KELLY URQUHART
Hi all and thanks for stopping by :)
Update 4/24/12:
Spring has arrived in Ohio, and so has a new hobby for me: knitting. Painting and knitting have a lot common in my opinion, except a painting can't make you cozy and warm ;) I have opened up a shop and thought I would share: Gordon Wiggles
Also, the Gordon Wiggles team will be at the Bark in the Park Fundraiser event in Akron, OH on May 12th, hope to see you there!
Update 11/19/11:
The Studio Visit Volume 16 publication is now available. Take a look at some of the impressive work available here.
Update 10/23/11:
It has been a busy last few months preparing for Fall exhibitions, when it rains it pours! Within the next couple months, our work will be available for viewing in various spots in the U.S.: the Studio Visit publication, the solo SRO Texas Tech University Exhibition, Data In, Data Out at Seton Hall University in NJ, and at the CSU's Art Gallery for an exhibition honoring the history of the Art Department before it moves to a different location in Cleveland.
Stay tuned for more details on our new body of work: The NYSE Project, very close to completion. The first solo exhibition for this new body of work will be on view at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery at The Ohio State University this Spring 2012.
Update 05/01/11:
The SRO Photo Gallery at Texas Tech University's School of Art in Lubbock, TX recently announced the solo artist exhibitions selected for the 2011-2012 season. Jaime and I were one of eight selected from the 140 submitted entries. This is great news! A big thanks goes to the Photography Faculty at TTU's School of Art and the Director of LandMark Arts for this opportunity.
In other recent news, our work was selected by juror, Ian Berry, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College for publication in Studio Visit, a series of juried artist books. Studio Visit received over 1,200 entries for the Fall 2011 volumes, and publication will be received by more than two-thousand galleries, museum curators, and art professionals throughout the country.
Congrats to all the selected artists!
Update 03/19/11:
Jaime and I were invited by talented photographer and OSU Visiting Professor of Art, Bradley Olsen, to give a Visiting Artist Lecture at The Ohio State University's Lima Campus on Monday, May 23rd at 12:30pm, Location: Reed Hall 174. We are really excited about this opportunity and look forward to meeting OSU's art professors, staff and students. We plan to discuss the Hung, Drawn, and Quartered series, our collaborative process, and the ideas behind the work.
Also, we will be participating in SPACES Monster Drawing Rally on Saturday, April 9th, from 7-11pm (thanks for the invite Marilyn!). The Monster Drawing Rally is a live drawing event and fundraiser for SPACES featuring over 100 artists. All work will be available for purchase that night for $65.00, what a steal!! Come out and support one of the best non-profit galleries in Cleveland!
Update 03/07/11:
It's been awhile since the last update, but here is 1 of 21 Fibonacci brick stacks Jaime and I have been working on.
We've been trading stocks for about 18 months for this project, recording 15 min. price movements, and putting them into a time based grid. If the price went up it got a brick, if the price went down, no brick. Some bricks were replaced for the painted bricks based on random dice rolls. Please feel free to read our artist statement for this new series of infographcs: The New York Stock Exchange Project
You can also read more about the theory behind the work:
Elliott Wave Principle
Update 12/28/10:
Update 10/25/10:
Thanks to the wonderful Ohio Channel staff for their hard work on the artist videos for the OAC Riffe Gallery Deep Space exhibition. This is our first video interview and we were nervous to say the least, enjoy!
Update 9/26/10:
The 25th Tallahassee International exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Florida was a success! Congrats to all the winners and thanks again to FSU's Art Faculty for selecting our pieces and Jean Young from the Museum of Fine Arts for all of your hard work.
You can download and review a PDF the museum staff put together here. There are many great images of the work in the exhibition, opening reception, and press reviews.
Update 7/9/10:
The Deep Space: Ohio Photographers exhibition at the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery is right around the corner! It will run from July 29 – October 17, 2010 and the opening reception will be on Thursday, July 29th from 5-7pm. Jaime and I will both be there and look forward to seeing the show, meeting the other artists, and gallery attendees.
You can view additional information about the exhibition here.
Before the reception, Jaime and I will be participating in a video interview with the Ohio Channel about our pieces in the exhibition. I am excited about this video, as it marks a decade's journey of working with Jaime throughout our various art endeavors.
There are some great interviews with other Ohio artists, including fellow Miami University Grad Alum, Brent Payne. You can check out these interviews here.
