Gifty Kitty: this gem of a store just opened its' doors at 3719 N Mississippi Ave in Portland, OR. A whole store filled with just cat themed gifts, a lot of it art by local makers, beautifully curated! I visited today to check it out and it is just gorgeous! There are quite a few of my pieces scattered throughout the store. Purrrrr!
Alle Jahre wieder… The Little Things show at Guardino Gallery is an annual favorite. Look for hair people, amphibians and Ruth Bader Ginsbells from me this year! New: the gallery now sells online too! So don’t be sad if you are not in Portland to visit in person.
This year I am participating in Portland Open Studios for the first time. If you have been wondering about how I do the things I do, come on by and visit me during the weekends of October Saturday + Sunday the 9th + 10th and the 16th + 17th between 10 am and 5pm. You might also want to go home with a new blob of your very own. Lots of brand new work!
More info here: https://portlandopenstudios.com/2021-tour-maps.html I am on the NE Portland map!
I played around with a 3D scanning app on my phone. This is a scan of a ceramic sculpture of mine (see photo in the previous blog post). It aaaalmost works, but not quite. I hope that the technology will get better. Love the idea of being able to turn my sculptures into 3D models! If you are at home in the world of NFT’s you can buy this guy over here.
The toy show at Guardino Gallery is open! A little over 20 artists are playing with their own interpretation of toys. I had a lot of fun making noisy things out of clay: bells, rattles and whistles. Also a few bigger pieces that are more about playing with toys. All the pieces are available in person until July 25th or you can buy them online.
My life has been all about clay in 2021 - such joy! Here is a lineup of new friends that are the result of it. I have been craving to work at a bigger scale and now I am starting to have everything I need to do just that. Nothing can stop me now!
My homage to the late RBG.
The wonderful Guardino Gallery Little Things show is back this year. Because of “you know what” there wasn’t a grand opening this year, but shopping is possible with mask and social distancing OR online.
While we were living in Berlin, I designed the characters and world for two more Puget Sound Energy commercials. These might be my favorite ones yet. Designing the back yard where the bunnies are rocking out to DJ Tortoise had me feeling a little homesick for the Pacific NW.
Oregon Public Broadcasting is checking in with local artists and asked me to send them a video “postcard from the pandemic”. Hello from the lockdown!
Is anyone else feeling like they need a hug? I came up with the perfect present for our hug deprived times. Available here at my etsy store
Oh the colors of India! Here a few sketches from my recent trip.
Dreamworld was an interactive theatre experience happening in an abandoned building near Ostkreuz over the time of three months. My tiny contribution were a couple of marionettes that lived in my friend's Spider Cave. I tried my hardest to make something creepy, which doesn’t come naturally to me. Creepy-cute?
My friend Lenara is hosting my very first cryptoart show in her virtual gallery. It’s crazy and took me a while to wrap my head around. But if you head over to out-in-side gallery on cryptovoxels on Saturday January 4th at 7pm Berlin time (that’s 1pm East Coast and 10am West Coast for my US folks) you can find my avatar hanging around the gallery sipping champagne.
It's the grand opening of the out-in-side gallery and we will be giving away cryptocollectibles. It's also the debut of my #cryptoblobs collection.
https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=E@412E,1U,116N
The address is the link above. Come by to check out the artwork and get some postcards at the gift shop.
If you're lucky you can find hidden codes in the gallery and surroundings to claim free cryptoblobs cards.
The show is installed and the artworks are already for sale. The giveaway starts during the opening and lasts until all gifts are claimed.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
I participated in Inktober again this year. Every day during the month of October I drew something, inspired by a prompt. Pictures are the prompts ring,catch, injured, coat, dizzy, ancient, ghost, tread, sling, overgrown, snow, swing, frail, freeze and mindless.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am half woman, half fish. So I have been making it my goal to visit as many of the more than 60 Berlin swimming pools as I can. Here are the first 16, including such highlights as the columns and water spouting walruses of 1914 Stadtbad Neukölln, sound and light ambience at Liquidrom and the monumental architecture of the Nazi outdoor olympic pool. And then there are over 60 lakes to discover as well! Why spend any time on dry land at all?
Part of the concept for KartonZukunft was to uncover cardboard artifacts from a future past cardboard civilization in our archeological dig and to carefully measure and catalogue them. Future past archeologists are pondering the possible uses of these artifacts.
Some of the fashionable people who showed up for KartonZukunft.
48 busy hours of building, engineering, painting, inventing, collaborating, playing and discovering. Some people came back every day, others spent a few hours working on their cardboard dream. Kartonzukunft!
Endorphina is a bakery and cafe located in an enchanted Hinterhof off Elsenstraße in Neukölln. The warm hearted and energetic owner Katharina Rottmann opens her space every year to a number of participating 48hour Neukölln artists. Mykle and I are planning to build our cardboard civilization under the roof. We were so lucky to find this place! In several preliminary meetings, plans for sharing the space and collaborating with each others projects are hatched.
photo by Cassidy Curtis
