Two Openings Back to Back

The Framer's show opening reception is Friday, May 18th at 6:30.  Should be fun and the proceeds from all the sales go to APS which is killer!

In addition, my solo show opens that night as well and the reception starts at 7.  I'm pumped and nervous and excited and freaked out all at once.

Here is the brief statement I wrote for the facebook event page (I hate writing this crap) and the details for the reception:

"People interact with mundane objects every day. For some, objects can take on considerable meaning and symbolism and the mundane can be transformed into the significant. This can happen in different ways and to varying degrees. A person sometimes chooses to assign meaning to an object, such as a piece of jewelry which they feel has brought them luck, and often people will look on a nostalgic time and remember a particular object, such as the car they took on family vacations, and think of home and loved ones. In light of the past year, during which I have been working with domestic violence survivors, I am particularly interested in the portrayal of the experiences that are more overpowering, those that people can rarely control and that are often inflicted by outside sources. Within the context of violent relationships, I have watched the objects we use everyday become twisted into tools of fear, control, and cruelty. As merely an advocate I can never completely comprehend the experience of the survivors of these incidents but I continue trying to scrape the surface of understanding as my own perspectives shift and deepen with each encounter."


Object and Experience-Prints and Drawings by Jessica Caldas
Opening Reception: Friday, May 18th, 7-10
Show dates: Friday, May 18th-Saturday, June 16th
The Arts Exchange
750 Kalb Street, SE, Atlanta, GA 30312
https://www.facebook.com/events/138778076255575/?ref=notif&notif_t=plan_user_joined

Color details from a few of the backgrounds-having camera issues and didn't want to wait to take pics of the finished prints.  Lovely though there is a slight blue tinge to them I didn't mean to add-alas I fail at the photography.

The old switch-a-roo for the Framers Show...

Well, Stephanie, who is organizing the Framers show I mentioned in my last post, decided she wanted some of my larger, more colorful and recent work in the show and gave me permission to bring in the piece I put in Youngblood in January or something like it (even though they are more than double the size restriction).  I took that print and some others, including the other half to that Diptych and Brian, the man behind the shop and show, decided he wanted both pieces!  I'm pretty excited, I just hope if they don't sell I have the money to buy the frames off the store as well!

I didn't get the other prints back so I'm not sure if they are going in as well but who cares, I get to have my big fancy favorites in the show and that's good enough for me!

(Pardon the crappy photos, once again, the colors are super skewed on this-aaccckkkkk!)

Culture Shock Part 1

Culture Shock Part 2

Print show at The Framers on Peachtree

Rust

So a fellow print maker from Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Stephanie Smith, invited me to be a part of a show she was putting together with the Framers on Peachtree.  As an artist we only had to bring in 2-3 small, unframed pieces and the Framers are framing them for us which is pretty excellent (particularly since I am so broke).  The show is happening in conjunction with The High Museum's Print Fair and opens May 11th.  The opening reception is likely to be that Friday and a percentage of print sales (from the framing costs) are going to support the studio which is also awesome.  So go and buy some awesome prints and help my Studio get some funds.

A Thousand Eyes will Smolder in Jealousy

I didn't have time to get any new work in since I'm trying to pull all that together for my show at the Arts Exchange in May so instead I pulled out some old smaller prints.  It's good, I need to clean out my old prints and no one has really seen them, but it still feels odd to use old work that is not really like anything I'm doing now.  I only have images of two of the pieces, the third I'll have to snap a pic of at the show.

Mixing Ink

Just for fun...more photo updates after the weekend.

"The Price is Right Show" at Swan Coach House Gallery

So I met with the curator of Swan Coach House's gallery and she selected three pieces for their "Price is right" show which will feature 18 emerging and established artists and their work for under $1000 bucks.  Pretty exciting for me to get an invite to a show without any kind of effort on my part.  I know some of the other artist's work and feel pretty honored to have been included.  Also, I only have to frame one of the pieces since she liked the way I put larger paper works on stretcher bars, which really just means money saved for me and that I won't have to charge as much for the pieces.  She selected some older work, which is fine because I really need to be getting rid of this stuff anyway-images below if you're curious!  Sadly I'll be out of town for the opening.

Opening reception:

Swan Coach House Gallery

Thursday, April 26th

6-8 PM

Caged

The Fight Part 1

The Fight Part 2