today's work: so i prayed
19 Sunday Jul 2009
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
today's work: persistence's patience
18 Saturday Jul 2009
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touchstone gallery august exhibition – 90 local artists
18 Saturday Jul 2009
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August 12 – September 4, 2009
”My Space on 7th”
featuring 90 local artists
Opening Reception: Friday, August 14, 6 – 8:30pm
This is the third year for My Space on 7th. It’s a unique, non-juried opportunity for local artists to exhibit at Touchstone Gallery. In a short time, My Space on 7th has become a gallery tradition. Due to proposed renovations for the 406 7th St building, this might be the last My Space on 7th.
The upcoming August exhibition, like the three before it, drew an immediate response. Most available spaces were chosen within hours after registration opened. My Space on 7th is designed to tap into two significant community needs: 1) to give local, often emerging, artists the rare opportunity to exhibit at a very low investment; and 2) to offer collectors the equally rare opportunity to view new and often reasonably priced work.
In these uncertain times, it is more important than ever to have a thriving local arts scene. Support your local artists and join us at My Space on 7th from August 12 though September 4, 2009.
Touchstone Gallery has been an artist-owned gallery for more then 30 years. The gallery moved in 1996 to its current spacious location at 7th and D Street, N.W., in downtown Washington. This 3000-plus square-foot location is based in the center of the art scene, and is a short walk from the recently renovated and reopened National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The National Gallery of Art.
Artists participating: Sangeeta Agrawal, Nataliya Andreyeva, Neyla Arnas, Keith Arnold, Olu Babalola, Crystal Banks, David Barr, Mark Behme, Pat Bennett, Gary Bergel, Olga Berman, Carl Bettenhausen, Harmon Biddle, Wendy Bridges, Marsha Brown, Kirstin L Bruner, Alza Burd, Pierre Cartier, Adam Chamy, Zhee Chatmon, Anne Cherubim, Rob Chester, Mark S. Chevalier, James Coates, Ceci Cole McInturff, Michele Cormier, Charlie Dale, Anthony Dortch, Matt Dunn, Derran Eaddy, Linda Elliff, Michelle Fatovic, Alex Feshenko, Kim Frietze, Kent Gay, Eric M. Ginsburg, Marcia Green, JoAnne Growney, Jackie Hoysted, Sandra Humphrey, Carin A. Jackson, Jessica Jastrzebski, jodi, Linda Keller, David Korte, David A. Kosar, Radha Krishnakumar, Mary D. Lambert, Paula Lantz, Emery J. Lewis, Mary Mallia, Frank M. Mancino, Amy Marshall, JoAnn McInnis, Ivan Mendizabal, Mark Mennie, Anita Merina, David Mills, Del Moran, Kiran Mukunda, Carlos Munoz, Natalie Oguara, Mary D. Ott, Samuel Pastore, Wendy Plotkin-Mates, Keith Ramsey, Juvale Regala, Marina Reiter, Neil Rogers, Pam Rogers, Julia Rosenbaum, Deborah Saks, Zakhar Sasim, Peter Schechter, Charles A. Sessoms, Amelia Shachoy, Paul Sharratt, Janathel Shaw, Raju Singh, John Sislin, Destry Sparks, Aaron Spindler, Isabelle Spicer, Ulrich Stein, Elena Tchernomazova, Dana Thompson, Sally ShangMing Tsou, Caroline Urbania, Susan Van Pool and Monica Wise.
Images: Ralph Heydlauf, 1990 by Mark Mennie, Camel Head #2 by Pierre Cartier, WALKAWAY & RED SIGN by Keith Ramsey, Textur5B by jodi, Implicated, irritated and Embarrassed by Pam Rogers and Red Houses by Michele Cormier
Ksenia Grishkova, Director
TOUCHSTONE GALLERY
406 7th St NW 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: 202-347-2787
Fax: 202-347-3339
www.touchstonegallery.com
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 11-5 Sat-Sun 12-5
E-mail: info@touchstonegallery.com
or touchstonegallery@verizon.net
Press_Release_My Space_On_7th_August_2009.doc
today's work: lady luck
18 Saturday Jul 2009
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storefront window displays
17 Friday Jul 2009
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Periodically we take a walk around to look at what’s new in visual merchandising displays. Tonight we were at Hallmark in Alexandria and here’s some of what we saw. Hope it serves as inspiration to you.
today's work: the god of my art
17 Friday Jul 2009
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featured art journalist: liyin yeo's designer in pajamas
17 Friday Jul 2009
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art journals, battlefield of the mind, bible illustration, cartoon, christian illustration, color, creative industry, daily life, daler-rowney aquafine watercolour, design, designer in pajamas, gideon, graphic designer, illustrations, joyce meyer, judges 6:22, kuala lumpur, lamy safari charcoal fountain pen, layout, liyin yeo, malaysia, moleskine diary, noodler's ink, parable of the sower, penmanship, sketchbooks, steadtler karat aquarell watercolor pencils, visual diaries
I am just crazy head over heels in awe of Liyin Yeo’s journaling work. I first found Liyin on her blog, Liyin The Designer In Pajamas. You can see her art journaling work on Flickr here. Liyin’s a trained and qualified graphic designer by profession with 10 years of experience in the creative industry and her role has also been expanded into the area of illustration. Liyin is also currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her art journals are honest interpretations of her daily life (most all sketched on a Moleskine daily diary notebook). Not only do I love the color and especially the penmanship, but also the layouts. Here’s a page from July 15, 2009 – materials used include: Lamy Safari Charcoal fountain pen with Noodler’s Ink – Polar Black, Steadtler Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, Daler-Rowney Aquafine watercolour pocket set + Daler Rowney White Acrylic, Moleskine pocket diary.
