new business cards arrived!

began BCA res today!

making a schedule... waiting on packages...designing huge light table.

Although it really just seemed like I walked through snowy streets, spent money, and schlepped stuff till my shoulders throbbed. Then, yoga.

http://www.bcaonline.org/visualarts/programs.html

About the BCA Artist Residency Program

This non-traditional, ten-week residency program provides a unique support system for individual artists, including funding, studio assistance, and the opportunity to experiment and share one’s practice with an audience through three individually designed workshops. This residency seeks to help artists explore audience engagement outside of typical art education models. The residency may be especially appealing for artists who are interested in public programs but who have limited experience with them, or would like to take their current practice in a new, more public direction. Click here for the2010-11 Artist Residency program and workshop schedule.

2010-2011 ARTIST RESIDENTS:

Christy Georg
Christy has been called "a sculptor of wit and ingenuity, clearly in the tradition of Jean Tinguely and Bruce Nauman, but brilliantly original in her use of existential humor to invigorate the works" by fellow sculptor Rob Fisher. Her work is often created for use in a specific location or inspired by a particular historic account. During her time at the BCA, she will be working on a large map of the Boston Harbor and its evolution from 1776. She will be using a relatively new technique to make her drawings by creating new images from existing images found on the Internet and in books.

Georg's public workshops will take place in January/February 2011. In one workshop, she will introduce participants to the sailor's art of marlinespike seamanship, a technique she re-interprets in her contemporary sculpture. In her last two workshops, Georg will explore how people from Boston relate to the Boston Harbor as part of her research for a large map of the Boston Harbor.

blizzard, specs, carbs, and flight

Ok, Boston is covered in a blizzard. That's where I'm headed tomorrow. Yippee. I'll knock back a couple drinks on the plane to pre-warm up.

One last run outside here in warm, sunny Texas. I gotta remove/clean my motorcycle carbs- very cool of my parents to store my bike and truck for the 10 weeks I'll be @ Boston Center for the Arts for a residency.

I got new/vintage glasses. Thanks to Aili for her patience and insight as I chose from the selection at Old Focals in L.A.

oh, limbo

Slept terribly last night. Moon eclipse? Well, it likely did influence my thoughts. I came to realize a few things, and have to deal with it. I really miss the whole Taos situation, I was very happy in it. But it's over. Here I am, in limbo. Again. And I'm sending myself to cold, dark Boston. Oof. I'm feeling anxious.

But really. It's not carving my own epitaph. It's just 10 weeks. And a particular project. A Drawing project. Here's the flyer:

Tough luck news:

• I'm hanging at my parents house in Houston. Oh, Texas, you ignorant but warm bastard.
• I will not be able to work on or finish my 'saddle' piece until I get to Jentel in March.
• All my stuff totally reeks of eau de Pine Tar. Big time. Mom is not a fan.
• I really want to work on the saddle piece, but can't. Crap.
• I also will not work on those cowboy-ish drawings I didn't finish. I won't work. December is pretty much a loss, though I did visit lots of great friends and family, and this is the way the residency train rolls.
• I have loads of paperwork to do over the holiday, of course I can't be making stuff- applying for a few sweet teaching jobs, the Pollock-Krasner grant, and doing research/sending packets to bigger venue curators. I need a high profile gig. Hello, fancypants curators: I'm ripe for the pickin!
• Yet, I'll begin negotiations with another University gallery. It's become a rut I should get out of.
• I'm edgy about my finances. It's hard to relax and have faith things will work out.
• I have to deal with logistics of being carless in Boston. How to make light-tables and get the project started? It's a ton of meticulous work for only 10 weeks, but I need to complete it in that time. I'll have to learn to direct my interns. Wow, I get interns!
• My mind is turning to my upcoming Pacific Crest Trail hike, I want to get planning! Have some gear issues to resolve, pinpointing mail drops, and most importantly how to turn it into an art project. Blogging on trail, sure. I'd love to find a way to record sound and have it play online in real time. Huffing and puffing, cursing at rainstorms or brutal heat. I like the idea of transmitting the moments. They can only be experienced in real time. All things must pass.

Okay, on the brighter side:

• I'm feeling the ease of being at sealevel, coming down from 7,000' Taos. I have been running outside every day, and it feels like I can run forever. Hitting the gym and pumping iron with my parents is pretty cool too. Feeling pretty okay about my endurance level, but the most hardcore training will begin shortly. Thanks to Bill, fabulous friend and fitness buddy in Taos, for sticking with me through tons of hikes, runs, and yoga sessions. I hope to start the hike around April 20, and have my blog showing expected arrival times at points on the trail, so friends can join me for section hikes!
• I'm trying to be more active with blogging, and now posting on my facebook fan page and on twitter. Thanks to Tania for pushing me to do that!
• It's nice to be rocking a T-shirt in December. Can I move to California?

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my work @ Maine Maritime Museum

Cross Currents: Visual Arts Distilled from the Maritime World opened to the public on Saturday, Nov. 20.

Just as history is a compilation of complex interwoven elements, Cross Currents will explore how maritime life has been diversely captured in four disciplines in the visual arts - by Carroll Thayer Berry, through printmaking; by Loretta Krupinski, through painting; by Claudio Cambon, through photography; and by Christy Georg, through sculpture.

Carroll Thayer Berry (1886-1978) is one of Maine's best known printmakers. Although the schooners and shores of the Maine coast are Berry's most-recalled inspiration, he was also drawn to the industrial shipyard scene, documenting naval ships at Bath Iron Works as well as the dramatic pouring of the lead keel for the America's Cup defender, Ranger, in 1936.

South Thomaston resident Loretta Krupinski paints outward from historical photography to regain the emotional context and colors of particular moments along the working waterfronts of coastal Maine communities, both living and forgotten.

Claudio Cambon has been a documentary photographer for more than 20 years, recording captivating moments of life and culture around the world, including Maine, through his camera lenses. His work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally.

The unique installations by Christy Georg move otherwise staid maritime objects, techniques, and material - knot work, tattoos, scrimshaw, horns, signals, lanterns - into startling, humorous, and ironic frames of reference. Her work is a provocative reminder of the swirling undertow overlooked by a strictly historical cataloging.

Cross Currents will be on view at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath through Sunday, February 6, 2011.

http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/about/news_and_press/detail.php?news_and_press_id=53

find me on my Facebook fan page

My brilliant friend Tania Kaufmann suggested setting up a Facebook fan page for my artwork to help drum up some traffic to my website www.christygeorg.com

go ahead. "like" me.