Bravo has a casting call for artists

Sure top chefs and runway models and interior designers and pet fur stylists can provide enough drama for several seasons of reality shows but now Bravo is honing in on artists……

“How do you go from struggling, emerging or even semi-established artist to selling a complete show for $198 million? It’s a big art world out there, but maybe this is one place to start!

Magical Elves (Peabody Award-winning Project Runway, Emmy Award-winning Top Chef) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winner) and her production company, Pretty Matches, are teaming up for an hour-long creative competition series among aspiring contemporary artists who will create and compete to conquer the art world!

If you’re an emerging or mid-career artist with a unique, powerful voice that demands a bigger stage – well. . . Here. It. Is.

We want contemporary artists. Your medium could be one of many (or several of many) – painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, mixed-media – we want voices that believe in their art and want the world to know.”

Get the full details on their website

Erik Rehman

This weekend while walking around I found an artist I was quite inspired by and had to buy this little face called a Rootstone at Frog Hollow on Church Street in Burlington.

Artist’s statement:

“I seek connections to gain an gain an understanding of the loss of purpose, of home; of the absence of feeling, of hope; of the loneliness of despair. I strive to communicate these states of being, and in them, the perseverance of wills in trepidation, the convalescence of broken lives, and the actuality of comforting arms to solace self-abasing sorrow – believing that in the illumination of the dark, a balance is born, birthing healing.” – Erik Rehman

Erik on Art Map
Erik at Frog Hollow

“Circus” Opening at Studio Place Arts in Barre

Photos on my Facebook Fan Page

I focused on taking pics of the Sideshow area of the exhibition because that is where the majority of my work was displayed. But the Sideshow was a very small portion – it was a big show! The 3 Ring Circus and Sideshow were on the first floor but on the second and third floors were other exhibitions as well. Briony Morrow Cribbs prints are wonderful by the way.

And in the conjoined room on the first floor were tons of circus related food, costumed characters, and face painting. My boyfriend went crazy on the miniature hot dogs.

I loved the way Janet Van Fleet put the show together and I was really happy to be invited. It was fun, festive, and the three rings had so much detail and activity going on… you have to see it in person. Now of course I kick myself for capturing such a small part of it. Hopefully you can get a wee idea from the photos in my Facebook set.

Here’s video of the Sideshow area that was sort of sectioned off from the rest of the show:

Doll Show in Illinois

I have two dolls in this show. I’ve been working on them for some time. I am hoping to have more available… as soon as I have some more free time from shows I am joined in this show by Shain Erin and Nichole Dickerson among others.

Click for larger views:

‘Circus!’ Show at SPA Gallery in Barre, VT

AND I had the honor of creating the Ringmaster for the whole affair! I will also have a few of the aforementioned Specimen Boxes, one of the Spider dolls, and a Dr Scops on display (Sideshow treats of course). Speaking of sideshow, Shain Erin will also have some strange creations in there as well.

“CIRCUS” Show runs from:
Tuesday, June 16, 10 a.m – Saturday, July 25, 5 p.m.

Reception: Friday, June 19
5:30–7:30 PM
Studio Place Arts
Barre, Vermont
I will see you there!

The Ringmaster

PRESS RELEASE
The Circus Comes to Studio Place Arts

Studio Place Arts (SPA) has brought dozens of funny and fabulous thematic exhibits to central Vermont over the years, including The Gun Show, The Boat Show, Maps and Journeys, and Forever Forests. The latest in this series of smash-hits is CIRCUS!, slated to run from June 16 – July 25, 2009, with an opening reception on Friday, June 19, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM.

There are three large, raised rings in the middle of the gallery, filled with circus acts in paper mache, clay, cloth, and porcelain figures B including elephants, trapeze artists, an audience of dogs by Beanie-the-dog artist David Klein, and a ringmaster by dollmaker Beth Robinson, who is currently exhibiting her work at Galerie Madame des Vosges in Paris. One of the rings is populated by clay whistle circus figures made by Delia Robinson, who sold one of her whistles several years ago to Bill Clinton for Hillary’s 50th birthday.

Adjacent parts of the gallery are devoted to images of aerialists in paintings and sculpture, to sideshow images B including strange things in bottles B and to clowns. One of the country=s foremost painters of sideshow banners, Toni-Lee Sangastiano, is showing both a six-foot sideshow banner and a painting, Last King of the Sideshow, Ward Hall, which just won an honorable mention in the Art Interview 16th International Online Artist Competition.

Other prominent artists represented in the show are Paul Graubard of Lenox, Massachusetts, whose work is in the permanent collection of the American Museum of Visionary Arts (AVAM) in Baltimore, Maryland, and Robin Croft of Manassas, Virginia, whose figures are made of found objects, many of which he finds on southern beaches.

The show is bound to delight young and old alike, and is open Tuesday – Friday, 10AM – 5PM, and Saturday from noon – 4PM. More information is available by calling 479-7069, or at www.studioplacearts.com

Daily Art Fix and Herstory 2009

My dolls were ‘Pick of the Day’ at the Daily Art Fix blog for yesterday. Great articles there, worth following. http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2009/06/09/beth-robinson-strange-dolls/

In other great news I was juried into “HerStory 2009,” an online show juried by Manhattan Arts. I made it into Best in Sculpture for one of my Broken Heart Dolls: http://www.manhattanarts.com/Gallery/HerStory2009/Sculpture.htm

Hooray!

Pictures from the show in France

My dolls are in the window on the pillars

My dolls point of view

And the rest of the dolls in the shop, surrounded by the other exhibiting artists: Krisfoft, Kelly Louise Judd, Laetitia Miéral.

Tanith Hicks’ masks were displayed so beautifully on various busts, see more pics here.

Addendum:
Check out videos of the show (click here)!

Shadow boxes headed out to Strychnin Gallery Berlin

5×7 Shadow boxes headed out to Strychnin Gallery in Berlin. In this photo, the boxes are stacked on top of each other. One of the original designs for this idea was sold to the singer of The Prodigy.

5X7, Polymer clay, fabric

A Garden in the darkness Show in France (Un Jardin dans les ténèbres)

Four artists invite you into the most extraordinary gardens…

For the first time in France, this exhibition brings together the work of three Anglo-Saxon artists: Beth Robinson’s dolls, drawings and paintings of Kelly Louise Judd, Tanith Hicks’ handcrafted masks, and Laetitia Miéral’s paper creations.

These artists share a taste for the strange, wonderful, fantastic, and the offer to return to the most extraordinary gardens: infinity, unreal, a garden at night, strange and secret that was abandoned for several centuries, populated creatures half-animal, half plant, half human, where the brambles and ivy had covered everything, you will come across the remains of carrousels forgotten ladies of crocodiles, and owls…

Galerie Madame des Vosges
madamedesvosges.com
14 rue Birague
75004 Paris France
+33 1 42 77 99 97
Opening on Thursday May 28
Gallery Hours: Monday 1 pm to 7pm
Tuesday to Sunday: 10:30 am to 7:30 pm

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Work created for the show (click on the thumbnail for a larger view):

Mother’s Day Dolls

I don’t know if it was my mom visiting to care for my niece and nephew recently, or the abundance of friends that are now having babies… but I thought it was time for a doll that celebrated quirky moms (and their offspring, for that matter).

I have Mother’s Day cards and prints available as well as 3 dolls made for the up-coming holiday. I do hope you will enjoy! Happy Mother’s Day to all moms who live a little… outside the box.

Check it out online: Zazzle . Available Dolls