So what's first:
Upcoming shows: Libertas Leiden opens in June and runs through June, July, and August. Update on time, specific date, address, etc as soon as it is arranged. This will be a show of more portable works created from the series I did the Armenian Cave Paintings. For this show I am making smaller works on paper and will frame them in Leiden. I'm also making more permanent cave painting figures that will be underpainted with color and glazed with clear glaze. Major fun. And reasonable prices.
Next is the 7th Armenian Biennale in Gyumri, Armenia on September 10, 2010. For those of you who can't manage to get there, but if you can please do, I'll youtube the event and you will be able to see in on artlindakanderson.
Then it is off to Norway for an artist in residency at Balestrand for the month of October, 2010.
If you are in the Buffalo, NY region my work is available at ThinIce on Elmwood Ave.
I'm making some new jewelry with all sorts of things I found in Armenia (from the residency I had there in March and April of 2010)
cave painting earrings of hammered Armenian copper with silver spiral hangers
Egyptian paste cave figures on silver rings
I have to work hard on these because they take lots of time and I'm also working on the new Cave painting series too.
For those of you who have visited my website www.artlindakanderson.com there are some noted changes: my email is now artlindakanderson@gmail.com
I'm updating my website here so all the art that has happened since 2006-2007 will appear on this blog along with a lot of other thoughts and stuff I haven't had time to get to yet.
Pictures and a list of stolen/missing paintings. I'd thought about putting this on the website for a long time and here is the place to do it. Since more paintings were just stolen from a museum in France maybe you might like to know that stealing art for whatever reason is number 3 on the international crime list just behind drugs and arms. Go figure. So I have 24 that fall into this category. The first 15 from a group show I was in called the Stranger Show in NYC, that was is 1983. In 1985 I had an art representative in Dallas, Texas who had 3 of my larger works from the Thesis Show at UMass, Amherst. She vanished and the works along with her. Then I was in an airport show at the Buffalo Airport before the new terminal was built and I had 1 large painting that was part of a diptych and 2 medium sized framed paintings on paper. I actually found out who picked them up and when I followed up he denied it, but I did finally get one of the framed ones back about 4 years ago, he had it hanging in the gallery window. The rest have similar stories but if I can find all the slides, photos, I will scan them and post them. If you have seen any of these please let me know. Enough grimness.
So this year 2010 I was at two residencies, the first at Isflamma in Hallefors, Sweden which was very cold and oh so much fun. It takes 6 layers plus waterproofing layers to be warm outside for 6 hours working beside a Swedish lake. But it was so much fun. I originally planned to make a series of free standing ice molded abstract figures that would be held up by larger figures carved out of blocks of ice to create a maze. Good idea but it didn't work. I took 2 shower curtains with me and molded the shapes in the snow and added the water. It didn't take long to freeze but when I tried to pick them up they shattered, too cold. So I went to plan 2, a path through the woods with sculptures along the way. I made 4 sets of paths and started on the sculptures and then it snowed, and snowed. Scratch that idea. So next I decided to make some free standing sculptures down on the beach, the best idea. I learned to carve ice, didn't have lessons in using a chain saw so I did it the hard way with a chisel and scraper. The ice was amazing. Then I heard that the Princess of Sweden was getting married and so I decided to make jewels for them. I make jewelry and the sculpted ice served as jewels in themselves and also as a place to display the jewelry. All this in two weeks, there was a festival with ice and a wedding at the end. You can see the videos at youtube, artlindakanderson.
Then it was off to Armenia. Yes Armenia. That was a wild residency. I tried in my mind to compare it to the residency in Moldova but since this was in the capital of Yerevan and Moldova was in the country that was about as far as I could go. Armenia has its share of problems. The town where the Biennale will be had an earthquake about 10 years ago and it is still suffering. Armenia is now its own country and not part of the Soviet Union but the effects are still very visible. More later.
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