South Orange and Maplewood Studio Tour

Hi everyone! Please come out this Sunday June 2nd from 11am-5pm and enjoy the South Orange and Maplewood Studio Tour! With over 70 artists (including me) participating it's going to be an awesome day!Tour details and map: http://www.studiotoursoma.orgTour Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/StudioTourSOMAI'll have my sculptures, a new series of paintings called "Holy Bones", illuminations, etchings and a new series of abstract landscapes. There will art for sale in every price range, but no purchase necessary. (See samples of older work at the end of the post, my newer work needs photographing :)I'll be showing with:Wendy Bellermann and her fabulous black and white paintingshttp://www.studiotoursoma.org/artists/wendy-bellermannand Thea Clark an amazing jeweler and artist. You will NEVER see jewelry like hers. It's completely awesome and not to be missed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJpgy60olYMaps will be available for the rest of the tour here...I hope you will come out and enjoy a glass of wine or juice, some good conversation and some beautiful art with me!

Jewelry by Thea Clark

Windows on Heaven Contemporary Icons Artist Talk

A small excerpt from Sunday's artist roundtable from the show Windows on Heaven: Contemporary Icons. I speak from 4:43 on how my sculptures relate to Icons and how taking Icon painting classes at the School of the Sacred Arts influences my work. (The sound is a bit off for the first minute or so but it gets better) It was an honor to be included in this show! Link for email subscribers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dXF3j-VyVk8

Artist Tour & Interview

St. Teresa of Avila

Don't Make Lists
By Dorothy Walters

Every day a new flower rises
from your body's fresh soil.
Don't go around looking
for fallen petals
in a fairy tale, when you've
got the golden plant
right here, now,
shooting forth in light from your eyes,
your awakening crown.
Don't make lists,
or explore ancient accounts.
Forget everything you know
and open.

For many years, I have resisted showing my artwork and being public. I know I write this blog and the world can see it, but to me it seems more like a journal or a private conversation with friends. Somehow meeting people face to face, having to explain each time that I can't shake hands and seeing their reaction seemed too much. But now it doesn't.

My latest heart issues, stripped all that away. Now it's hard to imagine why I crawled into myself like that for so many years. That time was like being in a monk's cell. A time to face down my inner demons and connect to the sacred fountain of creativity, to find my artistic voice.

But now I am leaving the monastery and stepping out by showing my Earthen Vessel Series in process at the South Orange Maplewood Studio Tour on Sunday June 3rd. I also gave and interview to Patch: Meet the Artist Sybil Archibald

Here are the details of the Studio Tour:

The Baird Center
5 Mead Street
South Orange, NJ 07079
11am to 5pm
Sunday June 3rd

If you are in the area, I'd love to meet you. Sybil

Meister Eckhart: The Divine Womb

By Sybil Archibald

Gallery Opening Tonight

Heartbeat
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart
which safely exists in the center of all things?
His giant heartbeat is diverted in us
into little pulses. And his giant griefis, like his giant jubilation, far too
great for us. And so we tear ourselves away
from him time after time, remaining only
mouths. But unexpectedly and secretly
the giant heartbeat enters our being,
so that we scream ----,
and are transformed in being and in countenance.

I adore that poem!

I have my piece The Pregnant Virgin: Creative Vessel in this show. (see image below). I hope you can make it!

The Pierro Gallery in the Baird Center5 Mead Street South Orange, NJ 07079
Opening: Thursday May 24th, 6pm to 8pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday, June 7th, 7pm
Regular Hours: Wednesday & Thursday 2 to 7pm, Friday & Saturday 1 to 4pm

This show is the preview for the SOMA Artist Tour on Sunday June 3. I will be displaying the completed and in process pieces from my Earthen Vessel Series at 5 Mead Street, South Orange, NJ.