Making a Move

I am making a MOVE - also making a movie - BUT I am moving my studio as of 10/1/09. This is huge for me as I have been in this one for almost 2 decades !!!! But the clean white walls are inspiring me to fill them. Stand by for lots of new work - and a really good place to see what I have recently made in person.

Finally ! (or soon)

I am finally working on my new, improved and far more aesthetic website. Please stay tuned!

On the art front I have been in group shows at the Alameda Museum and as a 2008 Berkeley Public Artist Selection at City Hall (see jpgs) and have been making new work. Also completed 3 more artist books (see jpgs).

On the film front have begun videotaping interviews with film partner Maggie Simpson on our documentary Rituals of Remembrance which will look at the ways other eras and other cultures proceeded through the grieving process. We have completed some great interviews with Victorian mourning expert Maureen De Lorme, artist/writer/psychologist Dr. Amalia Mesa Bains, and artist Darren Waterston.

New Books

My newest book is Beetlemania, a revisiting of one of my etchings. It will be in the upcoming CODEX International Book Fair & Symposium, February 8 - 11, 2009, along with another new book, Myths of the Andes. 

Another recent book is Pandora's Recipe Box, featuring images from Perfectly Normal: Chnaging Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health by Robie Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley. I have chosen to honor the book, author and illustrator, as well as children who deserve the information to feel comfortable with their bodies and make responsible and appropriate choices as they move into and through their adolescent years. 

Myths of the Andes will also be at ArtRead, February 9 - 16, 2009 at the Oliver Gallery at California College of the Arts.

Politics as Usual (not)

When Nixon won, the late NY Times film critic Pauline Kael said, "How could he have won? No one I know voted for him!" And so it was last night - actually I do know one person who voted for McCain. This fall in my Digital Drawing & Painting class at CCA we did political art pieces - part of the assignment was to plan how to publish or exploit the work. Some posted them around school, some emailed them just to friends, and some used the internet. Anything possibly considered political was fair game. Here are my two pieces. The Waiting Room is from one of my triptychs. The War Bride appropriates Nina Berman's amazing photograph which in my opinion says it all about this war.

Starting to Blog

Welcome to my new blog, a place to share new artworks and the ideas behind them, responses to shows - mine and others, and how being a grandmother, mother, wife and professor informs my work.