Busy day yesterday. One car in the shop. Got a ride home and the second car’s battery was dead. Got that replaced, then drove out to UCSD to pick up a dog that needed a home…this is Simba…
A very tired Simba. I’m sure coming here was probably a bit overwhelming. Another dog, cats, a yard. He’s been pretty good about it, although I don’t think he’s eaten anything yet but two chicken treats, and it took a while to get him to go to sleep in his own bed.
He needs some shots and to be neutered, which girlchild will handle when she finally gets home.
Simba showed up because of the girlchild and one of her friends…and it’s funny, because I just had this conversation with the boychild, who would love to have a cat, but can’t have one in the dorms and doesn’t want to get one until his living situation is more stable. And sure, shit happens. You could have pets and then have a stroke and be in the hospital for months. So have a plan for that. We have multiple backup plans for pets in my small family circle here in San Diego. And I suspect most of my friends know (from past experience) that I take rescue animals most of the time. Some of my best pets started out as an oops that some kid picked up outside a grocery store, a freebie that couldn’t be in the apartment or whatever.
Anyway, between the car and the puppy (because he is still a puppy), I didn’t get any art done. I was so exhausted by the time I got through dinner, I couldn’t focus. So I eventually went to bed.
However, I have some photos from a couple of openings I went to last weekend (there were 4 in two days…I actually missed the 5th one due to exhaustion).
First of all, I went to the Allied Craftsman show at Sparks Gallery, in downtown San Diego. I know a few people in the show, so I wanted to document for the two groups I’m in with them (I still have to write posts for those two blogs…tonight!). But I also saw this artist at the show…by Alexander Arshansky, this is Native American…
His work is very detailed…this is Born in Fire…
His work was upstairs in the gallery, separate from the Allied Craftsman show, but definitely a joy to look at.
You can see all the Allied Craftsman pieces on the Sparks Gallery website. Here are two quilts that were in the show, the one on the left by Viviana Lombrozo and the one on the right by Charlotte Bird (who is in one of the groups I’m in).
Below, in the middle is Jeff Irwin’s Circulation, flanked by his Pump and Vanishing Point plates.
I photographed other work, but it’s for those blogposts. I’ll link to those here once I actually get them written.
Then I went over the the Cohort Collective’s show at Subtext Gallery, also downtown. The show is called Tiny and the pieces were all…small. These are all by Dolan Sterns, Creatures of Dirt…
They seem to be on old metal lids, apparently done in white out and ink.
Stearns is a skateboarder and usually does much larger pieces…on walls. Like the whole wall.
There were two pieces by one of my favorite fiber artists, Jaclyn Rose…this is I-breathalyzer.
And Leave the Way You Came In…
Then a new artist for me, Christopher Konecki…this is Last Glimmer (of Hope)…
He has a wide variety of work…this is Staying Inside on the left and a side view of the other one.
And then he and Spenser Little teamed up for some great little pieces…this is Cat on Leash…
Mermaid Bubbles…
And my favorite, We Used to Write Love Letters…
A detail of the wire work…
Then Spenser Little’s wire work…this is Multiface…
Mini Deity Number 2…
His larger deities are bloody amazing; the detail is boggling.
This is Mini Deity Number 1…
And the back side of Schizophrenic on Coffee Multiface…
It’s amazing how little line you need to convey expression. The Tiny show is up until June 10. It really is a tiny show, but there’s a lot of value in seeing it.
Well. Art tonight? Maybe. We’ll see. I’m a little buried at the moment by life. Again. As usual.
Kathy Nida 