More Art Pieces

This is a pelvis carved out of Plaster, I submitted the sculpture to the Vagina Monologues Gallery. This is a study of sticks I did. This is actually my second water color painting... I found a new love for the medias water color and india ink

This is a piece I submitted to the Merchantile Gallery in Easton, PA. The lion fish is a print there is ink, acrylic and pieces of magazines.

Paintings part 1

Here is three of my paintings
The first one is titled My Nature. It explains my interests and intentions. I love Nature Writing, it is my favorite Nonfiction Genre, and it is a sort of reflection of my connections between science, art, and writing.

Strength and Structure. This is a painting done in 2008. Magazine and Acrylic.

This is my first painting finished in college. It's a self portrait in front of my elementary school play ground. Acrylic and Magazine pieces

Half way House

This is arough draft for the senior exhibition card. Trish said she would help m,e load it onto illustrator tomorrow morning. Love, Molly

james Bloomfield

This is a print by James Bloomfield. I found him in an antique store in Kentucky. I can not explain why I really love this print. I honestly debated spending seventy five dollars for it. The print reminds me of an artwork I've seen before, but I don't remember. I just feel a strong like for it... odd right?

James Bloomfield he is a folk artist who lives as a hermit in the mountains. Most of his art is wood carvings that have a religious theme... I just tore apart my dorm room looking for the brochure from the antique store, and I tried to find information on him online, but I can only find small bits of information on him and his place with the self taught and outsider artists. The most informative page I found is his blog site... I can potentially be a fan...

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Lucy Gans
My boyfriend and I met on Friday night. We went to see Lucy Gans show at Moravian College. I got excited because there is a hallway of these incredible self portraits in the student center. This is the artist, whose poster is on my wall. Her portraits are distraught, there is an incredible injustice against women. The fight for equality is far from over. There is still high statistics of domestic and work place abuse and crime against gener. The drawing representing the most intense statistics, the portrait covered her eyes. In other portraits sad truths caused her eyes well up with tears. I turned to Derek and asked him, "Do you think women are weak?" I felt sensitive over lost. I tried to follow the writing of ghostly, partially erased script beyond and below the portraits.
Her paintings spoke of truth and reality but also revealed emotion of a single person. Someone cares about these women. And when my boyfriend and I left, I knew two more people cared about these statistics and the women they represented.

Rob Sato

The show in the Metropolis gallery this month is Robert Sato. I loved the show. There were images of two faced people. Falling planes with trees attached to them. The images revealed destruction and battle. Man vs machine vs nature. There were painting of crime scene because the computer user was shot by video game he was playing. It was really grim... the realities we can play with.
In the middle of the gallery on the table was a Juxtapoz magazine. I stoped over images by an an artist known as Rockin Jelly Bean... I couldn't stand the images, I felt disgust and uncomfortable. I didn't like looking at images of highly sexualized women with ice cream or candy. I know it's a hyberbole on modern advertisements... but what about natural beauty and actual love for women... it's a superficial image... the paintings were missing everything I love about women, and being a woman.

Paintings and Sketches September 2009

Sketch of a boot with ink and water color.
It's been an odd beginning. I've been painting pictures of mundane things. Someone told me there is a humbleness to these, but there is a vacancy due to an absence of person. The paintings of dying apples also hint at a fragility of life... it's been unconcious and unintentional. I need to change directions again... I need to figure out my true intentions quickly. I need to get up, my paintings from my fall semester last year. The reason is, I switched from complete subjectivity to complete objectivity. Complete subjectivity is personal, revealing, and doesn't connect with an audience. Complete objectivity... is just a painting.

I am afraid of the fact, the Hemlocks are dying, and scientists do not what type of tree is going to replace them. There is a lot of uncertainty, and contemporary artists confront this uncertainty with irony. Something sweet is hurting or bitter or is hiding darker intentions. I get it, but now I am going to work by connecting with other recent artists to figure out who they are, and what it means to be an artist today. It's not easy but I have to try.