Spring Gold

Spring Gold                  2011                     ©Greg Patch

Neil Young on receiving "Humanitarian Award"

"You just gotta look inside yourself and the eyes of your friends, and you'll find the secret of how to be a humanitarian. So, love to you." - Neil Young

My new back yard sunrise

MF Cardamone

http://mfcardamone.com/

Artist Statement

MF Cardamone's mixed media works on paper whimsically record the life histories of plants throughout the world. Her plant specimens are collected and combined with images and words that playfully modernize the traditions of specimen mounting and botanical illustration. The results are complex visual narratives that reveal the science, history, and beauty of their subjects. Original pieces are produced in small editions and printed on 100% rag watercolor paper using archival inks and individually embellished by hand.

Shortly after completing the Barnes Foundation Arboretum School program, she started designing her native Pennsylvania wildlife habitat garden. While researching and collecting native plants for the garden, she became fascinated by their life histories and medicinal uses. "I wanted to document the information and create work that would be both entertaining and educational". Her inspiration and influences are varied and combine a lot of different interests such as: Medieval Herbals and manuscripts, ecology, folklore, ethnic and vintage designs, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pop Art and Surrealism.

"I’m fascinated by plants and the relationship we have with nature. I'm in awe of their mystery, beauty and the power they have to sustain and heal."

from http://bit.ly/i2Yj2C

STUDIO LIBERTINY’S VASE MADE BY BEES

by Emily Pilloton, 04/24/07

I’m a self-proclaimed Droog addict, and have touted the “je ne sais quoi” of the always-engaging and wryly humorous Dutch design ad nauseam. And this bee-made vessel by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny is no exception. Making its debut at Droog’s booth in Milan, the vase was made by 40,000 bees over the course of one week. Studio Libertiny constructed a vase-shaped hive that the bees then colonized, building a hexagonal comb to encompass the existing form. And in the usual dry yet oh-so-clever Dutch manner, Studio Libertiny calls this process “slow prototyping,” a more time-consuming, yet much more poetic alternative to CNC rapid prototyping.

Showing at Chapel Hill Public Arts Office in 2012

Have never scheduled a show more than a year in advance. There's a certain sense of relief in knowing some of my art commitment for the next year. Is there a corresponding energy to this and having just signed a one year lease on my new abode/studio space?!

Dear Greg,

Congratulations! You and thirty-one other artists have been selected to participate in the 2011 - 2013 Juried Exhibitions Series. The Public Arts Office would like to invite you to exhibit at Chapel Hill Town Hall from Tuesday, May 1, 2012 to Friday, June 29, 2012 with the following artist(s):

Jane Levy janeleiferlevy@gmail.com / 967-5736 Gracelee Lawrence lawrencegl@guilford.edu

To install your show, please deliver 10 - 20 artworks to the exhibition venue at 10 a.m. on the first day of the time frame provided above. Please make sure that each piece is labeled and ready to display or hang (if applicable - our hanging system requires at least 5" of wire on the back). A contracted installer will hang the show, so you do not need to assist with the actual hanging. All artworks are subject to final acceptance upon delivery and may be withdrawn at the discretion of the Public Arts Office. Artwork will be insured under the Town of Chapel Hill's insurance policy for the duration of the exhibit; the Town assumes no liability beyond this. Delivery, packaging, and return of

the artworks are solely the responsibility of the artists and/or their representatives. Prior to the installation, please email the following to swright@townofchapelhill.org:

1) 2) 3)

A one-paragraph artist's statement A one-paragraph artist's biography in third person A list of the titles, media, dimensions and prices for the pieces to be exhibited. If a piece is not for sale then please provide its value for insurance purposes. A 15% commission is required for any work sold to help defray the cost of the exhibition series

The Public Arts Office will publicize the exhibition to the media, to its list of arts patrons, and on the following webpage: http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=255.

At the exhibition's close on Friday, June 29, 2012 please pick up your artwork at 10 a.m. unless other arrangements have been made.

