The HoneycuttersSunday, September 25, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
strange currencies
Good news:
Molly got an art job! If you have more time than I do, feel free to scroll through the last few years of blog posts and read about Molly. The short version is that she changed her major to sculpture years ago and her mother saw fit to blame me. I ended up promising her mother that Molly would not starve to death and would be able to find gainful employment with her sculpture degree. Molly begins work in a week or so at the Columbia Museum of Art which is great for her and it means that I'm off the hook with her mom. Win-win.
And this little green guy had a good weekend. He nabbed the 1st place sculpture award at the 38th Annual Juried Show put on by the Spartanburg Artists' Guild.
G and I sorted through the works during the reception and she and I picked our favorites. Neither of us chose my own....which now that I think about it could be worrisome. My pick won something in mixed media and hers won 1st place in painting. Her pick placed higher, so she won the contest. She was nice enough to buy me a congratulatory coffee on the way home.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
country feedback
The Traveling Vietnam War Memorial made a stop on campus last week. This small replica of the memorial in Washington DC contains all the names of US soldiers killed in the line of duty during the Vietnam conflict. I suppose this is reason enough to force my sculpture classes to walk across campus to walk through the memorial but the added bonus for us is the connection to Maya Lin, earthworks, minimalism, public art, calls for artists and the experience of viewing a large scale public sculpture. As both classes moved across campus they were chatty and jovial. Something interesting happened, though when they turned to walk down the wall. It's tough to put a finger on a single cause and I'd bet there were many factors but man, did they get quiet. It was great to step back and watch them and other viewers as they reacted to the wall. There were elderly veterans sharing stories, family members placing flowers under names, and the strongest men you'll ever see were openly weeping.
After a much quieter walk back to the sculpture room we looked over some slides of the full size memorial in DC to discuss the differences between it and the replica. We talked about Maya Lin and viewed some of her gallery pieces which just so happen to utilize the lamination process the Sculpture I students are knee-deep in right now.Now that the semester is under way, there are all sorts of things happening. Just so that none slip through the cracks......
Someone graduated with their MSN degree. This someone graduated with honors, still hanging on to that 4.0. The fact that she did this after completing her BSN all while working full time is impressive. The fact that she did it while raising 2 kids and actually having one of them is even more impressive. True fact: During one semester she planned and stayed one week ahead of the class schedule for the entire semester. She turned in her final project a week early and after clicking the "submit" button she promptly went into labor and had a kid. She was out of the hospital and back home before the rest of the class finished their semester.
More good news....the grass has been cut again. Yes, all of it. Better news....I didn't have to cut it. It seems the cows are hungry around here and my acres of grass make great snacks. Sweet.
And Zeke. That's Zeke. He's the new plantation dog. He's a lab and since we had one for 11 years we really should know better. But he's smart and he's a good dog. Let's just hope he doesn't decide to eat the house.
Someone graduated with their MSN degree. This someone graduated with honors, still hanging on to that 4.0. The fact that she did this after completing her BSN all while working full time is impressive. The fact that she did it while raising 2 kids and actually having one of them is even more impressive. True fact: During one semester she planned and stayed one week ahead of the class schedule for the entire semester. She turned in her final project a week early and after clicking the "submit" button she promptly went into labor and had a kid. She was out of the hospital and back home before the rest of the class finished their semester. 
More good news....the grass has been cut again. Yes, all of it. Better news....I didn't have to cut it. It seems the cows are hungry around here and my acres of grass make great snacks. Sweet.
And Zeke. That's Zeke. He's the new plantation dog. He's a lab and since we had one for 11 years we really should know better. But he's smart and he's a good dog. Let's just hope he doesn't decide to eat the house.Saturday, September 10, 2011
Don't go back to Rockville
Artists' Guild of Spartanburg's 38th Annual Juried Show
September 15-October 20 at Carolina Gallery, 145 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC
September 15-October 20 at Carolina Gallery, 145 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC
Reception: Saturday, September 17 6:00-8:00pm
Juror: The Honorable Alf Ward
Juror: The Honorable Alf Ward
That's right......THE Alf Ward...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
bacon cakes
L to R: SandySingletary, Elizabeth Snipes, Tom Pitts, Jim Slagle, Linda Neely, me & jon holloway
We baked Professor Slagle a bacon cake for his birthday last week. No, the cake did not taste like bacon nor did it have bacon in it. It was merely sculpted and colored to resemble a huge, tasty slab of the delicious meat.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
sky blue sky
Doug McAbee: Sugar Coated
Exhibition Dates: August 15 - September 30, 2011
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, August 24, 4:30 pm
The commute to work. A conversation with his wife. The funny thing his kids did this morning. This is where Doug McAbee's Sugar Coated ideas come from. His interest in the power of color, beauty, and humor in visual communication continues to inform his work. McAbee's artwork often dips into serious or sinister subject matter, but always does so with a sense of humor, a shiny color, and a spoonful of sugar. His drawings often incorporate graphite with color ink and can mix well-rendered images alongside more hastily sketched images. While each image used in a drawing or a sculpture holds a significant personal meaning to McAbee, he is interested in how these meanings shift when unrelated images are fused together. McAbee is even more interested in how these images and forms almost always take on new meanings in the eyes of the viewer.
