And she's back.....

I've landed in Hungary to do a seven week residency at The International Ceramics Studio. You can learn more about this place on their website: http://www.icshu.org/programs.html.

I've been here about 15 hours and so far it's all good. There is a great group of students from KCAI and George Timock has gathered some folks to be the "Special Artists" of this trip, of which I am one. 

It has been over 20 years since I've been in Europe so everything seems new. I was very nervous and anxious on my way here and in planning to come, but most of that has subsided now that I'm tucked away in bed in my own room in a beautiful setting and after having spent the entire day getting to know some of the people I will be around for the next 4-7 weeks. There are about 18 students and 8 "Special Artists" here, with a few more coming later in the week so we're a decent size group. It should make for some interesting opportunities for impromptu studio chats with a diverse crowd, which I am looking forward to immensely. 

Anyway, it's late and I'm attempting to miss jet-lag by going to bed after not sleeping for over 36 hours. We shall see how that goes...more to come soon....and pictures too! In the meantime enjoy this one: 

Exposure....YES!

This is the current, September 2012, Ceramics Monthly magazine. It feels good to get an image of my work in this magazine.

Time Doesn't Stand Still...

...and clearly I don't as well.

A long, long delay in any sort of update. For now, as it is very late, I will leave you with this:

I am currently in Detroit, MI living as an artist-in-residence at Adoration (http://www.adorationdetroit.com/) working on a large scale piece for ArtPrize (http://www.artprize.org). More details to follow. I promise.

A Nice Photo I Found Online...

This is an image of an important art (specifically focused in the ceramic world) critic, curator, collector,  writer, and juror of one of the shows I recently got work accepted into that's currently up in Texas. I did not however win any awards, but just getting in the show is supposed to be good enough, right?

 Mark Del Vecchio looking at my piece, 

"Are you my father? No, I am not."

Photo by: Cynthia Esparza

Originally posted here: http://www.gosanangelo.com/photos/2012/apr/20/

And here's the link to the exhibit: http://www.samfa.org/ncc.htm

And another place you can see one of my works in person is at this place: http://www.kirklandartscenter.org/?q=content/clay-iv

Hopefully, I'll get my stuff together more often and post more updates more regularly. Until then....

HERE is now Red Lodge, Montana

It has been that way since September 2nd, 2011.

Four months into my eleven month residency. I can't believe how fast time goes by and by and by.

I can't believe it doesn't stop and I, along with all my friends, keep getting older and their families keep growing. I've just done some internet catching-up on friends and it makes me sad that our world is so big and distances are so great from me to all my friends. I wish the world was really small somedays and that life was a lot more simple. Alas, tis not the case.

Hopefully, I'll find more time to update this blog more regularly so others who may be interested in my doings and find themselves with a late night break can check up on me.

Tomorrow night is an opening for a show in which I have two new pieces on exhibit. The other artists in the show are: Katie Coughlin, Jill Foote-Hutton, Andrew Gilliatt, David Hiltner, Andrea Moon, and Markus Urbanik. It's my debut in Wyoming.

I miss y'all.

Read all about it...Extra! Extra!

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2011/08/21/heady-ideas-offer-food-for-thought.html

I won! I won! I won!

What an honor it is/was. I received the "Best in Show" award! Here are a few links to articles about it below.

http://www.columbusunderground.com/time-and-place-the-2011-ohio-state-fair-fine-arts-exhibition

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2011/07/31/2-yates31-art-gt1dh2so-1.html

Ooops I almost forgot about this one....

Maybe I'll be a winner...anything from a blue ribbon to $2,000...it's all very exciting!! Oh the potential. Oh the crowds. Oh the cows. And two of my works there! Woo-hoo my art in the Ohio State Fair!!! Who would've thunk?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2011

COLUMBUS – The Fine Arts Exhibition opening reception and awards ceremony will take place from 6 to 8 pm on Tuesday, July 26 in the Cox Fine Arts Center at the Ohio State Fair.

A number of awards will be given to outstanding artists from this year’s exhibition.

“There are numerous awards from various arts councils and sponsors this year,” said Fine Arts Director Pam O’Loughlin.

The Fine Arts Exhibition will showcase approximately 300 pieces of Ohio’s best artwork during the Fair. Collectors can participate in the Patron Purchase Program to add beautiful pieces of Ohio artwork to their personal collections and to support local artists. Last year more than $17,500 was awarded to the artists through local and corporate sponsors and more than $7,800 in artwork sales.

The Ohio Expo Center is proud to host the Ohio State Fair. With a spectacular midway, big-name entertainment, hundreds of exhibits and one of the largest junior fair shows in the nation, the 2011 Ohio State Fair will run July 27 - August 7.

This up next...I hope you can all make it...