Thank you to the Riffe Gallery Staff and Marcella Hackbardt, Curator of Deep Space: Ohio Photographers, for picking 3 of our "Nesting" images for this exhibition.
Update 4/17/10:
We just received some great exhibition news! Two of our bird portraits (#2 and #4) were selected for Images 2010 at the Robeson Gallery at Penn State University. The exhibition's juror is artist and Director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, Dan Mills. Images 2010 will be on view during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts from June 9 - July 11, 2010. We have been busy promoting the Hung, Drawn, and Quartered series, but we really hope to attend this opening. Thank you to Dan Mills and the Robeson Gallery staff for this opportunity!
Update 4/4/10:
Congratulations to the artists and winners selected for Cleveland State University's 39th Annual Student Show! Thanks again to CSU's art students, S.O.F.A., the Art Faculty, and Art Gallery Staff for this opportunity. Also a special thanks to co-juror Bill Rupnik from the William Rupnik Gallery for sharing this great experience.
I encourage all to attend the show, there is some impressive work on display and for sale. The exhibition runs through May 8, 2010. Feel free to view a copy of my Juror's Statement here.
We have also recently received some exciting news! Two bird images were selected for The 25th Tallahassee International exhibition. 58 out of 800 pieces were chosen by Florida State University's Art Department Faculty and the show will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, FL from August 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010. We look forward to seeing the work selected and thank you FSU's Art Faculty for selecting our pieces and Jean Young from the Museum of Fine Arts for your assistance and hard work on the show.
Avian Flying Apparatus #7 (below), 1 of 2 bird drawings to be shown at The 25th Tallahassee International
Update 12/11/09:
Recently, one of our nesting images has made it into the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey's 24th International Juried Exhibition, juror: Susan Kismaric, MOMA Curator of Photography. It is a fabulous honor to be selected and we look forward to seeing the show in 2010.
We also received news about our acceptance into Altered: National Juried Photography Exhibition at the University of West Florida's Art Gallery in Pensacola, FL. The international artist, Tomiko Jones, was the juror for this exhibition.
5 pieces were selected by the talented Taryn Simon, photographer and Guggenheim fellow, for the current IMAGE/PROJECT juried exhibition at the Arlington Arts Center. The images selected look great and we are excited about being a part of this show.
Update 4/24/12:
Spring has arrived in Ohio, and so has a new hobby for me: knitting. Painting and knitting have a lot common in my opinion, except a painting can't make you cozy and warm ;) I have opened up a shop and thought I would share: Gordon Wiggles
Also, the Gordon Wiggles team will be at the Bark in the Park Fundraiser event in Akron, OH on May 12th, hope to see you there!
Update 11/19/11:
The Studio Visit Volume 16 publication is now available. Take a look at some of the impressive work available here.
Update 10/23/11:
It has been a busy last few months preparing for Fall exhibitions, when it rains it pours! Within the next couple months, our work will be available for viewing in various spots in the U.S.: the Studio Visit publication, the solo SRO Texas Tech University Exhibition, Data In, Data Out at Seton Hall University in NJ, and at the CSU's Art Gallery for an exhibition honoring the history of the Art Department before it moves to a different location in Cleveland.
Stay tuned for more details on our new body of work: The NYSE Project, very close to completion. The first solo exhibition for this new body of work will be on view at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery at The Ohio State University this Spring 2012.
Update 05/01/11:
The SRO Photo Gallery at Texas Tech University's School of Art in Lubbock, TX recently announced the solo artist exhibitions selected for the 2011-2012 season. Jaime and I were one of eight selected from the 140 submitted entries. This is great news! A big thanks goes to the Photography Faculty at TTU's School of Art and the Director of LandMark Arts for this opportunity.
In other recent news, our work was selected by juror, Ian Berry, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College for publication in Studio Visit, a series of juried artist books. Studio Visit received over 1,200 entries for the Fall 2011 volumes, and publication will be received by more than two-thousand galleries, museum curators, and art professionals throughout the country.
Congrats to all the selected artists!
Update 03/19/11:
Jaime and I were invited by talented photographer and OSU Visiting Professor of Art, Bradley Olsen, to give a Visiting Artist Lecture at The Ohio State University's Lima Campus on Monday, May 23rd at 12:30pm, Location: Reed Hall 174. We are really excited about this opportunity and look forward to meeting OSU's art professors, staff and students. We plan to discuss the Hung, Drawn, and Quartered series, our collaborative process, and the ideas behind the work.
