Go students Go!

Go my students go!  (students from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design)

see their work at the Science Museum of MN

Opening is Dec. 4th 2009  (6-8pm)

Show goes from Nov. 20 - Dec. 11th,   2009 

drawing more bugs

    

 So ever since that H•O•F album and touring the Science Museum of MN's collections, I've been drawing bugs.... and that's a good thing seeing I just got a show at the Phipps Center for the Arts (Jan. 27, 2012 - March 4th 2012.

It's pretty exciting. 

Almost as exciting as hugs from Dobermans!

 

latest place to see Abbi Art

At the busiest time of my life -
I drew 100 flies

.....  find out more at:
http://www.ox-op.com/shows/hof/index.html

OX-OP PReSenTs
NON Consensual POST Dada CONSTRUCTIVIST Cerebral WARTS
Art/Music/Film Event 2009 ART - Retrospective/Installation
AESTHETIC APPARATUS • BURLESQUE OF NORTH AMERICA

HAZE XXL - 100 Disciples Art Show & HOF CD Release

Oct 22• CHRIS MARS Short Films
Live improvisational accompaniment by
Grant Hart • HAZE XXL • Shannon Selberg
Oct 23• GAY WITCH ABORTION Live performance in security cam vision
Oct 24 • H•O•F Live performance in security cam vision
Oct 25 • MELVINS Live performance in security cam vision

N.C.P.D.C.C.W. Oct.22-25 • 7-10 pm
4 days of multi media splooge brought to you by the
Workers Sensory Stimulation Committee

A new blog I am working on

Both to help me  - and my students of course!

Show's coming down early

There is a DJ event at Gallery 13, and we were just told we need to take our show down! So Mr. Crumple has to come home on Saturday.
:) I'm glad to have him back of course!

Tomorrow's your last day to see the my and Ben's work on display. Sports and Art, Science and Art - all in one place.

Check it out if you can.

work on exhibit at Gallery 13

Here is the work (Most of the work) - that is up at Gallery 13 through this week. It's only a 2 week show, so if you live in the area, i hope you can make it.

You can check out Abbi and Ben interviewed live on Art Matters for the next week as well.
http://www.kfai.org/node/21977

















Bad images, but well, I don't have a view screen on my camera either, so what can you do?

Close up photos of the installa

the 13 light intallation

the original drawings of Mr. Crumple





Ceramic sculpture








The show is only up for 2 weeks, one of which has passed, so I figured I'd give it an on-line pre-view.

Happy birthday Amanda! 10 is a great year
your drawings are AMAZING
and your dad is too cool for bringing you on air for this big day

don't forget it -
love your dad
embrace the science for creativity
keep the art, writing, learning Japanese and everything else
master the math so nothing stands in your way of taking over the world.

be you - no matter what comes your way --> if you don't know where you are going, there will be a 100 other people who will try to take you someplace else

always be yourself, creative and smart like you are. 10 and 20 years from now - that woman who will be you is going to be smiling. trust me. 10 year old me, and 30 year old me are equally excited and proud of you.

happy birthday
-Abbi

I honor of J.Huges

Ever wonder who you were in highschool - if it was like you remembered it??

and if you had changed?





Only to find out you were exactly the person you thought you were?
the girl who was one of the boys
who didn't realize she wasn't fitting in - knew it but knew no other way? Like being a girl was the most alien thing in the world??

and was TOTALLY happy about the whole lot?


everyone says you don't remember it like it was - but what happens when you come back 10 years later - to find yourself exactly in the same place?

and then see it a few years after that - and then know

you are as you see yourself?

it's time to see yourself a little lighter

Yes, finally, there is a card and all the information you'd ever want to know :)
It makes me happy.

best
-Abbi

Drawings to date for Gallery 13 show

This show is now opening on Aug 14th
art is going up on the 7th.




