Author Archives: Chris

Photographic Mixed Media Artist

Little Marauders

November 1, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

Hope your Halloween or Dia de los Muertos was fantastic and you received more treats than tricks!

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What was your most memorable costume?

Pick of the week, Oct 29

October 29, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather

 

Mile Marker 308, 35x51

 

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I love your cans

October 25, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

Thanks to everyone that came out to the Love Rust show last week. What a great time! Our neighborhood, Columbus Park, is the best, isn’t it!?

 

I had so much fun sharing images from my photographic sketchbook, and sharing everything I learned at Hallmark about photographing flowers, that I thought I would share some more with you. These are some of my favorites of the ubiquitous jalapeno cans in Guanajuato, Mexico that were outside of the scope of the Love Rust show. Continue reading »

Photograph of the week, Oct 22

October 22, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
–Hal Borland

Mile Marker 312, 16x22

 

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Love Rust

October 19, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

Ever wonder what someone does for fun after they’ve turned their passion and what they did for fun into their work? Me too…

 

Guanajuato Cemetery

My fun looks a lot like my work and my work looks a whole lot like my fun. They both look like a lot of travel with a camera up to my face, and time in the studio experimenting with materials and techniques. However, they often feel distinctly different to me, like the difference between a sketch book and a canvas. Or maybe between listening and talking. Continue reading »

Photograph of the week, Oct 15

October 15, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.”
― Rumi

 

Mile Marker 286, 35x51

 

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It’s not too early!

October 12, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting chillier. Here in Kansas City the air is becoming brisk enough to imagine that the holidays might be right around the corner. That can’t be true! Can it? Continue reading »

It’s Quiet Around Here

October 4, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

Too Quiet

The last of our artist house guests left this morning. Combine that with the end of the show season, and it is going to get really quiet around here. I am going to be happy to have the house and studio to myself for about a minute and then I’ll begin to miss all the noise and ruckus.

Knowing that you are all very busy, and that sometimes the important tasks that you would like to get to get pushed down the list for the urgent things that must be done, I have made a little something for you. A boilerplate to make things easier. Continue reading »

Photograph of the week, Oct 1

October 1, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

 

Mile Marker 282, 22x34

 

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Plaza Art Fair #13 – Thank you Kansas City!

September 27, 2012 by Chris | 4 Comments

What a welcome home!

 

After 13 years of doing shows around the country, my hometown show, my 13th Plaza Art Fair, provided the best show of my career! It was great to see familiar faces as well as make new friends at the show, so my special thanks to all that came out and made it a fantastic time! It really is all about the people!

 

Here are some of the awesome things about this week that you didn’t get to see:

 

pleeeeease

  • Our street filling up with large vans signaling the arrival of our people!
  • An impromptu and delicious dinner party with a houseful of my favorite artists: Beth Bojarski, Mark Winter, Lynn and John Whipple, Jim Brown, and Gregory Story. (Ask them about the tamales!)
  • Helping Laura Robson orchestrate a surprise visit from Oregon. And despite the fact she hadn’t done a show with all of us in six years, it felt just like old times.
  • Laughs so hard on our car rides to and from the show that my side still hurt the next day!
  • Hosting a fantastic party for the artists after the show with the AMAZING help of our good friends from Pandolfi’s. I never want to host anything without these guys ever again!
  • Sitting back and thinking about the collected talent at the party, and the interesting lives they are leading traveling from all corners of the country (and Canada). A brain trust assembling in our house, overflowing onto the porch, driveway and yard!
  • Dozens of sleep deprived and staggering artists digging through the River Market Antiques the day after the show, and the show and tell that happens afterwards.
  • Card playing on Monday night that is so exuberant the house vibrates with the excitement. (Who knew that dime ante poker could get successful adults so wound up?)
  • Quiet porch conversations that begin to happen as the crowd starts to thin.
  • The energy created by having so many of our best friends gathered in one place to sustain us through the winter season until we all meet up again in Florida in March.
  • My new piece of artwork from Kina Crow that perfectly expresses how I feel when everyone leaves.

Somebody pleeeease come play with me!