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