Here's some of the work going in. I think with the drawings - I am going to also do prints - reason #1 - for economics, so more people can afford them
#2 - Because they take so much time, and since the work is about intamacy, they are fairly small... but people like big art... don't ask me why. so I hope to make some $ soon and get them printed much larger.
#3 - does anyone know what day it is? I'm so tired.
#4 - I won't freek out if someone buys the original. I have to grow up about that I know...

Anyway, here's some work.

"reflections on Death" - Pen on paper. 2009


"Mr. Crumple's Last Day". Pen on paper. 2009


"Transport of Mr. Crumple" ink on velum. 2009

"Conversations in Passing" pen on paper. 2009




Frogs in glasses


Still got the frogs in boxes


Tiny drawings of deformed babies.... still in progress... don't really know what is going on with these



also - I'm thinking of re-formating my website. it just needs to happen so I can keep it up to date.
that's the words, here are the pictures
xo
-Abbi

One of those days.

WHOAH! Crazy teaching week! I taught scientific illustration and the working world definitely got my labor's worth - but I think it was worth it. Look at these great illustrations done by 9 year olds from observation!


YES! I taught them to draw, see with their eyes, and to trust and love the right brain. the kids are totally obsessed with right and left brain now.

I even got a thank you note an jewelry some girls made for me. totally lovely, and look at those great finder lines drawn in to draw the face and their impression of me. I wish I had freckles, so they gave me some.


Amazing drawings done by 9 year olds - and although the week was stressful (95 degree temps) and little kids do not mix, they feel those temps so much more than older people do.
In the end it was worth it


So as you can see - at the end of the week I looked TOTALLY beat, but still found some energy to paint some frogs for my and Ben's up coming show at Gallery 13. We've got a lot of space to fill, I have a few orders, another teaching gig next week and the Cannon Valley work to do, so busy is the word..


but today - I feel weary
kinda feeling sick to my stomach - warm and cold at the same time, and my head elsewhere.
feels like your chest feels the next day after a night of whole hearted crying.
I started to think about Kira when I was working. I think about her and Ted a lot. Friends that i was maybe more haunted by their art work both in their living years than I'd ever want to admit. Makes me not want to like friends work sometimes - bad luck you know.

when I make work, I do it with them in mind. Making work because of the talented people I knew who would totally be mad at me if I wasn't making work - make it because that thing I love to do, the raison d'etre could be snapped away in a second. physically and well - actually.

Anyway, the haunted feeling wasn't for any old reason. Sure enough - i went looking for Kira's web site to look at her work - she was taken from us 2 years ago tomorrow.

There's nothing i can do about that other than to plead to stop violence against women, and celebrate her work please.
check out her art & remember her. She was spunky and strong. She was a punker, a great artists and designer - who i respected - did funny little dances in her studio, who everyone was just gravitated towards. Everyone wanted to know her, be close to her and her energy. She was a tremendous person - and I think the world lost a lot of it's flare and bragging rights without her. Anyway
since the day is coming - remember her work, love the people closest to you - and for cellular's sake - Make some art.



- I'd like to show you some of her work that i admired and pulled from her web site - and encourage you to go look at it. Maybe that way she can be here just a little longer. I can't think of anything to say, we were not even close - but something about her passing broke my heart in a way I can't describe. Perhaps it's because so many of us woman have had near misses with violence, walk that fine line.... or perhaps its because this woman shined so brightly, it was hard not to love the light from any distance.

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


Her Fine Art
http://www.kirasimonian.com/fineart1.html





Her design work
http://www.kirasimonian.com/design.html


In loving memory of Kira Simonian
we really miss you

Now - o.k. - I hear you - time to make some crazy frogs.

