The Paper Crane

It rained all day today.Only a few pages left and this book will be complete.

The image above is a col­lage I made today out of origami paper. I am really inter­ested in pat­tern within pat­terns and I think quilts are a great exam­ple of that. I am very inter­ested in cre­at­ing con­cep­tual pat­terns and I think it is some­thing that can take a lot…

Nigel Peake makes awe­some art! (click title for link)

An oldie but goodie!With the approach­ing Thanks­giv­ing Hol­i­day on the hori­zon, I find myself think­ing a lot about food. Not only eat­ing it, but mak­ing it. Or as in this case below, stitch­ing it. Here is an instal­la­tion I did in the win­dow of Alliance Bak­ery in Wicker Park, Chicago…

Very softly intro­duc­ing Sim­ple Gallery!!! Taaa-daaa! A tiny back story. For the last three years I have been try­ing (which means talk­ing and talk­ing, research­ing, gath­er­ing, devel­op­ing ideas but not actu­ally doing) to open an exhi­bi­tion and inter­ac­tive artist stu­dio space in Chicago. It’s hard work! And it takes a…

Play­ing drums again. With Theo! Bang­ing the hell out of ‘em too!

This morn­ing while drink­ing my cof­fee in my kitchen I con­tem­plated direc­tion. Art mak­ing can be such an emo­tional roller coaster. I don’t know if it is for you, but it defi­nately is for me. Right now, in the art life of Dee it’s time to get back on the…

A camp­fire I drew in my sketch­book after Shirley’s Hal­loween wed­ding. We had a bon­fire on Lake Michi­gan after the reception.

I had the plea­sure of meet­ing Dun­can R. Ander­son today. He has a show up at Kasia Kay right now (1044 W. Ful­ton Mar­ket in Chicago). Dun­can, dressed in a black cow­boy hat, black clothes and an old timey south­ern style speech was an utter delight. His work is brilliant…

Lora Fos­ber has an exhi­bi­tion up right now at Linda War­ren Gallery in Chicago, 1052 W. Ful­ton Mar­ket. Her work has cap­ti­vated me. Fosberg’s illus­tra­tive com­po­si­tions are utterly gor­geous, humor­ously sar­donic and clever. Using mainly ink and gouache I noticed her back­grounds looked like paper was adhered to the canvas,…