Autumn Dae

Here Comes The Sun: Art Exhibition to Benefit the Killian Mansfield Foundation

Erica Harney, a visual artist, who was one of my instructors at the New York State Summer School of the Arts in 2007, is dedicating her work to the memory of one of her students.

Here Comes the Sun is an exhibition of Erica’s work. Over 200 pieces in various price ranges will be displayed, the proceeds going to the Killian Mansfield Foundation.

Killian Mansfield was one of Erica’s students and one of my peers at NYSSSA 2007. In 2009 he lost his battle against Synovial Sarcoma at the age of 16. The Killian Mansfield Foundation was started to help children like him, by providing integrated healthcare, nurturing their creativity through the arts, and uplifting their spirits.

The exhibition will be held at the Greenpoint Gallery (390 McGuiness Blvd. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY) on July 18th, 2011 from 6PM-8PM. 

Please reblog this. Even if you do not live in the NY area, even if you aren’t interested. One of yr followers might, and we need as many people to attend as possible.

More information can be found on the Facebook Event page and the Facebook Community page.

Thank you!

Final Review

So yesterday I had my end of year review, as is customary in the Visual & Critical Studies department at the SVA.

I’m not sure how useful it was.

Most of the feedback I felt were things I had already self-assessed. Get larger. More fabric. Etc.

The people reviewing me saw Rauschenberg’s influence on my work. I’m glad they were able to see that. I wanted that.

But there were a few minutes where they debated what my art was. This made me feel really wrong. I print things on fabric and assemble them. There was a moment where the people reviewing me almost came to a consensus that the objects were sculptures.

I don’t want that.

I want them to be art, to be art objects. To be these occurrences and not classified products.

And then they suggested I design patterns and get them mass printed on fabric to make larger pieces. But then I’m not printing them and it goes in the opposite direction of the theories I’m working with.

The theory that I have to work with what I have and learn how to use and draw inspiration from these things.

However difficult that may be.

And then I constantly have this underlying feeling of wanting to do the opposite of what everyone tells me. I don’t know where that comes from or why that’s there but it is.

I’m trying to avoid it.

I might just be back to figuring out where I’m going on my own.

At least for now.

Getting reblogged by fuckyeahprintmaking made me way more excited than it should have.