Material Girls to open the Riverside Art Museum

I just received cards for "Material Girls" -- the exhibition I have been invited to be part of at the Riverside Art Museum. There will be work in the show from 15 women artists working non-traditionally with fabric. The Museum itself is in a Julia Morgan building in the historic district of Riverside. I am to deliver the work during the week after Christmas (next week!). The reception will take place on Thursday, January 4 from 6-9 pm. The show runs until March 10. I can't wait to see the other artists' work -- a good show and an interesting venue. I am also very excited that my piece with Granddaddy's photos has been so well received. I wonder what he would think if he could know that his pictures were being shown in a museum in California? He really loved traveling to California every winter -- I have another series of beautiful slides he took while traveling. (Another project??) I wonder if he ever visited Riverside?

More holiday sales! Post-Postcard 2006

December just turned very busy -- I am now participating in three holiday sales! Tomorrow night I will have two of my new paintings on panel at Yong Sin's studio in San Pedro (see post below). Friday through Sunday I will be participating in "Post-Postcard 2006" with Outpost for Contemporary Art. This sale is small-format work or multiples that will be displayed in shelves full of long, narrow cardboard boxes. It is called "an annual open-invitational show of small-format work that challenges artists to stretch the parameters of media and conceptual strategies by doing what they do best -- subvert and manipulate the theme to their own ends." So I have created packets labeled "A bit of Los Angeles" -- small glassine envelopes labeled with a fragment of various vintage maps and guidebooks of Los Angeles, each containing a quarter-teaspoon of Los Angeles dirt.



Post-Postcard will be open from 7-9 pm (Members' Preview) on Friday, December 8, 7-10 pm on Saturday, December 9, and 12-5 pm on Sunday, December 10. Location is Outpost for Contemporary Art's new Highland Park facility at 6375 N. Figueroa in Highland Park. More info at www.outpost-art.org.

I will also have another of my new, small paintings on panel in the Cash and Carry show at the Acorn Gallery -- work sold straight off the wall, everything under $100. Works will be replaced as they are sold. Reception December 9, 7-10 pm, show goes on through January 5. There will also be a special one-day holiday sale with Avenue 50 Gallery on December 17 from 12-6 pm. The Acorn is at 135 N. Avenue 50 in Highland Park.

Material Girls and EcoArt shows coming up --

One of the nicest results of participating in "Hung Out to Dry" at OneLeaf Gallery in Pomona was having "Porte Bonheur" chosen for a show called "Material Girls" opening on January 4 at the Riverside Art Museum. It is gratifying to experience the positive response that has developed around this piece. From what I have been told, "Material Girls" will be a women's fabric show but the art will be on the experimental side.


The Southern California Women's Caucus for Arts EcoArt group show at Barnsdall is also opening in April, and I am looking forward to expanding my shower curtain installation, "Arroyo Seco Watershed and Environs," for that show. This time I will use two plastic shower curtain panels to give a fuller effect and allow for more images to be displayed.

Art sale at Yong Sin's studio in San Pedro

Coming up this week --

Thursday, December 7, 2006, 6-10 PM

Special One Day Art Sale (for 1st Thursday in San Pedro)

with Edith Abeyta, Chris Elliott, Carol Es, Christopher Grinnell, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Kimiko Miyoshi, Lynne Mori, Florence Rothbart, Harold Rothbart, Howard Sacks, Yong Sin, Deborah Thomas, and Matthew Thomas

at Yong Sin's studio: 414 W. 7th Street, San Pedro, CA (Cook's Kitchen Center building)

I am looking forward to visiting San Pedro and meeting some new artists. Please come if you are in the area!