Just installed WordPress on my server and am now using it as my blog instead of RapidWeaver. I was surprised how easy it was to import the old blog. I just imported the RSS feed. I lost my theme and I’m sure links to the RapidWeaver blog are no longer functional but so far it looks like it works! Great!
Race bib and medal display
My father made me this great Uptown Gentlefriends (my race team) display for all of my race bibs and medals. It’s pretty damn sweet. Thanks dad!!!
Bucks County 10 Miler: May the Fourth Be With You
Got this in my email yesterday from the Star Wars themed Bucks County Ten Miler, May the Fourth Be With You.
Happy Mother's Day
Happy mother’s day to all the mothers out there. My grandmother recently found this old photo of my mother during Halloween. I found this picture interesting and had to share it. My mom is the one on the right, the hobo.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water
2 opening receptions at Artworks Trenton this Saturday, May 10th 2014, 6 to 8pm.
A forest of large painted and individually collaged prisms will be literally hanging throughout ARTWORKS in Trenton May 10 to June 7.
This massive interactive installation is the centerpiece of a one man show featuring local artist Alan Goldstein. The show features work relating to 4 natural elements; Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Goldstein has based much of his life’s work on nature’s inventions and processes.
The forest was inspired by the trees the artist has studied for over 30 years walking to his Bucks County studio. “ My trees are a part of my life and I see them age and die like my friends, like myself. Slowly they loose twigs, branches, leaves and bark until they stand like ghosts waiting to fall.”
Goldstein spent most of the 1960s in New Jersey. He taught at St Bernard’s School for Boys, the Summit Art Center and the Morris County Art Association in Morristown. An invited artist to the International Summer Seminar at Fairleigh Dickenson, Goldstein has been shown at the NJ Visual Arts Center and the Newark Museum.
His work was regularly shown at the Lacework Gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey and he has many works in the permanent collection of the Michener Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania.
“Alpha Genesis” will be the first official exhibition for Allegory Lab Art Collective.
Allegory Lab Art Collective is comprised of four, self-representing artists: Melody Saccone, John A. Saccone, Bobby Bates, and Addison Vincent. The four artists decided to collaborate and form the collective in March of 2013.
“Alpha Genesis” is the first exhibition in a four year, four part series of works which will culminate into a massive body of works by 2017.
“Alpha Genesis” will showcase 5 works by each artist, and their personal styles for the 2014 season.
“Beta Genesis”, 2015 season, will showcase collaborative works as the artists pair off to create 8 works per pair.
“Omega Genesis”, 2016 season, will showcase 8 collaborative, large scale works of all four artists.
“The Genesis Series”, 2017 season, will be the culmination of the past three years, and will showcase a total of 36 works, ranging from personal works, to full collaborative works.
The purpose of working in yearly segments is to foster growth as artists through both personal and collaborative exploration and experimentation. Since each of the artist’s work in their own style and medium, the outcome of the collaborative works should be nothing short of spectacular.
Help Artworks Trenton
Artworks Trenton, the amazing place where I work, has a matching fund challenge. Can you help us reach our goal of $5,000 by donating WHATEVER you are able using this link? Then message me to let me know (we’ve got some Board member and Staff competition going on here and you know how competitive I am). In return you will get the comfort of knowing that you’re helping an incredible small roots arts organization and possibly a foot massage from me.
The Knife
Last night I saw the Knife at Terminal 5 in NYC. It was one of the stranger shows that I’ve been too. They took the idea of a concert and then took the concert out of that idea. It was a strange abstract dance performance. I enjoyed every minute of it. Though I didn’t like it as much as Fever Ray, my favorite show of all time, this show still is one of my favorite and most memorable performances.
Here are some pictures and video that I took. In order of appearance in the performance.
Young Galaxy: Fresh Works from the College of New Jersey
Opening reception at Artworks Trenton this Friday, April 11th, 2014!
Artworks Trenton presents an exhibition of fresh work by advanced students from The College of New Jersey. Entitled, “young galaxy,” this show will run from April 11 to May 3, 2014. Meet the artists at the reception on April 11th, 6-8pm.
“young galaxy” is a free-wheeling, jostling, exuberant, compelling, and wild collection of fresh works. As this cohort of advanced visual arts students at The College of New Jersey moves into artistic maturity, the results are a cocktail of newfound creative independence stirred with technical acumen. ‘young galaxy’ asks questions of how a young artist perceives the world around him/her and how do those perceptions become art.
The exhibition is a mash-up of drawing, painting, video, installation, sculpture and large-scale murals. In each work, the young artist has taken on the task of creating something ‘new’, often by excavating the past or by exposing personal experience to the world. To witness this point of creation is like witnessing the birth of a galaxy; it is explosive, and rapidly expands to fill the space around it.