Sketchbook Project

I'm working on a sketchbook for the sketchbook project.
Here are some samples.

I'll also be showing work in the 4th annual loveshow.

Opening Party

FRIDAY THE 13th!
February 2009
7pm-12am
FREE!! ALL AGES!!
ALL ARE WELCOME!!

at

Olympic Mills Commerce Center

107 SE Washington St. (map)

Please bring a canned food item to donate to your fellow Portlanders in need!

Partial proceeds of the Love show 2009 will benefit
OREGON FOOD BANK and BUCKMAN ARTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Silverpoint

Oh elusive line. I've been searching you out in the most unusual of forms. Sewing you into paper, drawing you with ever finer detail and sharper pencil and now transcribing you with metal. Yes metal - silverpoint to be exact. An old, old drawing method favored by Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci. I like you. You're metallic glean, the smoothness of the golden drawing ground you requested, the way you don't let me erase you, but are at the same time somehow forgiving of my missteps. These are poor quality "work in progress" pictures, of a new kind of drawing I've been making. It relates to individuality and collective, and the idea of repeating forms in nature, and the various ways we determine knowledge, and probably some more things i'm too tired to talk coherently about just yet. Something is brewing though, I can feel it simmering under the surface and I'm excited to see where it takes me.

I'll post better pictures when I'm farther along.

pictures - october through december 2008

Butterfly Wing - Hand Sewn Thread on Paper, 2008

Group 1: Hand Sewn Thread on Paper, 2008

Group Two: Hand Sewn Thread on Paper, 2008

Untitled Drawing (detail): Graphite and Thread on Paper, 2008

Untitled Drawing: Graphite and Thread on Paper, 2008

Intentions

The sky is gorgeous and stormy - full of that light that only comes in the afternoon full of pacific northwest rain and sun reflecting of of industrial buildings looming with their non-descriptive boxiness. Its January 2. I've been thinking for a few days about the possibility in a new year and what my intentions should be. Last years were modest, but I accomplished them - this makes me want to think bigger. I feel the world fresh with possibility. I am unfocused at work - more so than usual - and am spending the afternoon listening to a long last band and thinking about art projects and realizing that its been much, much too long since i last updated this blog. I have a new digital camera now (thank you Erik's step parents) and really no excuses. Perhaps that should be my first intention - update the daily art blog - maybe not everyday, but certainly more than 24 times a year. once a week seems like a worthy goal.
and to post pictures. tonight or tomorrow.

new works on paper

I've been working with hand sewn lines in paper. Its satifsfying in a way I haven't quite figured out how to explain yet.

I made a website

please check it out when you get a chance.

I'd love to hear your feedback.  (please be kind, its my first)

michellemariedaly.com

new artwork coming soon!

heart loot & other small stories

what remains, 11"x17", oil on canvas, 2008

small lies we tell ourselves, 17"x11", oil on canvas, 2008

This thursday, I will be in LA for the opening of my show at Infusion Gallery. I'll have 9 paintings in the group show. All of the work is from the series "heart loot & other small stories" which I've been working on for about a year now. I'm very excited about my first LA show, and if you (or anyone you know) will be in the area, please stop by.

Here's the information....


For Immediate Release

Contact: Michelle Daly
(503)381-6397
chickartista@gmail.com
michellemariedaly.com

Infusion Gallery is pleased to present:
heart loot & other small stories: recent paintings by Michelle Daly

Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2008 – July 25, 2008
Opening Reception: July 10; 6:00 – p:00 PM

Infusion Gallery is pleased to present the work of Portland, Oregon based artist Michelle Daly. The exhibition will be on view July 1-25, and a reception will be held Thursday July 10th, from 6-9pm. The artist will be in attendance.

The artist, Michelle Daly has exhibited in several group and juried exhibitions around the Pacific Northwest and her work can be found in several prominent private collections. The exhibition "heart loot & other small stories" features 9 small-scale oil on canvas paintings. This is her first Los Angeles area exhibition.

Michelle creates abstract oil paintings that explore unconventional narrative and storytelling. Using abstraction and the process of painting as a metaphor for how we experience life and the interconnectedness of human beings both to one another and to the world around them, Michelle tells stories that don't have easy words and often ambiguous conclusions.

Michelle says she is "trying to strip experiences and stories to that one moment that says everything in a way that is part personal, part metaphor, part stand in for the universal themes (mostly of love and romance and everything that goes along with that)" in a way that is simultaneously refreshingly honest and stripped of sentimentality as well as unapologetically beautiful.

IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
EXHIBITION AND GALLERY EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Information

Infusion Gallery Gallery Hours
709 S. Spring Street Wednesday - Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Los, Angeles, CA 90014 Opening Reception, Thurday July 10 6pm - 9pm
TEL (213)683-8827
EMAIL info@infusiongallery.com infusiongallery.com