2 Another batch of Costa Rica photos

Here are a few shots from the Costa Rica 2012 trip:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.597042150341789.1073741827.285793834799957&type=3&uploaded=9

And here are the quotes from the past week from Twitter and Cabana Boy facey spacey:

'To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world.'- Goethe

'Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it'- Robert Motherall

'Painting is just another way of keeping a diary'-  Picasso

'The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.'- Hilton Kramer

'I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.'- Frida Kahlo

1-Getting productive

I finally uploaded pics from my trip down to Costa Rica in 2011:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.594130850632919.1073741826.285793834799957&type=3


and I added some inspirational goodies to my Cabana Boy facey spacey:

'The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil' Jasper Fforde EYRE AFFAIR

'The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination' Albert Einstein

'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream' CS Lewis

'No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness' Aristotle

Color of the Blind exhibition

Saturday March 30th from 6-10pm at ZaZa Garden Gallery located at 723 S Flores, I will be partaking in the COLOR OF THE BLIND exhibition.

Here is a little blip from SAHearts website:

As people often times struggle to see ones ideas and visions it is the triumph of an artist that can only convey this idea. Local artists Trina Bacon and collaborator and International artist Katherine Brown brings to you an exhibit called, “The Color of Blind.” This show is to be interactive introducing the sense of smell, touch and taste to offer the BLIND community as well as visual artists a way in which to experience and understand color in art.

In addition, 30 other notable artists are contributing to The Color of Blind. Artists include Steven DaLuz, Kathy Sosa, Joan Frederick, Robert Tatum, James Hetherington and many others. All artists are required to explore what color represents through their selected mediums using touch and scent.

Our sponsors are Humberto Saldana of Saldana and Associates, Channel 4 News WOAI, Starbucks, Chicho Boys Market, Owl Radio (Low Vision Resource Center), Ricos, Freshious Cakes Catering, Rosie Coronado Salazar and Regina Villalobos.

And another lil blip from Nowcast:

While people may struggle to see the artistic ideas and visions of others, it is the triumph of one local artist to share her vision of art and education with the blind and sight seeing communities. The Color of Blind is an interactive art show by Trina Geurra Bacon and Katherine Brown. The show brings together the senses of smell, touch and taste to offer the blind and seeing community a way in which to experience and understand color and art.

In addition, 40 other notable artists are contributing to The Color of Blind. This all takes place with an opening reception on Saturday, March 30, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at ZaZa Garden Gallery located at 723 South Flores Street.

The Color of Blind is considered an abstract concept, but not a new concept. Bacon, local art teacher, ceramist, tactile and 3D artist, says art shows with the same theme have been done before, but not very often. The Color of Blind has been in the planning process for four years, as Bacon found through her pre-school and youth teachings that colors through taste and texture had an impact on youth. The art show itself will take a person through shapes and colors as they walk through sections experiencing blue to green to purple, and so on.

“People who are blind or have low–vision can use other senses to feel color," says Bacon. "Everyone will be able to smell, touch, and taste color through this art show.
"Sight seeing people might not immediately realize it, but they relate color to a taste. For example, pink is connected to bubble gum and cotton candy. I’ve discovered this to be the same with youth whom I have taught.”

Local businesses are also taking part in The Color of Blind by contributing to the sensory aspects of the show. Starbucks, Rico’s Products, Co. and Chicho Boys Fruit Market are all supplying portions of the “taste and scent” sections for each color.

In launching The Color of Blind, Bacon recruited the help of artist and stage IV brain tumor survivor Katherine Brown. Brown has helped to expand the show to include the works and pieces from over 40 notable artists, inlcuding Kathy Sosa, Joan Frederick and James Hetherington. All artists were asked to explore what color represents through their selected mediums using touch and scent. It is with Brown’s expanded vision and expertise that The Color of Blind has become a multi-faceted, interactive show.
"Museums have come a long way to accommodate the disabled," says Brown. "Wheelchair access has improved and many museums offer signing tours for the deaf. But the blind population cannot see, and therefore must rely upon their other senses, such as touch, to experience the world around them.”

