Neo Collective Online Art Magazine

Neo Collective Art Magazine from Germany has featured me in their latest issue. Their website is the coolest. Use your mouse to pick up the magazine you want from the virtual room (I'm in the white one with the black twig cover) and then again to turn the virtual pages. FYI to my Grandma and the like, the first artist in this edition, a photographer, does have a few tasteful nudes.

Paperboat

From an ongoing collaborative with fellow Minnesota artist Jennifer Davis.


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Mourning

I’d been working on this painting in between the various gatherings surrounding my Grandpa Ed’s passing last week. It wasn’t until I was finished it, sat back and looked that I realized how dark it is for me. I guess it is my subconscious mourning piece. Granpa Ed loved Polka, so that makes it even better.

Forecast Spring

I saw my first Robin of the season yesterday. Inspired by my recent obsession with Flickr, I took a photo but it's so not worth posting. Here's a painting I'm working on instead.

unazukin!!!

Could a product be more my cup of tea? Unbelievable, a combination of Fisher Price Little People (which I LOVE) and Russian Nesting Dolls which I also adore. Of course they are from Japan. So, my birthday is next month and you can actually buy them on ebay...

Melancholy A-Listing

I've always been elated to be included in a City Pages A-listed event. This is different; this is hard. Tonight, though, we celebrate! Come on out with me. I'm gonna drink and dance and celebrate 4 incredible years.
Here's an old piece, from one of my very first shows with the gallery.

A LIST RECOMMENDED EVENT
Gallery Closing Party

Four years into its run as one of the greatest little art galleries and mentoring studios in town, Outsiders and Others is closing its doors tonight. Founded by Yuri Arajs and Beth Parkhill, this cool and historical spot on Park Avenue was known during its short life for birthing, fostering, and otherwise housing some 400 self-taught artists, including Venus DeMars, Grant Hart, Amy Rice, news anchor Robyne Robinson, and Keegan Wenkman. The art itself was as varied a collection as any you'll find: crop art, rock art, teeny-tiny art, youth art, religious art, tattoo art, and, during the holidays, art that was naughty and nice. Patrons loved the eclectic mix of paintings and sculptures because it was as affordable as it was accessible. But mostly the gallery was known for its social responsibility: Arajs and Parkhill designed exhibitions to heighten awareness about homelessness, mental health, and youth issues. Their most notable show happened outside of the Park Avenue space, when the gallery installed "Homeless Awareness" at the Mall of America in 2005. Tonight, expect remembrances of that show and all the others, plus drinks and dancing. Free. 7:00 p.m. —Molly Priesmeyer
SAT MAR 10
Outsiders and Others
1010 Park Ave S, Mpls.

For my Dad

My Dad set me an email. He is the absolute very last person in the universe I expected to get an email from for oh- so-many reasons. I told him I had a blog and sent him a link, so this, then, is a picture for him. It is he and I and his miniature horses at his farm in Wisconsin last summer.

Brave New Gocco

New gocco print based on an old painting of mine, "Ellen and the Brave New Chicken".

In case you didn't know, The Crane Wife by The Decemberists is the most beautiful album ever. Ever.

Keiko Yagishita

My new Keiko Yagishita print is finally home and hung on the wall. I fell in love with it last month while attending the opening of "Keiko's Remix" at Gallery 122 in Minneapolis.
Isn't it lovely?

Snow Day

My truck. I'm not going anywhere today. Ella. She loves snow.