Studio Notes October: Back in the virtual classroom

Work in Progress. Oil on Canvas.

Work in Progress. Oil on Canvas.

Earlier this year, when we were all forced to stay inside, I was in a drawing class with Sarah Grass and a painting class with Ten Hundred and I started working on a new body of work that I am really excited about. I had started with the concept of a window, which was really not particularly unique since everyone was thinking about windows, but those led to these drawings (the first 9) and were inspired by or at least informed by these images and thoughts. While working on developing characters for Ten Hundred’s class I started thinking about my own family history, researching Mexican artists and writers, like Nelli Campobello’s Cartucho and Elena Poniatowska’sLas Siete Cabritas,Peter T. Furst’s Visions of a Huichol Shaman, as well as science fiction and diving into my own family history thanks to one great-uncle’s massive research (in a google drive folder). I’m still researching and thinking about my personal family history both as fact and as myth, as well as portals, corners, time, space, histories, mysticism, color, and form. Anyway, this is all in progress but I just wanted to share a little bit about what’s been going on in my studio!

Weavings in progress. Or perhaps done?

Weavings in progress. Or perhaps done?

I also have started a new semester of my self-guided MFA. I’m doing Monday night Visiting Artist Crit with NYC Crit Club, iPad Procreate class with Marcelo Daldoce via NYAA, a Soft Sculpture class with Judith Solodkin via SVA (which so far is amazing), and Oil Portrait from Photo Reference with Marvin Mattelson via SVA. It’s going to be a busy few months, but it’s not like I’m going anywhere!

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