New Waves 2012, TCC’s Annual Student Show and Marvelous Humans

Please click on New Waves 2012 for a nifty PDF mag catalog I created for VA MOCA to promote this year's New Waves exhibition! Here is the Facebook event page.

The opening is Thursday, March 22. I'm excited about this exhibition because my painting Seer was accepted, and I helped prepare the gallery by working as an intern for the staff at VA MOCA.

This month is also the annual student art show at Tidewater Community College. Two pieces of my student work, Focus and Wishful Thinking, will be hanging amongst all the other rad work from the school.

Also, early next month, I will participate in a group show, Marvelous Humans, at Articulated Gallery in San Francisco. The show was curated by Josh from Creepmachine, a contemporary art blog.

Instead of being just another circus freak show, Josh wanted to put together something different.

To quote his site, “Marvelous Humans” will be a group show with artwork inspired by the many human marvels that once lived or are alive today. This is not just another “sideshow” art show. I have always been inspired by people who were born with certain conditions and made the most of them. So instead of focusing on these people as “oddities”, as too many sideshows did throughout the years, I thought it was time for some art to be created that gave these people dignity.

I chose Millie La Mar, a woman born with albinism in the Victorian era, who later became part of a circus and created an act portraying herself as a psychic or mentalist, capitalizing or submitting, depending on your point of view, to the stereotype of albino’s being eerie or mystical.

I chose ink wash, gesso, and colored pencils rather than an oil painting to give her portrait an eerie distance and vintage feel.