New Colors!

I needed a boost of color and here it is! - First came the idea - then the fabric which I Love. It all came together as I had envisioned...

Ocean Park 2009 Calendar

Click this link to purchase the
2009 calendar of images from Ocean Park, Maine I recently had published at lulu.com !! Once at the lulu site you can preview each image. All of the photographs were taken by me with a digital camera and edited later on the computer. I took the pictures during the off season, so there are few, if any people. This is the way I remember Ocean Park from my younger days visiting after summer's end. There is a quiet dignity to the place that sooths the soul.

OBAMARTISTAMP

Here is an artistamp I just created - I started with Shephard Fairey's print (just saw him last night on Cobert Report, saying he encourages widespread use of the image!) please copy, duplicate and print to use on all your outgoing mail to celebrate our new president!

You can see more of Faiery's work on his web site:

http://obeygiant.com

new process

Here are the breyers and ink ready to roll.

the paint has been applied along with a ginko leaf to create a negative form.

Here is the initial print, with the plate on the right.

And this is a ghost print. the ginko leaf was removed and a piece of string added.

Light

Light by Laura Dunn, USA

exhibit Nr.31
Description: Glass bottle, filled with Mica, silver cap.
Comments/Origin: My sister Suzen gave this bottle to me while on vacation in New Mexico. I came across it recently & decided to immortalize it @ the Museum of Temporary Art. I call it Light for several reasons: #1) it looks sort of like a light bulb (& I love + collectlight bulbs), #2) it is transparent and reflective comprised of glass which lets light into homes via windows, which used to be made out of Mica and #3) I just went to see an art installation @ a Mill titled Light . So that is on my mind still... Oh yeah & #4) it weighs almost nothing! very light!
http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com/theexhibits31.html

See more at the MTA!: http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com/

Me at work

Here I am at work - doing a workshop with friends...

NEW DRESS

A suspended relief sculpture

Light Works

This piece is woven from plastic grogery bags. They are columns of light. Lit from inside they shine out in an array of color and pattern. Or back-lit by the sun the glow from within...

Natural Beauty

this piece is ongoing - part of my collections series - i like to collect stuff from my environment and package it up... - for me this puts it in the realm of a desirable - or a thing to be looked at with consideration - taken out of context and felt new... - sometimes I re-use packages from things like batteries, or silly putty or whatever.

These are lipstick containers that have been emptied of the lipstick and refilled with sand, or sea glass, or robins eggs, etc...

Femme Fatale

A large wall piece

Remembrance of my First Best Friend

This piece was made in honor of Anjl, my constant companion from the time I was 16 until I was 34.

It combines her hair, some of her hair that has been felted, two of her teeth which had been extracted, her nail trimmer, and dog tag, a wish bone, other found objects, and the tissue I cried into when she died. It's the first time I have exhibited the piece which was created some time after her death ion 1997.

s Sisters

5 from my cement figure series.

A perfect Marriage

Modeled after my husband and I of course!

Sturgeon

Taken at the opening of:

LAURA DUNN:

New Work

8/9/08

Sturgeon

A large wood carving of a sturgeon

More art on the way

Well -I just figured that since I have not been on in a while I should at least post something. I have been making art - but have not taken images yet. I guess I could show you the stairwell I painted - reminds me of Dan Flavin's flourescent light works.

The Cradle Project

Oh and here is my cradle - created for a project to be shown in New Mexico in 2008.

Have a look and learn more about the project, which is designed to raise awareness about the AIDS Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa, at:

www.thecradleproject.org

Artist Statement

The cradle is an object for holding, comforting and protecting the innocent; the empty cradle is a mystery. It is this emptiness and mystery that my work attempts to question.

Having recently begun a series of works woven on a simple four-harness loom, it naturally followed that my piece would be woven. The ordinary and ubiquitous plastic grocery bag is my medium of choice. I am very much interested in reuse of materials readily available and in abundance not only for the ecological implications but also as an investigation into transformation and what happens when we look at something in a new way.

The utter incomprehension at the fact of the plight of these orphans might be assuaged through art. To look at it through a different lens might create the bridge for understanding and healing. Through my chosen medium I hope to explicate my belief that there is worth to be found in even the most mundane of materials if given the structure and framework in which to grow.

The form is roughly cradle-like yet it remains disconcertingly amorphous. It’s fluid, indistinct quality enhances a sense of anonymity. Additionally, the piece carries a visual weight despite its meager mass. All of these aspects
come together to symbolize the nameless multitude facing an uncertain future.

Finally the work is suspended to signify Ascent: a levitation up out of the dust of the landfill – a rebirth and renewal.

Good Wood 4

Here is another small piece. simple, very chunky...

Good Wood

Thsi is a larger piece than the previous two. It is about 16"X13".

Some of the pieces have a hint of paint on them, but it is just incidental, not intentionally painted.

The next step is to figure encaustic into the composition. Not the whole thing - just an element or two. Somehow though I think the gem like quality of the encaustic will be too stark a juxtaposition to this raw wood...