our show opened today in vallauris, france. here i am in front of my installation.
Friday, June 13, 2014
oh picasso.
we were so lucky to get a private tour of MADOURA, the studio/factory where picasso produced ceramics here in valauris, france. it was amazing and so informative.
they didn’t allow photos to be taken in his actual studio workspace, but i begged and they let me take some if i promised not to publish them . . . but if you visit me at my studio, i can show them to you in person ! his studio was so inspiring to me.
this is the kiln picasso’s work was fired in !
Monday, June 10, 2013
seeing beauty.
the town where i am doing my residency in france, vallauris, is a very poor and run down town. it is filled with potters and other artists. the city council is trying to revive this little town and luckily they are huge supporters of the arts. this is a typical street in vallauris. very old and worn, but to me, so hauntingly beautiful.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
vallauris.
i finally made it down to the south of france to start my residency, and it’s as if i had never left. the weather here is just perfect. it’s like coming home again . . . i grew up in fresno, california which has mediterranean climate and so it feels subliminally familiar to me. i am ready to get my hands dirty and to see what inspires me. this is where i will be living for the next 5 weeks . . . top floor.
Friday, July 22, 2011
friday field trip (from the sketch book).
june 2011
vallauris, france
this is picasso’s man with a sheep that stands in the main square in vallauris. i would pass by it many times a day. it is so powerful, you can’t walk by and not notice it.
“in the context of the symbol of sacrifice, picasso’s sculpture of the man with the sheep, of 1942-1943, assumes a unique position in his life work. it was created during those anguished years of the second world war of which churchill wrote that “everyone realized how near were death and ruin.” after the war picasso donated a bronze cast of this sculpture to the town of vallauris as a memorial to the resistance fighters.” (art journal vol.32. no. 3. spring 1962)
Friday, March 11, 2011
friday field trip (from the sketchbook).
2010
berkeley, california
. . . and SPEAKING of france, i’ve just been accepted to do a residency in the SOUTH OF FRANCE for ONE MONTH ! i will be in a little town right above cannes called vallauris. this is where picasso lived and first worked in clay. i will be there at the end of may until the beginning of july. i get a place to live and 24 hour access to a studio. you will never know how utterly excited i am ! it is the perfect dream come true.
