president’s letter - collage artists 2019-12...our featured speaker, sydney a. cross, has the...
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NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 2019
PRESIDENT’S LETTER
Happy Holidays and Buenas Noches.
When I took office, I remarked that I was not only honored to serve you but that I had an agenda: to do my best to attract new members and revitalize the group. This was also my agenda as Graphics Chair.
Now, after 2.5+ years pounding the gavel and 5 years creating in Photoshop, I’m pooped. Both physically and emotionally. And to continue my practice of being compulsively self-revealing, often I hide out in my CAA responsibilities to avoid doing my artwork. For these and other reasons, the Board has accepted my resignation, effective this month.
Sylvia Goulden has graciously stepped up and will be Acting President until the June elections. But we are in dire need of a Graphics Chair. And, we have yet to receive an offer to fill Shawn Riley’s huuuuuuge shoes as CAA Treasurer. Our Board has been creative, generous and indefatigable. But it’s time for others to step up. If we are unable to fill these positions, well, I think you can imagine the outcome.
Thank you for allowing me to lead and represent our group. I will continue to offer suggestions that support my original agenda. And I encourage you to do the same.
I really love you and your kind words to me have meant more than you can imagine.
YFS,Wendy Tigerman
“I want to say how much I appreciate Wendy’s presidency. I love her humor and quirkiness, and I appreciate how hard it is to be on a board and make things happen. Thank you Wendy for all that effort. I think you always made it a fun meeting. Thank you to all those on the board too!”--Carrie Gaston, CAA member
LINK TO PROSPECTUS
YIKES!!!JURIED SHOW ENTRY DEADLINE
IS DECEMBER 15
SOME IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT “WHAT IF?”
Required dimensions are smaller than some past shows: 24 inches wide and 36 inches tall, including frame. Maximum weight for any piece of hanging artwork is 20 lbs. Maximum weight for pedestal pieces is 45 lbs. Free-standing art, 6-foot height limit. Size Limit for SHIPPED WORK is 24”x30” including frame.
LOCATION: TOPANGA CANYON GALLERY, 120 N Topanga Canyon Blvd #109, Topanga, CA 90290. Gallery Hours: Thurs 11-6, Fri 12-8, Sat 11-6, Sun 11-5
ENTER DIGITALLY VIA ONLINEJURIEDSHOWS.COM BY SUNDAY DECEMBER 15 MIDNIGHT.
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE WILL BE QUICK, DECEMBER 19.
FINALIZE YOUR FRAMING PLANS OVER THE HOLIDAYS. DELIVERY OF ACCEPTED WORKS: MONDAY JANUARY 6 10:00-NOON.
OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY JANUARY 12 2:00-5:00. AWARDS PRESENTED 4:00 PM.
TAKE DOWN/PICK-UP: SUNDAY JANUARY 26 4:00-5:00 AND NOT BEFORE 4. FYI: SUNSET IS 5:17 PM.
SHIPPED WORK MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2020
MiT#72. 2019. oil, enamel on canvas. 72 x 64 in.
JUROR: MAX PRESNEILL
From https://www.maxpresneill.com/: [My] “paintings reflect a curatorial model of selection and placement, of the key motifs of my developing language of forms, marks and gestures. This leaves them in a form of community, all elements in a dynamic relationship of meaning, a social model of knowledge.”
For information about exhibit entry and procedure, contact: Exhibits Chair Sylvia H Goulden—address is on the third to the last page of the newsletter.
WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 23 2020
KATHI FLOOD One-Day Workshop
Starburst Books
Sunday, February 23rd 2020
10AM to 4PM at SFVACC
Kathi will introduce and guide us in making
handmade Starburst Books with a local
geographic theme using maps, alphabet
stamps, and text to describe how we travel
through our neighborhoods; sort of a
biographical description of our favorite
places near our homes.
Kathi says, “The book will narrate how the artist
zips around their neighborhood doing their chores,
shopping, visiting and just having fun”.
