April 3, 2022 Art Junket Salon
Congratulations! Happy 7th Anniversary of the Art Junket - 2015-2022.
The Art Junket Salons are still showing and sharing. I wont lie. It has been a bumpy ride and at times I feared, “Well, I guess this is the end of the Art Junket.” Many of us moved out of the Bay Area and some of us have missed Salons. Some of us just felt tired. Uninspired. But, this Spring seems different. It looks like artists are getting some energy back. And with this new energy, I am seeing artists expanding their creativity, trying new things.
A summary of the stories from the Junketeers:
Annelise Dohrer is getting married and made art with Emu eggs. Katie Fitzmahan Strange went to Barcelona, started a PhD program, had a baby, came back, and bought a home on Vashon Island. Erin and Maureen bought 20 acres of woods in New York. Erin set up a business: Magical Homemaking. Brian and Manya are re-renovating their home. Maureen moved to Tokyo in 2021 and she is making mokuhanga (woodcut printing) prints. Tao is working at Alta Vista School in SF. Tony is making music. Zoey moved to Nevada City and is thinking of using a different color. Katie was invited to put on a gallery show on Vashon Island. Taska and Karianne took a challenge on “Slack” to make 100 pieces of art, one piece a day. Taska joined the Salon from the ski slopes of Palisades and showed a 3 dimensional work echoing the mountains. Erin made an art piece depicting a painful experience from middle school and then cut away the power those memories held over her. Yun took her photos from Hawaii using Photoshop and made a mesmerizing and calming experience.
Karianne Jones Silverman, USA b. 1969. Empty. El Cerrito, California. 2022. Paper, wire, tempura. 7”x12.” Art Junket theme: Echo.
The theme of Echo was so big for me I wasn’t sure I could focus it into one project. I started collecting toilet paper rolls thinking something might come of it. Then I found myself with ever-increasing anxiety about climate chaos and became unable to throw away stuff. ‘I can’t contribute to the overflowing landfills, I must use and repurpose all of the stuff. We are emptying our resources on this planet. We think it’s limitless. We are emptying bowls that can’t be refilled.’ My anxiety got to be too much. It’s channeled in this piece called Empty.
Yun Suh. Flow. Digital Art, Photography. Hawaii. 2022.
Annelise Dohrer. Ume Eggs with Numbers of Life. April 2022. California.
Erin Mahollitz. Anshin, New York. April 2022.
Taska Sanford, USA, b 1974. Wandering-Mountains in Echo. Palisades Ski Resort, Lake Tahoe, California. April 2022. 6" x 9" x1", closed. The Art Junket theme: Echo
Echos travel through air. They range and seek out surfaces to ricochet around. Each contact changes the original sound waves slightly. What we do on the surface of the planet echos down into the earth. Each strata holds a record of our noise, but with slight differences. Deep time muffles our marks. I traverse the page with a scratching stylus and record the nuances.
Taska Sanford. Day 10/100. February 2022.
mbfitzmahan, USA & Ireland, 1948. Ume Plum. Tokyo, Japan. April 2022. Mokuhanga (Japanese wood cut print) and sumi ink. Art Junket theme: Echo.
I interpreted the Echo theme by taking my art medium of photography and ‘echo’ it onto another medium, wood cut printing. Living in Japan, it seemed appropriate to learn an old Japanese art form and apply it to the art form I am most familiar with, photography. I hand made a carbon copy of my photograph. I carved the images onto 3 pieces (woods image) or two pieces (ume blossoms) of Shina woodblock, and then applied water based pigments to each woodblock. Finally I took moistened washi (Japanese fabric based paper), covered the block and pressed the image onto the paper. The first image is from a photograph of an ancient Japanese screen. The second is from a photograph of Anshin - our 20 acres of woods in New York.
mbfitzmahan, USA & Ireland, 1948. Anshin. Tokyo, Japan. April 2022. Mokuhanga (Japanese wood cut print). Art Junket theme: Echo.
Manya Nelson. Life and Death. El Cerrito, California. April 2022.
Karianne Jones Silverman. Berkeley, California. March 2022.
Brian Nelson. Echo. El Cerrito, California. April 2022
Karianne Jones Silverman. Day 4/100. February 2022.