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BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:28:38 AM

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Well thought I would get off my rump and post some paintings. Here is work from my BFA exhibition, and it all took a long ass time lol.
Had some nice luck as well with the show, 2 sold, two were picked up for a show with SAM gallery http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Visit/visitRSG.asp, and two are on loan for a year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (here's an older link to the partnership http://www.fhcrc.org/about/pubs/center_news/2005/nov17/gart2.html, and one video piece premiered at Northwest Film Forum.

Here's a link to the show site with art and statements and stuff, thanks for looking :)
http://www.cornish.edu/bfa2008/

First one:
High Fidelity oil on canvas 36" x 60"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:30:16 AM

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Eye of the Beholder oil on canvas 36" x 60"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:32:14 AM

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24 Lies per Second oil on canvas 36" x 60"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:33:20 AM

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Event Horizon oil on canvas 36" x 60"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:34:44 AM

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Beacon ( hi my avatar lol) oil on panel 8" x 8"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:36:01 AM

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Invisible Sandwich oil on panel 8" x 8"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 1:37:49 AM

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Invisible Toothbrush oil on panel 8" x 8"

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 6:13:53 AM

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wonderful work, Cel! You are amazing....so now what, postgrad work?

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 7:45:42 AM

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Beautiful paintings, Kelly! Congratulations on the success off your BFA show! LOL...you are so nonchalant about it in your post. That is impressive as hell!

Thanks for posting these....I've been looking forward to seeing them completed ever since you gave us the sneak peeks ages ago!

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 7:56:48 AM

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Wow! Thanks for posting....I love Beacon, that is just amazing! I am glad you did so well at the exhibition. So what is next?? What are you working on now??

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 8:54:01 AM

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Fabulous work, Cel. What an impressive outcome, as well! Congrats!! The 36 x 60 size is so interesting. Did you have complete freedom to select? I also like Beacon. Is that an Amish girl?

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 9:03:58 AM

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Beautiful work Kelly! Congratulations!

I can't even imagine working that large anymore. I'm just curious as to how you came up with your subject matter, did they give you any guidelines or were you free to paint whatever you wanted?

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 10:45:38 AM

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Congratulations, Kelly!

Your success is not surprising in the least, as your work is wonderful. Here's to a great career!

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 11:18:46 AM

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Wow, congrats! Glad to see you post some of your work, its been too long.

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 11:20:05 AM

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Hehe perhaps I appear nonchalant due to exhaustion :)

Basically the parameters for the show were to build a body of work, hopefully a cohesive one. I had 5 36 x 60" canvases all going at the same time in my studio (yay having the studio to do this in at school, we each get our own studio for senior year), but ended up editing one of them fairly early on, as it wasnt coming together tehnically/conceptually along twith the other 4 big ones.

I was premeditated in the size, I wanted the canvases akin to 16:9 screen resolution, as so much of this work was inspired by media/advertising etc. I have never worked on multiple big paintings at the same time, it was an interesting experience to say the least. I kept copius notes during the process, how many hours spent, the various pigments/palettes used for each etc. Those big 4 took close to 9 months to complete from concept to hanging hardware, along with working as painting lab tech and carrying a full load of classes ( and having a home and relationship, sometimes very messy house lol).

I think my show was fairly cohesive until the 3 small ones made their appearance, which started with Beacon, and the reference is from a vintage photgraph found on the internet via a vintage stock accumulator. This was a class assignment and was one of those beautiful things which came so effortlessly and intuitively that I came close to not selling it. That little painting felt like a marker for bright possibilities after a long struggle, certainly in terms of the struggle with painting itself, which can be a big pain in the ass (anyone who tells you that painting is just pure joy either hasnt painted all that much or is a suprematist painter haha!)

The three little ones were done in under 2 weeks, if I had conceptualized all of them prior to the actual painting, I probably could have had them done in a couple of days, even with the grisaille underpaintings. Although I paint much more rapidly on wood/panels than I do on canvas...heh right now I only want to do little things after those big monsters ( they are impressive but a pain to move, store etc.)

I have submitted 4 slides to New American Paintings for the
Pacific Coast edition which publishes in Dec, keep your fingers crossed for me :)

I'll post about whats next in my next post, off to refill my coffee :D

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 11:42:47 AM

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Whats next?

