Posts made in February, 2005
Inspired by Dog Blog
Happiness is…clearing a really big project off your desk, to free up the afternoon for art! Oh, and did I mention the sun is actually shining, and the swank new moniter for I got for Valentine’s Day is now hooked up… My muse came in on a parachute today. No, really I was looking at Michael Wertz’s Dog Blog and Wig Blog. It’s been a while since I’ve checked his...
Read MoreWhat Did I Buy?
Now that I’m back in procrastination mode, I thought I would spend some time listing things I bought while I was in New York. 1. Twenty-two different polka-dot fabrics at B&J Fabrics. Plus two batiks and a Japanese ikat. 2. Several art books: Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Jacob Baal-Teshuva Raw Vision: Outsider Art Sourcebook A book about Howard Finster 1916-2001 Artists & Prints:...
Read MoreUncle Tomoo
My yoga teacher says that we should dedicate our practice each day to something. Usually I have no idea, but yesterday I dedicated mine to my great-uncle Tomoo. I learned Tuesday that he died in his sleep. He was the second oldest in his family, my grandmother was the oldest. He, like the rest of my father’s family, was born in California, but was interned during WWII in Arkansas. Although...
Read MoreLast Days in New York
Finally back home after many delayed flights, I’m trying to decompress and absorb all the art we have seen. Unfortunately my appetite still doesn’t realize that I’m not walking 40-50 blocks a day… We spent Saturday traveling to Dia:Beacon, a huge museum that’s about an hour and half by train from Grand Central Station. A revamped factory, it opened in 2003 to house...
Read MoreMore Art in New York
Feb. 22, 2005: I added some art links that I just found to the post below. Another great day in New York. Russ had meetings, so I was free to roam around on my own. I visited the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Art and Design, but I like the other name better) for a really nice exhibit of Ruth Duckworth’s ceramic sculpture. The only thing that bothered me was, every one of her...
Read MoreAnti-Christo (Tiny Gates)
For those of you who haven’t had enough of Christo’s Gates (and maybe those who have) here’s a link to an artist’s installation called The Somerville Gates. Never having been to Somerville myself, I was told that it’s a densely populated place so the scale of the project is somewhat different than Christo’s.
Read MoreNYC Garment District
After messing around far too long with my blog because the archives weren’t working right, I took off to explore the NYC Garment District. I seem to make every trip I take into a mission and this time it was to find fabric. This is not new. Last fall I took a cab all the way across New Orleans to find the only quilt shop in town, and I wasn’t disappointed. The woman working there...
Read MoreVisiting Christo’s Gates
Yesterday we experienced Christo’s Gates in Central Park twice. Once before a lunch with the ISC, and then second time, after dark. In between we visited a fantastic exhibit of Tim Hawkinson at the Whitney (with a quick trip to the basement to buy something out of the Art-O-Mat machine), stopped by an Antony Caro gallery show, and had dinner in the back room of the Pearl, an oyster bar in...
Read MoreHappy Valentine’s Day!
Here’s a valentine I made today–no, actually I started it a couple of weeks ago. Then I stopped because I thought I would give Russ a drawing I’m working on called “The Garlic Eaters.” Then I decided he might not think that was very romantic (but really it will be in a strange way.) So I went back to the always successful, I Love You Heart theme. Here’s a...
Read MoreItsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny
Well, that answers that question. I was wondering how I would like working this small, but didn’t really like it. This it called In Bed with a Bad Cold, and it’s only 14″ x 9″. I had all kinds of trouble figuring out how to finish the edges without a binding and kind of made a mess of it. I should have waited for Melody to tell me how, but I had to finish this...
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I'm an artist who makes humorous quilts and drawings and shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with my husband who is also an artist and sculptor. You can also see more of my art at PamRuBert.com