Here’s a page from June 20, 2009. It was an art material and book shopping day for Liyin. She got herself two books on drawing and watercolour and found herself an A3 sized portfolio bag she had been looking for for quite sometime, by chance, in an art shop in KL! On this page she decided not to redraw with black ink like she usually does, but she went on to render it with watercolours over the pencil outlines. She quite likes the result of the watercolour effect without black outline. Tool and media used: Lamy Safari Charcoal fountain pen with Noodler’s Ink – Polar Black, Daler-Rowney Aquafine watercolour pocket set + Daler Rowney White Acrylic, Moleskine pocket diary.
Liyin has an interest in Christian scripture and I’ve reposted her April 2009 entries which in my mind, are just beautifully executed. Here’s what she says: I illustrated a scene I pictured in my mind when I read the story of Gideon in the Bible which is found in the book of Judges 6:22–24. Also I bought a book by Joyce Meyer, ‘Battlefield of the Mind’, a book written and meant for women. I was at the restaurant when I was reading the topic on ‘When is my mind normal?’ from ‘Battlefield of the Mind’ book and started jotting down notes. It is one powerful book! I picked up a few books at the MPH Warehouse sale nearby my house. Caught up with Nick Quah, an old friend from college, after so many years after graduated. Parable of the sower – is an illustration I did with a local Malaysian style of farmer and village. Tools and media: Lamy Vista fountain pen with Noodler’s Ink – Polar Black, Derwent Inktense watersoluble colour pencils, Staedtler Karat Aquarell watercolour pencils, Daler-Rowney white acrylic, Dalon brush, Raphaël Red Sable #6 brush, Moleskine pocket diary.
endorsement for lange arts advisory
16 Thursday Jul 2009
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“Exponential thanks to Shauna Lee Lange (the juror of this exhibit) for such gracious reactions to morally complex works …
for unusual abilities of appreciation and understanding of the process, and reading beyond the surfaces - giving over to the voices in each text in order to unravel intermingled messages, thought passages, the risky side of possibility and the vagaries of human contemplation…
for her DESIRE for art, itself – that matches and encourages the artist by its strength – gives added strength, enabling the imagination to fly.”
Carol M. Dupre, Artist - July 2009
artists need to play
16 Thursday Jul 2009
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art and play, art and work, art coach, artist advice, artist attitude, dr. stuart brown, experimentation, fascination, imagination, play, play as meaning, play as mental health, play as natural world, preventing burnout, recreation, work
All artists need to play. But I’m too busy working you say. Play and work aren’t necessarily separate categories of activity because both are connected with self-concept, a sense of meaning and purpose. Artists who can increase their awareness of work and play issues may be able to change their attitude.
Imagine life as joyful experimentation. Imagine growing your fascination with anything in the environment – where there is an unlimited reign of imagination and where you as the artist has the freedom to be silly or to be wrong.
Play is necessary to prevent burnout and that includes self-care, nutrition, exercise, a supportive environment, and allowing your inner child to ask for what it wants. A six year old can be a demanding little being, just acclimating to the world – but did you know that a six year old laughs nearly 300 times a day?
Fun experimentation, fascination, imagination, trying out new things, trying on new things, reestablishing your natural balance, doing what nutures you and using recreation as RE-creation will do the trick.
You think play is all silly nonsense? Take a few minutes to listen to the words of Dr. Stuart Brown and see how play is mirrored both in mental health and in the natural world here. Remember play is a dimension of wellness. Increase yours today and play.
visarts in rockville: new media, no boundaries open call
16 Thursday Jul 2009
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Deadline: September 25, 2009. VisArts at Rockville (an innovative art center in the Washington DC Metropolitan Region) is seeking works of art that use new media and technology to eliminate psychological or physical boundaries; and, challenge a gallery’s role as mediator between artworks and viewers. New media and technology have the power to eliminate conventional, artistic boundaries. Interactive art, for example, encourages viewers to complete the artwork by actively transforming it visually and conceptually. Artwork can be exhibited remotely, with only the concept (rather than the physical object) in a gallery. Likewise, a viewer may experience a work of art even if they are not in the gallery with the object. Works considered: Artwork with at least one component that uses an electrical and/or battery power source, and created in the past three years. The work does not have to be a physical, gallery object. For more information or to apply, go to www.visartscenter.org and click on the link in the Exhibition menu.
