did some updates on my website, so check them out here.

today i discovered that one of my friends and peers died in a bike accident yesterday in new york. jasmine valentina was a passionate, witty, strong feminist artist who had so much more to offer than dying at age 23. she was blazingly intelligent and even a little bit intimidating, but i was always impressed by her and wanted to be as brave as she was. i will miss her and am sending prayers and love to my NYSP friends and everyone who knew her. In the words of my much more eloquent good friend Hannah,

"I am devastated and stunned and not sure what to say, we all grew so close to Jasmine in such a short period, and it's horrifying that we won't get to extend that time. I'm going to miss her like crazy. I hope apart from this news you are all well, I am so happy I got to spend that time in New York, I have never had the pleasure of being in the company of so many unique and sensational human beings-- and so sorry to have lost one of them."

hung up some new and old artwork in my new senior studio space, as well as postcards and photographs:

it's starting to feel homey!

(photo courtesy of denny henry)

me working on my final project (embedded below) for drawing my freshman year of college. now i've got to start working on my thesis! ahhhhhh! i also start school a week from today.

A Brittle Filament from Emilia Olsen on Vimeo.

today (august 12th), i am twenty-one!

pretty crazy.

Originally uploaded by loveologies

i've slacked off again on posting regularly. here is a photo from my show, that spanned from july 1st - 17th at the project lodge. maybe you were even able to see it! i haven't been doing much, mostly just been hanging out and working, and doing some small works. it feels strange to be preparing for my last year of college, at least undergrad. just a few days ago i was thinking about whether or not i'd stay for graduation this year, and then i remembered it was my graduation this time around! weeeeird.

Calm Moments

Calm Moments
Originally uploaded by loveologies

how i feel today

if you're in or around madison, i will have three small pieces in a group show called "little things" at the project lodge. the show will be up from june 21st - 30th, with a reception from 6 - 8 on the 23rd. here's a link to the facebook event page, if you can make it. hope to see you there!

happy fathers' day to my dad, and all dads out there.

a few things lately...

-i ended my junior year of college, which is pretty mind-bending and awesome at the same time
-i'm back home in madison, wi for the summer, waitressing and learning to bartend
-my dad found me an awesome vintage schwinn bike off of craigslist, which is at least 20 years old, with all its original parts, and still ridable (pictured above)
-one of my sketchbook pages was posted on the Aqua-Velvet blog here
-i applied for a public art grant, so here's crossing your fingers!
-i'll be having a show at the project lodge here in the first two weeks of july

post more soon, hopefully!

this is devastating.

here's a picture from critique today. we're all a little bit slack-jawed. mine went well i think. i've been terrible at updating this semester, but remember you can always keep up with my work by going to my flickr or my website. i'm almost finished with junior year. it feels great.

gary baseman (an artist who i really like and respect) just tweeted me and said he looked at my website and he likes what i'm doing! whoa! (i screenshot it because i am a total dork.)

CIMG1123
Originally uploaded by snapcracklecrispy

Awesome drawing by my good friend Chris

A Couch and a Wall

This is an old painting by my dear friend Hannah, who was in New York with me. I miss her dearly. Soon I will make a proper update, when I have time to breathe.

A Couch and a Wall
Originally uploaded by letthemlook

a bauhaus bike. really. did you design that specifically for me?

if you're in madison, wi, one of my favorite artists has a new piece at the chazen! don't bring your kids though.

breathe easy, eva. (25 year old cystic fibrosis patient loses her battle)

on a more somber note, this is eva, a canadian girl who is suffering from cystic fibrosis. i've been following her blog here on livejournal for awhile, and i'm very sorry to say she's not doing very well. please send her good thoughts, she is an amazing and one of a kind person. and if you're not already, please consider becoming an organ donor.

oh, and gay marriage is now legal in dc! here's an image of the first couple who legally registered today. :)

how awesome is that? hopefully the rest of the nation will follow suit!

lately i...

... have been trying to cook actual meals for myself, instead of residing on cereal and take out. there have only been a few casualties in these endeavors, namely an oven mitt that started on fire, and a measuring cup that is now half melted. my sweet potato recipe also needs a lot of work. the asparagus was good, though! my mom also got me an awesome spice rack filled with spices, including some spices i have never heard of. looking forward to experimenting with those...

