Follow my Art! Featured Artist Show at Idaho Banking Company Locations in Boise Idaho
This is the first post for my new little project. I downloaded the picplz app for my Evo 4G phone. It takes a picture and figures out the location of that picture and than loads that info into Google maps so when you are looking at the link you will see the location that picture was taken at and could go see it in person. I will update this often so that you can see new public pieces when they go on display. I was asked to be the featured artist by the Idaho Banking Company for the Boise area. They have four branches in and around Boise and I have a wall sculpture (or more) in every one of the branches. I hung my weaved copper art as well as a few of my form folded copper wall sculptures last week took pictures using the picplz service. It was a lot of fun and I thought it would be a good idea to post links here so that you could see all of the pieces in the various locations.
This particular show has 8 pieces on display right now. All of these have reclaimed/recycled copper some include reclaimed stainless steel and reclaimed zinc. Most of the pieces int his show are my Weaved metal art style though some of them have either elements of Form Folding or they are entirely Form Folded copper art. This show runs through the end of January 2011.
Click on Image of OpusSixtyNine to see location of this piece on Picplz (Shows the piece plus a Google map locator.
Click on Image to see location of OpusEighty on Picplz (Google maps)
Click on Image to see location of OpusSeventy on Picplz (Google Maps)
Click on image to see location of OpusEightyEight on Google Maps
Click on Image to see Location OpusOneHundredTen on Goggle Maps (This one is at the Idaho Banking Company location in Eagle, Idaho)
Click on image to see location of OpusEightyEight on Google Maps
Click on Image to see location of OpusOneThirtyFour on Google Maps
Click on Image to see location of OpusOneTwenty on Google Maps
Playing around with a scrap I created this Christmas Ornament
I was working on a piece I plan on submitting to the Springville Museum of Art annual Religious show (I am creating a burning bush) when one of the scraps from that piece inspired me and I created this cool piece. I think it would make a great Christmas tree ornament. I am a member of the Park City Professional Artists Association and they have an annual fund raiser where they sell ornaments. I plan on donating a few of these to them but I will also have these available at both of my galleries (District Gallery in Park City, UT and Gallerie Belle Ame in Eagle, ID) I am still working on getting my Etsy Account up and running but I think these would be perfect on there. I think these little art pieces would be great on a tree cause they would reflect light from the tree.
The first Christmas Tree Ornament I have ever created.
Another view with different lighting.
Same one different light again.
Opus Seventy Eight
This is a movement in a totally new direction for me as an artist. I have told people for a long time that my art is “art for art’s sake” and that it does not represent anything. Then I did OpusSeventyTwo
Click on image to see more pictures of OpusSeventyTwo
and OpusSeventyFour
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for the Silverstone Plaza Gallery of Galerrie Belle Ame and that changed everything. These two are loose representations of Mountains. I Was Commissioned by Kristy to build a piece to hang on the out side of her cabin. She is a huge fan of lizards and asked if I could make a lizard. Since she commissioned me before OpusSeventyTwo and OpusSeventyFour my answer was. I don’t make art that represents things so no I can’t do that. Well I changed my mind (That is my prerogative as an artist LOL) and so now she will get OpusSeventyEight and as you can see it is a total representation of a lizard.
I took the finished piece in to show her (While she was cutting someones hair) and with shears still in hand and no idea I had made her a lizard she turns and points the shears straight at me and yells “OMG!!! YOU ROCK!!!” I guess she liked it LOL. I did not deliver the piece at that time because I am planing on entering it in the SMA (Springville Museum of Art) Spring Salon. If the piece passes the Jurors and gets into the show Kristy wont get her piece until some time this summer. (She is not complaining though since she will then have a piece that hung in a museum not everyone can say that about the art in their home.
Click on image to see more pictures of OpusSeventyEight