Smallest mold

While I’m not sure if this is the smallest mold I’ve ever made, I’m pretty happy to be casting these silly things all day. And I’m certainly using the smallest plaster bucket ever, which is an old cap to a liquid Tylenol that measures in milliliters. My idea, for now, is to make a lot of them and see where it goes. I have an idea for a piece for our show next November, but I feel like this little skull will end up in other places also.

Also Sometimes was very into the process…

Weekly Update

Back to School! We dropped Olivia off to school today (7th grade!) and later today I’ll start my semester teaching at PAFA. I teach Foundations Experience, a class for first year students where we dive in to the resources at PAFA in the first semester and resources in Philadelphia during the second semester. It’s a class I’ve been teaching since it started and I may have said this before, but I try to make it the class that covers everything I wish I learned in school about the Art world.

Current Exhibitions

As Above, So Below at Arch Enemy Arts is in its last week, so if you are able to see it, be sure to get there before the 18th!

Upcoming Exhibitions

Here’s the full sneak peek for Spectrum 3, also at Arch Enemy Arts, and this show opens this Friday, September 9th, with an opening reception on First Friday in October. To request the preview for the show email Lawren at INFO@ARCHENEMYARTS.COM

Paul and I are continuing to talk about thoughts and ideas for our solo show in 2023. Expect more on that as we head into the end of this year.

Upcoming Workshops

There are only a few spaces left in my upcoming Animal Sculpture Workshop at Union Hall Arts in Atlantic City, NJ! Tomorrow I’ll talk more about the specifics of what will be covered so stay tuned.

You can view more information below or sign up HERE

Work in Progress

Most of my in progress works have been packing related. I did finish up the last of my Tangle sculptures this week and am looking forward to starting new work. I suppose Eddie Bunson is still lurking around, so I’ll finish him too. (It’s silly how much that little sculpture makes me laugh.)

Upcoming Miscellany

I’ll be planning a sale of available work for late October or early November, in advance of the holiday season. I’ll be sure to share it here first.

That’s all for now!

Throwback Thursday

My day has been busy packing orders from today’s Seconds Sale so a big thank you to everyone for that! At this moment only 14 items of the original 50 remain so that was a great day. What it does mean, unfortunately, is that I have little left in me as far as brains are concerned to formulate an eloquent blog post, so instead I leave you of this image of me and a shark in party hats (around 2007 or 2008 - ish)

Weekly Update

As we head full speed back into the upcoming school year, I am trying to get back online with consistency in my life and in my studio (as much as is possible.) I’ve shifted my schedule dramatically and will only be teaching minimally this semester in order to give myself a chance to sort out some things. Keep an eye here for upcoming shows, sales, bodies of work, etc.

Current Exhibitions

As Above, So Below 4 opens this Friday, August 19th at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, PA . Paul and I both have works in the show and each piece is meant to work both right side up and upside down. Here is a preview of my piece Am I flying? // Am I falling?

Upcoming Exhibitions

Next month will be Spectrum, also at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, PA. I’ve chosen the color blue this time so stay tuned.

Upcoming Classes

I’m very excited about the upcoming Animal Sculpture Workshop at Union Hall Arts in Atlantic City, NJ. The space is run by my friend Jim Dessicino and is really wonderful. Because I’ve dialed back my teaching so much, this is one of only two animal sculpture classes that I’ll be teaching in 2022 (and the only one on this coast!).

You can view more information below or sign up HERE

Work in Progress

Right now it’s really just my studio that is in progress, though I am finishing up the very last of my ‘Tangle’ casts and getting ready to start 2 new bodies of work for solos in 2023!

Upcoming Miscellany
Back to School Seconds Sale coming soon… September 1st, 2022

I’ll list the remainder of any “seconds” I have (sculptures that did not make the cut for one reason or another that are offered at a lower price than normal.)

Finalist for Beautiful Bizarre Magazine's Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award 2022

I’m very happy to announce that my piece CHAMBER XIX Bring the motherfucking ruckus was chosen as one of 25 finalists in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award 2022.

We have been BLOWN AWAY by the high standard of entries that we have received for the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize! Thank you so much to everyone who has entered. As a small, independent publisher, it means a lot to us that the global artists community respects and values the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.

DANIJELA KRHA PURSSEY, CO-FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE MAGAZINE

This piece was created in 2021 for my solo show Enter the 36 Chambers as one of 36 “emotional reliquaries”.
Each of the 36 pieces in this show was meant to be a “level” to be conquered, emotionally, and being in the middle of the bunch there are a handful of hard feelings to beat. The specific thoughts for this piece related to the iron maiden (the object, not the band.) As a kid I was always obsessed with medieval torture devices...I couldn't wrap my head around how people could do something like that to one another. The same goes for how people treat one another to this day, verbally, emotionally.

To see the full list of 25 finalists, please visit Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award 2022: Finalists Announced