Openings Connecting: Water Street Coffee Joint

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Water Street Coffee Joint - Now Showing

Water Street Coffee Joint - Now Showing

my FIRST PUBLIC "appearance".....so extra exciting for me!

my dear friend and aesthetic ed partner, Mary Whalen, included five of my paintings and collages in HER EXTRAORDINARY new show of wet plate images of stones and flowers......on glass. click on link for description of her process . here are 3 of my collages: the floating dreamer, the red/black, the calligraphic piece, and one of my paintings/waxed Taos mountain.

16 comments:

Caterina GiglioAugust 7, 2010 at 6:14 AM
wonderful!! congrats!!! xoxo
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ELKAugust 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM
these are stunning in their simple lines..so happy to see this...i enjoyed spending a moment on "your" mountain as well...blessings
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Blue Sky DreamingAugust 7, 2010 at 8:43 AM
Congratulations...these are great! The mountain is glorious in it's blue splendor! I like the small and large of these other two...strong!
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Cynthia MonicaAugust 7, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Congratulations, and many more showings to come, I'm certain! Your work is looking fabulous displayed there!
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sukipoetAugust 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM
congratulations!!! Wonderful pieces and so glad they are out there for folks to see them. Link? Am i missing it?
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sukipoetAugust 7, 2010 at 4:29 PM
oops found the link thanks
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Poetic ArtistAugust 8, 2010 at 7:55 AM
These are wonderful..Congrats..
Katelen
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rivergardenstudioAugust 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM
This is wonderful news! I love your quote about dreaming of your mountain and that this is your time to "experiment with art making"
So great that more of the world can see your art. Sending hugs and smiles... roxanne
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layersAugust 11, 2010 at 5:39 PM
A big congrats on your first showing of art work-- yahooo-- that is always a bit scary and yet exciting too-- love you collages.
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SethAugust 12, 2010 at 6:44 AM
Congratulations Nancy. Your first show of many. Wish I could be there with you to see the works in person and celebrate. Fantastic!
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Maggie NealeAugust 14, 2010 at 8:25 AM
Glad you have a chance to show, Neva; another chance to share your visions. Your mountain? Are you in the Southwest now? Different than Kalamazoo. I like your altered postcard a couple of posts down. I've been lax in my visits here to you...summer!
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UnknownAugust 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM
Congrats! your pieces are thrilling!
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LauraAugust 20, 2010 at 9:43 AM
fabulous news...I love the collages especially...good for you!!!
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CERULEANAugust 25, 2010 at 3:57 PM
beautiful collages.
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Renee HowellAugust 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM
LOVE the red and black. AND the size of it all. Wish I could visit and see for myself. pout.
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Lucky Dip LisaSeptember 28, 2010 at 2:11 AM
How fantastic! I am very happy for you Neva!
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FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.