Images of older work (that I'm re-visiting in the upcoming show)

After having my hardrive crash in my computer, I've learned to spread my important images everywhere I can - just in case!

so here's some work from my thesis show etc. (2008)

working on new work

I'm thinking about making each one of these frogs that use to be in the Riker boxes now in their own little individual yet rickity little coffins....

not sure where this is going yet, or why... just feels right at the moment. that or i've watched too many vampire movies one right after another...

trying to figure out if I can put together the lights, these guys, some drawings and the frogs in glasses all together. it make work and it might crash and burn...

let's see what the gallery people say.

Art off to see the Galleries!

On it's way to Visions Fine Art Gallery!


I need to clean the studio something fierce!!!!!! My allergies feel like murder on my face. I hate it. Anyway - the good news is that there is at least art going out the door! check out these babies... on their way to new wonderful homes

Art going to Mark's Wildlife gallery in PA











Art going to Silken Wool Gallery in NY











Sebastian has been helping me pack some orders.












Now I'm working on the Cannon Valley wall, organizing my office, paperwork, teaching outlines, Music director, a yard-art sale on the 13th (*coming up this month here) and an Art opening at Gallery 13 on August 7th.

Getting my work back from the Art Biologic show. no one bought my drawing... sad sad. - but not bad. I love that drawing and happy it's on its way home.

keep me posted on your worlds!
-Abbi

Irises (* wall hanging) available in the studio.

small red piece. About 8" x 9 " x 6" if I can remember.
bright happy reds.
edges need enamle-ing.
??? what do you think people?

BUSY ABBI - BEE




Cannon Valley:
The Cannon Valley Donation Wall is coming together well. Today Ben and I worked on the glass-line up. Very exciting. The cast glass looks like ice!

Art Biologic:
o.k. so the photo of mine had some printing issues - but given all the artists that are showing here, and how good their work is... whoa, I feel really special!

http://www.slowart.com/limner/current/upcoming.htm




Art went out to Visions Fine Art Gallery in Sedona AZ today and Celebrations Fine Art Galley in San Jose, CA.

Work finally hitting the road tomorrow morning! yes!!!!!!

Upcoming events

So this work is about to go out to the Art Biologic in a few days. I love this piece. If you are near Hudson, NY, check it out.


Also - May 4th (7-9pm) I will be participating at the WAM Chatter event in Minneapolis at the Wiseman Art Museum.


WAM Chatter, which will be addressing Eduardo's exhibition of his transgenic petunia. The WAM Chatter event associated with this exhibition is scheduled for Monday May 4, 7-9 PM.

WAM Chatter is a new monthly Weisman program that features speakers in the Pecha Kucha format. Pecha Kucha nights were started by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in Tokyo as a means for architects and designers to show their work informally in public. The form has spread virally and is now seen in over 150 cities as far flung as London, Boston, Tokyo, Budapest, Oslo, Reyjavik, Dubai, Amsterdam, Seoul, and Kuwait City. The rules to Pecha Kucha are simple: each presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds a piece. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. WAM is employing the format as a means to provocatively present ideas and spark lively discussion on topics culled from and/or inspired by our exhibitions. Each evening is set up by an exhibition-related question. May's question is as follows:

Is it right for artists to manipulate life?
Diane Willow and Neil Olszewski (the eplant scientist who worked with Eduardo) have agreed to present. Jeff Kahn, director of the Center for Bioethics, will moderate."


One more thing - keep your eye out for my and Ben Reed's show coming up this August at Gallery 13 (downtown Minneapolis). Opening August 7th

ARGGGGGG CERAMICS!!!!
One of those months - Abbi v.s. the Kiln!
Dealing with a many ceramic set backs at the moments. Breaking, busting, glazing, explosions, kilns too small, cracking, shifting, surfaces, sealing, colors bleeding, salting, popping... all for a few nice red pieces.
But they are nice.... sooo nice. I wish I could afford my own work. When this gets to the gallery I hope they all go to great homes. They are taking far too long to make, but each piece - wow.... just so much work, but so worth it.

nervous about doing Junior Reviews tomorrow. I hope I can say something smart. :) One would hope.

