Happy New Year from the house studio at Casa Corteza! We here at studiOmnivorous have been doing the usual New Year-style revelries: travel (and I’m excited to share those soon), friends, family, and a lot of sleeping.
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It’s been a busy week so far here at the house studio at Casa Corteza: prepping materials, work, and artists for the Works in Progress show scheduled for tomorrow has kept us on our toes! There’s a whole series of posts waiting to be written
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Being an artist, it doesn’t matter if you’re left-handed or right-handed, because realistically, each of us works with two hands: the obsessive hand, and the critical hand. Which is your dominant hand?
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A fundamental part of being an artist is, as my friend Lain likes to say, “making work and showing work.” The first can be tough enough, but the second, while equally beneficial, is almost as hard. The decision to show in exhibitions forces you to define a body of work and create a coherent visual,…
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Prius Project, Day Six: Touches
Continue Reading →Prius Project, Day Five: Studio Intensive
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Day Four: Spray paint testing, design layouts, and stencils, stencils, stencils.
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Day Three of the Prius Project: Production Today was a heavy production day here at our studio in Casa Corteza, building the basic structure of the sculpture, structurally planning, and creating elements to include as embellishments for the hanging chandelier. ReachNash specified that the chandelier shouldn’t light up: they’re doing exciting things with Global Inheritance so that kinetic…
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Forgive me (or rejoice, one of two) for today’s briefer-than-normal post, the first of a short series: Over the last week I was approached by ReachNash to create hanging sculpture and painted elements to travel with Toyota’s Prius v and Free Yr Radio music festival tents.
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I’ve written briefly before about my simultaneous fascination and frustration with the commonly held (and oftentimes promoted) perception of the “Art(ist) as Magic.” As a persona, it’s exciting, mysterious; pretentious, elitist; showy but humble; true and false. The juxtaposition of contradictions seems to “fit” the artist, but is it a good fit?
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