If you have questions, scheduling conflicts, or would like to tour the space please call me (number below). I will contact you one month prior to your show to begin making specific arrangements. If your contact information changes during the interim, please let me know. Finally, please email or call me to confirm your participation in this exhibition at your earliest convenience. Again congratulations, and I look forward to working with you!

Sincerely,

Steve Wright Public Art Coordinator Public Arts Office Town of Chapel Hill (919) 968-2749 swright@townofchapelhill.org www.chapelhillarts.org

photo sketches

Photos are of a glass cube window with reflection created images from red w/white trim house within the grid of the window framing. Will play more with this idea composing work ....

My voice and my mind becoming one, in a wave...

The Catskill Mts of NY. On my "chillin" month in the NE this year I took these/this shot from the East in Hillsdale NY. As an expressionistic landscape painter in the NE it was scenes like this that I began learning of the landscape as a wave. Philosophically I understood the principle that all is wave, or string. The transition in my work to focus more on the wave and less on the "landscape". My voice and my mind becoming one, in a wave...

Art Gallery Representation

My friend Jane Hillhouse of Final Footprint, http://www.finalfootprint.com/ sent me this shot of this really beautiful art gallery she came upon on a recent "green" casket buying trip she made to Bali.

Bali Art Gallery                          2011                            ©Jane Hillhouse

general radiation exposure w/herbs and whole foods

from Maderi Centre for Natural Healing; 

"At this point the consensus seems to be that there is very little threat to human health in this hemisphere. Nevertheless, we view this increase in concern over the dangers of radiation exposure as an opportunity to raise awareness around how we can better protect ourselves from radiation we are exposed to everyday. Adaptogens, medicinal mushroom extracts, whey protein, cruciferous vegetable extracts, and  sea vegetables are some examples of tools useful not only in the case of emergency, but for  everyday life." To include Maderi' suggestions as whole organic foods  in our diets is also very helpful.

Nevada Museum of Art, Art & Environment Conference

http://nevadaart.org/conference2011/

Sept 29  -  Oct 1

Art museums can be temples to culture or cultural catalysts.

Featuring

• Laura Allen
• Subhankhar Banerjee
• Richard Black
• Johanna Burton
• Edward Burtynsky
• Gaetano Carboni
• John Carty
• William L. Fox
• Amy Franceschini
• David Gissen
• Tim Griffin
• Fritz Haeg
• Newton Harrison
• Helen Mayer Harrison
• Laura Jackson
• Chris Jordan
• Geoff Manaugh
• Mandy Martin
• Christie Mazuera-Davis
• Jorge Pardo
• John Reid
• Libby Robin
• Sean Shepherd
• Mark Smout
• Leo Villareal
• Stephen G. 

They can be passive and predictable or unpredictably idea-driven. Museums can watch the world pass them by, or they can shape the trajectory of its course. Art and ideas matter here. We see art that challenges minds, melds environments and cultures, and responds to the uncertainties of the future. Art has a point of view and it deserves a voice at the table. That's what the Art + Environment^SM Conference gives it.

The Art + Environment Conference^SM at the Nevada Museum of Art reaches across continents, disciplines, and media to unite a dynamic group of thinkers shaping ideas about human interactions with global environments. A flagship program of the Museum's Center for Art + Environment, the 2011 Conference brings together artists, scholars, designers, and writers for a dialogue that fosters new knowledge in the visual arts. During the Conference, the Museum's galleries feature exhibitions that question our relationships with natural, built, and virtual environments, while serving as a springboard for Conference sessions
and keynote presentations.

New Moon Baked Cornish Hen

New Moon Baked Cornish Hen                   2011                  ©Greg Patch

The Ark Rose Wall at Arkhom...

...in Greenfield MA constructed with "Ark Rose" Sandstone mined from a local quarry. http://www.geometryofplace.com/gaiamatrix.html. Delicious organic, locally self picked, high bush blueberry pancakes (pyo og hb b) for breakfast this morning!!! 

"Before"                               2011                             ©Greg Patch