Members $100 Non-Members $125
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE UNLESS WORKSOP IS
CANCELLED BY CAA.
Maximum number of participants is 20 on a
first-come basis. Enrollment closes
February 16th 2020.
Online payment via PayPal is recommended via the CAA
website, www.collageartists.org (Go to the
Workshops Tab.)
Please contact Susan Dukow at
[email protected] if you are interested or
have any questions, or wish to pay by check.
GENERAL MEETING NOVEMBER 22
New member Karen Stein was introduced. . . Esther Pearlman has a new book on Amazon, “It’s Not Easy Being A Woman.”. . . Why not join CAA’s Facebook page, “Collage Artists of America”? Membership has grown to over 6000 people. . . Kwei-lin Lum, newsletter editor, reminded the audience to click the link on their newsletter emails in order to access the newsletter itself. Another alternative is to go to collageartists.org and click on the newsletter link on the front page. .
Wendy Tigerman announced her resignation as President of CAA. Carrie Gaston reports, “ Wendy passed the gavel to Sylvia [Goulden] and thanked her with an emotional hug. The group stood and applauded Wendy’s presidency.”
A WELL-ATTENDED MEETING—clockwise from top left: Pat Thayer, Karen Stein, Maria Strmsek,
Darlene Mellein, Sylvia H. Goulden, Wendy Tigerman, Sharon Brooks, Sylvia H. Goulden, unidentified person at second chance table, Carrie Gaston with ponytail, Ilana Tauber, Chuck Baron, Susie Gesundheit, Rea Nagel, Melinda Warren. And in the middle selling tickets is Greer Rice. Photos by Susanne Belcher and Kwei-lin Lum
Sydney A. Cross, Elephant + Chair
Sydney A. Cross, #3
https://www.sydneyacross.com/
Our featured speaker, Sydney A. Cross, has the impressive resume of a dedicated, lifetime artist: Professor in printmaking and art at Clemson University 1981-2015, works in the Whitney and Smithsonian collections, teacher at CSUN since her move to southern California. She had a lot to teach about being an artist: the formulation of her own social commentary expressed with an assortment of mindboggling, complex printmaking techniques.
COLLAGE-BASED ART—She often pieces together multiple images, found in magazines and photo archives, in strip formats recalling geologic strata. She then prints and enhances the images.
PRINTING PROCESSES include stone lithography, woodcut, silk screen, linoleum cut, Xerox prints using gum arabic, and water-based Ink Aid applied to inkjet graphics to enhance color. She prefers Fabriano and hot-pressed papers.
EXCHANGES—Sydney recommended that printmakers trade works amongst each other in defined groups.
GUEST SPEAKER: SYDNEY A. CROSS
Sydney A. Cross, Elephant + Chair
Sharon Brooks won an excellent print, “Hy-end.” The images of the top strata are slivers taken from luxury fashion ads, art, and news. They were photographed, four-color separations were made, then screenprinted. In contrast, both conceptually and technically, the bottom image of a hyena was made with a resist technique, where ink was pushed into the paper, on top of a layer that had been printed with a very different substance. The artist wanted to make a statement about the contemporary consumptive lifestyle and the natural world. She feels that what matters most is how we treat each other. Sydney Cross made several pieces with a similar theme.
Sydney A. Cross, UR Hard Day, silkscreen and resist printing
Sydney A. Cross, You’re Hard Day
Among the spectacular works were the single-block linoleum prints redrawn from a smaller collage. Both the print and original collage are shown here. In “My Luxury Strata” Sydney includes 4 geologic layers or strips. The Golden-Cut linoleum block was heated to soften it, was printed, then cut more, then registered and printed, then cut some more. There were as many as 20 colors and a large number of painstaking steps.
In this bold work, the artist incorporated a small real tree.
