Thursday, July 29, 2010
First Annually Chelsea Art Walk
Monday, July 26, 2010
a spare bedroom STUDIO!!!
MAJOR UPDATE(S)
Im counting down the days til I can move into my own artist studio!! (Its really the spare bedroom in my parents house) But hey whos complain if they have their own work space?!? I mean every great artist throughout history has had to start from somewhere! I just cant wait to get started!
Im also working hard to get a new mixed media painting series together for not only the website but another show! So be on the look out!
:) Great stuff in the works!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tale of the Secret Bandit
First and most importantly, I must appologize because I havent been on my blog to update in a LONG while. A lot has happend since my last update that I'm both happy and upset to share with you. Last time I blogged I mentioned that I was working toward launching my own artist website... Which I have at last launched!
Check out my NEW artist website:
www.cluttercave.com
I started an unpaid internship at the Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC. I've learned so much, including how to properly hang & mount art, how to advertise the correct way for shows, and how the inner-workings of a gallery work. All-in-all I truely love my experience there and have been presented with the opportunity to meet several great artists and people within the business.
I was also working hard to produce a number of silk screens when someone (I still dont know who) NOT ONLY cut off my lock to MY locker, but stole EVERY SINGLE Silk Screening supply I ever had. Needless to say I (of all people) cried and went into a serious anit-art-depression. I told myself I wouldnt make art again because I couldnt afford to get more supplies. I was really heart broken over the entire situation.
Than just last month Rowan University asked a selected group of alumni back for an alumni group show. Even though I was completely miserable, I gained enough courage to submit my only finished piece that I had completed before the theft happend. All artists know they should never shoot down any exhibition opportunities...
The show went off great at High Street Gallery in Glassboro, NJ. My silkscreen was one of my best to date and seeing my old art majors still making art made me realize that this is what I was meant to do. My internship at Joshua Liner Gallery also made me realize that there will be bumps in the road to being a great artist and that Im just going to have to tough it out and get back on the horse.
I am now working my butt off to save money to buy all new equipment and inks again. My sister is getting married next month so my parents are allowing me to make the spare bedroom into my own artist studio. So ill FINALLY have a place to go and work on my art in my own art studio (aka the clutter cave).
From here things can only get better!
Cheers everyone.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Amazing Book Stores
Also: If your a book lover as am I, you need to CHECK THIS SITE OUT!!
I hope Im able to visit most, if not all of them one day!!
http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-bookstores.htm
Thursday, April 22, 2010
New Website.... COMING SOON!
May 15th, 2010 from 3-5pm!
I will be having a joint show with Jenny Reci and will be showcasing my latest artworks at the Baumberg Estate! Im so so excited, and you should be too! Its going to be a great show!
Also my website is 75% done! All I need to do is post some pictures, update my CV, and fix a few little things and Ill be done!! So excited to get that up and running! I believe it will be done by the first week in May!
Friday, April 16, 2010
I heart my job.
I'm happy that I can be inventive with my artwork. I'm always able to rethink different approaches that id like to take. The hardest, yet most rewarding part of being an artist is that I get to think-up new ways in which to get my ideas onto a new space or work it into nature with my installations.
In order for my art to be successful, I need to keep re-evaluating the visual experience that I create from all angels. It is far more important to me that my viewers walk away with my overall message to them. It makes my art that much more meaningful and effective when someone sees my art and tells me what they have gotten out of it. I feel much better knowing they learned something. It is far more valuable then having to explain my overall message to them. I want them to grow from the experience!
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Im currently in the works of creating a website!!
I believe it will be up and running in the begining of May!!
Yay me!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Featured Artist: Justin Nelson
Caught on Itself in the Process of...
(detail of drippy tree roots)
Friday, March 19, 2010
m.i.a
Ive been so busy with ski season followed by getting mono and all the good stuff in between... I promise I will start posting again as of now... Sorry everyone!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Bacterial Meningits
Feb. 15th 2005 I was diagnosed with bacterial meningits. Most victims of the deadly disease barely make it to the 72 hours before dying. Some how I made it through and and alive to still tell my story. The bacteria effects the brain, neck, spinal cord, spinal fluid, blood stream, and nervous system. It basically swells and cooks your brain in a matter of hours until your skull and brain cant take any more and it literally fries. Sucks, I know I went through it. Ill have more on my experience and what the professionals say tomorrow or monday.
