Lithographs Fall 2008

Some of the work I did this semester... I thought I'd share it with you. My semester was sort of an unfortunately uninspired until the very end; we'll do better next time.

- Kylie

Grand Small Works

Hello all! 

Grand Small Works at FUEL Gallery on 3rd & Arch is opening on Friday night. The intent of the show aims to present 1,000 small works of local artists; a portion of the proceeds of the show will go to LLS (the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society), which just makes the whole thing great in general. My print "[Mis]Communication" is an etching with chine colle and was created last spring as an expression of my first weeks of studying abroad in Rom

e, Italy. It will be shown at FUEL for the month of December.

For more information, you can visit the FUEL website at: 

www.fuelcollection.com and www.fuelthecure.net/cause.html

I hope you can find some time in December to come see the show; I'll be at the opening this Frday, so if you can make it, it'd be great to see you! I'm sure the work in the show is a fantastic selection; FUEL never fails to put together a comprehensive and interesting show each month and I guarantee that this will be no different!

Enjoy your holiday season!

Kylie

lacking time.

I haven't written for awhile. I haven't been able to make good art in awhile either.

I'm trying to figure out what direction to go in my art, specifically in my litho course. I'm still figuring out this urban landscape thing; its something I've worked with for almost 2 years now and I'm at a standstill. I am working now with a photo-positive litho plate, and I'm working on abstracting the cityscape. I think I'm going to work in multiple layers; this particular print, I'm exploring guache on mylar as a beginning point. I'm heading soon to the studio to expose it and see how it goes... I'm waiting for the last bits to dry now. 

I'm still thinking about human fragility, but I'm having a hard time of making it a visual subject. I need to work through this. I need more time. There is never enough time.

Kylie

In the Press

A bit after the fact, but the reporter who interviewed me for the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show emailed us all the articles he published about us in the Weekly Press. Just the excerpt on the part about yours truly:

"KYLIE ADAMS:....Printmaker Kylie Adams is a student at Tyler School of Art with three semesters to go before graduating.  "This will be my first time selling work at the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show," said Adams. She has attended previous RSFAA shows, but in the capacity of the customer. "It will definitely be a change of pace, being on the opposite side of the table." Last semester, Adams took a printmaking workshop in Rome. "Rome made me appreciate the artwork that came before me. It was a great experience."

-David Block,

Weekly Press/University City Review

I have to say that I don't believe I sounded quite that way, 

but who knows. 

I hate interviews.

But anyways, thats just a bit I got in my email just now.

Back to work.

Kylie

Festa di Roma/Catching up on life

As this past week has been a whirlwind of chaotic events, I didn't even get to tell everyone that the Festa di Roma show was opening last Wednesday, October 1 in the Tyler Gallery at Tyler School of Art. It was a success, it was taken down early to accommodate a visiting artist. I had two books in the show; the first was a series of etching/aquatints with text captions, and the second was an EV of sorts, representing the prints in a collage/drawing format.

Hope everyone had a chance to see it; I didn't. Ha! I was at home, attending to much more important matters. I heard it was nice and well attended though, despite my own lack of attendence.

Now I'm back in Mount Airy, getting caught up; to do this week includes two papers, one journal, the EV of a print that I just finished (and HATE, hence the EV-ing of it), 8-10 bowls thrown on the wheel, start of the pronto plate project, and a grant proposal... which sounds like a lot, but isn't really more than usual. Its just super compressed. I don't know WHAT  I will do with myself when I'm not a student anymore.

Blessings,

Kylie

Human Fragility

I have a new theme.

Up and coming:

"Human Fragility."

as inspired by most recent events.

I'm not sure exactly in what way I'm going to investigate it, but I'm drawn to it and so that is where I'm going.

Love to all.

Kylie

New Work: Lithographs

Hello all,

As following my current themes of work, I created my first lithograph of the semester; it focuses on mainly themes of neglect and absence within the urban landscape. The negative and positive space is reversed, emphasizing on emptiness.

Surprisingly enough... the print turned out! I'm definitely not historically a successful lithographer, so I'm quite pleased.

Enjoy,

Kylie

stream of consciousness

skyscrapers. row homes. landscape. parks. trees. rural v urban. abstracted, cubist, monotonous. Schuylkill. portraits. history within a city. family history. germantown. imagery of alley ways. doors. windows. internal v external. philadelphia philadelphia. brotherly love. love. growing up. imagery of family in the philadelphia environment. my family. someone else's family. block parties. friends. enemies. differences within environments. squares, circles. buildings. growth. urban sprawl. maps. text. city. pollution. environmental issues within the city. "green". integration. disintegration. art. textures. swatch of texture, zoom of picture plane. street signs. culture. children. white and black. black and white. color. city grid revisited

overlap. cities i've visited (national, international?). morocco: fez, casablanca. spain: barcelona, madrid. italy: rome, florence, naples, orvieto, todi, tuscania, siena, la spezia, cinque terre, dieva marina, assisi, pompeii. places i want to visit (too numerous to write about). city life. life in general. too general. life in specifics. toronto is a hopping place in the art world... surprised. examining cultures of different cities. class hierarchy within cities. city hierarchy within the world. landscape.

i need to make some art.

Decisions, Decisions.

I've decided 

that I'm going to start painting again, with oils.

that I am going to dedicate at least a little time every night to non-school art.

that I am going to be at peace with the fact our house never stays clean for more than 2 days.

that I'm going to be more positive.

and that I am going to make sure that I am always doing what I want to be doing.

Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show

Hello!

I spent the weekend showing my work at Rittenhouse Square; shared the tent with two other Tyler seniors, Meredith and Sarah, and it was a stellar experience. Not only did I sell my first non-commissioned work, I sold my first FIVE non-commissioned works! Hoorah! Say good bye to:

(Untitled Monoprint on Green: Framed. Not in frame here)

Brotherly Love III (Silkscreen & Collage)

[Mis]Communication (Etching & Chine Colle)

"Brotherly Love VI" EV (Etching & Chine Colle)

"Brotherly Love V" (Etching)

The experience was great; I got to meet local art dealers, artists and other students. The amount of talent at the show was of a high caliber and I was extremely humbled to be showing with such wonderful people! 

Blessings,

Kylie

Past Work

Hello, all!

I've posted my work on this webshots site:

www.webshots.com/user/kylieadamsart

Check it out!

Kylie

I'm joining the blog world.

I just spent the last two days fruitlessly trying to start my own website; I visited roughly eight different website-generators and all had some underlying feature that prevented success. I have deeper reasoning for this; I am enrolled in a class all about getting your self and your work out in to the world... so, I'm slowly trying to do that. 

Finally, I'm settling on a blog instead. I feel as though its not exactly the right fit, but at the very least its a forum to settle into.

I am an artist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with my fiance, Andre and our crazy dog, Dallas. I primarily create prints, and these pages will serve more or less as my way of presenting them. I make my art in order to fulfill a deeper need within myself; it is an act of self-exploration and expression, as well as an act of enjoyment. I have spent the last few years exploring the urban landscape of the city of Philadelphia (and also, briefly of Rome, Italy, as I spent the last semester there). I am interested in the characteristics of the city, what makes it uniquely so, and why it is happening around me. I am currently working on finishing my studies at Tyler School of Art, in Elkins Park, and I'm teaching fine arts part-time and working in a small store in Chestnut Hill.

So, here we go!