Les Baigneuses (Hot Ladies of Folly Beach)

This is my contribution to Redux’s annual fundraising auction.  I love Picasso’s La Baigneuse at MOMA, and I decided to use that as starting point for a fun, colorful, small painting.

Event details: 7th Annual Art Auction
Saturday November 21st, 2009
6:30 pm – 10 pm, bidding begins at 8:00 pm

Charleston Center for Photography
(654 King Street, Suite D)

Heather Poe, Mary Cheney and child

Heather Poe, Mary Cheney and child

Heather Poe, Mary Cheney and child
4 feet by 6 feet - acrylic, mixed media on canvas – 2009
Explores visual representations of motherhood and the family unit by referencing traditional mother and child paintings and then superimposing Heather Poe and former Vice-President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Mary, a lesbian couple, who have come under fire by conservatives as well as the gay community, for having a child in-vitro.

Pottery Barn Art (series)

Pottery Barn Art  — lighthearted observations on mass-produced art and the desire to match art to decor at the expense of a fully independent visual statement.

These two black and white photographs were turned into duotone images using “official” Pottery Barn paint chip colors found in the Pottery Barn catalogs.  The paint chips let you recreate the same wall colors as shown in the catalog…  So now the art that you purchase can REALLY match…

Pottery Barn Art #1
Camellia Study in Pottery Barn/Benjamin Moore color:
2170-30 Autumn Cover
13 inches by 19 inches – archival inkjet print/photograph – 2009
Photograph Taken on Archdale Street, Charleston, SC.

Pottery Barn Art #2
Camellia Study in Pottery Barn/Benjamin Moore color:
2067-50 Summer Blue
13 inches by 19 inches – archival inkjet print/photograph – 2009
Photograph Taken on Archdale Street, Charleston, SC.

Reorientation III : Event Listing in Charleston City Paper

My photograph Liberty on Savannah was chosen as the image to represent the Reorientation III show’s preview listing in Charleston’s local newspaper, Charleston City Paper.

The photograph is small in in the online edition, but appeared — as below — large and full-framed in the print edition…

ART SHOW : Reorientation III opens at Redux

Opening: Friday March 27th 2009 6-10pm
On View: March 27th – April 19th

The opening will coincide with all of the Redux studio artists participating in an open studio with music by the New Music Collective!  Participating artists include: Townsend Davidson, Kaminer Haislip, Kirsten Moran, Kate Long-Stevenson, Lynne Riding, Michael Heagerty, Tina Christophillis, Julie Henson, Julie Klaper and Steven Lawrence.

More information: Reorientation III at Redux