Art Farm on PBS

Check out my 3 1/2 minutes of fame! America's Heartland came to Art Farm over the summer and interviewed the director and the artists:

http://www.youtube.com/user/americasheartland#p/u/1/CtNXfoilrmc

Enjoy!

PAW opening- Tomorrow!

Join the artists at Design Within Reach (210 Westminster Street) on Saturday, December 5th, at Design Within Reach, from 3-5:30 PM. The Providence Preservation Society Holiday Stroll will be happening at the same time, and the reception will wrap up before the 6pm tree lighting at City Hall. Plan to come Downtown and watch the windows transform the week before if you cannot make it to the reception. To take the tour on your own, download the map above, or pick a paper copy up around Downtown Providence.

warm san franciscan night

Popcorn Pictures taken at the Art Farm at Art Harvest 2009. Courtesy of Tiff Mich

PAW

Providence Art Windows Announces Winter Installations

Providence Art Windows is pleased to announce that its next exhibit will be on view from December 5, 2009 - March 12, 2010. The art and art installations presented in nine downtown windows are by Rebecca Adams, Anne Alexander, BUY ART Providence, Margie Butler, Paula Dewell, Amy DiPlacido, Lynne Harlow, The Museum On Site (Andrew Losowsky and Lyra Monteiro) and Jillian Piccirilli. The winter installation series contains artists selected by the jury that reflect color, light and investigation of neighborhood and fanciful history.


Bright fabrics will be displayed in two windows on Eddy and Fulton Streets; at Eddy Street, Lynne Harlow will fill a window with hot pink fabric and tape, and Amy DiPlacido will have a hanging line of hand-dyed clothes in graduated colors on Fulton Street, presenting a fictional production line of clothing. On Westminster Street, BUY ART Providence will artfully arrange a window, showcasing other venues where you can buy art for the holidays that is local. Anne Alexander will hang metallic, seaweed ceramic forms which will float and ebb as if in the sea. For “Westminster Stories," by The Museum On Site, a series of labels will share stories about Downtown Providence collected by Andrew Losowsky and Lyra Monteiro. These labels will change every week and detail history of the buildings and the lives of the people who use them. Jill Piccirilli’s “The Paws Family,” displayed at Eddy and Westminster Streets, is a story conceived by the artist and her family about a fictitious family of rabbits, and the windows will display the Paws family, spanning four generations. The window should delight children to adults with its whimsical story. On Washington Street, Paula Dewell presents light filled landscapes in the University of Rhode Island Library windows that will transport the viewer to warmer days. Margie Butler will present long scrolls recalling memories of home at RI Housing. Finally, Rebecca Adams takes a turn for the dramatic in her representations of women in a range of emotions in the Trinity Rep windows.


Join the artists at Design Within Reach (210 Westminster Street) on Saturday, December 5th, at Design Within Reach, from 3-5:30 PM. The Providence Preservation Society Holiday Stroll will be happening at the same time, and the reception will wrap up before the 6pm tree lighting at City Hall. Plan to come Downtown and watch the windows transform the week before if you cannot make it to the reception. To take the tour on your own, a downloadable map will be available on the blog, providenceartwindows.blogspot.com, on December 2, and printed maps throughout Downtown Providence.

Maine

Wrapping up my residency at art 342 and thinking about installing in Providence soon! I have 18 dresses made so far, tonight will be time for dyeing them! Looks like I am moving to Maine middle of December.

Any American can open an apparel store

I was just awarded a space in the Providence Art Windows. I get to make an installation and it will be up from December 2009 - March 2010. I am including my Proposal- An Apparel Store. Time to start dyeing and sewing!


Amidst the age of sexually charged advertising and high fashion, a domestic clothing store, American Apparel emerged to acquire the title of largest clothing manufacturer in the United States. From idea to production, the company works within the countries borders; I would like to propose a faux storefront as a platform for both my applause, and the social / institutional critique of this company.

I am currently working with the idea of mass produced color by making hand dyed paint chips, then silk-screening appropriated and fictional color names. I would like to continue my color study by hand dyeing a faux-store’s worth of wearable product. American Apparel designs solid shade, cotton knit fashions by operating a dye house and knitting facility in LA. The company relies on the average American to construct and sell their product as well as manipulating the customer for their advertisement strategy (e.g. choosing everyday models, holding amateur photography competitions, ect.). I am proposing that I would use this company as inspiration to hand dye and gradiate clothes. I would be interested in any window available and envision the gradation to be hung on clothing hangers forming a horizontal color change.