I just wanted to make note of my day because I wasnt able to get on to blog my very special "other birthday".
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
My Winter Book List
I went to the bookstore last night and spent under $40! This is a very good thing... I bought the Camille Rose Garcia illustrated version of Alice's adventures in Wonderland as well as another autobiography.
I’m such a sucker for art related, auto/biography, and Buddhism books. Right now I’m currently reading three books: Gaudi a biograph, Miley Cyrus; Miles to Go, and Three Cups of Tea. Gaudi is my most favorite architect/artist. His work is incredible. The biography is a great read, a little hard to understand in parts because I’m not familiar with Spain's history. Barcelona is a beautiful city and I hope one day to see it again as well as have an art show there. Three Cups of Tea is a true story of a man who changed the world for a village. Its inspiring and I hope to accomplish something just as big through my visual talent.
Side Note: I woke up this morning at 7am-ish and was so inspired to clean my room and organize my clutter cave studio!! I am no-where near finished yet, but I was so proud of myself that I had to blog it! Yay me!
Oh and also, Chris is going to make me a bookshelf so I can actually have a library now!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Camille Rose Garcia's NEW Book Release!!
One of my favorite working artists, Camille Rose Garcia has teamed up with Collins Design Publishing and was offered the chance of a lifetime to re-create the illustrations in Carroll's fairytale! Garcia's art has always been dark & twisted but always delivers a meaningful message. She has really put a unique visual spin on the orginial novel and illustrations. The book is releasing this month (February 2010)!!!
Check out what Garcia has to say about the re-making of the book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEX4vUWYcr4
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Oh the Places I'LL go!
by the incomparable Dr. Seuss
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
**************
And a man with a dream of a talking mouse
So can a girl with a terrible memory & a paint brush!
February is C.Dogg's 'National' Brain Month!
Below are 10 fun and interesting facts you prob. didnt know about the human brain!
1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the superspeedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.
2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.
3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, containing over 900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power pretty darn impressive.
4. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. The brain only makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation. So breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in oxygenated cells.
5. The brain is much more active at night than during the day. Logically, you would think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and general interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a lot more brain power than, say, lying in bed. Turns out, the opposite is true. When you turn off your brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is but you can thank the hard work of your brain while you sleep for all those pleasant dreams.
6. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. While this may be true, don’t take it as a sign you’re mentally lacking if you can’t recall your dreams. Most of us don’t remember many of our dreams and the average length of most dreams is only 23 seconds–barely long enough to register.
7. Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. For years scientists and doctors thought that brain and neural tissue couldn’t grow or regenerate. While it doesn’t act in the same manner as tissues in many other parts of the body, neurons can and do grow throughout your life, adding a whole new dimension to the study of the brain and the illnesses that affect it.
8. Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Not all neurons are the same. There are a few different types within the body and transmission along these different kinds can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
9. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain. That doesn’t mean your head can’t hurt. The brain is surrounded by loads of tissues, nerves and blood vessels that are plenty receptive to pain and can give you a pounding headache.
10. 80% of the brain is water. Your brain isn’t the firm, gray mass you’ve seen on TV. Living brain tissue is a squishy, pink and jellylike organ thanks to the loads of blood and high water content of the tissue. So the next time you’re feeling dehydrated get a drink to keep your brain hydrated.
Monday, February 1, 2010
My Favorite Black & Blue
But I THINK
Black & Blue Nail Polish is Outstanding!
I always wear blue on my toes and black on my fingers...
ONLY on very rare occasions will I wear any other color (aka purple or green)
The End.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
OFFICAL College Grad!!!
I walked in spring 2008, it is now january 2010 and I FINALLY have my undergraduate degree in my hand. I personally think it took way to long to figure out I had that damn ticket standing between me and my most important paperwork ever.
