One more Detour Sketchbook!

I also love this one!What do you think?

Visiting Artist-Christina Ondrus on Oct. 20th

Christina will be coming to speak to the class next Tuesday about her progress into abstraction and influences. If you haven't already gone to her site please take a look. After taking a look at her website and our discussion tonight what kinds of questions do you think you might want to ask Christina.
www.christinaondrus.com

Sketchbooks by Detour project

Look at these videos of the Detour project by Moleskine. These are really fun to look at and great inspiration for keeping your own sketchbooks. There both interesting very different ways.

Wayne Thiebaud at the PMCA

Main Gallery:
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting

October 4, 2009 – January 31, 2010

This survey of more than one hundred works drawn from this great American artist’s career includes his distinctive still life paintings of bakeries and delicatessens as well as some of his lesser-known figural and landscape paintings.

www.pmcaonline.org

This is super close to us here is Pasadena. Hopefully some of you can check this out. I'll try to go and see this in the upcoming week. Hopefully we can have some discussion about it. Let me know if any of you make it.

Christina Ondrus next Thursday Oct. 8th

"Under the Auspices"
New Works by Kiki Johnson and Christina Ondrus 
Opening 6-9pm Thursday October 8, 2009
October 8-November 3, 2009

Gallery 1927
811 W. 7th St. Los Angeles, CA 90017
directions: http://www.gallery1927.com/visit-us.html 


Here is another CalArts alum doing interested abstract work that comes from the mystical and ocult the side of things. I'll be taking a look at this next week. Take a look at her website as well:
www.christinaondrus.com/

Artists Resources

A few of you have asked me about how to manage the business side of being an artist. If you are interested in making work and exhibiting or selling, sooner or later you are going to have to start finding out more about how to manage your career. Here are a couple of sites that I recommend taking a look at.

GYST was founded by Karen Atkinson to help artist keep track of there work, help with inventory, write artist statements, etc. Anything that you would need to support your practice. Take a look they some very useful services and she sells software that will help you keep organized.
www.gyst-ink.com

The Center for Cultural Innovation offers workshops that also address time management for artists, how to keep organized, how to use the web, etc. They have a workshop called the "Business Art Boot Camp" that I haven't taken personally but have heard good thing about. This organization has a lot of resources worth checking out.
www.cciarts.org/workshops.htm

I'll keep posting on this topic through out the class for those of you that are interested.

Hadley Holliday at Solway Jones Gallery

September 12 - October 10, 2009

Here's a fun abstract show I recommend in Chinatown.

Hadley came out of CalArts in 2004 and is a good example of work that is playful.

Let me know what you think.

Here is the info:

www.solwayjonesgallery.com/