Liebchen

The Queen City

Some photos from the first roll of film I ever shot, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"We are together; we are not ashamed of our helplessness."

Louise Bourgeois

No Words

Size variable.

54 pieces of scrap paper and daily calendar pages

with red rope printed in linocut or drawn onto them,

and some copper nails from Dave Douglas.

Things That Used to Be Here

Back Home

That New Thing

(my roommate said these look like they're from the 1980s)

Recently I was given a lovely 35mm camera by my dear boyfriend, Chris Luessen of Switch Out The Sun.

Since then I've been having a lot of fun. I've never so much as dipped my toes into film photography before, so it has been an unpredictable but exciting experience. It's good to take a break from the things you're used to and try something new. What is life without challenges?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

at the opening of PUSH, with my video piece, "Always On My Mind."

Thanks to everyone who came out, it was a wonderful opening show for a beautiful new gallery.

Opening Tonight

The Robert Turner Student Gallery will open for the first time with the show PUSH, a juried exhibition of student work, tonight from 7-9 PM. I'll have two prints and a video piece in the exhibition, along with some twenty-odd other students. Check it out?

Also showing tonight in Alfred is an exhibition of work by faculty member Fred Tschida in the brand-new Turner IV gallery, behind Harder Hall, near the wood kilns. It's sure to be good - bring a sweater.

Consumer

Steel plate etching

15.5" x 10"

Trying a new technique with ink rolled onto the plate to create a two-tone etching.

Destroyer

Collage

6" diameter

Opening

Tonight we (the Martin P. King Collective) had a show:

"I Am Martin P. King"

Much food, much work, much fun, and a hand-silkscreened zine by Will Contino, Sam Mameli, and Nick Alberti!

Show will be up in the Printshop (including hallway and crit room) until Wednesday.

Thanks for coming by!

You should really come

Harder Hall, 3rd floor lobby, 10/5/2011

That's next Wednesday!

7 pm potluck, 8 pm screening of undergrad and graduate time media work.

Bring some food, bring some work.

I'm even bringing brownies.

Postkarten

Silkscreen

4" x 6"

A few of the many different colors of postcards I've been making the past day or so. Just a little project to unwind with in between the bigger things.

Summer Work Highlights

"Family Story"

Collage
8.5" x 7.25"

"Dear Heart"

Linocut
7" x 5"

"Still Waiting"

Linocut
6.5" x 7"

"Letters from Home"

Zinc Plate Etching
9" x 6"

"Homebody"

Linocut
9" x 12"

"Gilded"

Linocut
12" x 9"

"Trek"

Screenprint
10" x 22.5"

"Gold (2)"

Screenprint
11" x 10"

"Gold"
Screenprint
11" x 10"

Peeping

Finished my first screenprinted yard of fabric today! This will probably be used to make a skirt, but I may print more for funsies.

Things have been busy here. Hula hooping, swimming, exploring, and late nights. Once I find a scanner there will be much work to show. There are already lots of stories to tell.

Newly in Love

With shrinkydinks

At Camp

Doing lots of linocuts when I'm not teaching in our very woodsy studio. Here's one.

Hope you're well xo

Hey boys and girls,

I started a website up.

http://cargocollective.com/torykeith

Mostly shows finished series as a kind of clean-cut presentation of myself to the world at large. Not as quick and dirty as this blog.

But I still plan to keep this up to date so don't you worry. There's still plenty of quick and dirty to go.

Colic

12" x 22"

Steel plate etching diptych

We See

30" x 22"

Digital print

Sense of Self

Dimensions pending

Monoprint, Screenprint, pen

This one is a little older (it was featured in the first GAP Collective show back in November) but I think it still gets at the ideas I am interested in.

Across the World

6.75" x 12"

Steel plate etching, chine colle

Ashka

12" x 19"

Steel plate etching, monoprint

Wall Installation

Finally finished the centerpiece of my work for Artist Multiples.

8' x 4' Luon board with my A.B. Dick postcards manipulated and applied to the surface.

Also includes nails, yarn, photographs, and watercolor paint.

The subject matter surrounds the breakdown of family farms, especially the deterioration of family farms in Western New York, due to industrial farming. Through my research into the topic I found out about irrigation circles, which are used by industrial farms to create fertile farming areas in unnatural environments that would normally be inhospitable to crops. The circles on my wall reference aerial views of industrial irrigation circles. The small photos inside of the "frames" are photographs that I have taken around Western New York of small family farms, focusing on the areas where deterioration is most evident.