Model collaged from paper Linoleum print based on the collage
In “Bauble” Sydney comments that nature survives if it makes a profit. Shown here are a beautiful vase of flowers and a rhino that puts on a show playing with a ball.
Thank you to Carrie Gaston for excellent supplemental notetaking.
2ND CAA BIENNIAL POP-UP BOUTIQUE
Wearables from Mary Korst (right)
About 15 member-vendors sold their wares at our Pop-Up Boutique Saturday November 16. Thank you to Shawn Riley (left) for her able administration and to Wendy Tigerman for spearheading the event. Our new publicity chairman, Elaine Piechowski, admirably promoted us.
Gifts w/ plants from Carole Gillin; paper dolls and prints from Kwei-lin Lum
Art pieces from Marlaya Charleston ; cards and mixed media pieces from Wendy Tigermaan
And crystal wands fromChristel Thompson
toys and gifts from Elaine Piechowski
Jewelry from Melinda Warren
Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1964—the Honolulu Art Museum
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HONOLULU ART MUSEUM
Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1964—3/4 view and detail with metal ties and stitches—Honolulu Art Museum
Kapulani Landgraf, Kahulumanu—cloak form of hand etched silver gelatin prints on netting—”21st Century Women” at the Honolulu Art Museum
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley is presenting an exhibit "Unmasking the San Fernando Valley.“ December 3 2019 - January 16 2020
This is a one-of-a-kind collection of hand-made decorative masks, all created by 18 of SFV's most well-known and established artists. Each mask is connected to a SFV event and is designed to excite and engage the SFV history buff. The participating artists include: Earl Beard, Barbara Katz Bierman, Chloe Combow, Richard Cryer, Sarah Hage, Phllis Hansen, Judy Heimlich, Michaela Hughes, Morgan Kari, Andrea Monroe, Akram Ighani Namdarian, Bronwyn Rubin, Ellen Rundle, Ingrid Elburg Shapiro, Jenn Sher, Charles Sherman, Debbie Wubben and Virginia Viera.
18860 Nordhoff Street, Suite 204, on the SE corner of Nordhoff Street and Wilbur Avenue. Phone (818) 347-9665. Hours Tues. & Thurs. 1:00 - 5:00 pm & Sat. from 12:00 - 4:00 pm.
December 3, 2019 – January 16, 2020December 3, 2019 – January 16, 2020
Photo is from https://www.facebook.com/events/the-museum-of-the-san-fernando-valley/unmasking-the-san-fernando-
valley/2413376322260558/ -- opening reception was Dec 7
Lari Pittman: Declaration of IndependenceSEP 29, 2019–JAN 5, 2020HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Westwood)
“From his earliest experiments with collage and decoration during his formative years at California Institute of the Arts, to the iconic paintings produced in response to the AIDS crisis and culture wars of the 1990s, to his present philosophical investigations into the history-telling of textiles, Pittman’s works have remained some of the most prescient and influential of any artist since the 1980s. His highly detailed works on panel and paper—grand tales about love, sex, death, art, and citizenship—feature a rich visual language that he has developed over the course of his four-decade career.” Susie Gesundheit says there’s lots of collage. https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2019/lari-pittman-declaration-of-independence
Photo is from https://www.facebook.com/events/the-museum-of-the-san-fernando-valley/unmasking-the-san-fernando-
valley/2413376322260558/ -- opening reception was Dec 7
A large group of colorful works utilizing fiber are on display the SFVACC in Tarzana through December 21. Collagists will find kindred spirits among the artists; many are CAA members who adeptly experiment with materials. Two groups have combined forces: Surface Art Association and Frayed Edges. This is among the best shows presented at this locale, and it’s open for the holidays. Marketplace items are for sale.
Photo is from https://www.facebook.com/events/the-museum-of-the-san-fernando-valley/unmasking-the-san-fernando-
valley/2413376322260558/ -- opening reception was Dec 7
Celeste Covas, Asleep in the Garden, free motion quilting and applique
Susan Gesundheit, Godzilla Grid, fabric on paper collage. Some of the fabric is from Wendy Tigerman’s T-shirt rag bag.
