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I was invited to exhibit at The Russian Club which hosted The W Project. The show celebrated International Womens Day showcasing a range of female artists working in creative industries. The Big Bang depicts Mother Earth as a seed shattering explosion.
October Panels, cinimod studios
Opaline spheres of light are encased in a layered mirror and glass structure, causing reflections to bounce back and forth. A volume of colour and movement is created through a flat surface, giving the artwork seemingly infinite depth.
Ball Point Pen Paintings, Shane McAdams
Displaying a soft and colorful array of tones, the pieces push the boundaries of ballpoint pen ink through a series of non-traditional applications: once extracted, the liquid is heated and mixed with solvents before it is applied to the surface. McAdams does not ‘draw’ in the conventional sense but rather lets gravity, wind, and other physical forces direct the movement of the ink. Resembling a chromatography test, subtle gradients and unexpected streaks emerge to create a ghostly multi-toned image. by allowing the painting to, in essence, come to being by itself, it forces the viewers to question what is organic and what is artificial.
Each of the pieces in her Wind and Water takes nearly a month to create and involves a painstaking, multi-step process that begins with pulling individual 30-50 foot segments of glass called cane (imagine making 2400 °F taffy candy), a step that’s repeated 8 to 200 times depending on the scale of the piece. To clarify: she generates over 1 mile of thin glass pieces from which she cuts into tens of thousands of segments organized by shape and length. Next begins the tedious process of building the actual sculpture, requiring roughly 45 minutes for each two square inch area.