The Color of Blind is a labor of love for Bacon, who found art to be an escape for her as a misplaced youth and into adulthood, having experienced many personal challenges. “I feel it is extremely important for everyone to experience art,” says Bacon. “It has had so much impact on my life both therapeutically and by affording me opportunities. Most importantly, it has helped me to be able to teach others.”

Once The Color of Blind is complete, Bacon plans to continue art through education for youth and adults, for both seeing and the visually impaired. “I have already used my sensory colors at pre-schools as well as on 18-month olds up to 5 years old,” says Bacon. “I am almost done expanding this curriculum to approach more learning institutions and learning resources.”
The Color of Blind opens Saturday, March 30 and runs through Friday, April 5 at ZaZa Garden Gallery at 723 South Flores Street. Information about The Color of Blind and/or curriculum information may be found by calling (210) 707-7474 or mosaictrina@gmail.com.

Event SponsorsSaldana & Associates, INC., Starbucks Coffee, Chicho Boys Fruit Market, Rico’s Products Co., Owl Radio (Low Vision Resource Center), Freshious Cakes Catering, and Rosie Coronado-Salazar/Graphic Design.

Participating Artists
Bryson Brooks, Rebecca Coffey, Steven Daluz, Lauren Browning, Cody Vance, James Hetherington, James Raska, Louis Vega Trevino, Antonia Richardson, Russell Stevenson, Kimberly Newsome, Cat Quintanilla (Stone Carver Cat), Katherine Daluz Maple, Ethan Moore, Susan Budge, Joan Frederick, Kathy Sosa, Robert Tatum, Myriam Lanau, Marcy McChesney, Laura Salazar, Susan Oakes, Samantha Ostos, Jenny Smith, Jaqui Kat, Manuel Salazar, Christian Withers, Oscar Saenz, Umberto Saldana, Trina Bacon, Katherine Brown, Paul Karam, Duane Johnson, James Saldivar, Lili Pena-Dyer, Kim Bishop, Andy Benavides, Steven DaLuz, and Sabine Senft. More confirming.

I'm in the process of re-purposing 'blocks' I created/assembled while attending KCAI. This has been a great process thus far and I'm really looking forward to people experiencing the piece.

End of Summer Event

Next Saturday (9.15) I will be participating in this event as one of the artists. I'll have my collages, which range from $10.00-$50.00 (8"x10"-11"x14") and I'm thinking about taking the remaining D9EAM series canvases (12"x12"), which will be $50.00 each.

Hope to see some familiar faces and meet some new people.

Plus it's the continuation of birthday celebrating since I celebrate all month long :)


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Hangovers

Many moons ago in the time of Myspace, I blogged about the Hangover star ratings.
There were 6.

Well today I learned of the HANGOVER COOKBOOK by Milton Crawford, and they base remedies on P.G. Wodehouse's six types of hangovers, which first appeared in his book Jeeves and Wooster The Mating Season. Depending on the type of hangover you have, depends on the remedy.

Each hangover has its own characteristics:

The Broken Compass is punctuated by "a lack of direction and certainty."
Those suffering from the Sewing Machine repeatedly feel stabbing pains to the brain.
The Comet makes one feel disconnected from the body, akin to floating in space.
Atomic sufferers? Well, something has gone nuclear between their ears.
Cement Mixers are "queasy and uneasy," and those in the throes of the Gremlin Boogie are "destroyed, utterly destroyed."

I think this will be a must read for the upcoming Mimi birthday season that is upon us.

Herstory Inventory UPDATE

Looks like the little piece I did for Ulrike Muller's HERSTORY INVENTORY is on the move again. In her words:

Herstory Inventory will be presented in two exhibitions this spring: the first opening on April 20 at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, the second at the Brooklyn Museum on June 28. Then, over the summer, I am planning to put together a publication, in time for a book release party in September

Again I must thank Penny Boyer for reaching out to female artists that she knew to aide in Ulrike's vision. Ulrike started this before her residency at ArtPace back in 2010 and has been gathering small 8x10 pieces from female artists around the globe. It was a fun collaboration. She saw my website and then gave me 'an assignment' to which the finished piece is a reflection of said 'assignment'. I'm excied to be part of this GIANT collaboration...

