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Today I am working away in the studio getting ready for my next Open Studio happening Saturday & Sunday, April 28 & 29, 10am-4pm each day. I always look forward to these events for a few reasons...1) I get the opportunity to share my art and process in person, face to face. Having events like this in my studio makes it easy to show my working methods, techniques, and sources of inspiration. I love the feedback, good conversation, and sense of being connected to others who appreciate creative work.
2) I get to collaborate with my wonderful neighbors, Wendy Johnson and Peter Rudnick who host an Open Garden and Plant Sale at the same time. Wendy and Peter used to run the gardens at Green Gulch and are masters at farming and cultivating the soil. Hosting this event with them enhances the feeling of neighborhood & community.
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It's a family friendly art event. As an artist and a mother, I love that this event integrates those two roles. My young daughters are here with me, kids come and play outside, and there are art supplies for them to explore. Last time, children painted pots at my studio and then took them over to Peter and Wendy's for soil and seed. I think we will be doing that again this time.If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, it would be lovely to have you come by for tea and treats, fine art, and springtime plants. See details below.Muir Beach Open Studio & Spring Plant Sale
Saturday & Sunday, April 28 & 29, 10am-4pm
1795 & 1815 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, CA
Click here for directions
It was a wonderful surprise this past week to get an email query from a Mills College student about this piece pictured here called Nocturne. She is is helping to put together an exhibit from the collection of Lenore Pereira & Rich Niles which will open on April 14 in San Francisco. It is really delightful to hear out of the blue that my work is going to be shown publicly. Once a piece sells and leaves my domain, it finds a new home and depending on the circumstances, I may not even know where that is. This mixed media collage now dwells in some great company in a private collection focused on contemporary women artists. This exhibit, called Femmescapes, "explores the relationship of a woman’s place in the environment, woman as environment, and the environment as woman." It features artists including Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois, Lisa Kokin, Ana Mendieta, and Kiki Smith - wow!
Nocturne was created in 1999 as part of my series Mapping the Body, in which I explored the emotions & experiences housed within the body. Here I layered kodalith transparency over sheet music (a Chopin Nocturne), torn paper and skeletonized magnolia leaves. Nocturne depicts that chrysalis state right before flight - the egg hatching and wings ready. While making this piece, I was thinking a lot about the experiences in life that crack us open - both the joyful ones and the very painful ones. That cracking can be quite uncomfortable, but ultimately yields access to a new territory within oneself...a new sense of self...a new internal rhythm or hum.
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to see this exhibition, here is some more information:
FEMMESCAPES
An exhibition featuring work from the collection of
Lenore Pereira & Rich Niles curated by students in the
Mills College Museum Studies Workshop
Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 6–8 pm
Exhibition Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays, April 15 - May 6, 2012,11am–5pm
Location: 70 South Park, San Francisco, CA, 94107
Learn more by clicking here
Image Info: Nocturne, ©1999, kodalith and mixed media collage, 13 x 11" framed, edition of 10 (sold out)
I am gearing up for my first art show of the new year - wrapping up art today and creating inventory lists to send off a number of pieces from the Sanctuary and Bottle Dreams series for a group photography exhibit at the newly-opened Stinson Beach Gallery. I will be at the reception on Saturday, February 11, and I will even be giving a short presentation about my work at 4pm that same day. It would be wonderful to have you come to see the show if you are in the Bay Area.Here are the details...
Earth Air Fire Water
A group photography exhibit
February 9 - March 25, 2012Opening Reception: February 11, 2-5
Artist Talk by Mary Daniel Hobson: February 11, 4pm
Stinson Beach Gallery
3445 Shoreline Hwy, Stinson Beach
www.stinsonbeachgallery.com
Artists: Mary Daniel Hobson, Ron Jones, Virginia Felch,
David D. Livingston, Nick Allen, Andrew George, and Marty Knapp
I am pleased that my art can be used to support these two great Bay Area organizations - SF Camerawork and the Bolinas Museum.I donated Evocation #020 (picured here) to the SF Camerawork Benefit Auction. An exhibit of all donated artwork opens November 3rd - tonight! It will be up until the auction on December 3rd. You need not be present to bid - they have a great online system set up - click here to check it out. This print is one of my favorites from the Evocation series which explores the tension between internal and external space and the distortions that can happen between the two.
Then I am working away in the studio on some new pieces for the Bolinas Museum Miniatures Exhibition - an annual benefit art sale of works that are 6 x 6 x 6 inches or smaller. I love the scale of this show. It's a wonderful assignment to make something for this exhibit that includes many talented West Marin artists. The show will open with a reception on Saturday afternoon, November 19. If you are in the SF Bay Area, I hope you will get a chance to check out both events.
I am so excited this spring to be having another Muir Beach Open Studio and Garden event with my neighbors Wendy Johnson & Peter Rudnick over the weekend of April 9 & 10.
I really love opening my studio this way and having a chance to talk with people, sharing my creative space & working process. These events also provide such a wonderful way for me to combine my professional and family life. My studio is just across the yard from my home in Muir Beach. My mother Sandra Hobson will be here signing copies of her book, Rituals for Life's Milestones. My daughters Anna and Jessica will be here, and we invite other children to come play outside in our large yard under the budding apple trees.
I also love collaborating with Wendy and Peter who are such artists of the garden. Together they used to run the gardens and farm at Green Gulch Zen Center, and now they have a home nursery selling organically grown vegetable, herb and flower seedlings as well as perennial and native plants. You can find a complete plant list on their web site at www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com. A portion of all sales will go to benefit public school garden programs in the Bay Area.
If you are in the area, I hope you will celebrate springtime with us and come by for tea and treats, garden inspiration, new plants, fine art, and fun. See details below.
Muir Beach Open Studio & Garden Sale
Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10
Mary Daniel Hobson: Artist Open Studio
open 11am-4pm at 1815 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach
Wendy Johnson & Peter Rudnick: Open Garden & Spring Plant Sale
open 10am-4pm at 1795 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach
For directions, click here.
Please park along Muir Woods Road.
Questions? Email me or call 415-383-5617.
IMAGE INFO: Above: Evocation #14 ©marydanielhobson.
Below: A photo of Wendy and Peter's nursery
2) I get to collaborate with my wonderful neighbors, Wendy Johnson and Peter Rudnick who host an Open Garden and Plant Sale at the same time. Wendy and Peter used to run the gardens at Green Gulch and are masters at farming and cultivating the soil. Hosting this event with them enhances the feeling of neighborhood & community.
It's a family friendly art event. As an artist and a mother, I love that this event integrates those two roles. My young daughters are here with me, kids come and play outside, and there are art supplies for them to explore. Last time, children painted pots at my studio and then took them over to Peter and Wendy's for soil and seed. I think we will be doing that again this time.
