Inventing Trees: May 2013

Saturday, May 25, 2013

You are necessary (progression drawings for May 2013)

May 24, 2013
Braille reads:
"i am too different
i am not wanted
i will leave,
hesobbed
nonsense, said the queen.
there is enough for us all."

May 25, 2013
Braille reads:
"we need you
we need your beauty
your brilliance
your difference
you are necessary"

Check out this little book: http://www.blurb.com/b/4342701-dancing-with-the-queen-of-the-undersea

Friday, May 24, 2013

Life is a Gas at Frank Brockman Gallery

"Life is a Gas" has been hung at Frank Brockman Gallery in Brunswick, Maine. This lovely gallery at 68 Maine Street has an incredible space on its third floor. The bones of the building stand out. The walls are worn. This offers an excellent canvas for my works from the "Antoinette Gasmask" series and Jessica Beebe's "Last One Standing" series.

Together these works and this space offer a circular story line about being female in a misogynist culture. It offers up the defeat of living in a world with microaggressions like the drone on a white noise: you do not realize it is there until it is gone.

Bridget McAlonan
Antoinette Gasmask Study
ink and watercolor

Hours at Frank Brockman Gallery are generally Fridays and some Saturdays and Sundays. There will be an artists' reception on June 14 from 5 to about 7 in the evening. The exhibition will run until June 30, 2013.

Information and questions can be found and directed at both artists' respective facebook pages:

Bridget McAlonan: https://www.facebook.com/inventingtrees

Jessica Beebe: https://www.facebook.com/thestapeliacompany