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RFW Art updates: new exhibition Augusta 6/13/16 -Big chalk drawing (1 Viewer)

rabidfireweasel

rabidfireweasel

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Some of you know that I am a struggling artist/professor currently living in Maine.

You can see some of the work here (most made prior to 2005 was lost), if you are so inclined: weasel site

Unfortunately, I hadn't much headway in exhibiting my work since my move to Maine- a few shows, one at NYU, but still slow going.

However, I have hit the tri-fecta of art nerdiness in the past couple months:

A) Have work selling at a gallery in Portland (although tart sales are going into the tank with the economy)

B) I have work in an upcoming exhibition at Center for Maine Contemporary Art

C) Most exciting news, I have been commissioned to paint a 15' high x 11' wide mural (based on my sumi-e amusement part series) in a new elementary school in Maine.

Drinks are on me.

 
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Congrats! ;)

I really like your amusement park series and the blowtorch business- I never would've thought of that as a viable medium...

Do you dampen the paper first? ;)

 
glock said:
Congrats! :mellow:

I really like your amusement park series and the blowtorch business- I never would've thought of that as a viable medium...

Do you dampen the paper first? ;)
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Yes, you have to wet the paper, but not too much, or you don't get a clean mark. I have tried to make 100's of the blowtorch drawings. I lose/burn most of them at the final stages. I probably only keep about 2-4% of the blowtorch drawings I attempt.
 
rabidfireweasel said:
glock said:
Congrats! :mellow:

I really like your amusement park series and the blowtorch business- I never would've thought of that as a viable medium...

Do you dampen the paper first? ;)
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Yes, you have to wet the paper, but not too much, or you don't get a clean mark. I have tried to make 100's of the blowtorch drawings. I lose/burn most of them at the final stages. I probably only keep about 2-4% of the blowtorch drawings I attempt.
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Cool. I may get me a torch. The bolded sounds like me...and I only draw in pencil/pen&ink. ;)
 
The Z Machine said:
Congrats bro.What's with all the matador stuff?
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In a nutshell, I wanted to do something with masculinity, crowd culture, robotics, the pageantry, uniforms, tradition, violence, clothing heterosexuality and homosexuality latent in sports, and the history of painting.Behold, giant phallic matador robots smashing robot bulls. There is an artist statement on the site in that gallery (I hope).
 
rabidfireweasel said:
Some of you know that I am a struggling artist/professor currently living in Maine.

You can see some of the work here (most made prior to 2005 was lost), if you are so inclined: weasel site

Unfortunately, I hadn't much headway in exhibiting my work since my move to Maine- a few shows, one at NYU, but still slow going.

However, I have hit the tri-fecta of art nerdiness in the past couple months:

A) Have work selling at a gallery in Portland (although tart sales are going into the tank with the economy)

B) I have work in an upcoming exhibition at Center for Maine Contemporary Art

C) Most exciting news, I have been commissioned to paint a 15' high x 11' wide mural (based on my sumi-e amusement part series) in a new elementary school in Maine.

Drinks are on me.
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I had no idea... :fishing: Congrats.

 
Way to go. I love Sumi-E. Will be checking your stuff. Congrats.

There is a really inexpensive program called Flash Slideshow Maker Professional that would really enhance your galleries. PM me if interested.

 
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Also- thanks to all- here in this thread, and in the numerous art posts over the years who have been supportive, insightful, and offered constructive criticism. It has been a huge help.

 
chet said:
rabidfireweasel said:
Link to new solo show
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Nice and way to go. Always loved your poker insight. Chicken Pot Pie or something? :jawdrop:
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chet-a bunch of the new work has a poker undercurrent. I will post some later.

( in the online days, I was IronMonkey and Chicken Pot Pie, and I think Sexual PorkChop on a few euro-sites. But I was mostly an brick and mortar, live game, physical read, where no one has poker tracker player.)

 
Very cool. Congrats on the show. Do you plan to make your Katrina Chronicles: Volumes I & II available on your site at some point? Or do I have to travel to Maine to see it? It sounds very interesting and compelling. Love all your work by the way.

 
rabidfireweasel said:
chet said:
rabidfireweasel said:
Link to new solo show
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Nice and way to go. Always loved your poker insight. Chicken Pot Pie or something? :thumbup:
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chet-a bunch of the new work has a poker undercurrent. I will post some later.

( in the online days, I was IronMonkey and Chicken Pot Pie, and I think Sexual PorkChop on a few euro-sites. But I was mostly an brick and mortar, live game, physical read, where no one has poker tracker player.)
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Look forward to seeing it.
 
