Solid Art Services Newsletter #2
Summer is finally well and truly upon us! All of us at SOLID hope you’re keeping cool and hydrated. We’ve been slowly but steadily filling up our fine art storage facility with art in recent months but there’s still plenty of room! Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss rates and details
Don’t forget, we also fabricate crates and pedestals, and exhibition build out! Not to mention: installing, packing, transporting and shipping art. Should you need any of these services please get in touch at office@solidartservices.com
In the meantime we’ll be shining a spotlight on some local LA artists and galleries in each newsletter.
Tell us about your studio practice?
Working primarily in sculpture, installation, and drawing, my current interests are in three-dimensional form and space, and in how materials convey meaning. My work spans from mediums like stone carving to built installations using light, lasers, audio, video projections, and other sculptural and sensory materials. Exploring life cycles on macro and micro scales, from seasonal shifts to geological epochs and cosmological events, I am interested in the ephemeral nature of our
existence and the natural phenomena that keep us grounded. Researching archeological excavations and evaluating our place within ecosystems, the work is both personal and universal as I examine our relationship to time and the visual vocabulary inherent in both abstraction and representation. The subject matter is sometimes autobiographical but also represents life cycles, and processes of change, transformation, and transmutation. Ambiguity and mystery layered in the
past, the present, and the future are intriguing and compelling as are dualities, contrasts, and the spaces in between. Are things growing or decaying? Alive or dead? Old or new? Or both? I find comfort in the impermanence, the endless change, and the unknown.
Do you have any shows coming up?
Yes, I’ve been invited into a select group exhibit, venue TBD, this fall.
Point of Rupture
HeNe laser, Carrara marble, welded steel, RGB light, mirrors, fog machine
Dimensions variable
What do you listen to in the studio?
I’m a musical person, so I’m very affected and sometimes distracted by what I’m listening to when I’m working in my studio. Sometimes I listen to classical piano. Recently, I’ve discovered a meditation sound on Spotify which I like a lot called “Alpha/Beta Waves” for increased focus. Sometimes I just need silence
to really focus, and other times if I don’t need to focus as much and I need energy to get something done, I listen to all different musicians: Kate Bush, Four Tet, FKA Twigs, Sinead O’Connor, Tame Impala, Jockstrap, Banks, Aphex Twin, Grimes, or I listen to archaeology podcasts.
Electric Synapse
Charcoal and pastel on paper
9" x 14
Tell us about your first experience making art.
Both of my parents are professional artists, so I grew up in a very creative environment and with the knowledge that being an artist was a possible career path. I also grew up “helping” my parents with their artwork. My earliest memory of making art was making a drawing with my Dad when I was 5 years old! I just remember thinking, “Oh, yea, this is the best thing ever!!!” We drew a rainbow castle because those were the princess days.
Specimen
Welded steel
2.5' x 2.5' x 1.5'
What projects do you have coming up?
I’m working on an installation using lasers, audio-video projection, and a large metal sculpture resembling a tornado. I’m moving more and more in the direction of working with spaces, rather than with individual objects. I always have multiple projects happening at one time in my studio. I’m also working on a stone
carving that looks like an excavated skeleton fossil. My drawing table is always set up in my studio. Drawing is an integral part of my sculptural practice and is also a welcome respite from the heavy-duty three-dimensional labor of making sculpture.
Simmering
Hand-carved calcite
17" x 17" x 8"
Who are your favorite local LA artists?
Cauleen Smith, my mentor from graduate school at CalArts. Samara Golden, Candice Lin, Liz Glynn, Shirley Tse, Rosha Yaghmai, Beatriz Cortez, Betye, Alison, and Lezley Saar, Coleen Sterritt, and Amia Yokoyama. My boss at Solid, John Zappas! My friends from my cohort at CalArts: Kelly Wall, Kira Doutt, Lucinda Trask, Alicia Piller, and Luke Harnden.
Untitled
Welded-steel, rope, and latex,
6' x 6' x 6'
What are your three favorite books?
This changes often, but three books that have made a big impact on me and that I have read multiple times are…
The Awakening, which is considered one of the first feminist novels and was published by American author Kate Chopin in 1899.
Daybook, by Anne Truitt
A Sculptor’s World by Isamu Noguchi
What are your three favorite movies?
Some films that have made a lasting impression on me include…
Andrei Tarkovsky’s films
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Three Colours Trilogy, Blue, White, Red
Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman.
Who are your three favorite artists?
I have so many, but for today I will pick…
Louise Bourgeois
Rockne Krebs (my father)
Ann Hamilton
Solid Playlist
Here is a little playlist of music we’ve been listening to at our facility! Enjoy :)
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