Our second week in the Visiting Artist Slide Talk series will feature two artists who make up their own rules and systems in art-making. They are both inventive in technique, diverse in subject matter, and confident in their approach to everyday life as a creative being. They reside on opposite sides of the continent, and we are so happy to bring them together here, at Shared Space Studio, 6pm Sunday August 11th.
Sarah Applebaum arrived in Michigan, for her first time ever, on Tuesday morning. After an eating, shopping, art-seeing orientation in Grand Rapids, she has been soaking up the local scenery in Pentwater, playing with clay, and collecting flowers. She is in residence through August 16th, and is planning a mind-altering Power Point presentation for Sunday.
Applebaum lives and works in Oakland, California. Working with symbolic and metaphoric imagery, her work bridges the gap between the psychological and the psychedelic. Internationally recognized, her work has been exhibited from Milan to Reykjavik and featured in numerous books and publications throughout China, North and South America and Europe. She is self-taught as an artist.
Sarah Applebaum arrived in Michigan, for her first time ever, on Tuesday morning. After an eating, shopping, art-seeing orientation in Grand Rapids, she has been soaking up the local scenery in Pentwater, playing with clay, and collecting flowers. She is in residence through August 16th, and is planning a mind-altering Power Point presentation for Sunday.
Applebaum lives and works in Oakland, California. Working with symbolic and metaphoric imagery, her work bridges the gap between the psychological and the psychedelic. Internationally recognized, her work has been exhibited from Milan to Reykjavik and featured in numerous books and publications throughout China, North and South America and Europe. She is self-taught as an artist.
Grant Heaps was born in Toronto, where he studied fashion. After designing, producing, wholesaling and retailing a line of women's shirts for a couple of years he ventured into working at some of Toronto's large scale theatre productions. Eventually he found himself the assistant wardrobe co-odinator for The National Ballet Of Canada, which he has now been doing for about 20 years. When his mother made him a quilt for his new bed out of tie samples he had plucked from the trash his mind became overly excited by the idea of making quilts. Playing with simple patters he ventured into a large project of making a series of non-functional quilts which tell the story of the emotional life of a person watching a theatrical production. This never ending piece which grows slowly and will eventually form one huge picture collage of pop songs and emotional ups and downs and personal obsessions and has taken over his life in the best possible way. His friends, his collections, his home, his obsessions and his pup Fancy are his constant inspiration.
Grant arrived at Shared Space last Friday, and will be in residence through August 18th. He has been hand-sewing day after day in the studio, and quietly planning out the rest of his time here in his head. He will share works new and old with us this Sunday.
Grant arrived at Shared Space last Friday, and will be in residence through August 18th. He has been hand-sewing day after day in the studio, and quietly planning out the rest of his time here in his head. He will share works new and old with us this Sunday.
RSS Feed