Miles to go but here are some more tight-cropped views of the same acrylic on metal piece I showed you last week. Now, who’ll be the first to tell me they liked it better before? There may be a prize involved! Line forms to the right. No pushing, no cutting!
Three more pics after the jump! Read more »
Bubblegum Icon
Stephanie Gerolimatos & Mark Bodah
26 x 21 inches
durabond, wire mesh, acrylic, dryer hose, foil, pink flocking
You know how it is when you start a piece and everything seems fine for a while and then somewhere along the way you realize you’re just not feeling it? Sometimes, the answer is to ignore it for a bit and come back later with a fresh perspective. Sometimes the answer is to chuck it in the dumpster. And sometimes the answer is to leave it for dead in your friend’s studio until she decides to try and resuscitate it McGuyver-style with some aluminum foil and pink flocking. Option number three is how “Bubblegum Icon” was born. When my pal Mark Bodah abandoned this piece I just couldn’t stand to let it die a peaceful, dignified death. Well I mean, it was sitting there all bones and pale as a ghost. So like a well meaning mother, I force fed the child til it was fat and rosy. Remember, it’s the thought that counts.
To see a detail photo of Mark’s and my bastard love child, please follow the jump! Read more »
Four more paintings from the Passing February series. *Three of them after the jump.
3.5 x 5 inches
encaustic on panel
Technically, it’s still summer for what? Just over a week right? Yeah. Well, as true as that is, I’m just not feelin’ it. The past few days have been downright chilly here in Western Mass. Last night, I snuggled up under a down comforter to keep warm. Pedaling home from a bike ride the other day, I watched a smattering of bright yellow leaves fall to the ground. Crap! I’m not ready for autumn yet! Our extended cold, wet spring barely left time for any serious summer weather. I hardy even had time to complain about the blistering heat! Grrr… I’m angry.
However, in a conscious effort to be a more positive person, I’m attempting to quell my displeasure by concentrating on all the fabulous facets of fall. Lists are useful, right? (Nevermind the growing collection of undone To-Do Lists scattered randomly around my abode.) Let’s make a list!
Fabulous Facets of Fall Read more »
acrylic, red flocking and gold leaf on panel with three holes
holes are lined with red foam-backed velour
24 x 16 inches
It’s all about the circles lately. But why? I dunno. Maybe it means I’m travelling in circles, spinning my wheels, never really getting anywhere. Maybe it means I’m particularly centered and approaching wholeness and enlightenment. Maybe I just really really like the gesture required to draw a circle, the circle’s symmetry and simplicity, and the flexibility afforded by the shape.
At any rate, click read more to see more photos after the jump. Oh, and as usual, all pics will enlarge when clicked. Read more »
SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO
Director: Joaquin Baldwin
I found this animation here on The National Film Board of Canada’s YouTube channel. They also have a website where you can watch tons of documentaries, animations and alternative dramas all for FREE!
Happy Weekend!
-Steph Gerolimatos
The gallery reception on Saturday night was lots of fun! The art, which was even more exciting than I’d expected, found a perfect setting in the refined but not overly slick space that is Wunderarts. The gallery, a beautifully transformed former auto parts shop, has a high-ceilinged, wide open interior that is partitioned by a simple configuration of low movable walls. The overall effect is neutral and elegant with definite spatial character–the sort of place you walk into and say, “What a great space!”. In Tulay’s series of charcoal, pastel and ink abstracted drawings he uses geometric forms suggestive of architectural elements against renderings of sky to define ambiguous moody spaces where form and formlessness shift seamlessly. The drawings, which were all cleanly floated on white mat backgrounds within narrow white shadowbox frames, manage to suggest both interior and exterior space within a single composition. Tulay stuck to a limited palette of black, grey, white and either warm or cool blue for every work. As I’m a sucker both for art that finds that sort of wonderfully tense balance between representation and abstraction and art that successfully uses a minimal color scheme, I found myself contemplating whether the soon to be new half a roof for my little old house could wait another few months so that I could hang this diptych in my living room:
charcoal/pastel diptych 22″ x 60″
Reality won so as of 9:00 Saturday night this gem was still available at a very reasonable price.
