Tonight

Draw and Discover at Dusk @ the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.   Join the fun from 5:30-7:30pm. There will be art, sketching, and a cash bar.  whoop whoop.  Hope to see you tonight!

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April Subscriptions

acrylic and enamel on paper

acrylic and enamel on canvas

I'm on a landscape kick.  Click here to subscribe to me via Project Dispatch.  

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Friday (fine) art

202 Billboard Structures by Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell searches Google's maps for various satellite collections - billboards (shown above), swimming pools, parking lots, basketball courts, etc.  She says, "Though geographically they represent a vast (and fragmented) amount of landscape, the collections carry with them the feelings of smallness, vulnerability and nostalgia that I find inherent in satellite imagery."

For Christmas I bought my brother and sister-in-law a print of Odell's collection of 125 Stadiums (image below) from 20 x 200.  One thing I like most about her work is how she arranges the geographic landmarks to create a very graphic - and balanced- pattern.  At first it reads as an abstract design, but upon closer inspection, the subject matter is recognizable. 

I'm having one of those, "bah - why didn't I think of that" moments.  Oh well.  Good Job, Jenny Odell.  I like it.  

Have an awesome weekend,

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Hirshhorn & Sculpture Garden

bah! don't touch the artwork

What a fabulous day we had strolling around DC - posing for pictures at the Hirshhorn Contemporary Art Museum & Sculpture garden.

I heart art.

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Friday (fine) art: Elizabeth Holtry

Hissing Cousins, oil on canvas, 16x16"

I'm drolling over Elizabeth Holtry's recent paintings, now showing at Hillyer Art Space Feb. 3 -24.  They're fabulous.  Browse her website and droll with me. 

Have a great weekend,

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Project Dispatch Subscriptions

If you haven't heard the latest, my artwork, along with several other works from local artists, are available via subscription service.  There are different levels of subscriptions but the end result is an original work of art.  Check project dispatch's recent blog post to view the subscriptions from January.  I'm already excited for my February subscription.  Thanks Nick!

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Friday (Fine) Art

Multiplicity at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  It's a must see if you love printmaking.  I've walked the gallery four times so far and still discover details and marks worth my attention.



I couldn't decide which image to post (I have so many favorites), so here's a sampling...

Banshee Pearls by Kiki Smith

Seven Day Diary (Not Knowing), Day Five by John Cage

 Savasan 10 by David Shapiro

Have a great weekend!

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Gosh I love Google

The most awesomest website in the world was brought to my attention yesterday.  Thanks Wes!  Art Project by Google is a huge database of paintings within several of the world's most famous art museums.  It allows you to walk the galleries in London, Paris, NYC, and Berlin, all while you sip a cup of coffee on the couch.  And if that wasn't enough to give you goose bumps, then zooming in on a high res pic of Van Gogh's Starry Night WILL.

enjoy,
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Blue-eyed Mary

Blue-eyed Mary. oil on canvas. 5'x4'

The inspiration and subject for this piece was a doll owned by an elderly neighbor of mine. The doll is so striking if you were to see it in person....no higher than 3 inches, it is aged and dirty, ceramic and fragile...all of these aesthetic qualities form a tension that provoke questions or conversation about her. The painting may elicit your own personal memories from childhood, which often is a guiding interest and hopeful outcome when I create work.

I hope you like it,

Sheena

How could an iPhone change the world?

I asked this question to my 4th graders and they came up with the best ideas. Since the iPhone has consumed our culture, their task was to create apps for the iPhone that would change the world for the better.

Featured Apps:

Doodle (for everlasting art)

Bus (because 4th graders need to catch a bus)

Donate Food (to help others contribute)

Tree Growing (to promote a greener environment)

make new Art, but keep the old

Crushed, acrylic on panel, 2006

Recent Works

Layers, acrylic on fabric, 2008

First Day, oil on canvas, 2009

Unica, acrylic on map, 2009

Firestarter, chalk pastel on map, 2009

Little Bo Peep, mixed-media, 2009