...went to the baltimore aquarium on a school field trip, which was really fun. aquariums are always fun. except for the dc aquarium. that one sucks.

...got to visit the freer gallery with my class. we actually went down into the vault, and each person was allowed to pick one thing from their huge collection to be brought out, held, passed around, talked about, etc. that's my professor bob devers on the left, and you can see an example of their humidity-controlled chambers behind them. that's continuing ed student betty foster with her choice in front of her, and mine in the foreground. i picked a mid-18th century incense holder in the shape of a bird with really intricate feather carvings on the outside. it also has bronze-cast feet. the interior is painted with gold! it was really cool being able to intimately look at these pieces of history.

another small incense holder from japan, from the edo period. definitely a favorite of everyone's. i can't believe it made it this far through history without breaking once!

me holding my choice.

our class! and some of our choices. i look very happy and awake to be there. ;)
my friend and classmate jeff luckily took a few pictures with his actual camera, so you can properly see the feather detailing.
he also took some pictures of the vaults, so you can see how the pieces were separated by region.
another image of my class. i forget what the story behind what i'm holding in my hands is.
this was jeff's choice, a so-called egyptian "new year's flask" from 694bce. pretty amazing! see the little baboon handles?

jeff pretending to steal the said new year's flask. :)

i'm really enjoying my ceramics studio class. it's given me a newfound appreciation for ceramics, and it's been a lot easier to experiment with it this time around. here's an example of what i'm working on right now! a flock of birds inspired by the one i saw at the freer gallery:

i've been told they look like a set of molded poo, but they're still widely unfinished, so don't judge them yet!

i'm finally going back to new york this weekend, and i'm really excited to check out the whitney biennial, art fairs, and see some friends! probably will give another update soon about that!

No Me Without You

my newest school project involved a re-imagination of my "red hair" drawings. i collaborated with my friend sara winston to bring my twins to life. click through to sara's blog or my flickr to see the rest of the set. i like the way sara described it best:

Recently, Emilia Olsen and I made these photographs based off of some of her Red Hair I & II drawings. It is the beginning of a longer collaboration, and it is off to a great start. The conjoined hair contemplates the love/hate tendencies, typically between young, adolescent girls as their relationships develop into adulthood and they become less dependent on one another. There is the embrace, despair, and disquiet, of tenderly growing apart.

my website is now up!

thanks to roberto farruggio :)

check it out.

teaser?

another gorgeous video of people enjoying the snow in dc

Washington, DC Snow Storm from Es Video! on Vimeo.

a time-lapse video of the snow fall on february 6, 2010, that my friend gil posted!

snOMG from Andrew Cutraro on Vimeo.

tomorrow we're on our third snow day, with 10-20 more inches on the way!

hello from dc, where we've gotten about two feet of snow! the buses aren't running and neither is the aboveground metro, and most businesses are closed. we're on a second snow day in a row tomorrow, and there's more snow on the way! woo!

it's been a really long time since i posted. i apologize for the long wait. since ending my semester in new york, i returned home in madison, wisconsin, for a much too short break. after spending a little time with family and friends, i left for italy. i then spent almost three weeks traveling around in between torino, asti, bolzano (where i lived for six months in high school), bologna, and milano visiting old friends. some of the highlights was going tobogganing for the first time in the dolimites, getting to spend time with my host family in the house i used to live in, seeing one of my best italian friends for the first time in four years, and getting to do a short "pilgrimage" of blu murals in his native bologna. it was also really fun to speak italian again, as well.

now, i'm back in dc to finish my last year and a half of school. it was a little strange at first, but i've adjusted back to corcoran life quickly and smoothly. i'm living by myself, which i really enjoy, and taken a pretty full course load. i like all my classes. i'm also doing an internship with the corcoran gallery (in artreach), and i'm also continuing to work with DLF.TV.

i'm also starting an exciting new collaboration with sara winston, one of my best friends here in dc.

all in all, things are going well. i'll be posting a lot more, now, i hope.