I will have a couple of events coming up this summer, and I'd love to see you there. First I will have a piece in this year's Artist's Vision Exhibit at the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. To my understanding this is one if not the largest art festival in the state. It runs from June 26-28, and it's kind of a big deal. Second I'll be one of the featured artists at Blackfish Gallery's Recent Graduates Exhibition in Portland. This one means a lot to me because I was nominated by the art faculty at Western Oregon University to represent the school. I'm always kind of shocked when I get recognized for my work. I don't know that I'll ever get over that feeling. It's not really self-deprecating, it's just that to me, my work is just work. There's nothing special, in my mind, about what I'm doing because I'm the one doing it. I'm proud of it, I even like some of it, but I don't consider it to be something extraordinary. The best analogy (or more appropriately simile) I can offer is my work is like pages of a book that I'm still writing. I don't feel like it's a final draft yet, and I may never feel that way and that's actually a good thing. Still, getting praise for something that I don't feel is done is kind of odd. But a lot of my work has a feeling of being incomplete and not quite resolute, so maybe that's just messing with my head. Or maybe I'm over thinking it.... On second thought, Yay Me!! | |
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