December, 2023 |  | Pepper Pot IV, 2019 Graphite and gouache on paper, 13.5 x 11 inches |
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| From time to time I love to fundraise and support organizations by offering to raffle my work. Over the years we’ve raised money for everything from reproductive rights to water access to art projects. This season I will be offering two raffles for education and invite you to join me in boosting their budgets! One this month to support our amazing East Village public elementary school my son attends and in January to the sweet Waldorf school we spent our early nursery school years at. Secondary to helping out is the joy I feel in making my work accessible to everyone in the raffle format.
How it will work: Every $20 donation is one entry. (Donate $60 = 3 entries, $100 = 5 entries, you get the idea). Simply donate through THIS link, snap a screen shot of your donation, and send it along to me. On December 27th I will select two people to win one of two works on paper, Pepper Pot IV shown above and the muck, the mire, and beyond shown below, (a $1,700 value each.)
Donations to East Village Community School go towards enriching the curriculum with programs like: Alvin Ailey musical residency, author visits, chess, and much more! We are so fortunate to have joined the community of educators and parents at EVCS and send our son to school there everyday. I am incredibly grateful to support the school’s efforts through my art. While we stare down some radical budget cuts in New York City imposed by our current mayor, we always have community to build the world we want for ourselves, our families, and our young people through collective action. Thank you for joining me and good luck in the raffle. |  | the muck, the mire, and beyond, 2021 Graphite and gouache on paper, 13.5 x 11 inches | | Book Bonanza | In some other realm of life I would have been a book seller. So in celebration of the holiday season here’s a book deep dive of some favorites from this year to inspire your gift giving. |
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|  | The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
Reading Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal years back was my first in depth introduction to Coenties Slip, the small enclave of artist lofts in the South Street Seaport in the late 50’s to mid 60’s. Home to a diverse group of gender and sexual orientated artists, much of the work created is housed in museums around the world. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer just graced the NYT Top 100 Books of the Year list. While I’ve got my hands on a copy, I haven’t cracked it open yet. Book Club anyone? |
|  | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Taking a singular discovery, by a manuscript hunter, hidden in a German monastery library in the Renaissance, of a poem, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, Greenblatt constructs a window for us to learn of the immense clash between Catholic doctrine, the ravenous appetite for all things ancient by Italian humanist, and the radical insights into nature that Lucretius had in the 1st century. Everything around us being made of invisible particles, that the world wasn’t created for humans, or that religions are invariably cruel are all ideas that wouldn’t survive Christianity but laid dormant for centuries in this one text pulled from the recesses of time. While the poem was slow to disseminate at first, once the printing press was invented the ideas quickly spread and infiltrated a society violently rejecting the Catholic choke hold on intellectual advancement. |
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|  | The Wheel of the Year: An Illustrated Guide to Nature’s Rhythms by Fiona Cook & Jessican Roux
The Wheel of the Year is a gorgeously illustrated guide to keep a family inspired to bring nature and Earth based celebrations into a home. Story telling and instructions for art projects, recipes, rituals, self care, and reflection unfolds all while you wind your way through the year being mindful of the natural rhythms all around you. From the immune boosting Fire Cider to dream pillows to harnessing the power of plants for dyes and health, these approachable projects are written towards children but I find equally stimulating for adults looking to tune into their relationship with the energy nature can offer us. |
|  | Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction Edited by Lynne Cook
This traveling exhibition is currently on view at LACMA and will travel to MoMA in the new year. While I wait I pour over the exhibition catalog, a tomb to all things woven history. The experimentation, rigor, playfulness, and expansive world view the multi-form and media that weaving avails is gorgeously on display in this book. With essays by Lynne Cook, Briony Fer, and Bibiana K. Obler to name a few and artists’ responses by Ann Hamilton, Ellen Lesperance, and Jeffrey Gibson to also name a few, this landmark gathering will be resonating through culture in the years to come.
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|  | Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, and Simple by Dorie Greenspan
My devotion and faith in every recipe that Dorie lays down in this book is 100%. I have never encountered a cookbook that yields absolutely perfect results every time over such diverse categories. I frame my domestic life as trying to use creativity to negate the time I give up being in my studio. Some mix of home bound early pandemic life, that desire to be creative, and the obscene daily cost of living in NYC put my baking and cooking on miracle grow. Whether it’s a two day babka that almost launches my Kitchen Aid off the counter or quick easy seedy grainy muffins that we pack for lunches schmeared with a protein, I would choose this book as my end all be all baking book! |
|  | The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and The Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
Former frieze magazine editor Jennifer Higgie follows up Mirror & the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience - 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits, a thorough overview of women artists’ relationship to self portraiture as their sole means to study and paint from life with The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and The Spirit World. Every radical proto modernist female artist you wish to know more about is here and their descendants into the modern world. While men such as Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Klee had free reign to engage in the spiritual influences in their work, much of women’s work in the same fields have been regarded on different terms. Higgie’s writing is personal, deep, and while thoroughly researched doesn’t weight itself down being academic. |
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| | | Recipe Corner Simple Mediterranean Olive Oil Pasta
Last weekend my mom was visiting which called for a big Sunday dinner of this Simple Mediterranean Olive Oil Pasta. The abundance of jarred artichokes, feta, basil, parsley, and olives packs the pasta with a tangy flavors and nutrients. I love this cookbook and regularly make the Red Lentil Harissa Soup, the Chickpea Spinach Soup, and Baked Salmon.
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| | |  | Smooth Summer, 2021 Embroidery, fabric, oil stick on mounted paper, and canvas, 20 x 18 inches. |
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