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December 20, 2010

Bad Art Night Starting Up in Half Moon Bay for 2011

We’re starting up an N Cal “section” of Twin Cities’ Bad Art Night.

Read on for more information. Contact me (Laura McHugh) to be added to the invite list.

December 19, 2010

Henry Darger – Outsider Artist b. 1892 d. 1973

I went to a South Bay Area Women’s Caucus for Arts (SBAWCA) art circle today in Berkeley. I had a lovely critique of my art, by Susan, Starr, Rosemary and Victoria. And I got to see their art and critique it too.

I took these pieces, from my recent work in May 2010 and my show at Bamboo. What an interesting critique when several people mentioned that my pieces reminded them of the work of Henry Darger.

I had never heard of Darger before today, but when I see his work, I do see at least a striking visual similarity and reading about him has helped me appreciate how I might deepen my work and continue moving it in an interesting direction. Whee, this making art is fun!

December 3, 2010

Today’s Jojo – 12/2/10

Lynn’s on the right, mine on the left. Happy Friday!

Mine was taken on a mini-photo shoot outing with my photographer friend Nancy West. We shot down at the SSF train tracks for about 30 min this afternoon. Lots of cool graffiti there.

I’m back to truly jojo-ing. This was my fave photo I took today, and it goes well with what Lynn had on deck for today, but I didn’t know that when we each picked our photos. Random. Curious. Coincidental.