Well lets see, I have been working A LOT. And not in the studio unfortunatley, As some of you know I work at the Frye Art Museum as the digital asset manager in the collections department. This is considered a curatorial intenship, and it pays pretty well, but infortunately is not a permanent position (though the curators and exhibition designers seem to keep coming up with new projects for me all the time and my contract gets extended lol). I love museum work and I could totally see myself going into collections management, but I do realize that I am about to embark on a masters program that does not happen to be in museology :)

One of the funnest things I get to do is scale upcoming exhibitions, which means taking digital imagery of all incoming work and printing little scaled versions of them on card stock to fill the 6 massive galleries in the Frye for the curators to decide how they want the show to hang. The museum has a 1:12 scale model to do this with.

We have a show opening in August, with 180 pieces from the Dahesh museum in NYC arriving in a few weeks, which will be a salon hang. I just finished another Munich Secession show scale for January, with work arriving from all over Europe. Heh I usually sit at my desk with photoshop and french and german dictionaries (or thank you Babelfish) to translate as I am fluent in neither language.

It is facsinating to say the least, you guys would boggle at what is required when museum level paintings and artifacts travel. There is usually a registrar that travels with the work to monitor everything, and there is always a registrar on the receiving end as well. There are companies to build all of the custom crates for traveling and another company (We have used Masterpiece) to facilitate the journey of works of art. Here's an idea of expense, we sent 11 paintings to Munich this spring, the total cost to ship came to $72,000. The institution on the receiving end foots the bill. we have 50 works coming in from europe in December...yikes the money.

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 12:04:01 PM

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As for my own work, I need to get crackin lol. I am currently working on a new Blurb book of all of the significant work i have completed over the last few years to bring with me to my first grad school residency, which begins August 15th.

I want to do a couple more, smaller pieces for the SAM show which will happen in Nov/December. Have been asked to show new work in two shows in a gallery that friends own/curate next month, but i just dont have the time. Have a few peices ( and should do a new piece) that will be most likely appearing in a book about digital art projects that is being published by North Light books, a prod to make art for a gallery in San Francisco that is producing a very expensive art book in an edition of 200, the guy I've been talking to doesnt seem to be able to express himself well at all in writing, yet comes off as a tad bit rude, so i might just blow this one off.

All of this hoo-ha and I just want to paint the flowers in my back yard :)

Been in an interesting place intellectually after all of this graduation madness honestly. I don't know if I have anything truly significant to contribute to the current dialogue in contemporary art, i am constantly drawn to history.

There are days at the museum were I am just devasted with nostalgia and consumed with thoughts of the past and the lives of all of the artists who lived and died, and here is evidence of the time in which they lived, the thoughts they were thinking. I am deeply interested in painting on philosophical as well as technical levels, and I always feel sad that I am not making more digital art to show in our forum, it is almost that it has become a means to an end, I rely heavily on digital tools in my painting process which I feel is probably pretty evident, the computer feel like my handmaiden, but the deeper satsfaction comes when the brush is in hand :)

I have many friends who are well known artists locally and internationally, and the truth is, it is rare for even them to make a decent living on their art ( these are conceptual, Art in America/Art Forum contemporary artsits mind you).

i want to be Duane Keiser lol, adjunct professor (no tenure but hi freedom) and does his little paintings on the side, as well as larger works that are handled by galleries, that seems like a lot of fun :)

Lol I think this is the most I have ever talked on ebsq.

Ok, gonna stop chattering now, gotta go give a fat chihuahua an insulin injection :)

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 2:28:49 PM

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Wow, Love your work, so real, the dog fight, or eye of the beholder was riveting, you could really feel the tensity in the dogs, the aggressiveness, and your painting of the Beacon, beautiful, the eyes and the colors, wonderful work, congrats to you, inspiration for all of us.....Vikkki

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 4:32:43 PM

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Cel, you've done an amazing job in the last few years...I know how hard it is to go to school full time and have some kind of a life also....very tiring...but you've just done such wonderful work, and learned so much...thanks for taking the time to share with us!

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RE: BFA Stuff - 7/3/2008 5:04:13 PM

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your work is extrodinary.

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