Courtney Leigh Jones
On a side note I dont have any art shows in the NYC area that will interest me until April-ish! I sure hope I find out about some other gallery openings I want to attend, or else I have to wait til April... Nooooooo!
Also, I have been on a power-sketch kick!! So the ideas are coming fluidly to me, I just need to work on the transformation of sketch to painting and print! Im also creating a portfolio for my application to grad school!!!!! Im going to work hard on it during the summer and come next January I will be applying to SVA in NYC for my printmaking MFA!!!! Wish me luck, I know its a year away, but this is so important to me, so much planning is needed!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
World Peace Is Hiring
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Power of Self
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
A New Year of Goals
So I have decided to be very goal oriented this year.
I really want to just get in the habit of making art constantly. I really feel I can only improve my skills and concepts as long as I keep up with them and the only way to do that is keep on making art.... NO MATTER WHAT.
With that said, I am starting to sketch AT LEAST 3 sketches a night again. Im also really trying to keep my artist area as organized and clean as I can. I plan to paint every other night. Like I said in the previous blog, the winter months are hard for me to accomplish anything outside of working and skiing... (ski shop, coaching ski racing, and practicing myself)
I WILL MAKE TIME FOR MAKING ART!
Id like to see my art and skiing improve emensley in the New Year.
C.Dogg's 2010 Goals
1. Have 1 solo art show and 2 group art shows.
2. Make improvements on my sketches/paintings/prints.
3. Look into grad schools for printmaking (full ride?!?)
4. Be the best artist I can.
5. Be the best ski racer I can.
6. Eat Healthy and kick my ass in the gym 3-5 days a week.
7. Continue to practice Yoga and Meditation.
8. Meet with and talk with other Successful artists.
9. Make my own artist website!!
10. Really embrace the whole art scene.
11. Attend at least 10 art openings this year.
**Be the most Happiest Ive ever been!!!**
Monday, January 11, 2010
Tim Burton; Chronicles
BEFORE the new year I was able to get a day off to go check out Tim Burton at the MoMA!!! Too bad the word AMAZING, is a huge understatment! It was pretty cool to see how he has grown from childhood drawings and paintings, to being an intern at disney, to seeing most, if not all of his biggest, successful movie productions. In my opinion i think his most successful pieces were the pen and ink drawings. ALSO, anything Nightmare Before Christmas related too... duh! They were memorizing to look at. His crazy lines just add to the sketches.
White Out in Vermont!!!
You will be missed!!! ;)
Went to Vermont the first weekend of the year and woke up to 2 feet of snow!!! And incase you didnt know, the ONLY other thing I love more than making art and traveling... IS SKIING/ SKI RACING!! ^.^
Chris, Haley, Liam & I skied all day/weekend... in fresh, deep powder... BEST SKIING IVE EVER DONE! I ended up breaking one my Giant Slalom poles though which I was really heart broken about. But I guess it was def. time for a new pair of poles anyway!
I started coaching ski racing to the little guys (6-8yr olds) at Mt Creek this past weekend. I love coaching, but It takes so much time away from my art making. Winters are tough for me to balance everything in, so If I dont post any recent artwork or blogs, SOMEONE PLEASE KICK MY ASS into gear... I cant live without my art OR my ski seasons lol!
Audrey Kawasaki: Hajimari, A Prelude
C.Dogg's aka my
favorite painting at the opening!!!
Happy New Year to you all...
Catching you all up on my most recent adventures since I havent blogged since Decemeber... SO SO SO SORRY! I went out to support Audrey at her Solo Exhibition on Dec 12, 2009. The show was packed and she 'as usual' had a line of fans waiting to talk to her. She is a talented person and one of my most favorite inspirational artists! As usual, my most favorite painting at the show opening was the one and only DARKEST painting shown. It was beautifully crafted and even better to see in person!
I can only hope to meet and talk with Audrey one day when she isnt so busy and just talk art. She is truely a remarkable artist, and an even better person.
CONGRATS AGAIN AUDREY!!! ^.^