I didn’t manage to get many decent photos as my camera blows in anything but perfect light conditions. So in lieu of posting a bunch of dark, blurry pictures, I’m going to point you all to the artist’s site where you can see his work in as full glory as pixels on a monitor Read more »
oil on canvas, wood, burlap
stuffed with feathers
23 x 45 inches
The Red Crescent
click for larger pic
In my Benedryl-induced haze I nearly forgot to post today. This is an old piece I started way back in ’97 and didn’t finish until about 2000 or 2001. It was one of those works that goes through a million different transformations before ending up in a place where it finally feels finished. Read more »
That’s the title for another series I’m working on.
Sunshine Pseudopods and Minidramas 4
24 x 18″
acrylic and oil on canvas
These paintings are about gestures and suggested relationships. The work I’d been doing for years had sort of dropped gestural mark-making in favor of all over crunchy textural surfaces that provided a space to feature simple sculptural elements such as a row of nails or an opening in a canvas with contrasting fabric behind it. The color and tone of that work tended to be somber. Ok using the past tense there is a little misleading since I’m actually still working in that vein, too. I can’t seem to close veins, just open new ones. That being the case, let’s assume I’m using a mining analogy and not referencing human anatomy when I say vein.
more pics and yapping after the jump Read more »
Fabulous is the word that comes to mind.
Bob Barker – Original Art Oil Painting
Created on 2007
Original: Hand made sculptured, painted & signed by Gerald L. Sabatini – Artist.
32.0″H X 27.5″W X 2.0″D
15 LB.
And when I say need, I mean I may shatter into a bazillion tiny particles and dissolve into the universe if I don’t get it. Such is my desire. So please, if any of you out there with an extra $3,500,000.00 in your pocket care an ounce for my existence, I beg you. Please make my life worth living with this magnificent gift.
The above description was borrowed from the ebay listing where this masterpiece is being offered. I know what you’re thinking. you’re wondering if the seller has more art for sale. OH yeah.
with love,
-Steph Gerolimatos
acrylic on floated panel
19 x 11 inches
detail pics after the jump
I finished this a couple of days ago and managed to get some decent photos during one of the lovely sunny mornings we had this week. This is number 8 in the series.
ramblings and detail shots after the jump
here’s a valentine for all of you. i hope you all enjoy a sickeningly saccharine day filled with grotesque amounts of everything you love!
- Steph G <3<3<3
p.s. the valentine is a detail of a real piece of art which you can see in full after the jump. and, as always, click click for the big one! xo
This fabulous gentleman makes musical instruments out of food–mostly vegetables. On his Youtube channel, you can watch and listen to him performing such delightful tunes as “London Bridge Is Falling Down” on a Carrot, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” on a pepper and “Silent Night” on a daikon radish. The vid below features his stunning rendition of “Angels We Have Heard On High” on a broccoli.
Here’s his own description as an introduction:
“A big broccoli ocarina can have been done. The tune is “Angels We Have Heard On High. ” My wife is accompanying it.“
If you enjoyed that, you should really check out the rest of his videos. There are over 40 in all, including an instruction vid for making your own carrot ocarina. In some of the performances he’s also accompanied by his adorable little daughter. Great stuff!!!
-Steph Gerolimatos
encaustic on panel
6 x 4″ (or thereabouts)
click for enlargeable pic
hope you’re all having a nice weekend so far. i’m thinking of heading out to see some art. if i see anything blog-worthy i’ll be sure to let you know.
later,
-Steph G
photo from the MASS MoCA website
Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture and Paintings
through October 2009
MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA
An Anselm Kiefer work up close and in the flesh is nothing short of monumental both in scale and in it’s awe-inspiring presence. My knowledge of this was happily refreshed a couple of months back when I finally made it to the Kiefer exhibition at Mass MoCA. The show was just as gorgeous, exquisite and overwhelming as I expected.
