for non-members

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Explore and learn innovative art quilting. embroidery and embellishing techniques by designing and creating a small scale hand sewn and embellished textile collage. Experienced and novice sewers alike will create a mini artwork using hand-worked techniques such as raw applique, quilting and embroidery techniques with floss and thread, beading, and embellishing with found objects. Students will also learn concepts of design and color specific to art quilting, as well as presentation tips for their finished mini-artwork. The artist will bring her own artwork as well as inspiration sources for student use. The supply fee includes the basic materials for applique, quilting, embroidery, and embellishing; however, students are encouraged to bring special embellishments to further personalize their artwork.

LINK: http://www.kentuckyarts.org/SaturdayMorning.cfm

exhibition installation from reception

What's that say?

I'm not sick of this yet - are you?

Two pictures of fabulous friends: above - Emma (standing next to me) and Lisa (Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido - the other artist) off to the side; below - Neal, his bf David, Lisa, and me, with Emma behind.

Photo of the post-reception par-tay!

Documentation of the great dinner and company post-reception on Friday night @ Belini's!

More photos of reception/etc to come!

beginning of the semester!

A photo of a ceramic piece by Yoko Sekino-Bove, an artist featured in the first show of the spring semester in the Claypool-Young Art Gallery. The exhibition, "Pattern and Decoration" (a reference, perhaps an obtuse one, to the heavily-decorative 1970s movement called Pattern & Decoration - Elizabeth Murray was a big artist in it). Yoko's stuff is terrific as well as all the other artists' works, which all utilize decorative and/or repetitious forms in their work. We're having a closing reception instead of an opening this time - the first opening recept of each spring semester has a low turn out, so we're trying something a wee bit different this time. Plus Yoko will be there.

Other than installing the next show, this is the first week of classes, which is always a hectic time for all. After this week, the show will be up, my master's "oral" will be done, and I'm hopeful that I can tackle the mtn of work on my desk. And start to plan the grand Europa trip with my dad, scheduled for July 2007.

Two images of the UK exhibition

Two images of the UK exhibition (opening this FRIDAY!!!!!) thanks to the fine photography courtesy of Gary and Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido! The lighting will be fixed prior to the opening. Elizabeth's pieces hover in the air, and from some angles (as show here), her work is transposed on mine. I'll very happy with the way the show looks, and we are thinking about farming it out as a two-person exhibition for other venues.

UK installation shots ----- it's DONE!!!

Two shots from the installation on Thursday 1.11 @ the Tuska Center for Contemporary Art @ the University of Kentucky - it took over twelve hours and lots of help from a student worker (thank you Laura!!!) to install the 12 paintings. Next Friday is the opening from 5:00 - 7:30. I go in @ 2:30 to work with the gallery assistant to make sure the lighting is OK, my master's thesis "oral" with my committee is @ 3:30, and then I deal with the reception and then GO OUT TO DINNER AND POSSIBLY OUT AFTERWARDS! (Can you tell the part I'm truly excited about?)

The installation did go well, but I am burnt out! Tomorrow I receive work for the first CY Art Gallery exhibition of the semester and then to install that next week. I'm hopeful I can stand installing another show.

School starts next week. Here's hoping for a good Spring 2007!

promotional photos of Stations series

Here are the three promotional photos for the Stations series........

upcoming workshops/exhibition links

Upcoming art events, just fyi..........

"Cotton Candy Bunny Ears Meets Mr. Death: Textile Installations by Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido and Jennifer Reis"
Opening: Friday, January 19, 5:00 - 7:30 p..m.
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY
link: https://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/TCCA/

Embellished Textile "Postcards"
Saturday, February 10, 12 - 4 p.m. $40 - $45
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
http://www.kentuckyarts.org/SaturdayMorning.cfm

O M G

Is it true - are these blasted things almost finished????????

The installation is Thursday 1.11.07. Ugh. It takes about 30 minutes per piece.

The exhibition might be reviewed in the Lexington Herald-Leader. That would be terrific.

"You Made Your Bed" (from the "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" series) is almost done (photos to be posted soon). I found the perfect piece of jewelry from Yang's to complete the piece. Frankly, the people at Yang's must think I'm an absolute fruitcake based on the monumental amount of fake flowers I buy every time I go in there.