Diana Shore, Faces of Faith, fiber
UNCOMMON THREADS IV
Participating artists from Frayed Edges (asterisks mark CAA members):*Susanne Belcher (45)L*Sharon Brooks (40)L*Victoria Daniel (45)*Diane Dubin*Joan FosterKim Foster*Susan Gesundheit*Carole Gillin*Lee Goldberg*Susan Kuss*Nicki NewfieldDr. Gayle Plessner
Sharon Brooks, CIRC DU FLOT-SAM, assemblage
Past guest lecturer Frank Whipple (Instagram: @frankwhipple3) announces two upcoming shows:
Hundred Grand 2019 Group ShowDecember 5, 2019-February 3, 2020Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery11 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara
Alchemy 8x5 Group ShowDecember 14 and 15, 2019Saturday, December 14 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. (during NELA's Art Walk/Open Galleries Night)Sunday, December 15 from Noon to 4 p.m.MorYork Gallery4959 York Boulevard, Highland Park/Los Angeles
Eli Baxter, Florus—2004—large construction with bicycle inner tubes on metal saw blade, piece lies flat on a platform—21st Century Women—Honolulu Art Museum
Pam Douglas, Madonna and Child—charcoal, pastel, twine, clay, silk on raw linen 84 x 36
FROM “FALLING INTO PLACE,” THE NOVEMBER 2019 WOMEN PAINTERS WEST EXHIBIT
Laurie Plevin, Dreamcatcher—assemblage 21 x 18
Mar Abella, Cell—mixed media 36 x 36
JANUARY 2020
JANUARY 8-26CAA EXHIBIT“WHAT IF?”TOPANGA CANYON GALLERY
SUNDAY DECEMBER 15ENTRY DEADLINE
MONDAY JANUARY 610:00-NOONTAKE-IN
SUNDAY JANUARY 122 PM – 5PMOPENING RECEPTION
SUNDAY JANUARY 264:00 PM – 5:00 PMTAKE DOWN/PICK UP
FRIDAY JANUARY 24GENERAL MEETINGSFVACCSPEAKER TBA
2020
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23WORKSHOP WITHKATHI FLOODSFVACC10-4
FRIDAY MARCH 27GENERAL MEETINGSFVACC
FRIDAY MAY 29GENERAL MEETINGSFVACC
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25GENERAL MEETINGSFVACC
OCT 27-NOV 2CAA EXHIBITSFVACC
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20GENERAL MEETINGSFVACC
CALENDAR
NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS
The deadline for newsletter submissions is the 2nd of each month. The newsletter publishes nearly every month. If you know of collage-related art shows, workshops, or exhibit opportunities, or if you’re a CAA member and are participating in a show or fair, let us know. E-mail [email protected]
MEMBER NEWS
Several CAA members. Including Rea Nagel, Mark Sunshing (1 piece), Sylvia H. Goulden(5 pieces), and Barbara Tabachnick (6 pieces including the image at the bottom right above) are showing in “Big Ideas in Small Settings,” a small works exhibit. La GaleriaGitana, San Fernando, December 7 to Jan 10.
NEW MEMBERS
Michal MahgereftehNorfolk VAhttps://www.Mitak-Art.com
Karen SteinStudio City CA
Diana ShoreWest Hills CA
Jean ClarkeStudio City CAFineArtAmerica.com
Susanne Belcher received an Honorary Mention for one of her pieces in Women Painters West's "Falling Into Place" exhibit and a 2nd Place in TOAA's Member Show for one of her digital photo collages. She was also a featured artist at GDCA's Gallery, DTLA in their November exhibition "Blush".