Here is the recent press release:

Attached:
Press Release
Plakat
Announcement card
Maria Lassnig: Einen Hund besitzen (1975) - this amazing painting will be part of the exhibition
Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Dana Bishop-Root: A graphic of the Island of Lesbos with icons depicting different sites and tourist activities. - from Herstory Inventory, 2009-1012.
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Ulrike Müller (b. in Vorarlberg, lives and works in New York) bases her work on conceptual practices to engage with the sociopolitical potential of artistic activity. A central interest is her exploration of the ambivalences of contemporary gender constructions beyond binary categorizations of identity such as man/woman, hetero/homo. In addition to drawing, painting, video, sound works, and performance, collaborations with other cultural producers are a focus of her practice.

Her project Herstory Inventory presented for the first time at the KUB Arena has its point of departure in the Lesbian Herstory Archives, an independently organized archive in Brooklyn, New York, which seeks to document lesbian culture and history through publications and objects such as t-shirts, buttons, and flyers without nailing down the ephemeral nature of sub-cultural movements. While researching onsite Müller came across an inventory list of t-shirts compiled by an archive volunteer. Originally produced as codes between members of a community, these t-shirts express desires and political opinions and alliances, sometimes humorously, sometimes angrily. Their translation into lines of poetic text that describe in loving detail the images and graphic elements of the t-shirts collected since the 1970s is what underpins the work Herstory Inventory presented on the ground floor of the Kunsthaus.

The 5-channel audio installation of the same name goes back to a performative reading of the texts that Ulrike Müller gave together with the artists Nancy Brooks, Emma Hedditch, Zoe Leonard, and MPA in 2009. In the exhibition space the voices generate new associations among the various slogans. At the same time, the work pays homage to a polyphonic range of activist positions in feminist history.

In connection with this audio work Müller invited 100 internationally known artists to translate the textual descriptions into new pictures. Her invitation to rethink images from the history of feminism turns the inventory of the Lesbian Herstory Archives into a source and reference point for a wealth of artistic designs. In a wide range of styles, formats, and approaches, the pictorial translations of the texts enact personal attitudes toward lesbian feminist imagery, confronting them with their queer feminist actualizations. Against the backdrop of the history of the movement, drawing becomes an act of political engagement with the historical insignia, symbols, and positions of US lesbian feminist discourse.

The drawings are presented as part of an installation Müller developed specially for the KUB Arena. Alongside references to 1970s interiors, she has incorporated Maria Lassnig’s work “Einen Hund besitzen” (1975) from the KUB Collection into the exhibition. This self-portrait with German shepherd is an early example of Lassnig’s animal pictures that have kept appearing in her work since her stay in New York from 1968 to 1980.

The honey-yellow surface that spreads over the KUB Arena architecture opens a space in which individual and collective, artistic and curatorial, contemporary and past gestures interweave, challenging us to think creative action also in relation to sociopolitical issues. In Herstory Inventory, a project that impressively breaks down the traditional distinction between group and solo exhibitions, Ulrike Müller uses the archive as a catalyst for new artistic works. The historical starting points of the translations of the objects described in the archive collection are not something unambiguous and absolute here, but rather are versatile, adaptable points of reference that extend into the present.

The following events will take place in conjunction with the exhibition:
Saturday, May 5th
6pm film screening "Community Action Center" (A.K. Burns, A.L. Steiner)

Sunday, May 6th
3pm talk Ulrike Müller
4pm talk Johanna Schaffer
5pm talk Ann Cvetchovic


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Sinister

Another motion+image study...I am hoping to catch up on these little nuggets.
This one I decided to title 'Sinister'. I think it's pretty self-explanatory


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=iPmIUZdGCjM