Also, we will be participating in SPACES Monster Drawing Rally on Saturday, April 9th, from 7-11pm (thanks for the invite Marilyn!). The Monster Drawing Rally is a live drawing event and fundraiser for SPACES featuring over 100 artists. All work will be available for purchase that night for $65.00, what a steal!! Come out and support one of the best non-profit galleries in Cleveland!
Update 03/07/11:
It's been awhile since the last update, but here is 1 of 21 Fibonacci brick stacks Jaime and I have been working on.
We've been trading stocks for about 18 months for this project, recording 15 min. price movements, and putting them into a time based grid. If the price went up it got a brick, if the price went down, no brick. Some bricks were replaced for the painted bricks based on random dice rolls. Please feel free to read our artist statement for this new series of infographcs: The New York Stock Exchange Project
You can also read more about the theory behind the work:
Elliott Wave Principle
Update 12/28/10:
Update 10/25/10:
Thanks to the wonderful Ohio Channel staff for their hard work on the artist videos for the OAC Riffe Gallery Deep Space exhibition. This is our first video interview and we were nervous to say the least, enjoy!
Update 9/26/10:
The 25th Tallahassee International exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Florida was a success! Congrats to all the winners and thanks again to FSU's Art Faculty for selecting our pieces and Jean Young from the Museum of Fine Arts for all of your hard work.
You can download and review a PDF the museum staff put together here. There are many great images of the work in the exhibition, opening reception, and press reviews.
Update 7/9/10:
The Deep Space: Ohio Photographers exhibition at the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery is right around the corner! It will run from July 29 – October 17, 2010 and the opening reception will be on Thursday, July 29th from 5-7pm. Jaime and I will both be there and look forward to seeing the show, meeting the other artists, and gallery attendees.
You can view additional information about the exhibition here.
Before the reception, Jaime and I will be participating in a video interview with the Ohio Channel about our pieces in the exhibition. I am excited about this video, as it marks a decade's journey of working with Jaime throughout our various art endeavors.
There are some great interviews with other Ohio artists, including fellow Miami University Grad Alum, Brent Payne. You can check out these interviews here.
Thank you to the Riffe Gallery Staff and Marcella Hackbardt, Curator of Deep Space: Ohio Photographers, for picking 3 of our "Nesting" images for this exhibition.
Update 4/17/10:
We just received some great exhibition news! Two of our bird portraits (#2 and #4) were selected for Images 2010 at the Robeson Gallery at Penn State University. The exhibition's juror is artist and Director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, Dan Mills. Images 2010 will be on view during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts from June 9 - July 11, 2010. We have been busy promoting the Hung, Drawn, and Quartered series, but we really hope to attend this opening. Thank you to Dan Mills and the Robeson Gallery staff for this opportunity!
Update 4/4/10:
Congratulations to the artists and winners selected for Cleveland State University's 39th Annual Student Show! Thanks again to CSU's art students, S.O.F.A., the Art Faculty, and Art Gallery Staff for this opportunity. Also a special thanks to co-juror Bill Rupnik from the William Rupnik Gallery for sharing this great experience.
I encourage all to attend the show, there is some impressive work on display and for sale. The exhibition runs through May 8, 2010. Feel free to view a copy of my Juror's Statement here.
We have also recently received some exciting news! Two bird images were selected for The 25th Tallahassee International exhibition. 58 out of 800 pieces were chosen by Florida State University's Art Department Faculty and the show will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, FL from August 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010. We look forward to seeing the work selected and thank you FSU's Art Faculty for selecting our pieces and Jean Young from the Museum of Fine Arts for your assistance and hard work on the show.
Avian Flying Apparatus #7 (below), 1 of 2 bird drawings to be shown at The 25th Tallahassee International
Update 12/11/09:
Recently, one of our nesting images has made it into the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey's 24th International Juried Exhibition, juror: Susan Kismaric, MOMA Curator of Photography. It is a fabulous honor to be selected and we look forward to seeing the show in 2010.
We also received news about our acceptance into Altered: National Juried Photography Exhibition at the University of West Florida's Art Gallery in Pensacola, FL. The international artist, Tomiko Jones, was the juror for this exhibition.
5 pieces were selected by the talented Taryn Simon, photographer and Guggenheim fellow, for the current IMAGE/PROJECT juried exhibition at the Arlington Arts Center. The images selected look great and we are excited about being a part of this show.