Studio studio

So the last blogging attempt didn't work out, but on Sunday I spent two very sweaty hours organizing in my studio ... And it's starting to look like a workspace! Here are some pics:













Tonight I need to bring over a few more things and install shelves, but it will be totally ready on May 13th! Why? For open studios! My building, Indoor Rooftop Studios, is having a 2nd Thursday event with food and beerage (I meant to type beverage, but that works too), music, and lots of art in and out of studios. It starts at 9pm! Come!

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Print Fever Finale ... Or is it?

We finally finished - printing over 100 prints over two days and taking a third day for finishing. Here's a shot of Farrar signing some of the edition in my new studio (north 2nd street):




The 60 best, most consistent prints were wrapped up for the Library Company of Philadelphia and featured as a souvenir print for their exhibition "Philadelphia on Stone."




The prints are available for purchase with a donation of $35 or more to LCP. I know they sold at least one at their opening reception last Thursday! Check out their exhibition page at http://www.librarycompany.org

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Location:S 20th St,Philadelphia,United States

Print Fever Part 2

Farrar and I took advantage of our latest snow day to finish up the drawing on our stone - here's a photo!




We've got the first etch done and will get back to it on Saturday. 60 prints, here we come ...
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Location:Fleisher Art Memorial

Print Fever

My buddy Farrar and I are working on a litho edition for the Library Company of Philadelphia. The print will be available at their Philadelphia on Stone exhibit in late March. So far we've just begun working on the stone, but here's a preview:




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Last Weeks of Enrichment - Books and Prints

More Enrichment Projects - Week 2? - Memory Maps and Collage

At some point we also made frottage drawings ... and maybe something else ...

Better Late than Never?

As promised months ago, here are some images from my awesome (hindsight is a little rosy) enrichment kids. We finished the month with a bang, making collograph prints. Now I'm about to do the same project with my college students!

Week 1: Name Tags and Jasper Johns Flags

Teaching Summer Enrichment in NE Philly

This July, not only did I work at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, but I also took on a teaching artist position with Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership. Three days a week I'd drive up 76 to H.R. Edmunds Elementary in northeast Philadelphia to work with 45-125 students grades k-9 ... it was an experience. I think the kids made some great work though (when they weren't running around screaming and choking each other), and I'll have a few posts of the different projects soonish. (My iPhone blog app keeps crashing with the multitude of photos ... oh well.) One thing I learned: you definitely have to roll with the punches when you're dealing with the school district (and there are a lot of punches).

Mosquito Week

It's the height of summer ... You don't see the swarm swimming through the humid air ... All of a sudden ... mosquito attack!







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Work

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Balancing work and artwork

I've been carrying around a little sketchbook my cousin gave to me (thanks, Alyce!) ... When all else fails, doodle.




















Next up, animation!

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Organization is a thing of Beauty

Working as an IT Coordinator, making spreadsheets, filing, copying ... it's got me rethinking charts. The correlations between my paying job and my artwork were never so clear, and I think I need to make more spreadsheets. What should I document? What manual should I write next? This deserves more exploration. In the meantime, I'll be writing a tech manual for a small non-profit museum.

Propsal

http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_sp09/popups_sp09/npsp09_abshire.html

Next Up

A new work "Proposal" will be in the New Prints/2009 Spring exhibition at IPCNY, curated by Polly Apfelbaum.

Image coming soon ...

Long Time No See

I'm going to make a more concentrated effort here ... A few new shows have come and gone since last I posted (especially since I haven't posted about shows since 2007). Here's a list since Sense of Place and American Print!

2008
“GROUP SHOW” 222gallery with otto design group, Philadelphia, PA

(Projected Drawing Series, 2007)

(visitor interaction with "Telescope" 2008)

“New Prints 2007/08: A Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction” IPCNY, New York, NY
http://www.ipcny.org/fundraising/edit_auction2008page.html
*featuring "Map" 2006

“New Prints 2008/Autumn” International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York, NY
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_au08/Pop-up_AU08/npau08_abshire.html
*featuring "Spyglass" 2008

“The Green Exhibit” Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
*featuring "Blob City" 2007

“Tyler School of Art 1988 - 2008: 20 Years Fast Forward” Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
*featuring "Shift 1" and "Property 2" both 2007

“New Prints 2008/Spring” New York School of Interior Design with IPCNY, New York, NY Juror: Jane Hammond
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_sp08/np_exhib_sp08.html
*featuring "Borders" 2007

“You Are Here” Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.laurenabshire.com/cartography2008.html

“National Print Competition” Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
*featuring Untitled #3, 2007

“Irving Sandler Selects” Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
*featuring "Walking Path" 2007

“Salt City Dozen” Portfolio Exchange, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY
*featuring "Ode to Magellan" 2008

2007
“AMPsterdam” Fantasio, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jurors: Terri Anderson, AMP Executive Director, and Paul van Dijk
*featuring "Sprawl" 2006

“In the Mix” Visions Gallery Group Exhibition, Lafayette, LA

“Tyler School of Art: Works on Paper” University of Lincoln Group Exhibition, Lincoln, UK
*featuring "Phalanges" aka "Finger Islands" 2007

Systems

I say ...
there is no pendulum
there are points of convergence
like a choose your own adventure
it is a system that is not forever predetermined
it seems like forever because our sense of time is limited
see E.O. Wilson
there are more than two poles
it is the reproducing triangle
>-
(it is the BMW symbol, the propellor)
systems create systems in spite of themselves
and this is my system
perpetuating

everyone has a personal system
based on personal interests
sometimes overlapping like a Venn Diagram
or like a thicket

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Animation

CS2's "Render to Movie" where art thou? I had a choice between an animated gif or a flash file, as far as I could tell ...

Vote For Me!

Go to http://picasaweb.google.com/reflectarts1/FinalistsWomenSHistoryMonth2008RelicsRemembrances
and vote for me to take part in this show in New York. I'm already a finalist, now I need you to pick me!