Sugar Coated will open on August 15 at Greenville Tech's Greer Campus Galleries. The work will be on display until September 30 and can be viewed from 8am to 8pm Monday through Thursday and 9am to 5pm on Fridays. Doug McAbee will be on hand for a gallery talk on Wednesday, August 24, 4:30pm. The Greer Campus Galleries are operated by and for the faculty and students from the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Greenville Technical College. The Greer Campus is located at 2522 Locust Hill Rd in Taylors, South Carolina. For more information call Gallery Director Enid Williams at (864) 250-3059 or visit www.gvltec.edu/vpa and click on Greer Galleries.
Friday, August 12, 2011
back in the ussr
An internet stroll turned into an image search which led to this very odd find. It was like finding a whole room of people talking about you while you were sitting right there in front of them.
I never new my work was about democracy and the "freedom of action within human laws".
Kulturologia.ru
http://www.kulturologia.ru/blogs/190311/14187/
Metal "newcomers" from Douglas Macabi (Douglas McAbee)
American sculptor Douglas Macabi (Douglas McAbee) weirdo. Not only that, he writes in his biography, was raised by wolves like a balloon, in deep space. It also creates a painted steel sculpture unusual, resembling aliens, monsters, or well out of the animated film "Monsters, Inc.", which in their unpretentious simplicity reminiscent of children's crafts clay. But people, however, I do.
His artistic career began as Douglas Maccabi graphic designer and worked in this field for over 15 years. But at some point he realized that the call is still waiting for him somewhere else, and that the time for self-realization, there are fewer - and found a lesson for everyone. So, for now Maccabi is a professor of art at Lander University in the U.S., and creates its own unpretentious sculptural installations made of steel, to the delight of myself and the people for amusement.
Sculptures Douglas Maccabi resemble, as already mentioned, alien beings, but as for me, there are more similarities with the Soviet playgrounds that were built in parks and gardens in the distant 70th - 80th of the last century. You remember them, swings in the form of dogs, slides in the form of elephants, and other "attractions", created for children by unknown masters.
Although, if no kidding, the bright-color abstract forms, invented by the author, looks quite interesting and even pleasant, if not look for hidden meaning in them, and be perceived as another fad pretty weird creative person Maccabi Douglas (Douglas McAbee).
Comments
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Dennis_Churaev 3/19/2011 8:33 p.m.
In my opinion, the general style of a few "children." Not bad would suit to decorate children's playgrounds. However, although I would hardly put it all in my apartment, some products I like ... More precisely only the trees on the latest photos. It is unlikely that I would have bought something like "a green tree on wheels. Well, I love crafts of iron, so thanks for the picture interesting.
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charmik6 3/19/2011 9:57 p.m.
In fact the aliens are very suitable for children's playgrounds or parks. The child sees the figures in his imagination. It's very simple and unpretentious, childlike. The author really came down to us from the "deep space". I myself would have bought a couple of aliens (but only for a symbolic price) and would put them in the garden, somewhere near the bench.
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SVENN 3/19/2011 twenty-nine past ten p.m.
Although I do not quite understand how the interior can be used for most of this design, but these glands I definitely like it.
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luckshmie one forty 03/20/2011
but what have the interior? your home is worth a lot of sculptures?
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Oxan 3/19/2011 10:33 p.m.
Find creative solutions that will attract the attention of modern society is very difficult. It seems that even the author does not aspire to complex structures, but rather seeking the simplicity of forms and ideas. Unpretentious metal sculpture reminiscent of children's creations, and it is close and understandable to everyone, even to buy and put them into your home not everyone wants.
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luckshmie 03/20/2011 1:42
so what have your own house? :) It's probably for garden decoration, or for cultural and entertainment centers, restaurants, in general, non-residential premises.
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bija088 [LiveJournal] 03.20.2011 six twenty-nine
Democracy, what is good, his freedom of action within the framework of human laws, too, in art, like a man this way of working, let them work
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Marina 03/20/2011 7:12
Nice stuff. Above all, they "will not have anything," just to please.
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Keny911 eight fifty-two 3/20/2011
Nuu ...) on the aliens are not very similar, but it looks very fun and interesting.)))
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lyalyaka123 03/20/2011 10:42
but what no meaning here is, I think uverena.mne everyone in life has ever created such things as a child. just before their call was not accepted and art exhibit on display
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maestro999 3.20.2011 1:19 p.m.
