This is a little get together/open studio and you are welcome to roll by and say ‘hi’. We will have some drinks and snacks. DM me for addy. See you there.
Joe Socks 2024. Ink and dirt on paper. I will be making a linocut/silkscreen print of this one.
#art #gothart #contemporaryart #inkdrawing #horses #drawing #draw #darkart #darkhumor #printmaking
Our pumpkin arrived 🎃 Fidelia Patience Chen-Neumann was born on September 6, 2024 in the most dramatic fashion. My water broke around 9:30pm, I went from 3cm to fully dilated in an hour, and she came out in BREECH position just after midnight in a precipitous delivery at my childhood home in Monterey Park (where we moved three months ago).
Fidelia is the name of Michael’s great-grandmother and Patience is the word I was thinking of during early labor when I was telling baby to stay put for another week so that I could attend Getty PST openings 😂 At the precise moment when I was negotiating with this wee terrorist, I felt her kick incredibly hard, which I later realized was her flipping into breech position, despite having spent weeks head down. I guess she really wanted to come into the world butt first 🐣
Thank you to my midwife Hiroko @bluewillowbirth for helping make this home birth possible! Having a vaginal breech birth in a hospital is already super rare in the USA; it’s practically unheard of to do so at home. I am incredibly grateful I was able to have the safe, low intervention birth experience I wanted. I also realize this is a huge privilege, and it reaffirms much of what I have learned through my own art practice and research on reproductive health: that outcomes are better when we give people agency over how and if they give birth.
Thanks to everyone who has already sent blessings, food, diapers, etc! We can’t wait for baby to meet you ❤️
Wow! It’s been a month since we moved from Berkeley to Los Angeles. I managed to get a lot of art works I had done over the recent year on the wall of my 4th street studio for a final shot. It was a great little space and I look forward to making work in the studio and friends in LA.
I found this today while on visiting the gym from the west coast. I got this card when I started training Muay Thai at Stout in the Strip during my 2nd year of graduate school, as a way to deal with the stress of school, improve and challenge myself, find friends and deal with a family loss. I was welcomed in treated like I belonged there. I gave it all I had and it saved me from drowning. I miss the team, members, coaches and staff. Thank you. I hope to be back soon
Honored to share Wide Open, a collaboration with printmaker Tony Clough (@tonyclough ) of @seriopress , published by the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art in a new book project featuring the 2020 CMU School of Art cohort.
It’s been such a pleasure to work with one of my oldest friends on this lens-based contemplation of the American southwestern landscape.
With gratitude to CMU School of Art (@cmuschoolofart ), Miller ICA (@millericacmu ), and the 2020 MFA cohort (@yejincolor@paper_buck@tsohilbhatia@jamisonkh4@talya_petrillo ).
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When the School of Art’s 2020 MFA thesis show was abruptly cancelled just 14 days before it was scheduled to open, the graduating class was left with a choice: abandon their unfinished projects and mount a hastily-organized online exhibition of old work, or re-envision what an art thesis could be. Choosing the latter, the students set out on an ambitious two-year book project in which they each worked with an established artist, curator, or scholar. This slow and considered approach gave the six graduates the time to process the monumental global upheaval of the pandemic and to either consider how their work is understood in new lights or to create new work that responds to this specific moment in our history.
The book, which is published by the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art and titled the thing that happens when the thing that is supposed to happen does not happen, includes essays, interviews and dialogues, and visual conversations between two artists’ works. By creating these pairings, this book creates a nuanced view of each student’s art practice within larger social and cultural contexts of our time. Not only do these pairings provide key context for the work of the emerging artists of the 2020 MFA cohort, they provide new insights into established artists’ practices.