In the mean time, here's work for the Cannon Valley Art donation wall. Need to get these orders out and then get these finished by the end of June... No pressure right?? Nope - TONS.

I feel Uber Busy right now.

I'm working on a new series with drawing my goldfish (R.I.P.) Mr. Crumpled



Here are some others that are in progress - not sure what I'm doing with them... start, finish, drop..

i need to make some art!!!!!!!!!

Best day Ever!!!!!!

Today we got a behind the scenes tour with Pete Lee from KFAI noteriety. Does the Monday show from 3pm - 6pm - "Bop Street" - just amazing. (www.kfai.org <-- out shows are archived). He also happens to work at the Como Zoo and gave me one of the most memorable moments of my life. Life changing. I ... I just feel the biology art work i do now means more to me than ever. Penguins are going extinct, Orangutans have only 10 years of existance left on this Earth if we keep taking out their habitiat at the rate we have - and that's out closest genetic relative... think of what we do to each other though... Yet, after watching the Orangatangs care for each other - like this Mother here about to kiss her baby's little ouch on his arm:
We have the potentail to do - and be - so much better!







Today I got into the "Art Biologic" show in the LIMNER GALLERY
123 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-2343 ~ TheLimner@aol.com
http://www.limnergallery.com/

with this peice:

........ I've wanted to be in this show forever... but after my adventure today - I feel like there are so many more pressing issues... something super important... like if we lost this opportunity to experience this.

What a wonderful day!


Thank you so much to Pete for letting us go on this big adventure. Thank you to Allison, Ben and Brett for accompaning me and being just as impressed and exictied. For once i didn't have to be hyper excited alone.

best day ever.
-a

In memory of my beloved & passed Mr. Crumpled.


This is my new work - since they are discontinuing those amazing red glazes... i felt like I was going to faint... I spent a ridiculous amount of money this week buying up all the red glaze I could find. It's forcing me to think it's time to do more sculptures. Big, small, just sculpture sculpture, and Drawing.

Let me know what you think
-Abbi

I just sent a nice little order out to the Golden Feather, Hammonton, NJ. - so nice I felt like posting it.
Keep your eyes out for the new updated list of inventory. What I've got laying around or on it's way to a gallery.

This is when I was super sure that my whole future of making art was right before me and I'd be super famous. Like all the big boys in the books - I thought i'd be like all the famous artists, like how Damien Hirst lives, but with out the bad behavior and the effortless art work. I'd be making all my own work, working as hard as I do know, but able to care for the ones I love, and send them to the most beautiful places in the world. I'd pay back anyone who'd ever believed in me with interest and gifts - all because I love to work, but without the stress of bills. I look older in this picture than i do now, and still.... Put me back in this happy face. who doesn't feel like this right now???


Let's face it, no one's buying anything, let alone art - but really, nothing... everything feels out of reach right now. Still, there is something really just grit your teeth "oh my god, is this happening", after being at a generally really great show and seeing so few people it is were a line for people who want root-canals and think that health insurance is not only affordable - let alone, helpful for 'the people'. I think all of us are at home paying for our post-highschool education after the 80's.


It's going to be hard for all of us artists, teachers, workers, mechanics, everyone who maintains anything, parents, makers, creators, inventors, doers, dreamers, hope-driven future lovers..... basically any of us who aren't in charge of the sinking ship - seeing that they are the only ones provided with life boats these days.

I don't know if it's true or not....

all i know is like my dad says

DRIVE - PASSION - & PERSISTENCE. Not only is that they key to living the life you envision - but will be the thing that keeps us going.

Regardless.... this little girl in the picture... who's doing at this age what she wants to do for the rest of her life... wearing a boy's shirt in pink.... who wants to tell her what's going to happen? Like onions, I guess it is about pulling back the layers without crying if you can.


still......... argggg.....
who feels really terrified right now????

