Just a Thought. . .

"Too often we mistakenly believe that doing less makes us lazy and results in a lack of productivity. Instead, doing less helps us savor what we do accomplish."
Accomplishing More by Doing Less, by Marc Lesser

Small Expressions 2012

Summer's arrived in San Diego, warm but not too warm for a road trip to the Long Beach Museum of Art to see an annual international juried exhibit sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. Small Expressions 2012 showcases fiber art on a small scale, not to exceed 15 inches in any direction. There are 37 contemporary art works on display.

My favorite piece in this small exhibit of small objects was Leaves, 2011, by artist Jenine Shereos, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. At first glance these airy leaves looked like delicate leaf skeletons. Upon a closer look I saw that the sculptural leaves were created by tying, wrapping and stitching human hair. . . a real delight to encounter!

May 10 - August 12, 2012, at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California. Juror: Carol Shaw-Sutton, Professor of Art California State University, Long Beach

Snippets: Visual Text

By Kathy Miller
 
 I was honored to be invited to be in a group exhibition called: Snippets: Visual Text, at The Gallery at R&F in Kingston, New York, along with five other visual artists, two of whom worked collaboratively. The artists included Kristy Deetz (Wisconsin), Anne Gorrick (New York) & Scott Helmes (Minnesota), Kathy Miller (California), Graceann Warn (Michigan), and Daniella Woolf (California). The show ran from February 4th through March 24th, 2012.

'Snippets’ is a group exhibition that looks at a variety of ways that artists use text, or allow their work to reference and be informed by words or books as the building blocks for an object or image. The featured artists approach text in a variety of ways; as pure matter, as metaphor, as specific content, as texture or atmosphere, and as concept. By bringing these different but related works together, ‘Snippets’ presents a visual conversation between the participating artists on these same issues, connecting through ideas of language.

Additional photos can be found at Snippets: Visual Text