OPPORTUNITIES
Habitat California: Flora & Fauna
VIEW MORE INFOCity: Rancho Palos Verdes CAFee: $40.00Entry Deadline: 12/31/19https://pvartcenter.org
February 8 – April 18, 2020Traditional and Digital Media Juried Exhibition, Juror: Tulsa Kinney, Editor of ArtilleryThis invitational and juried all-media exhibition focuses on the plants and wildlife of California in the shifting ecosystems they inhabit. Traditional media including painting en plein air is welcome, as well as sculpture, photography, video, and new media including VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), and internet-based art
Welcome areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:* Continuing the California Landscape and California Impressionist traditions.* The intersections of urban, suburban, and wildlife habitats.* The effects of climate change on wildlife and botanical habitat and species.* Explorations in new media featuring California flora and fauna or their ecosystems.
The Intergalactic Open - Open Call Juried Competition and Group Exhibition
VIEW MORE INFOCity: Hermosa Beach CaliforniaFee: $25.00Entry Deadline: 1/1/20This is an Open Call to ALL THEMES, MEDIUMS and artists from ALL LOCATIONS.Cutting edge Hermosa Beach gallery is looking for the best working artists to feature in an upcoming group exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery at the beginning of 2020. The top artist submissions will win a Cash Prize and Award Certificate, as well as receiving Featured Wall Space in the exhibition. Since the call is wide open, we leave it up to you to choose your very best artwork to submit to this Juried Competition and Group Show. That's right, anything goes. Artworks will be judged based on creativity, originality, quality of work, composition, and overall artistic ability.Competition will also be featured on ARTSY.Cash Prizes to top three pieces selected by jury.
Jurors: Mike Collins (ShockBoxx gallery owner), Scott Meskill, Preston M. Smith, Sarah Svetlana and Kymm Swank.
Toby Salkin from Topanga Canyon Gallery will teach a collage class at the Calabasas Senior Center called "Creative Collage" on Fridays 2:00-4:30, January 17-February 28 2020. The price is $108.00 for 8 classes. Go to www.SavvySeniors.com to sign up. Toby says, “We have a lot of fun!” Her student, Judy Adler, says that the teacher is talented and patient.
CAA member Rea Nagel teaches water media and collage at Carter Sexton Artists Materials, 5308 Laurel Canyon Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91607. The classes are every Wednesday, ongoing into the future, with pay-per-class pricing. She works with all skill levels from beginning to advanced, in a small class setting. If interested, contact Rea at [email protected].
C.B. Forsythe, detail from in
Circles, Honolulu Art
Museum
CHAIRPERSONSCommunications ChairSusie [email protected]
Graphics ChairWendy [email protected]
Philanthropy ChairHarriett [email protected]
Publicity ChairSusanne [email protected]
Newsletter EditorKwei-lin [email protected]
Workshop ChairSusan [email protected]
Web ManagerBarbara [email protected]
CAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERSPresidentWendy [email protected]
1st Vice-President ExhibitsSylvia H. [email protected]
2nd Vice-President ProgramsRachelle [email protected]
3rd Vice-President MembershipSusanne Belcher [email protected]
SecretaryKarol [email protected]
TreasurerShawn K. [email protected]
Administrative Officer/ParliamentarianShawn K. [email protected]
DO YOU HAVE A PICTURE OR STORY FOR THE NEWSLETTER? WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
The newsletter publishes nearly every month. If you know of collage-related art shows, workshops, or exhibit opportunities, or if you’re a CAA member and are participating in a show or fair, let us know. E-mail [email protected]. The deadline for newsletter submissions is the 2nd of each month.
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CAA WEBSITEhttp://www.collageartists.org
CAA FACEBOOK GROUPhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/collageartistsofamerica/
CAA SNAIL MAILCollage Artists of America11271 Ventura Blvd. #274Studio City CA 91604
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATIONSusanne Belcher
Newsletter editor Kwei-lin Lum thanks you for your support and looks forward to the new year. She always welcomes articles and images to share.