I better get ready for work tomorrow
and the next day, and the next.
just like the rest of us.
sleeping and sundays are for the rich - even though it should be equal access, right?

lights

this is the other weird thing I like to do.
Lights.

falling Bird Installation

“ FALLING BIRDS “

This installation is about the absence of songbirds. It addresses the occasions when birds in the thousands have fallen from the sky due to environmental pollutants, mass toxic spills, war (during bombings, many birds drop from the sky in flames); and other tales of apprehension. This event has been reported around the world, repeatedly, and increasing frequency over the past 50 years. The reoccurring use of tissue is a reference to our skin and the thin membranes that all living things have. They define our form from the outside world, but are otherwise totally permeable. The work also addresses this veiled force of accumulation, and how pesticides conceal their malice behind the color white

Small Frog sculptures of mine

These are my shameless hit that I just can't shake. I really hate being called 'the frog lady'. The best I've ever heard was being called 'the orchid lady' - that was nice. But the deformed frog lady? seriously.
Anyway - despite not liking the name, I LOVE these guys. I don't know what direction these are going yet because there's so much I could do with them, yet because they are so personal and sweet to me, I'm not sure I really want to put them out there. I guess if the opportunity arises - we'll see what happens.

Drawings

Here's a collection of my recent drawings & prints

Website emergency! - www.abigailallan.com is being held hostage

Hello everyone.

so it turns out my web-site is being held hostage by a web-vulture. I don't know if i'll be able to get abigailallan.com back again because the people asking for the ransom for it won't get back to me. How depressing.

In the mean time, as I was updating other images, I figured I should add images. etc.
so up coming will be more images soon.
take care
-Abbi

Teaching, doing, being...

Seti's ready for the cold - are you? I'm not.


Sigh - I've been out of the loop, behind on work and posts this month. I went through 3 art fairs 3 weekends in a row in dark weather and the scariest of economic times, but the people still came. that was good.

Come see a new batch of my work over at Your Arts Desire in Minnetonka, MN. they are about to launch a new web site so keep your browsers out for that.

Whew - so what a first month of school.
At the Minneapolis College of Art and Design - 3 classes
teaching 2 - 3D foundation courses (wood, welding, furniture, sculpture etc...), and another about "Futures, Society and you" - which is really cool.
Orientation to Art and Design over at the College of Visual Arts
All the classes are cool and the kids even better. Although i feel myself aging before their eyes and never been so tired in my life.
Then I've got a family-day that I'm team teaching with my father in October at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and of course, more awesome Science museum classes ahead.

The faculty show at MCAD just came down. A new start / direction for my biological work - talking about depleted Uranium and it's affects on not only birds (indicator species) -but also children born with deformities who live in these war torn areas and also to Vets of these wars being fought. Yes - there are PEOPLE in my art. most exciting.

Well - almost as exciting as meeting Mr. President.

Upcoming Art Events

Hello - lots coming up

I start teaching 3 classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Monday - Aug 25
teaching 2 sections of 3D foundations and Futures: society and you.
I just got elected to Senate as well. Awesome. I'm a Senator.

I start teaching Orientation to Art and Design at the College of Visual Arts as well. Really nice people over there and it will be all new to me, so I'm stoked with a little bit of scared attached.

hello to any students that just google-ed me. Now get your homework done. :)







Coming up - out door art fairs -see my ceramics and even better - please bring some home of course.

Edina Art Fair: Sep. 13-14
Marine on the St. Croix: Sept. 20 - 21
Afton Art Fair: Sept. 27-28






the R.N.C is coming to town, and I'm avoiding it.
- not about politics - just hoop-la. too much trouble for me. But everyone and the artist in them is doing something - so i feel a little left out. Yet - not forgotten is politics on everyone's mind
here's something someone gurrila arted up in our neighborhood. impressive they got this done in one night! my students have no excuse now for not getting their homework done.
But I will be showing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's faculty show
http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1119&eventID=331
Position and Imposition: MCAD Faculty Responds to Politics

When: Aug. 22-Sept. 24, 2008
Where: MCAD Gallery: Main Gallery
Reception: Friday, Sept. 5, 6-8 p.m.


