Posts in Artists In the Studio
Cara Lynch’s Patterned Histories
Dec 12, 2014
Mortar and pestle in hand, Workspace Resident Cara Lynch mixes an explosively bright pink pigment into quart-sized containers of paper pulp. Beside the pink are varying fluorescent shades of yellow and blue that she’ll layer in ornate patterns using hand cut stencils and pulp painting. Twisting and curving in elaborate compositions, these patterns are inspired… View Article
Pushing Paper, Pulling Sheets: Barbara Landes in the Studio
Nov 21, 2014
In the papermaking studio, mutely colored structures twist and climb, forming a rocky mountain-like structure. Upon first glance, you might not guess these sturdy structures were handmade paper, but at the hands of Art-in-Ed Workspace resident Barbara Landes, paper becomes a three dimensional canvas. “What made me fall in love with [paper] in the first… View Article
A Body of Interactions: Lauren Brooke Miller in the Studio
Nov 14, 2014
Down in the ceramics studio, resident Lauren Brooke Miller unwraps the large clay vessels sitting on her table, revealing their red wavelike forms. On the shelves behind her sit over seventy bowls (the most beautiful bowls she’s ever made, she says) thrown as part of her Chili Bowl Workspace residency. While she talks, she cups,… View Article
A 19-2 View: Libby Scarlett in the Studio
Oct 29, 2014
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be following the development of Libby Scarlett’s artist’s book, A 19-2 View. This is the first post of the series. Every night in Amsterdam, Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Resident Libby Scarlett would sit on her balcony, overlooking the maze of gardens and flats across the way. Regardless of the weather, she… View Article
Rooted in Narrative: Lucy Gans in the Studio
Oct 14, 2014
For twenty-five years, Workspace Resident Lucy Gans has been carrying the gnarled roots of a beautiful rose bush she dug out of her garden. Its remains have moved with her from house to house, and they’ve become tied to Lucy’s personal history. In her newest body of work, the roots appear delicately intertwined with her… View Article
Fragmented Investigations: In the Studio with Sarah Bertrand-Hamel
Oct 07, 2014
Smoothing the leathery skin of her handmade paper, workspace resident Sarah Bertrand-Hamel holds her various abaca experiments against a large window. Backlit, the brightly-colored sheets glow with different levels of translucency. She scribbles the results in her notebook. During her five-week papermaking residency at WSW, Sarah is experimenting with different fibers to create vibrant, translucent sheets… View Article
The Mad Hatter: Pat Oleszko in the Studio
Sep 24, 2014
Lit by the gorgeous stained glass windows of Cottekill’s CHRCH Project Space, artist-in-residence Pat Oleszko alternates between a sewing machine and a hot glue gun, both vital tools of her trade. Across CHRCH’s wood floors, vibrant and strange creatures stretch in various stages of becoming, waiting to be transformed with found materials that Pat has… View Article
A Playful Takeover with Cheryl Paswater
Sep 16, 2014
Brightly colored, angular newsprint shapes wait in piles on the large, wall-length table in the silkscreen studio. Workspace resident Cheryl Paswater introduces me to her various characters—“the reflectors,” “the airplane guys,” “the clampers,” “the crushers”—a dictionary of informal descriptions used to capture their non-representational, yet uncannily familiar forms. As I’m peering at the cut-out shapes… View Article
A Lamentation and a Goodbye: Kathy Hettinga’s “4 3 2 CRY”
Sep 08, 2014
After a 34 year absence, Artists’ Book Resident Kathy T. Hettinga paid a visit to Johnstown Farm, a modest, thoughtfully made farmhouse in Weld County, Colorado. It was there she once lived with her husband Duane, raised chicks in the basement, and reveled in the clear, open landscape. What she found upon returning was a region… View Article
Coded Memory: Breanne Trammell’s Twitter Diary
Aug 15, 2014
For the past seven years, Ora Schneider resident Breanne Trammell has used Twitter as a digital diary. Her feed is a playful archive of puns, conversation snippets, and coded records that signify particular moments. Breanne describes social media as containing “observations and gestures that make us who we are.” “Social media is a tool,” she… View Article