Wrigley said:
Great news, why does Senor Rafael look like a dong?
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rabidfireweasel said:
In a nutshell, I wanted to do something with masculinity, crowd culture, robotics, the pageantry, uniforms, tradition, violence, clothing heterosexuality and homosexuality latent in sports, and the history of painting.

Behold, giant phallic matador robots smashing robot bulls. There is an artist statement on the site in that gallery (I hope).
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bigbottom said:
Wrigley said:
Great news, why does Senor Rafael look like a dong?
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rabidfireweasel said:
In a nutshell, I wanted to do something with masculinity, crowd culture, robotics, the pageantry, uniforms, tradition, violence, clothing heterosexuality and homosexuality latent in sports, and the history of painting.

Behold, giant phallic matador robots smashing robot bulls. There is an artist statement on the site in that gallery (I hope).
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ohhhhhhAn old friend of mine was a painter..........everything he painted had tons of dongs.

Really weird, but cool stuff.

 
bigbottom said:
Very cool. Congrats on the show. Do you plan to make your Katrina Chronicles: Volumes I & II available on your site at some point? Or do I have to travel to Maine to see it? It sounds very interesting and compelling. Love all your work by the way.
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They will be on the site when they are cleaned up. I will put some messier ones on a shutterfly/photobucket for the FBG crowd shortly.
 
Updated now with installation images

presto

statement about the work

KATRINA CHRONICLES

Mississippi is very much the ******* stepchild of the fifty states; this became all the more clear to me in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Few people outside of Mississippi know that the power of Katrina did not strike New Orleans directly; it was coastal Mississippi that took the brunt of the storm winds. In fact, the original headlines immediately after Katrina in the Atlanta Journal read “New Orleans spared, Coastal Mississippi devastated”. Shortly thereafter, New Orleans flooded, the news media latched onto the racial implications of wealth disparity and government ineptitude in Louisiana, and Mississippi was once again an afterthought.

Why do I know this? Not because I am scholar of the storm, or a meteorologist. I know this, because on July 30, 2006 I sold my home in Houston. My family moved to Gulfport, Mississippi so I could chair the painting area at a small college that overlooked the Gulf of Mexico. Less than one month later, I lost most of my possessions, including my art and my slides, in Hurricane Katrina. The most depressing visual feature of the Mississippi coast, after the immense destruction, was the endless amount of debris. Everything was leveled and spread across the coastal landscape: nails, drywall, toilets, tires, forks, needles… everything that was once in a house or a garage was now scattered all over the ground. Over the past five years, I have struggled to come to terms with a way to tell my experience, which is a single story amongst thousands of stories in the aftermath of Katrina.

Ultimately, it made sense to me to tell the Katina Chronicles in a form that embraces the stepchild nature of Mississippi and the leveling power of Katrina. The Chronicles are told in a visual form that hovers somewhere between a graphic novel, a journal entry, a painting, a memoir and a flippant conversation. It is pieced together on the most delicate and fragile of surfaces, paper. The work is both visually spare yet dense with narrative. Sharpie and sumi-e, acrylic and encaustic, Mylar and rice paper, and text and image are fused without hierarchy; I hope to make images that openly engage the imperfection of memory, the possibility of change and the restorative power of storytelling.

 
Also, it is worth noting in here that I got 4X as much aid from the FGB thread-Thanks SofaMike (your generosity and a Joe Bryant match-) than I did from FEMA and the Red Cross combined. I got a zero from FEMA and $300 from the red cross, in mid-December after the storm.

That money let me get a crib for my girl, and I bought some sumi-e ink and brushes. I still work with sumi-e. In a later part of the story, there will be a big shout out to FBG. I have made about 40 drawings, the whole story will have 200+.

Thanks again for the support and the good wishes.

 
:lmao:

" insightful authenticity...warmly genuine... fascinating, well-hung, brilliant and, at times, quite moving"

:banned:

congrats!

eta: I added some obvious FFA reality there.

 
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The rollercoaster painting is awesome. So there are more of them? Article mentions they are large but don't state the size.

Are they available in prints?

 
Binky The Doormat said:
The rollercoaster painting is awesome. So there are more of them? Article mentions they are large but don't state the size.Are they available in prints?
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They are not available in prints, yet.Most of the roller coaster images are 36" x 72" on sumi-e. They are suspended from the ceiling and backlit- so you see both sides. One is about 48" x 78" on acetate. Finally, there is a large on covering and unusable exit that is 78"x 100"
 
Thanks saintfool.

However, I would say that I am not particularly talented. I am more of grinder, who just puts a lot time in the studio.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
The rollercoaster painting is awesome. So there are more of them? Article mentions they are large but don't state the size.

Are they available in prints?
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You can see a couple other roller coaster images from the show here.
 
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