& at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN
http://www.cva.edu/gallery/gallery_shows.htm
I'm in this faculty show as well
Annual CVA Faculty Exhibition
August 28 - September 13, 2008


Faculty Presentations
Tuesday, September 9, 6 - 9 p.m.
Reception
Thursday, September 11, 6 - 8 p.m.


as long as the MCAD MFA print portfolio show at MCAD as well


special love going out to:

my friend Deb - keep fighting. it's not fair - cancer is less discriminate than death - at least death has its reasons. Cancer just picks un-fair fights - until it found you. Kick it's ass my dear! Please, we need you - us girls, women, ladies, double x chromosomes - we need you here fighting for us.

to my friends in Cordero - (Eric) - love the new record!
what?? you haven't heard it?
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artists/cordero/
http://corderomusic.com/

to Mike and his family - little Adler... just a few more standing ups away from walking, talking, and taking over the world. go get 'em.

and to my boy - you do everything and that makes you awesome.
check out his art show opening Down Town Minneapolis, for the next 2 weeks- part of this larger big art thing that co-ensides with the RNC:
http://www.gallery13.com/

it's down town 811 Lasalle Ave, Minneapolis, MN
he's got a really great piece there - related to sports / pole vaulting / being in the flow /the olympics
coolstuff
xoxo
-abbi

Joe's potential commision

Horray!!! Joe Likes it!!
This is no-longer available in my studio. Joe is a long time supporter and friend from way back when I had a video made of myself and my work on HGTV. Every so often it is aired again, and I get a few inquieries - but none like Joe. He's the best. All the way out on the East Coast and far away from any galleries I currently have, I am happy to work with Joe. I rarely do commisions these days and prefer to work through galleries I have, but Joe's a special case. Anything for this guy.

Sorry for all the spelling errors - I'm on my way off to one teaching meeting after another. booo.... boring day. meetings meetings meetings... they make the world go round.



Dear Joe.
Let me know if you think this will work
for what you were thinking.

This has been my favorite piece made
in quite some time
It's the work that everyone stops at and oooohhhs and Ahhs.
about 13" in diameter.
Light greens, dark greens, golds, ambers... and a sunrise form. meaning one side is a little higher than the other - the face is tipped upward for maximum drama from different angles.
9" tall on it's highest petal.

Let me know if this is what you had in mind. If not - I can go right back to the drawing board.
take care
-Abbi

Vases that are available August

Ben and I are home from our big trip. It feels great to be home.
In the mean time - I'm busy packing up work for the next sale. (Edina coming Sept 13-14th in Minnesota)
I've got lots of work to make until then.... but if you need something - just e-mail
abigailallan@gmail.com

Here are some vases I have available.

Work going to galleries as we speak....

I still really miss my pet family. Doing alright today. Lots of new galleries. I'll be posting the work once it goes out of which pieces are at which galleries. That way you know where to buy the work.


For example:

This piece:
This is going to be at Beyond Dimensions Fine Art Gallery in Dover, DE.

http://www.beyonddimensionstoo.com/

This is an amazing little piece -and there will never be one as perfect because that pink color that's in the center of the work - edged by green - I don't know what's happened to that glaze - but it does not flow like that anymore. chunky and arggg!!! it just won't blend like it did this one time... I don't know, I had magical moment or something. this is a one of a kind, signed... Really extraordinary! This gallery has been a long time supporter of my work - so I'm very pleased this amazing work with just a perfect little base on it is going there.

god, I love this piece. Who ever owns this beauty owns a big slice of my best efforts in that work. sigh.... Who ever snags it is one lucky ducky.

