Posts made in October, 2005
Bizarre Barbies
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, but for the last couple of years, we’ve been traveling too much to really go all out on decorations and parties. We used to have big costume parties at the studio, and to celebrate the creations of our adventurous guests, we gave away Bizarre Barbie Awards. No First, Second, or Thirds — just as many awards as we had time and supplies from...
Read MoreFour Seasons Bathroom
The whole Viking affair felt like being treated like royalty, but nothing says royalty like a really nice bathroom! The one at the Four Seasons Hotel where we were housed during the IQA festival was really posh — big, marbled and luxurious. Fancy little soaps, elegant fixtures, and even the toilet paper had little gold seals. BTW, I never thought about posting my potty pix, but I guess...
Read MoreEscape from the International Quilt Festival
“Help!! PaMdora and I are being held prisoner by a mysterious force field!” Just kidding, I think it’s some sort of tape barrier that is used to surround all the quilts at the International Quilt Festival going on in Houston right now, I suppose to keep the hoards from getting a little too touchy. We’re home now, and suffering a little art-overload after doing double duty...
Read MoreMichael James Exhibition
Taking the train to Providence to meet up again with Shane and Stacy was a beautiful ride on a rainy autumn afternoon. Stacy had to pick up art supplies for her students at the RISD bookstore, when she dropped a little bomb. “Oh we could drive up to Fuller Craft Museum to see the Michael James retrospective…” Holy cow, I had no idea we’d be the neighborhood! Do I know who...
Read Morevan Gogh at the Met
On Sunday Russ and I met some family to see a special exhibition of drawings by van Gogh at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that are rarely exhibited because they are fragile and sensitive to light. I would have rather gone on a weekday, because it was almost impossible to study or even see the drawings up close because the galleries were mobbed. But as Shane said, it was the opportunity of a...
Read MoreThe Best Bathroom of All
Saturday it was raining, so we didn’t go to Storm King as we had originally planned. Instead Russ and I went to Chelsea to the New Museum and then gallery hopping. I’d never been to these galleries, and we had a great time walking around in the rain, dodging into the ground level galleries along 22nd to 25th street. We had to stand in line to get into Feature Inc. who shows Tom...
Read MoreChelsea Art Museums
On Saturday we went to Chelsea, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art had a exhibition of Canadian artist Brian Jungen. He makes pretty amazing skeletons of dinosaurs out of plastic chairs and aboriginal masks from Nike shoes. Also in the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, I loved a series of drawings by San Antonio artist Katie Pell called “Mick” (as in Mick Jagger). It was the...
Read MoreNoguchi Museum
On Friday my friend True and I went to Long Island to see the Noguchi museum which had been closed for a long time to remodel. Once there it was worth the long trek. The museum used to be a factory that Noguchi made his studio when he lived in Manhattan, and the industrial space has been subtly converted into some profound spaces to view his stone sculptures. There’s also a new second...
Read MoreIllustration Friday: Cold
Ever go to a fancy cocktail party and not know who to talk to? Needless to say the atmosphere can feel a little chilly, if not downright COLD. So here’s my drawing this week. I was at such a party last night – a ritzy affair on the ninth floor of the New York City Athletic Club overlooking Central Park. It was an awards banquet to honor the lifetime achievements of sculptor Magdalena...
Read More20 Things about Me
Holly tagged me, so here goes — Twenty Things about Me. My favorite subject, of course! 1. In high school I accidently set fire to my junior class homecoming float. 2. One of my earliest memories is making snow angels. That’s where you lay on your back in freshly fallen snow and move your arms up and down to make a silhouette of an angel. 3. I was devastated to learn that pamcakes...
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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