Dynamic Duo

I am so happy to report that my website is finally up and running, thanks to my partner in crime Matt DC. Please check out my new work from the summer and my Cranbrook MFA work at www.amydiplacido.com

Speak / Spoke
Paper circles arranged in a grid.
Getting inspired to dye squares and rectangles shibori style. I bought C clamps and wood for clamping today at the home depot!

A drawing, A listing of all things I saw die while I was on residency in Nebraska. Making plans to visit the Art Farm for this year's Art Harvest.

publication

Once upon a time I was published on the same page as Judy Chicago.
This piece was shown at the Fuller Craft Museum and published in Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot.
I am currently looking for solo shows for next year, crossing my fingers and sending them off in the mail!

The Words

Do Not Leave out the Words
18 x 24"
Ink on Paper

Dried Sins

A drawing, An Inside Joke:

A crumbled up bag of Sun Dried Raisins

Dried Sins
18 x 24"
Ink on Paper

My only diptych drawing at the Art Farm.

Drawings from the Art Farm

My work concerns formal etiquette, established design rules, and the break down of language: I am interested in colloquialisms and how region informs a word’s pliability.
I find humor in phrases that reveal man’s compulsion to compartmentalize monotony; my drawings heighten this irrationality, and also pay tribute to my artistic training in fiber art, by working up a meditative line and by using a resist method to hollow out text.

Personal Paradise

Amy’s Personal Paradise
Screen shot/ studio shot
Apartmenttherapy.com entry of interior design contest
Completed September 2008

I analyzed the percentage of my time spent in the studio, which is where I spent my time reading, thinking, and making. My studio was the only sense of ownership over place. I personalized my turf by painting one wall; an earthy robins egg blue named Private Lagoon. Private lagoon was mine. It became an inside joke with my studio, while providing a metaphor for a placid workspace.
Without a result in mind, Private lagoon led me to paint all three walls in varying colors, by pursuing the interconnectedness of emotion and color in a domestic interior. I then decorated my studio to obliterate the line between a live space and workspace. I entered 10 pictures onto an apartmenttherapy.com contest, which challenged homemakers to decorate using fall colors. I entered my studio space as a studio apartment in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Parenthis/ ease
Variable Dimensions

I like to play with words and grammatical structure in the titles of my work. This installation is constructed of sliced hand made paper, rolled into small circles and then adhered to one another. Then they were pinned to the wall in a corner to look like two parenthesis marks.

Fudgie
Popsicle sticks, Stamped text
Dimensions variable
Completed September 2008

Fudgie is a humorous approach to my interest in regional colloquialisms. When I traveled to the northern part of Michigan ‘Fudgie’, was a term used to identify a tourist. This cultural phenomenon is found often in my New England upbringing and implores me to reassess language’s dependency on location.

Working on more disclaimers and asterisks- Similar to this one, which I showed in my second year review.
*Electricity Not Included
Silkscreened Text, Painted masonite boards, dyed paintchips

Untitled (Salmon)
Nemaki Shibori
This piece is currently on temporary loan at Daimler Chrysler in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It is a type of resist dye method using acid dyes on silk knit fabric.

Picket fence
Screen-printed wall paper, molding, and laser-cut paintchip boxes
88 1/4" x 30"
Completed December 2008

These are the Paint chip Series that I started while I was at Cranbrook Academy of Art. I hand dyed gradated colors and silk screened fictional text to display a diaristic chronology, coded by the time of season. I began in January, being influenced by the gray and white Rafael Moneo building that I made the work in, and also by the bleak skies I experienced in my first Michigan Winter. As this series progressed, my color palette lightened throughout the spring months.
*As seen in Fiber Art Magazine

White I - VI

content

An Homage

Painted Static Cling Vinyl on windows

29” x 48” each

Completed January 2009

Installation at the Insert Color Here show-
Titled Coffee and Cream
Do you know what I mean?

I think about this piece I made last spring a lot- I sold it within two days of completing it, which is great, but it did not leave much time to reflect on it. Time to revisit this idea.
Eternity
each panel is 8 x 10"
Silk-screened text on cotton

I am in an open studios event in Boston's South End this weekend. I have included the piece above to kick- start this new co op gallery in town.

I just found out that I will be in the Book, 1000 Artisan Textiles, due out next May!

First Blog ever

Good bye East coast for now, I am off to start a residency in Colorado. Check it out at :
www.art342.org