If you love to see flowers and have no time to weed seed or water Artist miChelle M. Vara from Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery has got the perfect solution. miChelle has created giant tulips with bee’s to join in color with Albany Spring Tulip Fest fun. The tulip sculptures are better than 6’ and made with re-purposed metals, garden tools, finished in vibrant color and can be displayed outdoors.
The work is on display for the festival….
Alice in Wonderland tulips & bees
Close up
This artist exploration came in to being when the storm Sandy hit the coast of New Jersey and my home town Ortley Beach got wiped off the map! The tragic loss of friends’, homes, lively hoods and businesses, began my trip down memory lane.
These events made me think and connect to so many childhood formative experiences. This stimulated the newly created series of paintings and sculpture in retrospective to a people, lifestyle of the beach, ocean and boardwalk.
The story or line of thought for this piece-
11 years ago my father passed away. His last request was that we as a family make our last trek down the seacoast stopping at all the beaches, light houses, boardwalks and seaside communities, just as we did each year as children when my parents’ beach businesses season closed.
This trip not only ended up being emotional but magical-!
The bottle contents were acquired throughout the trip. The contents carry memories, emotion, and spirit. I assembled and chose them through meditation and chanting prayer. the upward piece is kinetic and moves.
the series has 7 completed pieces and 5 in the works I will post pictures as I go so please stop back. Thanks
Venilia #717
Venilia #717
Venilia #717
Venilia #717
Venilia #717
“Child of the sea”.
The words of Rabindranth Tagore from the book Final Poems.
Make me feel, cutting straight to emotion.
“Fifty Four” 30″x8″
Remembering 911- My heart and thoughts are with all who suffer the events past.
I have a master key from the World Trade Center shared by a local family to which I will incorporate in 911 monument sculpture upcoming. The 911- monument “Respectful Remembrances” made by me is open at The Wilton Fire Company on Ballard Rd, 6-9 pm tonight. Wishing all peace!~
Industrial Nation -metal sculpture stands 18′
You are cordially invited to:
The National Bottle Museum Artist Space presents:
“Fli-N-Shu”
2 and 3 dimensional solo works of miChelle M. Vara
Opening Reception- August 5th, 5 to 7pm
Vara used the opportunity at the National Bottle Museum’s Jan Rutland Artist Space, to display new abstract work. The dimensional pieces include glass, metal, stone and horses in Saratoga Springs race season fashion.
Show until September 17th 2012, Friday-Tuesday 10am -4pm
Located- The National Bottle Museum Ph:(518) 885-7589
76 Milton Ave. Ballston Spa NY- the Jan Rutland Memorial Artist Space
Performance Art at N bennington Vt.
Shown on the corner of Post Office N. Bennington Vt.
Iron Pour
Maria Siskind Impromptu Performance
Please Join us in the art & fun as we say goodbye Fred X Brownstein as it is his last year of curating this wonderful show and we welcome his successor. Thanks Fred it been a pleasure to work with you.
Opening reception- July 21st 4 to 8pm
35 nationally acclaimed Artist, hot dogs, Music, Ice cream, Live show
Located- Rt. 67 on the property’s around the post office
Show runs through October 13th 2012
I’m reading about the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s relationship with artist Eduardo Chilida. I found there point of view very interesting and of my personal perception and thought. I enjoy, look forward to, have many, I am always reaching for more experiences. From those experiences I do build perception but with that also comes the art. My art is the heart of who I am. In this process I can say the journey reveals discovery leading to development of my works. Unlike Eduardo Chillida, I do not feel that experience is one foot in the past. I like to think that all of me even in reflection is in the present or the now.
This is an excerpt of the reading:
Eduardo Chillida engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. When the two men met, they discovered that from different angles, they were “working” with space in the same way. Heidegger wrote: “We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place,” and that sculpture is thereby “…the embodiment of places.” Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.
Chillida has been quoted as saying: “My whole Work is a journey of discovery in Space. Space is the liveliest of all, the one that surrounds us. …I do not believe so much in experience. I think it is conservative. I believe in perception, which is something else. It is riskier and more progressive. There is something that still wants to progress and grow. Also, this is what I think makes you perceive, and perceiving directly acts upon the present, but with one foot firmly planted in the future. Experience, on the other hand, does the contrary: you are in the present, but with one foot in the past. In other words, I prefer the position of perception. All of my work is the progeny of the question. I am a specialist in asking questions, some without answers.”
Maybe you have thoughts you’d like to share on the subject – Just email me!
I am glad to say this spring has shaped up to be like no other. The collector parties and private invites to travel, show, teach and speak have been wonderfully exhilarating.
I wanted to extend my grate appreciation & thank everyone for sharing and making all the fun.
“Life is Supposed to be FUN!”
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It was really fun and easy to talk with Joan from Ottawa Broadcasting.
Joan is the program director and host of the radio shows -Talk at ten and Turn of Page for WPCR and WPTB. I understand why she is so successful, she made me feel as though I was having a conversation over tea, and it was not stressful at all. Thanks Joan I enjoyed meeting you and spending time with you and chatting it up. Thanks Again………………
Radio Interview "Talk At Ten"