Go see the Neddy Exhibition!

Shape Shifters (detail) 2013 site-specific installation

(photo by David Wentworth)

Jen Graves has some great things to say about the 2013 Neddy at Cornish Exhibition. Read about it and watch video interviews from all 8 finalists HERE.

2013 Neddy Awards Exhibition

Shape Shifters 2013 site-specific installation (detail)

Here's a sneak peak at my new installation Shape Shifters at Cornish College of the Arts for the 2013 Neddy Awards Exhibition. The opening reception is Thursday, September 12th 5-8pm in the Main Gallery at 1000 Lenora St. The show features work from all 8 finalists including painting, sculpture, and site-specific works. My new piece responds to the space with hand-painted pattern, collage, fabric, and shadows to show a series of moments either camouflaged or in a state of change.    

Summer is upon us

Rodeo Beach at Headlands Center for the Arts

The old military gym where Esther and I worked.

Cut vinyl text inside the old gym.

I spent last week collaborating on a 2 minute performance with Esther Baker-Tarpaga at Headlands Center for the Arts in the Bay Area. We presented our piece, Revisit, as part of the Performance Studies International Conference at Stanford. I played a small music box while Esther displayed and then removed cut vinyl text from her body.

2013 Installation sketch for Neddy at Cornish Exhibition

In May, I was nominated for the Neddy at Cornish Award. I will be teaching Drawing Foundations and an Installation Intensive there this month. I will also be spending a good part of the summer developing a new installation for the Sept 4th exhibition of nominees and awardees. Wish me luck!

New Black Pattern Watercolors at Forterra

Black Pattern Watercolor #20

Black Pattern Watercolor #9

I will be showing 10 new Black Pattern Watercolors at 
Forterra: 901 5th Avenue, Ste. 2200 Seattle WA 98164

Opening reception: Thursday, July 11th 4:30-6:30pm. 

Food and drinks will be served! Since it is a private office, the opening will be the only opportunity to see the work without an appointment. I hope you will join me! 

Boundary at SOIL April 4-27

Black Pattern Watercolor 2013 watercolor, ink, permanent marker on paper 10.5x7.5"

Boundary opens tonight at SOIL 5-8pm. I will be showing 17 new watercolors and a new installation.

Infinity Nest at Onn/Of

Please join me in celebrating a long list of diverse artists and performances this weekend at Onn/Of. Last year The Bran Flakes performed and this year I've contributed a new site-specific installation called Infinity Nest. The line-up of workshops and happenings is not to be missed - plus it's just a really great party!

Tableau Vivant at Gallery 4Culture

Folding Screen (detail) 2012 liquid acrylics, house paint, duct tape, wrapping paper, and marker on maple 13 feet x 6 feet 

 Folding Screen (detail) 2012 liquid acrylics, house paint, duct tape, wrapping paper, and marker on maple 13 feet x 6 feet 

4 Spot Floor Lamp 2012 watercolor on paper 6.5" x 7.5"

A few examples of the work you can see at my November Gallery 4Culture solo show, Tableau Vivant. Opening reception First Thursday, Nov 1st 6-8pm with special opening night performance from 6:30-7:30. See hand-painted and sewn constructions, installations, and watercolors I've been working on over the last year.

More HERE

Kaleidoscope Dressing Room

Join me at the City Arts Fest Culture Club opening reception Weds, Oct 17th 6-8pm at 411 Union Street (between 4th and 5th). There will be other visual art installations, performance, a DJ set, bar, and snacks. Kaleidoscope Dressing Room is part of a hand-painted pattern series I've been working on this year. Other works in this series can be seen in my Nov 1st Gallery 4Culture show, Tableau Vivant.

CityArts Fest 2012

I will be participating in CityArts Fest this year. Look for my work at Culture Club where a group of selected artists take over what looks to me like an abandoned jewelry store (with all the display cases, mirrors, and shelving). Location details announced soon!

SAM Sketches, Olympic Sculpture Park

On Saturday, July 28th, I led a public drop-in sketching workshop at the Olympic Sculpture Park sponsored by the Seattle Art Museum.

I selected Roy McMakin's "Untitled" 2007 sculpture (a cement bench, metal bankers box, and bronze deck chair) as the subject from which participants drew. The exercise was to make 3 twenty-minute sketches of the sculpture and its environment from 3 different positions. We worked with ink pens, brushes, and water to create a watercolor effect.

I began with a handful of sketchers.

And as the session went on the group grew out of passers by.

Here's a quick sketch I made as a demo. Puget Sound and West Seattle are in the background.

New Watercolors + LxWxH

I have been busy in the studio with my new watercolor series Negative Positive Pattern Paintings.

If you're new to collecting or want to add to your already fabulous collection I recommend the LxWxH project, a bi-monthly art subscription program. For $130 you will be mailed 2 original pieces of art and 1 original piece of writing. Here are the pieces I created for July's issue. Pre-orders are in effect! 

KPLU Interview

Back in mid-March KPLU's art correspondent Jennifer Wing conducted an interview about The Telephone Room Gallery in Tacoma. My piece Zigzags, Stripes, and Shadows is featured and I have a few lines near the beginning, but the whole piece is great!

See and listen here

Mystery Object

image credit: Rachael Lang

I spent most of February and March working with my Strange Coupling collaborator, the talented Amanda James Parker, on this site-specific installation Mystery Object. Inspired by the spare, minimalist, grid-like merchandising at OBJECT (where the show is hung) we worked in as many different materials as possible to explore a single mysterious object we found at Goodwill for 29 cents. More photos on my website to come.

March 3rd at the Telephone Room

From the Press Release:

Please join us at the Telephone Room Gallery on Saturday, March 3 from 6-9 pm to celebrate the opening of "Zigzags, Stripes, and Shadows" by Julie Alpert, on view through March 2012.

"Stream of consciousness drawings become blueprints for how I respond to the Telephone Room's cramped, charming, and curious architecture. Utilizing the shelves, telephone alcove, cabinet doors, and window, painted lines follow and cascade off the various surfaces transforming the once useful room into a mysterious three-dimensional painting. Cardboard figures cast ominous shadows while woodgrain contact paper is collaged to mimic the old hardwood floor. While preparation and gathering of materials happen offsite, final decisions for how to arrange and address the space are improvised, dependent on my intuition for composition and color relationships." ---Julie Alpert, February 2012.

EXHIBITION DATES:
March 2012

OPENING:
Saturday, March 3, 6:00-9:00 pm
Julie will be present at the opening.

LOCATION:
Telephone Room Gallery
3710 North 7th Street (near 6th and Union)
Tacoma, WA 98406
thetelephoneroom@gmail.com

www.thetelephoneroom.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/telephone.room.gallery

The Telephone Room Gallery is always viewable by appointment - email thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.

The Telephone Room Gallery's focus is to exhibit art. We host openings where you can see the art, talk with the artists, enjoy refreshments, and it's free. Hope to see you soon.

The Telephone Room is the world's second-smallest art gallery at 12 ½ square feet. It is located in a Dutch Colonial home in Tacoma and since 1930, its sole purpose has been to house a black rotary dial telephone. Until now...

Small is Big. The Telephone Room is small, but its mission is big: to house artist-driven exhibits and programming. Big ideas in an intimate space.

--
Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Ellen Ito

2012 Off to a great start!

I am honored and excited to announce that I was awarded a 2012 Pollock-Krasner Grant which will allow me to focus full-time on my art practice and developing a new body of work. I will be teaching part-time at Gage Academy of Art through the teen programming. Otherwise look for me in my studio! Needless to say I will have more time to be vigilant with my blog and news updates. Here's to a productive and happy new year!