Bound by Order 

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 6th, 6-10pm

Location: Sean Christopher Gallery
                815 North High Street,
                Columbus, OH 43201

Confluence(s)

AKA The OSU 2011 Group Thesis Exhibition

'Tis that time (which I can hardly believe) when I'll soon be an honest to goodness MFA degree holding artiste. Here are the details for the culminating show that opened on April 19 and runs through May 14, 2011

The Reception is Saturday, May 7th, from 6 to 8pm

My fellow MFA candidates include:
Susana Alvarez
Jessie Blackmer
Nick Bontrager
Undine Brod
Joshua Cloud
Virginia Colwell
Clare Fox
Florence Gouvrit
George T. Gregory Jr.
Rachel Heberling
Brooke Hunter-Lombardi
Emi Inoue
Yoshinaga Kawamura
Ash Kyrie
Robert Paul Lewis
Ashley Moore
Philmore Peterson V
Zachary Podgorny
Tara Polansky
Stephanie Brooke West
Lauren Whearty

@ The OSU Urban Arts Space
50 West Town Street
Columbus, OH 43215

More information can be found here: http://uas.osu.edu/exhibition/2011-master-fine-arts-exhibition

Do come out and see my work, hopefully during the reception when I'll for sure be there.

Photos to be posted soon...I hope....

MFA Candidate @ The Ohio State University

John McCaughey

http://www.johnmccaugheyart.com/index.html

Storm of Broken Dialog (Stage I) (2011)

mixed media on panel

6’ x 9’

Switching Slates of Mind (2011)

mixed media

10' x 3.5'

Translation (2011)

mixed media

3.5' x 3.5'

Another Review??

That is, if you want to call what someone is doing hiding behind the blog Slum Cab Tours a review then go check out the February 20, 2011 blog post at the aforementioned blog. Great blog name, definitely a bad review. Not necessarily bad as it pertains to the work, rather, bad as it pertains to the writing. But hey, that is the tag line of the site, "horrible reviews of art in Columbus, OH" so what can one expect. I just wish the writer had quoted the questions of the woman who was "shrilly quizzing" children in the gallery. I wonder if I would have passed?

PS: The author of the blog isn't too hard to figure out if you do a wee search: Kate Rhoades. And I want to thank her for stating that I have, "more zest and vigor than was apparent in this exhibition." Check out her blogs, she does after all seem to have a good sense of humor.

And a little article about the aforementioned show that is now down...

http://ohioartleague.wordpress.com/

By Elissa Marcus

This Thursday....

Recent places my work was, is, and will be...

At the Hopkins Hall Gallery:
Image—Self
Conceived and developed by Ardine Nelson
January 3–19, 2011


Image—Self travels to:
Upper Arlington Concourse Gallery:
March–April 2011


At the Ohio Art League:
Transforming the Mundane
The Mundane Transformed
Works by Undine Brod and George Gregory
Reception: First Thursday (Feb. 3) 6-9PM
February 3 - 26, 2011

Oh how time flies...

I got this here wee mention on July 10, 2010 at Jeffrey W. Bussmann's blog:

http://postnonprofalyptic.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-07-26T01%3A35%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=7

How lovely to be thought of as a "standout oddity" and not so easily forgotten. Thank you Mr. Bussmann for recognizing my efforts.

Press for the Ohio Art League's Annual Juried Exhibition

What the article doesn't mention is that I was the top award winner!! Thank yous to all my friends that came out and supported me and that went/will go to the show at a different time. And thank you to the juror: Christopher Bedford. And thank you to OAL. And thank you to Mary Lou Chess...still trying to figure out who this woman is that the Memorial Award was named after. 

Click right smack here on this here blue group of words to be directed to the article!

Reception this Friday, October 8th, 2010

Annual Fall Juried Exhibtion
October 4 - November 5,2010
Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery

Juror
Christopher Bedford, is the new exhibitions curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts.  A citizen of the UK, Bedford was previously an assistant curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and served as a curator in the department of sculpture and decorative arts at the Getty Museum in L.A.  Bedford has published essays, book reviews, editorials and exhibition reviews in a variety of publications, including Artforum. 

Location
Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery
546 Jack Gibbs Blvd
Columbus, OH 43215

My Work in Kentucky for the First Time

KY.7 Biennial

KY.7 Biennial | LAL @ Loudoun House
209 Castlewood Drive, Lexington, KY 40505 | www.lexingtonartleague.org
September 11 - October 23, 2010


The second in a series, KY.7 Biennial is a regional survey of contemporary art produced in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its seven contiguous states: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Artwork selected is innovative in concept and execution, is culturally relevant, and addresses issues important to contemporary life.


Juried by John Begley (Gallery Director and Coordinator of Critical and Curatorial Studies a the Hite Art Institute), Jason Franz (Executive Director and Chief Curator at Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center) and Becky Alley (LAL Exhibitions and Programs Director).

--As written on their website: http://lal09.jalbum.net/KY.7-Biennial/

Undine Brod, Scrim III (2010)

Thrift store bric-a-brac, gesso, permanent marker, fabric

Upcoming Exhibition

The Seventh Annual Marge Brown Kalodner
Graduate Student Exhibition

Reed Smith and Harrison Galleries
July 2 - August 1, 2010

Opening Reception,
First Friday,
July 2, 5-9pm

http://theclaystudio.org

Undine Brod
Trophy Heads I, II and III
clay, fur, glue, marker & fingernail polish
largest piece (bottom) 8" x 4.5" x 4.5"
2010