IAM Jumbo Shrimp Show Photos

Shortly after our show at Creative Paradox, we had the incredible fortune of heading up to New York with some of our work for a follow-up show at International Arts Movement (IAM). Since they are an established arts organization, with a similar mission of bridging the gap between faith, culture, & art, Creative Paradox had been working throughout the year to build a relationship and find ways to collaborate with them. So, on June 20th we held an opening for JUMBO SHRIMP, featuring work from our residency in IAM's gallery space. The show is still up, if you're in NY and have a chance to check it out!

I came up a few days early to help our director Casey with installation, here are a few photos of the set-up:

My large painting was too big (i.e. expensive) to take up in a van, so we had to take it apart and then rebuild once we got there:

And here are some photos of the opening! 

Casey, our AIR director, & me: 

 Three AIR artists, Jacqueline, Lee, & me, with our director Casey:

CPX AIR '13 Show Photos

On Saturday June 8th, we had our final show at Creative Paradox, wrapping up our year-long residency there. I really couldn't have asked for a better experience with them! If you weren't able to make it, here is a virtual tour of my installation & some photos from the opening!

  

Some pre-show video set-up:

 My amazing family & friends came to the opening! Words can't describe the love I feel for them!

There was even a "graduation ceremony" for the AIR artists! 

The whole CPX crew:

I certainly feel very lucky...

Upcoming Shows w/ Creative Paradox—AIR '13 End of Year Show: June 8th at 7pm in Annapolis, MD & Jumbo Shrimp: June 20th at 7pm in New York, NY

The event you've been waiting for all year is finally here! ;) Creative Paradox's A.I.R. '13 End of Year Show, featuring artwork created during our 2012–2013 residency at Creative Paradox. It's going to be really fun and we're all really proud of the work, so if you're anywhere in the Maryland area, come & check it out! =) The opening is next Saturday, June 8th at 7pm. You can look forward to stop-motion animation, illustration, painting, printmaking, & sculpture, so we are trying to make sure there's something for everyone by covering the full spectrum of visual art here. ;) More details on the facebook event...

Shortly after this show in Annapolis, we are really excited to be headed up north for a follow-up show at the International Arts Movement (IAM) space in New York, NY! Aww yea!! IAM is an established Christian arts organization that Creative Paradox has been getting to know over the last year, and they were generous enough to host a show for us this summer sharing more of the work produced during our residency. The "Jumbo Shrimp" opening will be Thursday, June 20th at 7pm. So if you can't make it out to the Annapolis show, Jumbo Shrimp will be up for a few months longer. More details on the facebook event...

Year-End Reflections

Our year-long residencies at Creative Paradox have been wrapping up, and we've been moving out of our studios (sad!) to prepare for our final shows (happy!). Coincidentally this year also marked CPX's 10th year anniversary as a non-profit, so we got to celebrate this milestone with them at an end-of-year banquet. To help relay the mission of CPX and how it's impacted us individually DMH Video Productions put together these awesome videos about each of the artists' stories to share during the banquet. So instead of describing what this year at Creative Paradox has been like, here are some fun videos about the 2012–2013 resident artists!

Me:

from Creative Paradox on Vimeo.

Jacqueline Mcnally/Oliver:

from Creative Paradox on Vimeo.

Lee Nowell:

from Creative Paradox on Vimeo.

CPX Artist Retreat

Thanks to everybody who came out to last weekend's block party, it was as great as last year's and thank God the weather held up beautifully, even with a predicted 60% chance of rain!

Speaking of community-oriented events, I forgot to post some pictures from a retreat we took last month with the team at Creative Paradox out to Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland. It was amazingly refreshing and a chance to get to know all of the people we've seen coming in & out of the studio all year long.

We arrived in the evening and had a chance to check out the sunset over the lake. Beautiful! Even though it was April, most of the lake was still frozen over with ice.

The next day we took a hike over to Swallow Falls State Park, which is filled with gorgeous waterfalls, including the tallest one in MD. Here is the gang in front of some rocks (minus Darren Heater who's behind the camera). Not a real interesting bunch...

We each got to take home mini cigar boxes after the retreat filled with notes of encouragement / little pine cones / etc. that we'd exchanged with each other, and Casey, our resident program director & sculptor extraordinaire (pictured above R), carved these sticks for us resident artists! Mine says "Make it stick"! 

 

 We've had a few more events since then, and even more forthcoming, so look out for more soon!

6th annual Boundary Block Party!

A break from art updates to announce the No Boundaries Coalition's 6th annual Boundary Block Party coming up this Saturday May 11th! (Cool poster, right? Thanks to Dave Colson!) If you're in the Baltimore area, I definitely recommend checking this out. Check out some photos from last year's block party along with an art project I helped coordinate. Here are some more photos from 2012's block party: