Play: yahtz-idency

Posted: February 14th, 2024 | Author: | Filed under: desert, exchange, games, neighborhood, residency, spring, works in progress | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »
photo credit: Margaret Lee

Saturday, February 3rd was the inaugural yahtzidency at Sun Spot at Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley. We played with handmade ceramic cups and dice and a scoresheet designed by hand. I am taking applications for new yahtzidents! If you are interested in becoming playing with me, please see the open call here.

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Exhibition: ReGeneration

Posted: December 14th, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: curating, drawings, exhibition, fall, installation, neighborhood, residency, to do, Updates, watercolor, winter, works in progress | No Comments »

I created and co-curated this six week residency and exhibition. See below for detail photos and curatorial statement. Click “read more” to see postcard invitation and more installation photos.

Opening Reception: November 30th, 2018 6-9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 2-4pm
Closing Reception: February 16th, 2019 6-9pm

Regeneration has an embedded notion of loss. Loss of limb, loss of life, loss of deadweight. In this residency, we considered the work of rebuilding artistic practice after having lost something. Many of us have experienced loss in our community, in our perception of safety, in political decency, and in our personal economics as independent creators. In this residency, we recombined our efforts, tackled our own challenges and met them with powerful regenerative forces.

For six Sundays in the fall, artists Autumn Bree, Kate Godfrey, Constance Moore, Stephanie Potter Corwin, Tracey Rolandelli and Noga Wizansky met as a group with curators Mary Jeys and Shoshana Zambryski Stachel to discuss topics brought forth in their proposed projects. Weekly discussions addressed issues of regeneration and process as they related to each artist’s practice.

Given the curators’ interests in artist/gift economies and community arts access, artists were also encouraged to create companion works available in the gift shop during the fall/winter season. All artworks are on sale — both gallery-installed and smaller companion works available in the shop.

ArtVale Gallery
3463 Champion St. Oakland, CA 94602
WEDS-FRI: 1-7PM SAT: 12-6PM
artvalegallery.com

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Atrium Podcast at 5559 Greenridge

Posted: March 1st, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: neighborhood, radio, suburbs, works in progress | No Comments »

routerandUSB

A short-length audio file for your dogwalk, your daily exercise, your short commute. Topics include local wildlife sightings, neighborhood legends I’ve heard, field recordings and more. The show is a weekly 10-30 minute audio show with neighborhood news/updates; segments on local legends/lore; field recordings; and personal musings about wildlife, history, technology, and the ways that we do and don’t communicate with the people closest to us. The podcast will be available exclusively within the neighborhood through September 2016. A compilation for broader interest will be available in the fall.
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Robertson Family Holiday Card

Posted: December 8th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: californiasunshadows, family, neighborhood, suburbs | No Comments »

A set of 50 + holiday cards produced for The Robertson Family for the 2015-16 holiday season.

Each work is a unique individual work of art- a cyanotype capturing a shadow/blocking the UV rays that will expose the paper to a resulting photograph. Materials were prepared in advance of a live workshop/activity at The Robertson’s home in Terra Linda. The workshop took place on a partly cloudy weekend day and we produced images using the sun’s ultraviolet light.

The Robertsons were an ideal family to produce the workshop and materials for since they also live in an Eichler home similar to the home these works were inspired by (mine). These sunprint works are a direct reaction to the strength of the California sun and finding a way to capture the strength of its shadows. The sun as a force in my experience in California is heightened by my experience in the Eichler home which features large picture windows as walls in a conceptual experience of indoor outdoor living space.

California Sunshadow Holiday Cards on Tray
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Works in Progress

Posted: June 2nd, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: drawings, family, neighborhood, radio, suburbs, works in progress | No Comments »

Two projects in the works.

frankjeysradiotechnician
Family Oral History, vintage radio technology/metaphysical project.

Eichler 4
Suburbanity and Garages, community investigation project.


Buy Zapatista Coffee with Brooklyn Torches

Posted: February 28th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood, Updates | No Comments »

We revived the Brooklyn Torch Trade Store at Proteus Gowanus on February 21st. As part of their current exhibition on Labor in their series on Commerce, the Brooklyn Torch Project has been invited to tender a medium of exchange for the Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op, selling Autonomous Zapatista Coffee in the gallery.
Torch Trade at Proteus Gowanus

The Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op is a project developed by Fran Ilich that offers organic coffee sourced locally in Chiapas, Mexico from Zapatista autonomous farms. Its goal is to connect social movements and geographical regions – Chiapas and New York City – and to create a horizontal financial flow between social movements.


Here in San Francisco’s Bay Area

Posted: November 3rd, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: neighborhood, suburbs, Updates | No Comments »

maryxochiwalk
Just moved to California. It has been a whirlwind and I’m excited to start a new journey on the left coast. Below are some things that have come through my inbox, all great:

Arts, Culture, Community, Love- give early and often to an emerging artist network
The Laundromat Project’s People Powered $10K Challenge

My friend Jesse’s Brother has an awesome idea:
Sam & Mattie’s Teen Zombie Movie + Making-Of Documentary Kickstarter

Dance, Action, Camera! Catherine Gund’s latest film is in Houston!
Born To Fly screening in Houston

Amanda Mae’s most recent short film
Now We Are Not

Whale Staplers!
a stapler that is a whale

Reverend Yolanda’sOld Time Gospel Hour, The Movie


Oblique International

Posted: August 30th, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: aspirations, money, neighborhood | No Comments »

Rotterdam collaborative, Oblique International, presentation series, 5 1/2 Proposals to Work and Live in the Current Millenium.


Participatory Budgeting NYC

Posted: February 27th, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood | No Comments »

I was honored to participate for the second time as an artist resource for three districts as part of PBNYC‘s participatory budgeting initiative to bring community funding and decision making back to the neighborhood.

Big thanks to #ArtandDemocracy for leading a wonderful poster making workshop! #PBinD23! #participatorybudgeting #Queens #peoplepower #engaged #dedication

A photo posted by Participatory Budgeting NYC (@pbnewyorkcity) on


OpenInvo at IDEAS CITY

Posted: May 8th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood | No Comments »

OpenInvo presentation on The Brooklyn Torch Project