There was one point when I was looking at one of the newer enormous field landscapes with the scattered blooms which initially felt very bleak. There were three of them, one on each wall at the far end of a long room with lots of late afternoon sunlight pouring in through a grid of windows at the opposite end. All of a sudden Read more »
As I was scanning art blogs today I happened upon artist Joanne Mattera’s blog entry Where’s The Bailout for the Arts? in which she makes mention of a petition aimed at convincing President Obama to create a new position–Secretary of the Arts. The petition was created and written by Jaime Austria after hearing Quincy Jones tell John Schaefer in a November interview on WNYC’s Soundcheck, “…next conversation I have with President Obama is to beg for a Secretary of Arts”. So far the petition has 114212 signatures.
So what do you think? Do you agree with Q? Will you be signing the petition or not?
still playing with hot wax…
As usual, click the images for enlargeable pics.
a WIP
10 x 8 inches
encaustic with glass lens on panel
and 2 little finished paintings
both 7 x 5 inches
encaustic on panel
-Steph Gerolimatos
NPR doesn’t usually interfere with my art making. but tonight, i’m blaming Melissa Block for curtailing today’s studio session. her interview with Petri Purho sent me almost immediately to my computer.
Purho, a 25-year-old independent games designer from Finland has released for sale this week what i’m predicting will be the biggest time-eater i’ve encountered in a good long while. it’s a computer game called “Crayon Physics Deluxe”. the object of the game is to find a way to send a little red ball rolling or flying or bouncing into a golden star. you do this by drawing objects that are then animated and behave according to the laws of physics. you’re presented with ever more complex problems that you must solve with the aid of a crayon and your imagination. the game was inspired by Crockett Johnson’s children’s book “Harold and the Purple Crayon” in which Harold, armed with a purple crayon, draws himself an adventure that comes to life.
the game is downloadable for only $19.95. oh, and i forgot to mention, it won the 2008 Independent Games Festival grand prize. not convinced you want it? you can start by downloading a free demo.
here’s a vid to make up for my poor explanation.
i spent the first day of the new year working with encaustic. here’s the day’s finished product.
*Clickable for larger image*
encaustic on panel
about 8.75 x 4 inches
since it’s been freezing here lately and i rely on two little space heaters to warm my studio, i’ve decided now is a good time to concentrate on working with hot wax. as long as the temp stays so low that i can see my breath when i go in to turn the heaters on in the morning, you can expect to see more new encaustic works (and probably little else) from me.
-Steph Gerolimatos
well YES, this time it is!
I came across Anna The Red’s Bento Factory blog while perusing art related blogs here on WordPress. Anna is a visual artist who makes the most adorable, impressively crafted Japanese lunch boxes ever! She creates everything from farm animals to anime characters out of healthy, delicious looking food. Her most recent bento features a parade of edible characters from Maurice Sendak’s childrens book Where the Wild Things Are!
my attitude toward holidays is generally a positive one. any reason to celebrate, be merry and eat a ton of great food is A-OK by me! this year, however, i had trouble getting into the spirit for many a reason (the craptastic weather, a cold that continues to knock me on my ass, a roof in sudden need of repair, scant funds, etc.). still, xmas turned out to be lovely overall.
two days prior, the fact that we still hadn’t gotten a tree wasn’t helping my piss-poor holiday attitude and so ingenuity took over. “make due with what you have” is the saying that comes to mind when describing my solution to our lack of festive home adornment. setting aside illness and exhaustion, i set to work cleaning, arranging and rearranging bits of the living room into a celebratory-friendly setting. with the television, rocking chair and various other stuff moved out of the way and into a reasonable semblance Read more »
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