Airport the Series

Tarmac

Seat 41A

Airport Security

Airport Food

Airport Coffee

Airport Bar

Airport Bar after Boarding

Airport is a collection of drawings I completed onsite at the Sydney International airport. What's a girl to do during an eight hour layover but get some work done! Each is a 6"x10" pastel and charcoal sketch on gessoed roofing paper. (They are for sell at http://www.rowdystudios.etsy.com/ if you are in the market for some art).

Just kidding...THIS is my final-final.

BB Does Up the Day of the Lord, NZ-style...

Hot damn thinks BB, it's a beaut of a day...let's do this Sunday up right!

BB stops to smell the yellow flowers. Delicious.

BB kicks it in the hood with Seb.

"Don't worry little chick...I've got your back." BB does some crime fightin'.

Hells yes.

Time to tend to bidness, BB is Ameria bound in 9 days. 7 hour layover in Sydney, say what!

BB says, pack it up pack it in! She also wonders how she has accumulated so much shit...hmmm...

Let's not forget this is Sunday...time for BB to hang with Barbie Computer and Gregory Issacs.

Sem. 2 Studio Final

Nine more days left of year uno/semester dos. Holy s**tballs! CANNOT, I repeat...CANNOT believe it. I will actually be on American soil for the final hand-in but my work will be left in beyond capable hands in my absence. If I had to sum up my NZ experience in one word it would hands down be...humbled. I'm simply grateful that I've survived, everything else is gravy.

baby

Cube

Tired, Trite, & Redundant: Household Appliances/Windows in Walls

Maybe I've read too much Bukowski and listened to too much Pink Floyd and I'm being as big of an asshole as I'm capable of being and this is really a big F.U. to conceptuality or maybe it is the most genuine work I've ever made and I'm too self-conscious to let you know that. Regardless, I know drawing images that represent household appliances to explore the notion of home it trite, do you?

SoFA Crit

So long School of Fine Art crit week. Two comments that stand out the most from my crit: it is following a journey...spot on, I mean they ARE maps and all and the second and I quote, "Maps are euroccentric." and then the student spent the rest of time staring out of my studio window. So onward I go...

Step Inside My Mind...

Childhood Floor Plan & Sparrows (in-progress)

4 weeks left of the semester and then I'm America-bound for the summer...I mean winter...I'll just say Christmas break. I sanded and painted the studio walls in preparation for the next crit and the work I'll be showing is done and hung. I then had a full-on OCD session and mega-organized my space. I pulled out the sparrow work from last semester and it was interesting to see it against the latest work. So I thought, hey, let's marry (gross) the two semester's together...sparrows meet floor plan, floor plan meet sparrows. I'd have to say that Childhood Floor Plan & Sparrows is conceptually the epitome of my research. Take that mind art!!!

Spatial Experiments

Landscape Made From Walls

Flat House

Photo House

Pink House

7th Panel

Maps. Check.

So I've got 6 weeks till I head to the mighty U.S. of A. Ah, the motherland. So I'm in high gear. Map paintings. Done and done. The bottom 3 are taken from satellite aerial views of Beverly (Mesa, AZ), 13th Street (Phx, AZ), and Moxham Ave. (Hataitai, NZ). These most recent abodes have been lived in (and currently living in) during a rough patch of my life. Don't worry, I'm healing and making these has helped.

Next, finish the 7th and final panel to the Home Series (a.k.a. continuous paintings). About half way done with that one. Then...construct a seminar for Theory class explaining my research and practice and finally write a 3000 word research essay. No sweat, right?

Testing, testing, one, two, three...

That's right folks, more testing. This time was in the Engine Room which is a gallery space at school that had a couple of days of availability. Man, there's nothing I like to do more than to load up a cart full of big ass paintings and drag them around campus. So that is what I did. The lighting in the space is beyond stellar as you can see from the photo below.

(This is what the lighting from heaven is like.)

So as in the other test space I arranged and arranged again and came up with this configuration. You could see a painting (front and back) from every angle and the lovely cardboard pieces are place holders for other canvas ideas I had in mind. Above would be the entrance view.

Another angle.

Ya know, after two days of moving these poor paintings around and over and up and down, I came to the conclusion that I'm just sticking to the wall. I think there is def potential but these arrangements were an after thought and if I'm going to show the backs of the canvases then I want them just as proper as I treated the fronts. I like the idea of them resembling a childhood theatre set and may carry on with the idea next year.

The arranging of the paintings was taking precedence over the painting itself and I don't know how I feel about that yet. Whats so wrong with bein' old skool? Conceptual art - you cannot have my soul!

Framed up Childhood Floor Plans came along for the Engine Room party and I'm working on three more for this series. Below is the 7th and final (yeah right) canvas panel to the Home Series. It is made up of 3 panels.

(IN-PROGRESS, I REPEAT...IN-PROGRESS)

Childhood Home Floorplans...check.

Floorplans 4 & 5

I killed them. There is so much going on that it makes me itchy to look at them. See ya 4 & 5.

Floorplans 1, 2, & 3

2 & 3 had some 3D stuff going on but I cured that with a couple of whacks with a ball peen hammer. Ahhhh...sweet 2D - how I love you so.

Floorplan 1 Paulxy

Floorplan 2 Pamela

Floorplan 3 Edgehill

Night Gig

This is my night job. I make mini houses outta stuff in my room and in the front yard.

In Yo Face with The Home Series

So the painting portion of The Home Series is complete, now time to finalize the installation setup for next Wednesday's critique. As of now I'm sticking to the arrangement at the end of my last post. I'm interested to hear the feedback and see how it changes the layout of the paintings. Below are the six paintings that make up the series. Apparently I read in Arabic because painting #1 is on the far right and painting #6 is on the far left. Don't judge me, numbers are not my strength...

Home Series One, oil, 48"x24"

This is a black shag. In his belly is the floor plan of my first childhood home (Paluxy, TX).

Home Series Two, oil, 48"x48"

The chair comes from a photo I took in Ohakune, NZ. It sits on the front porch of a great holiday home there. The landscape comes from a pic I took at Castle Point, NZ, and the cactus is there because I woke up one morning, sat up in bed, and immediately thought..."I need to paint a cactus in the bottom right-hand corner of the chair painting." Its totally representin' AZ.

Home Series Three, oil, 48"x30"

The view through the window is of Titahi Bay in Porirua, NZ which was my first place of residence when I arrived here. I lived there for a couple of weeks before moving to Wellington. And that is a copperhead. New Zealand has no snakes. Texas and Arizona have heaps.

Home Series Four, oil, 48"x36"

Most people get hearts in their eyes and say...awwww...two little lovebirds on the bed, which is fine with me but they are actually two ring-necked doves from my childhood. Ma and I had them for rollin' up on a dozen years and then our dog Jet ate them. Not long after that we had to put Jet to sleep. (Medical reasons not cuz he was a dove eater). Underneath the bed is another childhood floor plan.

Home Series Five, oil, 48"x24"

I give to you a ring of Silvereyes. I see them every so often on my way to school and they make my heart very happy. The image came from a photo my friend took at her house in Upper Hut after it had snowed. Beautiful shot - thanks Rebecca!

Home Series Six, oil, 48"x36"

Well of course this is a painting of two sandhill cranes, cherry tomato plants, and a place setting for one. Duh. What else would I paint?