Check out the kudos from one Francine K Miller from Artforum. She saw the Lawrence, MA installation and left me a nice note! I want to make myself a t-shirt that says this.
Posts Tagged ‘installation’
Artforum signed my guestbook!
Posted in inspirations, tagged art, artforum, artforum magazine, artist, boston, fat, fatness, herrick, installation, installation art, lawrence, massachusetts, museum for obeast conservation studies, obeast, obese, obesity, rachel herrick on May 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
art, stress, life balance, & art
Posted in thoughts & feelings, tagged art, artist, conceptual art, conceptual artist, health, herrick, installation, life balance, rachel herrick, raleigh, stress, weekend, work on October 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” — William Gibson (novelist) Gibson’s quote popped up on facebook recently. It was useful reminder that it is emotionally draining to notice the world, and that feeling sad and stressed regularly has legitimate [...]
museum for obeast conservation studies
Posted in installations, photos, sculpture, summer 10, tagged archaeology, art, artifacts, artist, chubby, fat, fatness, fiction, found object art, herrick, identity art, installation, installation art, maine, maine college of art, meca, museum, muu muu, muumuu, nourish, obeast, obeasts, obese, obesity, political art, portland, portland maine, rachel herrick, raleigh on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies was founded in 2010 as an organization for the historical and scientific study of the endangered North American Obeast. Given their reclusive natures and dwindling numbers, little is known about this genus of bipedal marsupials, which was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. This exhibition was hosted [...]
there, there: an installation (part 2)
Posted in inspirations, installations, photos, spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged antfarm, art, artist, Carol Mavor, collecting, death, dinette set, forgetting, grief, hoarding, installation, kitchen table, memory, Milan Kundera, nostalgia, photograph, raleigh, sentimentality on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I continued to clean things and transport them to Antfarm. I see the mailman just delivered my second slide projector, which is exciting! Now if only that cookie jar would show up… A couple quotes about old things and remembering: Forgetting… is the great private problem of man; death as the loss of self. But [...]
gimme some skin
Posted in fall 09, installations, tomatoes, tagged art, canning, dry, installation, skin, tomato, tomatoes, wax on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saved all the skins from the tomatoes I canned this fall and coated them in wax. They are beautiful little objects and I’ve been playing around with different configurations of them. So far they look pretty but I’m not sold on any of it. It might just be that I’ll set these aside for [...]
