Hey People!! Welcome to Deb's World, volume 10. I really do try and spare ya'll too many of these cluttered missives, but that means I have to cram a lot in. Blame it on my little hoarding problem.
First up, this weekend!
Ravenswood ArtWalk
Sat, Oct 1, 11-7
Sun Oct 2, 11-6
Kim Laurel and I will be yukking it up over at
1807 West Sunnyside (corner of Ravenswood and Sunnyside - the "airstream" building). This event is FREE!
Enter through the back door and we're the first studio that you'll see. We'll be dishing up prints, paintings, mixed media work and gossip, plus really awesome snackage.
More info on the Artwalk HERE.
Perhaps I'll show some of my new little prints, like this one:
This image, "Nuevo Huevo", will also appear in a portfolio and touring exhibition called "East-West", featuring 2 artists from each state (I've always wanted to be Ms. Illinois - woohoo. This is as close as I'm gonna get). The exhibition provides a snapshot or survey of printmaking being produced throughout the United States.
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Also this month:
I'll be exhibiting this new painting in a show called Element Flux at the Jackson Junge Gallery in Wicker Park, opening October 7, 6-9pm:
"Elemental Flight", 12 x 12 inches, mixed media painting, �2011
What's cool is that my son, Evan Silver, and my mother, Carol Lader, will also be in this show, curated by Kim Laurel and Fletcher Hayes. Three generations! What that really means is that none of us will misbehave during the opening.
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Meanwhile, back at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, there's a ton of fun stuff happening, including a new show featuring members of the Chicago Printers Guild called Ink In the City. Come by October 15th, 12-5 for free demonstrations of screen printing and etching, and for delicious cookies by Hilary. Reception 5-8. We guarantee a circus of fine ink-slinging shenanigans, with brayer-jugglers, ink-knife swallowers, and a bearded screenprinter. We'll kick off the festivities by shooting a lithographer out of a cannon onto Western Avenue. I'll be showing the latest state of this print:
"Working On wings To Fly" etching, 24 x 18 inches, �2011
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And now for something completely weird...
A bunch of my work will be featured on a Billboard as part of the Chicago Billboard Project. So, if you happen to be traveling East Bound on Interstate 90 just after the highway crosses over Oakton Street on October 10-14, you just might see this image flash across your peripheral vision
(please keep at least one eye on the road):
"Flying", mixed media painting on wood, 2 x 4 feet
Here's a map of where you'll hopefully not get in an accident.
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In even WEIRDER news, I won the Grand Prize in the Art Category in a competition sponsored by Great Lakes Forever/Biodiversity Project, which teamed up with Budweiser to award me a new bicycle and feature my winning image on 120,000 beer coasters. I mean, can you REALLY see this image on a beer coaster????....
"On Thin Ice", etching, �2011
I found this particularly funny because I have not had a Bud since the 1981 Super Bowl (although we did have a can that was hanging around our pantry for a record-breaking 18 years. I got it when beer batter bread was all the rage). As for the Great Lakes and keeping it safe and clean, this is of course a campaign I can really get behind, and I think my piece about nurturing this natural resource and it's diverse ecosystem definitely fits, and I'd chug a keg of Bud to keep the Great Lakes clean forever, even if it resulted in a wicked hangover. So, if you miss the Billboard and all the other shows, you still have a chance to get drunk over a beer coaster featuring my artwork.
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Check out my website:
DeborahMarisLader.com
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Here's a link to the little book of etchings that I published. Just click HERE and it will take you to a magical place. Where you can buy the book.
(after all, it's almost Christmas!!!)
I'm always posting unusual things on FACEBOOK. Sorry, but you might have to also become my FRIEND. We
also have some fun images up on the CPC Facebook page of the pretty new signage we installed on the ugly scaffolding outside our building.
"A" is for "Aborative". And "Attack".
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