Show down, show up

I deinstalled my exhibition at Underground Gallery a few weeks ago and just last week, I was approached by local artist and curator Deryke Cardenaz to be in a two-person exhibition with photographer Cheryl Groff at Artillery & Ammo Gallery in Echo Park, opening February 13. I'll have a couple of sculptures on view along with some of my installation work. As the installations are flexible in that they can be installed to fit specific gallery spaces, I am excited to see how they will look in this gallery. I'll post pix once we start installing next week.

More wall install pix

Looky, I'm on the Tee Vee!

Thursday, Dec. 19, on the 6p.m. news, KNBC aired a piece about art in domestic spaces in connection to Anne Marten's recent article, "Los Angeles Art Outside The White Cube," in Artillery Magazine's Nov/Dec issue. Underground Gallery and my work were featured. Click the link to see the 3-minute spot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUanD57tgY

I am thrilled to say the least! My only complaint is that my name wasn't mentioned at all in connection to the work, but my exhibition received quite a bit of air time, which was fantastic.

Armando H. Torres, Director of Underground Gallery.

Tulsa Kinney (Artillery Magazine), Anne Martens and Armando hanging out in the back of the gallery.

Anne Martens, friend, colleague, artist and art writer.

Mini Interview

The great folks at the Little Bird Gallery blog asked me to participate in their 15 Questions About Art series. From their blog: 15 Questions about Art is an ongoing series in which we ask our collective favorite artists, writers, musicians, sleepy dreamers and object makers from across the creative spectrum to give us a glimpse into how they perceive art through a standard set of questions.

http://lbgsqueeks.blogspot.com/2009/11/15-questions-about-art-sophia-allison.html

More from Home Home, Sweet Again

On wall, left to right: Untitled (branches, flowers) and Untitled (Kudzu)- both are hand cut paper installations. In foreground: Blue Ridge.


On the wall: Untitled (Gatehouse), sewn canvas and paper and Green limb, sewn cardboard, consumer packaging, paper and wire.

Untitled (Dan) - I wasn't planning to include this piece in the show, but the day of the opening, Armando, the Director of Underground Gallery, liked the image and sewed it into a pillow! It works well in the show, especially since the gallery is a domestic space (an apartment) and the exhibition deals with some aspects of domesticity.

Opening Tonight

My solo show Home Home, Sweet Again opens tonight at Underground Gallery in Sliver Lake. Almost ready! Here are a few install shots:



I ironed some of my sewn works flat-a domestic activity for preparation of artwork in a domestic space.


More to come!

Coming Soon

Here's a preview of some of the work I'll have in my solo exhibition Home Home, Sweet Again at Underground Gallery opening Friday, November 13:

Gatehouse, mixed media

Pop Up, mixed media

Blue Ridge, cardboard, straight pins, watercolor

The sculpture shown in the last image involves me gluing a small, hole-punched dot of watercolor paper to the head of a pin- a few thousand dots and pins, actually. But the work is meditative, and I get a lot pleasure pushing the pins into the cardboard mountain range and seeing the work come together. I'm also creating a couple of new sewn images as well as a new paper installation for this exhibition. Back to work!