Birthday

Birthday, 2010
water soluble oil, gesso and acrylic on panels, birthday candles
approximately 32" x 25"

Backyard

New documentation of my faculty show piece, Backyard. This work provoked the only negative comment in the entire visitor notebook for the faculty show. I'm not sure if I should be proud or worried?

Backyard, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso (wall drawings)
plaster, gouache and found objects (sculpture)
dimensions variable

Even kitty got in on the documentation!

Is it a phobia if you should be legitimately afraid?

One of my drawing students this quarter is affiliated with the annual Phobia show that happens at Vex nightclub here in the big D. He asked me if I wanted to participate, and I said yes. We went to the exhibition last year, and it was fun, bringing together a range of artists from different walks of the art community.

One thing I love about Dayton is the way it's big enough to host a range of different art practices while also being small enough for artists to move outside of the typical stratification: academic artists with national pretensions, community and regional artists, people that make art as a hobby or therapy.

All this is a lead in to introduce the piece I've been working on for the show. It's based on my fear of poison ivy, a completely common-sense fear to my mind. Although not fully in the purview of "phobia" I wanted to work with the poison ivy motif I've been exploring this summer, due to the proliferation of it outside my studio window.

Poison Ivy, 2010
cut paper and water soluble oil on panel
approximately 72" x 30"

Faculty Show

Backyard, 2010
drawings: gouache, colored pencil, and gesso on paper

sculptures: plaster, gesso, gouache, found objects

Fall quarter has started at Sinclair, which means it's time for the art department faculty show.

Last year, the installation I constructed - an homage to Matisse's Pink Studio - was kind of a spectacular failure. I had construction issues, problems with working in the tight triangular space of the Hypotenuse Gallery, as well as the basic insanity of trying to use lots of new materials and processes within a short amount of time. It was a good reminder that failure is part of the process of art making - although usually I prefer to make my mistakes less publicly!

So this year, I wanted to tackle installation again, while streamlining my ideas.

The new bamboo floor in the Triangle Gallery shows off the sculptural elements of this work better than the old ratty carpet. I'm fairly pleased with how the drawings and sculptures relate considering I haven't done anything sculptural since undergrad. The drawings and sculptures are an outgrowth of the Convenient Landscape series - a response to artifacts of a consumer culture. Once I get some more detailed images I'll post them.

For those of you in the area, the opening reception for the show will be this Thursday, September 16th, from 5pm - 6:30pm.

Sinclair Community College's Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery is on the 4th Floor of Building 13, at 444 W. Third Street, Dayton, OH.

Dayton City Paper Review

Sunglasses, Convenient Landscape Series, 2010, gouache, colored pencil, graphite and gesso on paper

Jane Black, artist and the executive director of Dayton Visual Arts Center profiled Amy Kollar Anderson's and my show at Gallery 510 for her Looking About column in the Dayton City Paper. Instead of reading like an advertisement for the exhibition, Jane's writing actually tackles our two bodies of work in a more substantive manner.

As an artist I appreciate any attention to my work (it's terrible to be ignored!) and a press clipping is something tangible to send to my parents. It's proof that all those hours spent mulling over the beauty of my neon sunglasses does have an impact eventually. It's even more amazing, though, when it's obvious that the writer has thoughtfully considered your work.

You can read the piece online here.

Color Extend

Hi Folks!

If you're in the Daytonian area for First Friday in August, stop by the Gallery 510 to see some of my most recent drawings and paintings. Fluorescent yellow, melting ice cream, and nefarious clouds will be heavily featured. I'll also be sharing the space with wunderpainter Amy Kollar Anderson. It's sure to be a good time!

www.lorettapuncer.com/gallery.html

Hope to see you there,

-Bridgette

Butter not miss this!

My two Convenient Landscape grids as well as one version of The Fog are currently on view at the Ohio State Fair. The show is up Jun 28 - Aug 8 - 9am-9pm daily (Aug 8th 9am-8pm) in the Fine Arts Pavilion. Francis has work on display as well - folks you don't wanna miss it!

There are also corndogs, butter sculptures, bizarre chickens, dogs doing tricks and bags of kettle corn as big as a couch (okay maybe not that big). The state fair is a wonderful place.

How to make a butter sculpture from Adrian Stucker on Vimeo.

In honor of Lost tomorrow night

Convenient Landscape, Smoke Monster, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
9" x 12"

Inspired by Charlie Brown

Convenient Landscape, Zigzag, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
14" x 20"

Space Invaders

Convenient Landscape, Space Invaders, 2010
gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
9" x 12"

Convenient Landscape Statement

Ice Cream, 2010, gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper

Convenient Landscape

My eyes are like magpies swirling and dipping as they take in the world. They alight on various fancies: a phrase, an object, a pattern. In turn, I feel the need to recognize these small delights. This acquisitive impulse is the underpinning of this series of drawings.

Keeping my responses open to what my visual reality provides; I make a decision through indecision. These drawings are done with no boundaries in style and subject matter beyond size and media: sheets of 9” x 12” watercolor paper, gouache, colored pencil and gesso. Light and immediate materials allow for an unlabored response.

These small, quick works teach me about what my eyes seek out: the end credits of a John Carpenter film, elements of atmospheric perspective and relative scale that I’m teaching my students, snowflakes and cloud forms reflecting my non-native’s fascination with Ohio’s winter weather, all the romantic facets of my everyday landscape. Here, through drawing, I allow myself to reflect on the bright churning pleasures of a full world.

Convenient Landscapes Grid #2

Convenient Landscape 2, 2010
gouache, colored pencil, graphite and gesso on paper
grid of 9, 9" x 12" each