Carla Biondi at Art People, Crocker Galleria

The stunning miss Carla Biondi, ex-tech with me at Ft. Mason's City College ceramics lab, has a 20 pc. show at the Art People Gallery (2nd flr. of Crocker galleria) which opened this past Thursday night, complete with fine wines and oodles of fetching individuals mingling with some of her latest works.
Her series is at times whimsical, elaborate, suggestive, playful, battered and extreme...all utterly Carla! Perhaps they convey her alter egos, or merely girlfriends she has had or merely dreamed of. Worth a look. Congrats to Carla!!

Content Infused Art; for the next stage

This is the beginning of some very exciting work that i am doing in the ceramics studio... I am working very hard on achieving a context for my body of work and conveying an overall message about our tribal hunter roots, the loss of reverence and habitat for our life-giving prey species, and the overall encroachment and arrogance of the human race. There WILL be much more to come after these... and i realize there hasn't been much for a while, but as you can see, i have been distracted. My hands in the clay, my heart in the forest...

been a long lonely lonely, lonely lonely, lonely ti-ime....

actually, not.
not alone anyway,
but sometimes lonely...
not really bad per se,
but bumpy..
there is an increase in the amount of randomness,
a decrease in the true guts and glory stuff.
a volatile vehemence that has overtaken me,

worked me over.

left me for dead.

I don't always recognize myself.
and feel stuffed
into something
feel left out'in the cold
feel arranged by the hands of fate
and left completely reconfigured
by someone else's hands.
Funny how i can be in disarray, and yet
rest solely in my little angular reality
with all it's sharp edges and juxtapositions.
dismantled perhaps the better term
for a life turned upside down.

this is the portrait and life work of my good friend and mentor Maggie Malloy, who at 45 yrs. old went in search of her true artist nature, moving into a foray of printmaking, painting, and finally ceramic sculpture that is truly inspirational, and speaks of the ancient ties that bind us all.

Her work is on display now, in the kimball Education gallery in the deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park; including her residency work, a hands-on installation of piles of stones, finished by the public, as an offering to the acestors. The piles of stones continue to grow through next week Wed., when the final stone will be finished and fired for the closing reception on the night of Friday, the 31st of July. All are welcome to come and take part by finishing a rock of their own, to be retrieved after the final display. wed-sun 1-5pm

If you think that *life* is cool: Go here right now!

13 more reasons to love love love the California Academy of Sciences....

so many butterflies

lilypad bliss

historical record
aka. evolution

my good friend, the eel

budhist frogs

creatures in hiding

beauty

jelly

stinkeye

whitey

sabertooth


the phillipine coral reef

the living roof

full circle

from the western addish'... to 19th & mish'...
riding up and down the coaster ride of what ifs,
and why nots, and how can i's, and why did i's..
stumbling blundly round the mission looking for a reason to be there.
pretending mostly that i wasn't.
staying out too late and getting out too early every goddamn day...
working endlessly to survive.
then respited away to the heights of Buena Vista,
watching dogs and taking some time.
to heal me in the warmth and safety
of my friend's merry mansion,
overlooking it all.


Fireworks displayed, the moon on rise, the jungle dessert oasis, the art of the noble and whymsic and wise, the mess i made of my life coming full circle, and still feeding my smiles...
Then from the buena vista trip back again to the western addish'..
"Ollak", or almost, it could be said... but still close enough again to smell it.
Still real enough to enjoy it.
Still whole enough so that i may make the most of it.

Still home enough that i no longer wish to return again. But can be here. Ollak.

new works of 2009

Little light of the world Gabriel tells mama Tess one morning, "mom, i am so glad that Lori is an artist!" This, my 4-yr-old soul companion, brother-son-lover-child, knows something about me that i have yet to contend with in my psyche:
this dynamic entanglement of my thoughts and ideas, my worries and ideals, that metamorphs into these little bits of earth and spirit...
broken fragments of my memories and experiences. This is the first time i have shown something and been proud to say, "this is art". It tells a story and walks you down a path. It may even touch you... But you see that glass there? You can't touch it back! :-)See my work up now in the student gallery of Bld. B at Ft. Mason's City College campus. Up through May 19th.


"SEA OF SHE" (You may not know it, but this vessel is a voluptuous vulva...



"Remnants of the Hunt", a retrospective of this semester's work in tandem.





"HUNTER OR HUNTED"