Anyway - I'm about to pack up... Looking forward to the drive home... Seeing Ben's parents, my brother.... and I'm more than sure my parents are looking forward to returning my Seti to me.
more posted soon
-abbi

Tulips I have available for requests

These are my Tulips and Lotuses available. Someone asked me why these works cost more than the conchs - good question. These works are each signed and dated, and cataloged with a number you see below the image.
These works take me far longer to make and are designed to sit on your counter top evenly and . They do not scratch the surface with the rough exterior but accentuate the center of the table or counter you set it on. They are the gallery level works and take much time and labor to finish. You know when you have one of these works from me that you have something my heart has been thrown into

I miss my trouble makers

I really miss my trouble making duo. Sebastian and Seti. (New Kitten and Doberman). Here's Sebastian on the kiln and amongst the conchs and Irises about to be glazed. He's into everything... Always.




Seti finds her own trouble. She just finds ways of being really cute about it. They wrestle right in the middle of my work and studio... They are so funny... I really miss my babies. Luna too... (the other cat who HATES taking pictures. I stopped bothering her with that a while ago. The other 2 - just like the hams they are, love it.

sigh.... I miss my babies.

Rosen...12:56pm

These frogs have all been sold but have been very popular. I guess I'm going to have to make a lot more. China Treasures in Wayzata, MN. will have these guys along with a few more.

These Irises are going really well as well. the 2 white ones in the middle I'm giving to my mom, and the top right hand one just sold as well.
- I have 6 left.

This is such a cool piece I've had for a while that Ben found when we were merging studios this summer. Beautiful enamel job on this one and the yellows are amazing. This one reminds me of the first crocuses of the spring that you see.



No picture does this work justice I'm afraid. It's a strange color. Soft whites, greens and grays inside and a deep green exterior with feathered base. Great lily form with a wide open Iris mouth to it.



This frog has been long sold... I just like him. Figured I'd put another picture up of him.

More images from the Philadelphia Buyers Market

This is the last Dragonfly I have left.

These wall hanging dragonflies are becoming one of my favorite objects. They are so hard to get into the kiln before they are fired for the first time. You can just feel the weight of those wings pulling and I sweat as I scurry across the studio floor to get these in the kiln before the wings fall off - but it's so worth if once it's fired. The glazing and the final results... I just love them. They bring a wall to life.
This one Dragonfly is now sold. 12:20pm 8/3/08. So are the other 3 that I brought.




Here's another new thing I'm trying. Putting my flowers into sculptural paintings of sorts. With Tissue behind them in the background to accent the idea of living forms, tissue, tails, feathers, fluidity etc...

Oh! I just was told the best suggestion a few seconds ago by this wonderful family that has been long time collectors of my work. Just a fabulous artistic family! Anyway - they just suggested that I call these "Butterfly Collections" - which makes so much sense - seeing I walk past one at the museum I teach at everyday... That makes so much sense.
Oh! Now I have TONS of ideas for these.
o.k. - so that's what these are called now. 'Butterfly Collections".
I love it.

Rosen Show work 7/2/08

This is a wall hanging work that I made. A medium sized frame with small littel versions of my large work exploding outside the frame.







More Images of the work I am showing.



A Purple and Pink Lotus / tulip shape that is the larger size of small with a wine glass base. I love this image of this piece. It really gives the work the elegance it deserves.

Rosen Show work

This week I'm at the Rosen Show in Philadelphia, PA!
I will be posting work that I have at the show over the week for anyone who saw my work there to re-visit etc.

Cross your fingers for me.

Conchs available for July

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Vessles (tulip and lotus forms) in July's studio

1. Spring Lotus (2 images of the one piece). It's a medium size piece, about 17" across and 10" all (aprox.)
Bright Yellow with purples and greens. It has a green exterior with a bulb base.




2. 2 images of this really fun pearly Tulip shaped work. The exterior is a deep green with a bulb base. The interior is silvery blues, deep blues, greens and a bright pink that appears like a party favor. About medium size. It's an older piece I've had in my studio for quite some time.