Cheerful)))
Very similar to children's toys)
I really liked this creation in its simplicity and originality. Not everyone is to conceive of such. I think that these sculptures will be very even to the point in children's institutions, venues and parks.
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rustdotko 03/20/2011 4:38 p.m.
Every man to his own taste. As I duck these masterpieces are not very much, but as anyone. Although the work was carried out qualitatively and with a peculiar taste.
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wladipavlo 3.20.2011 4:47 p.m.
good girl ... a talented ...
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Lan 03/20/2011 thirty-one past nine p.m.
And the eye is not pleased, and economy is not amiss.
I never new my work was about democracy and the "freedom of action within human laws".
Kulturologia.ru
http://www.kulturologia.ru/blogs/190311/14187/
Metal "newcomers" from Douglas Macabi (Douglas McAbee)
American sculptor Douglas Macabi (Douglas McAbee) weirdo. Not only that, he writes in his biography, was raised by wolves like a balloon, in deep space. It also creates a painted steel sculpture unusual, resembling aliens, monsters, or well out of the animated film "Monsters, Inc.", which in their unpretentious simplicity reminiscent of children's crafts clay. But people, however, I do.
His artistic career began as Douglas Maccabi graphic designer and worked in this field for over 15 years. But at some point he realized that the call is still waiting for him somewhere else, and that the time for self-realization, there are fewer - and found a lesson for everyone. So, for now Maccabi is a professor of art at Lander University in the U.S., and creates its own unpretentious sculptural installations made of steel, to the delight of myself and the people for amusement.
Sculptures Douglas Maccabi resemble, as already mentioned, alien beings, but as for me, there are more similarities with the Soviet playgrounds that were built in parks and gardens in the distant 70th - 80th of the last century. You remember them, swings in the form of dogs, slides in the form of elephants, and other "attractions", created for children by unknown masters.
Although, if no kidding, the bright-color abstract forms, invented by the author, looks quite interesting and even pleasant, if not look for hidden meaning in them, and be perceived as another fad pretty weird creative person Maccabi Douglas (Douglas McAbee).
Comments
•
Dennis_Churaev 3/19/2011 8:33 p.m.
In my opinion, the general style of a few "children." Not bad would suit to decorate children's playgrounds. However, although I would hardly put it all in my apartment, some products I like ... More precisely only the trees on the latest photos. It is unlikely that I would have bought something like "a green tree on wheels. Well, I love crafts of iron, so thanks for the picture interesting.
•
charmik6 3/19/2011 9:57 p.m.
In fact the aliens are very suitable for children's playgrounds or parks. The child sees the figures in his imagination. It's very simple and unpretentious, childlike. The author really came down to us from the "deep space". I myself would have bought a couple of aliens (but only for a symbolic price) and would put them in the garden, somewhere near the bench.
•
SVENN 3/19/2011 twenty-nine past ten p.m.
Although I do not quite understand how the interior can be used for most of this design, but these glands I definitely like it.
•
luckshmie one forty 03/20/2011
but what have the interior? your home is worth a lot of sculptures?
•
Oxan 3/19/2011 10:33 p.m.
Find creative solutions that will attract the attention of modern society is very difficult. It seems that even the author does not aspire to complex structures, but rather seeking the simplicity of forms and ideas. Unpretentious metal sculpture reminiscent of children's creations, and it is close and understandable to everyone, even to buy and put them into your home not everyone wants.
•
luckshmie 03/20/2011 1:42
so what have your own house? :) It's probably for garden decoration, or for cultural and entertainment centers, restaurants, in general, non-residential premises.
•
bija088 [LiveJournal] 03.20.2011 six twenty-nine
Democracy, what is good, his freedom of action within the framework of human laws, too, in art, like a man this way of working, let them work
•
Marina 03/20/2011 7:12
Nice stuff. Above all, they "will not have anything," just to please.
•
Keny911 eight fifty-two 3/20/2011
Nuu ...) on the aliens are not very similar, but it looks very fun and interesting.)))
•
lyalyaka123 03/20/2011 10:42
but what no meaning here is, I think uverena.mne everyone in life has ever created such things as a child. just before their call was not accepted and art exhibit on display
•
maestro999 3.20.2011 1:19 p.m.
Cheerful)))
Very similar to children's toys)
I really liked this creation in its simplicity and originality. Not everyone is to conceive of such. I think that these sculptures will be very even to the point in children's institutions, venues and parks.
•
rustdotko 03/20/2011 4:38 p.m.
Every man to his own taste. As I duck these masterpieces are not very much, but as anyone. Although the work was carried out qualitatively and with a peculiar taste.
•
wladipavlo 3.20.2011 4:47 p.m.
good girl ... a talented ...
•
Lan 03/20/2011 thirty-one past nine p.m.
And the eye is not pleased, and economy is not amiss.
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