Momentum Tulsa opens a week from tomorrow. I'm going to Tulsa this weekend to begin putting my installation together (the most exciting part!). Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and Invisible Arts put together this great preview video on the Spotlight artists for this year's Momentum Tulsa exhibition. It overviews my project, as well as the other two Spotlight Artists and the work they are creating for the show. After watching this, I'm even more excited about seeing their projects in completion than I was already! Check it out..
Saprobia || Juglans Nigra
This is a preview of the black walnut phase of my Momentum Tulsa installation, entitled "Saprobia". You can read more about Saprobia here and here.
Momentum Tulsa opens on October 12th at Living Arts in Downtown Tulsa. These forms will be incorporated into a larger installation for the exhibit.
Materials: yarn dyed with ground black walnut hulls, walnuts
Saprobia || Taxodium Distichum
This is a preview of the baldcypress phase of my Momentum Tulsa installation, entitled "Saprobia". You can read more about Saprobia here and here.
Momentum Tulsa opens on October 12th at Living Arts in Downtown Tulsa. These forms will be incorporated into a larger installation for the exhibit.
Materials: yarn dyed with baldcypress leaves, baldcypress bark, decaying wood
Saprobia || Juniperus Virginiana
This is a preview of the eastern red cedar phase of my Momentum Tulsa installation, entitled "Saprobia". You can read more about Saprobia here and here.
Momentum Tulsa opens on October 12th at Living Arts in Downtown Tulsa. These forms will be incorporated into a larger installation for the exhibit.
Materials: yarn dyed with eastern red cedar heartwood, eastern red cedar needles and bark
Saprobia || Maclura Pomifera
This is a preview of the osage orange phase of my Momentum Tulsa installation, entitled "Saprobia". You can read more about Saprobia here and here.
Momentum Tulsa opens on October 12th at Living Arts in Downtown Tulsa. These forms will be incorporated into a larger installation for the exhibit.
Materials: yarn dyed with osage orange root extract, osage orange leaves
Saprobia || Celtis Occidentalis
This is a preview of the hackberry phase of my Momentum Tulsa installation, entitled "Saprobia". You can read more about Saprobia here and here.
Momentum Tulsa opens on October 12th at Living Arts in Downtown Tulsa. These forms will be incorporated into a larger installation for the exhibit.
Materials: plant fiber yarn, nipple galls harvested from hackberry leaves
Saprobia || Populus deltoides
Populus deltoides refers to eastern cottonwood, from which materials for these pieces were harvested. This is a preview of another phase of my Momentum Tulsa installation, entitled "Saprobia". You can read more about Saprobia here and here.
Momentum Tulsa opens on October 12th at Living Arts in Downtown Tulsa.
Materials: cottonwood seed, cottonwood leaves, thread
Decomposition: Colony III
This past week was a bit of a blur getting ready for my first gallery exhibition, but I am very honored to have been awarded Curator's Choice for my "Decomposition: Colony III" installation at Momentum: Art Doesn't Stand Still in Oklahoma City this year! There were so many outstanding pieces and talented artists in the exhibition, and I feel very grateful to have shown my work alongside them. I am even more overwhelmed, grateful, and encouraged to the curators for this event, PLUG Projects from Kansas City. This has been a very humbling, inspiring and motivational experience, an opportunity that I owe Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition a lot for making possible as well. While my drive to make art is still going strong because I simply enjoy what I do so much, it was encouraging to see the response to my work by peers and other artists. I've made some great contacts and am seeing what a great, welcoming, art community is here in OKC. Now I know for sure that I can't let my visions falter and go unrealized.
Aside from the enjoyment that came from nerding out over wood decay, moss, plants, and assembling all of my other materials, I think my favorite part of the exhibition was watching people observe my piece. While I avoided hovering nearby because it made me nervous, it was fantastic to see people crouching down to look at the knitted mushroom caps up close, and further inspecting the other components of the installation - the exact response that I was hoping for. I'm excited to continue on to the next phase (possibly two) of this series which will hopefully come to fruition in the next month or so (installation plans are already slated for April).
Thank you for all the support and kind comments. I've checked off a major bucket list item here and can't wait to see what comes along next.
If you are unfamiliar with the Decomposition Series, you can see previous installations at the links below:
Momentum OKC Starts Tonight
After several hours of assembly, my installation is complete and the exhibition begins this evening! The photos in this post are some behind the scenes shots - they don't show the final product though, so I hope you can come and see it in person. If not, I will post photos next week of the installation in full. Thanks for the encouraging response to this news via this blog and Instagram; your support means a lot to me!