Wall hanging work in July's Studio

1. Wall hanging fish. Green and Pink. 7/26/08




2. Wall Hanging Fish, Blue, white, pink and yellow. Opalecent-ish. 7/26/08

Work Currently available for July

Hello - I have this idea, and lets see if it works.

So July (almost being over) -
I am working on using this blog to display all the work in my studio currently available for sale. Seeing each piece is a one of a kind and difficult to reproduce exactly or make a perfect match to color swatches and trends - I instead, can offer this Monthly update of what I have in my studio.

If a piece has been sold to an individual collector - it will be edited to state as such.
If a work goes to a gallery - that's where it can be found and will not be reproduced for individual sale. The gallery contact information will be listed below it.

I will post these by category:
wall hanging work
conchs
vessels
vases
sculptures
drawings
paintings
other
installation...
etc...

If you see something you have questions / interest / etc about, please e-mail me at:

abigailallan@gmail.com

Let me know the category and # of the work along with a brief description, or attach the image of the work you like in an e-mail.
Thank you
-Abbi

rough day

What a week. My kiln died... not just one - but BOTH. and not just died... melted... the wiring. One right after the other and I've got to be at Highland Art Fest this Friday. So for those who will see me there, my product won't be up to what it should be - just because I'm sold out of everything, and it's in either the greenwear or bisque state.
At least I've got the baby of the house to help me.
(*Sebastian sleeping amongst the ceramic flowers.)

What worries me the most is that I have all the kids' ceramics from teaching that I have to have fired by the end of the week and I'm not sure how that's going to happen. I just don't want to let them down - no matter what.

I've decided that this student's depiction of the universe warping space/time is the brief - shortened - quicky - cliff note history of the universe. Take this Stephen Hawking!


So my work (art work) has hit a set back... a lead brick - but at least teaching, I'm doing something alright in teaching. But all the amazing stuff you do as a teacher never is on display, but tucked as little short burbs of 4 second "what we did todays" and maybe a memory or 2... i guess in the long run maybe that's longer... but not so good when you have a featured article coming out... but now work to show for it.

feeling low.
maybe it's just time to get some sleep.

Hello - I'm learning to blog

This is my new blog, where I will be showing my current work, upcoming shows, and keeping things updated as I get ready to go to Philly, PA. for the Rosen Show. We are working on the site, bringing it up to date thanks to the hard work of my brother, Jonathan, who is far smarter at this whole computer operation than I.

I'll be adding images, updates, studio images, etc. so you will know what I am up to artistically, along with my other activities, such as teaching and life as a radio DJ. I just graduated with my Masters of Fine Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in sculpture, with an MFA Thesis show at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN. The exhibit was about the fragility of life demonstrated through indicator species such as frogs, fish, and birds, while looking at most transitional and vulnerable and influential stage of being, comparative embryonic development.

I am not an English major by any stretch.... so grammar and spelling... just expect it will be... ummmm... bad. :) i do the best I can. What I can't say in words I express in the visual combination of art and science.

Speaking of which, this month I will be teaching at the Science Museum of MN. It is a blast. Teaching science through art... the kids and I couldn't be happier. It's the perfect place for me. It eats TONS of time... so if I fall a little behind on this, it probably has to do with trying to figure out how to make a tectonic plate-puzzle, or how the universe expands do to this "dark matter / dark energy" stuff. I love it.

I just finished 2 shows; Grand Forks, ND (Grand Cities Art Fest), & the Eagan Art Festival, in Eagan, MN, along with a solo showing at Pizza Luce, Down Town. My next show will be at the Highland Art Fair, in St. Paul, MN. July 19, 20, and 21.

Here's some of the work you can see up above, along with an image of my postcard from my Thesis show. (I'm still working on how to arrange images, so things are in - no particular order.

That's all for now.
Yes, that IS all there is - so you should just keep dancing.
much love
-Abbi