Yippee! A three day weekend! I’ve been photographing shells and working on a new series… just a few images are ready. They’re on flickr now; when I get the series more fleshed out, I’ll start adding the prints to my etsy shop. Life is good!

I’m thrilled to be invited to show in a special exhibition at the Greater Chicago Quilt Exhibition! From the Mancuso announcement:
Digital Shibori: Pattern & Stitch
Fiber Works by Tricia McKellar
Tricia McKellar presents a series of fiber works that explore pattern and stitch. McKellar hand-dyes shibori fabric. Her shibori is a modern adaptation of traditional Japanese hand-dye methods. Shibori techniques produce patterned fabric with subtle variations; the patterns are natural, organic, complex, and, somehow, simple. McKellar photographs her shibori, digitally alters the image and prints the digital collage to silk. The works wrestle with the theme: How do the natural and the man-made, the organic and the digital feed each other? Each work is an exploration of another permutation.
Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition
11/8/2007 - 11/11/2007
Schaumburg, IL

Shibori Building
digital prints of altered shibori imagery and photographs on silk, machine and hand stitched
18″h x 36″w, ©2006

I’m honored that my work Shibori Building is included in this exhibition:

Art Quilts Lowell 2007
Brush Art Gallery
256 Market St., Lowell, MA 01852
August 2 through October 28, 2007

I’ve added a couple of new digital collages to etsy. Still enchanted with the luna moths and spatulas.

I’ve been accepted into trunkt! Trunkt is a buyer’s guide to independent Art + Design. I’m honored to be in the company of such talented artists, designers, craftsmen:

http://www.trunkt.org/triciamckellar

I’m thrilled to be invited to participate in this exhibition:

A Natural Order: Art Exploring the Organic & Artifice
Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky
August 29 - September 21, 2007

I’m sending 10 works from the Plans & Diagrams series. Thanks to Jennifer Reis, Gallery Director and the folks at Morehead State for this opportunity!

I’ve been working to get a lot of my prints on my etsy shop and get in tune with the etsy vibe:

http://triciamckellar.etsy.com

I am fascinated by natural patterns, divine systems, man’s machines, and the everyday junk all around us. Collected images of machines, insects, technical drawings, and kitschy junk form a soup of design and chance. My works often wrestle with a theme that returns to me over and over again; how does all the stuff of our lives fit together? Is it a neat equation? How do chance and chaos contribute to our circumstance? How do the organic and the digital coexist? Each collage is an exploration of another permutation, another tangle of objects.

Digital collages from my Plans & Diagrams series will be on display in the Artspace Lobby in June. Maybe it’s time to order frames :)

image: Plans & Diagrams #4

See more of this series

The Artspace New Artists Exhibtion opens tonight. I’ll have several pieces in the show including these collages. They’re from my Lost & Found series, and include paper, silk, found fabrics, digital prints of altered shibori and other digital collages, and stitching. They’re matted and framed (a little of the beige mat shows in the photos); the area within the mat is 7″ square. Click on a thumbnail for a larger image.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while… I’m getting work ready for some upcoming exhibitions and, of course, have zillions of ideas for new work. I’m digitally painting some imagery for more work in the nest series.

Another digital collage for the International Collage Exchange I spent the afternoon printing collages for the exchange on my new paper — the Arches Infinity with watercolor paper texture and they look GREAT! The paper is lovely and the images POP! I’m tickled pink… now to find the funds to order many more boxes of this paper in various sizes…

Another digital collage for the International Collage Exchange. This is one of my favorites– the others are a bit busier, I like the simplicity of this image.

It’s a quiet January…a bit cold and gray. I’m thankful for the opportunity to get back to the studio and get to work. These are yet untitled digital collages for the International Collage Exchange (formerly known as the Bakers Dozen Collage Exchange). I just ordered some new paper for the exchange prints– Arches Infinity Digital Art Paper, 230gsm– it’s thick and somewhat textured like watercolor paper. I’m really looking forward to working with it.

Nest #4, 12″ x 12″, ©2006, $125

Digital prints on silk, stitched.

December was a crazy month and I’m just beginning to catch up! The opening reception for my solo show at Artspace (Raleigh, NC) was Friday, Dec 1. The photo is of me in front of Garden, 50″h x 34″w, ©2006. Lots of folks came by to see my art; I’m always fascinated by people’s reactions. It’s very affirming to hear my work speaks to someone.