I don't imagine I'll post much until I get most of the piece I'm doing for the airport done, but I've been lucky enough to see a lot of good work lately, and I do have some updates before I disappear into the studio again.
I recently returned from a visit to my family in Texas, where I saw the amazing work my mom, Margaret Simpson, and her partner Tom Drucker are doing at Slugfest Printmaking Workshop and Gallery, which the two of them run together. I like the work they show very much, particularly that of Jill Thrasher, Mark Dennis and Jennie Schmid who made a great series of morality prints about young girls. Slugfest's current show has some beautiful photographs and a lovely print of chicken heads that I'm going to buy with the virtual money I got from my virtual Pew.
I should explain. When I got home from Texas I discovered that I got a "liberta" award on artblog. My liberta award predicts that I will get a Pew grant, which is a fabulous vote of confidence. The Pew grant is a big, exciting grant that goes to a Philadelphia artist. I have spent this virtual money from my virtual Pew already, of course, mostly on art and good-luck charms that will help me win an actual Pew.
I also returned to Philly to find that my recent show at Vox Populi was reviewed very nicely by Edith Newhall in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Lovely way to come home.
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