Articles for January, 2010

Decisions, decisions. Anyone wanna offer some advice?

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Think­ing about mov­ing my stu­dio. I have not made a deci­sion yet but there is a sweet lit­tle space in the artist build­ing a friend of mine works in. The dif­fer­ence between the new space and my old:

New Space

  • Is a pri­vate space that I would have all

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New Art, New Posts; Tiny Paper Crane

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Ukranian Village

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Winter in the studio

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Ukranian Village

Hello. Some things I have been work­ing on in the stu­dio. It’s going real slow, kind of like the way the win­ter is moving by.

Ukran­ian Vil­lage, Gouache on Paper

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It looks easy*

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The weather has gone from bad to worse — yes­ter­day it alter­nated between snow, hail and then rain! Per­fect time to hide away in the stu­dio and cre­ate.  And if your art prac­tice got away from you dur­ing the hol­i­days (or even before) and you need some reminders of what…

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David Keel

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Every time I visit the stu­dio of Chicago based painter David Keel, his work seems to take me to mys­te­ri­ous, mag­i­cal places that I have never been before. Sud­denly I am there. I am in the paint­ing, a voyeur, an inter­loper, a spy.

We here at Paper Crane have…

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Pearl Fine Art Supply closing in Chicago.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Chicago’s only Pearl loca­tion at Chicago Ave and Franklin, under the Chicago Brown line train is clos­ing it’s doors. The com­pany appar­ently has decided to close a num­ber of loca­tions around the coun­try. Chicago has a lim­ited num­ber of art sup­ply stores and a grow­ing num­ber of artists.  Pearl will…

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New Studio Update

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Hel­l­l­l­loooo from Berlin!

It has been awhile, I apol­o­gize.  I was away for the hol­i­days — Jena, Ger­many for Christ­mas with my boyfriend and his fam­ily; Hid­densee (Cas­par David Friedrich coun­try) for New Years + a few days, and then I was back a week only to leave again…

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Jeffrey Deitch, New Director of L.A. MOCA

Monday, January 18th, 2010
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Yes it’s true! Jef­frey Deitch is the NEW Direc­tor of L.A MOCA.  Hmmm, what does this mean for his gallery, Deitch Projects, in NYC? Will he run both? Time will tell. Curi­ous to see what he brings to the Museum. This should be an exciting…

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Schuyler Maehl

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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A vast body of work by IL artist Schuyler Maehl. Includ­ing paint­ing, sculp­ture and per­for­mance. You can see Schuyler at work in NYC at the sculp­ture hap­pen­ing “Blind Sculp­ture” at Greene Naf­tali Gallery from Jan 28th to Feb 27, 2010. Put on by the art group Gelitin.

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Experiment.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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I have been exper­i­ment­ing with embroi­der­ing my paint­ings. As in, repro­duc­ing them as embroi­deries, not stitch­ing on the actual paint­ings. I want to see how it would trans­late to have the same image in a dif­fer­ent medium. (keep in mind that I used my lap top to snap these photos.…

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