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Sometimes when I am stressed, I take some of that nervous energy and apply it to the studio. Its either that or bad TV and the chocolate dregs in the cupboard.
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Interview with Fresh Bread
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Fresh Bread, a Calgary-based site featuring a range of interesting artists, has an interview up with me. Check it out!
High Five
As I discussed in a previous post, I am participating in an interesting portfolio exchange where the artists involved are responding to each other’s prints. Here is my response to Lou Joseph’s piece. I’m looking forward to seeing his response to mine.
World Falls Down
(silkscreen, 15″ x 11″)
New Prints
I spent much of my summer working on these two new large prints. They are both silkscreen on a full sheet of BFK Rives Grey and are 44″ x 30″ each. The pain in the butt factor definitely increases with the size of paper and I do believe that my edition sizes will be about half of what I started with.
Collapsed Distance
(silkscreen, 44″ x 30″)
Separation Plane
(silkscreen, 44″ x 30″)
Calgary Biennial
My piece for the Calgary Biennial is coming along. It’s a 6′ x 4′ silkscreen on plexiglass with additional drawing and collage. Here it is leaning up against the wall in the studio. The show opens in September.
In the Studio
Since the end of semester, I’ve been plodding along steadily in the studio, making some new big silkscreens. I use a combination of different types of stencils including hand-drawn, digital and hand-cut out of amberlith (also known as rubylith). Here are some images of prints in progress:
DNSPE 2012 Update
I just received two copies of the DNSPE 2012 catalogue in the mail today along with the good news that my print “Returning, Pausing” received the Brackett-Krennerich & Associates Architects Purchase Award. This print will now be in the Arkansas State University Permanent Collection.
A quote from the Juror’s Statement (Roberta Waddell) in the catalogue: “While the screenprint particularly lends itself to simple, clearly defined, flat areas of color, Heather Huston takes advantage of the medium’s versatility in Returning, Pausing, a syncopated arrangement of subtly colored, patterned, and layered architectural planes that fluctuate from opaque to translucent.”
Always nice to hear how other people describe my work and to find a fellow fan of the Oxford comma.
First Exhibition of 2012
My work will be in Global Matrix III showing at Purdue University Galleries from January 9th until February 19th 2012. The show will then travel around the US for the next two years. The show features work by a variety of US and international artists.
Aw Shucks
I just found out that my work was voted Best in Show in the Swimming Upstream exhibition at Metro Frame Works in Colorado. Some excellent news to celebrate the almost-end-of-semester.
In China
Its my last morning in Beijing before I catch a plane to Chongqing where I will be participating in the 3rd Qijiang International Printmaking Festival.
Just back from my trip, exhausting and wonderful. They really went all out with girls dressed in white with furry shawls to welcome us, all kinds of banners and posters, corsages and floral bouquets. It was strange to be photographed all week, taken for lavish dinners (of all kinds of innards) and to try and communicate with people using mostly culturally-ignorant pantomime. It was excellent to see all the wonderful work in the show and meet some of the other artists. Here’s the website for the exhibition: 3rd Qijiang International Printmaking Festival. More to come on the trip and the other artists!
hi its me next to my print
I spoke at a symposium about something that I’m sure was not the same as what it says on the poster.