Miniatures Art Show

I had one of my pieces accepted into the Miniatures Art Show (an online show, as of right now) at the Linus Gallery in southern California.  My piece, "Circles Learning From Experience," is eligible to be selected for the live collective show coming up this Fall. I'll keep ya'll posted. :)

This is the link to the whole show:
http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/category/miniatures/

And this is the link to my piece:
http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/juried-art-exhibitions-leica-clayton-21/

Seeing and Beeing Seen Show

This is a flyer for my show. It's a video installation that I've been working on since the beginning of last semester.  The opening reception will be Friday, May 17, 6-8pm

Detach Art Show

Our 480 class had a collaborative art show:




















And I used this piece from my escapism paintings:

Annual Student Show

I had two pieces accepted in the Annual Student Art Show: Taking a Stand (a video piece I've posted on here), and Strange Friend (two small paintings framed together from my escapist paintings).

"Strange Friend" hanging on the fourth floor of the HFAC

i am officially a BFA student. :)

London

omgsh. Just found out that the Study Abroad to England is open to apply for. gahhh! the whole thing sounds fantastic...well, i'm guessing that most study abroads sound fantastic, but seeing as I've never been on one, this one sounds particularly wonderful to me. :)

anyway that wouldn't be until Fall '11, so I have to see how a few things pan out before i get too excited. ohhh the agony of waiting for the future to FREAKING GET HERE!

on another note. i finally finished a painting. this is the first one i've finished since i've come home. and that's a really sad story. especially since it's kind of pathetic. (you all be enlightened soon enough on this matter when I post a scan.) and the worst part is that its a present to my brother for his birthday (july 7th...i'm late...) He always gets me nice gifts and since i'm broke broke broke i never get him anything. so i wanted to do this nice thing...and this is what happens.

hopefully the rest of the summer will be more productive.

The VA Core Art Show

Okay, so I don't know if that's really what it's called... I have no idea what it's called. It's up in the HFAC right now. I got a couple pieces put in it and they are currently displayed on the fourth floor...
Sadly, my name was spelled wrong on one (lecia) , and credit was given to someone else entirely on another (a kid named drew from my drawing class).

But on the brighter side I won $33 for getting a jurors award. :D

So it wasn't a total bust, haha.

Project Proposals for 2D Design and Drawing

Drawing Final Project - The Women:

So I'm doing four b&w portraits on 11X15ish sheets of paper of the girls I live with aka my besties! haha ;)

I can't take quality pictures, and my roommates struggle to sit still very long. ;) So here are my reference photos. The idea right now is doing base values with ink, and then going over it with micron pens. Well have to see how well ink takes to the stonehenge.

and then it has to be approved by madame instructor.


Hanney boo.


Lor-bear.



emchien.



this girl just showed up, and wanted her picture taken.
what a weirdo.





2d Desgin final Project


This one is a bit complicated.
I made a group on facebook and had a bunch of people send me excerpts of old journal entires, or cheesy poems they wrote in high school, stuff like that. And then I gesso-ed 3 masonite panels (24X36). I'm currently working on the second layer...transfering the text that was sent to me onto the panels. It's tedious...first I gathered all the text, applied different fonts/sizes, and inverted it so I get the mirror image. I printed all the pages, took them to a xerox machine and made bigger copies of the text on 11 X 14 sheets of paper. Then I used wintergreen oil to get the xerox ink off the paper and onto the surface off the panel. viola! transfered text that you can read. (for the most part, though the text isn't going to be the focal point). After that, I'll paint some cheesey images of hand holding, leg crossing, and an epic kiss for the last one.
Seeing as this all has happened in my head, I'm not sure what to expect, but we'll see.

I've decided...
I should get extra credit since I'm working twice as hard as anyone else probably is.

Trip to Kanosh

I got to work with this guy, all of Friday in his stuido which is this huge building that used to be a dance hall.
Four other students came with, plus my old Figure Drawing instructor Fidalis.
It was definitely a good experience, and I feel like I learned a ton. :D

Brian Kershisnik