Monster Drawing Rally!

Midway Contemporary Art Gallery  had their Seventh Monster Drawing Rally last night and it was a blast.  The MDR is a live art making event that allows visitors to watch the artists create and purchase anything for $35...an incredible deal considering some of MN's top tier artists. I was lucky enough to be one of the over 80 artists participating.

This year I did Van Dyke prints with internet sources digital negatives that I then cut up and collaged.  They are crude references to early forms of photo-manipulations and spirit photography.

(These aren't the actual ones from the evening, just some extras I did the following the day with the same negatives.)

Here are some of them hanging ready to be bought! 

At their Sixth Monster Drawing Rally I did a similar process of cutting found negatives using the Cyanotype method, but using mostly Post Mortem portraits.  Here are what they looked like pre-processed.

Big thanks to Midway! 

Northern Spark came and went almost 8 months ago now, but I'm still reeling about how successful it was!

Here were some previous posts leading up to it:
Announcement
Artists' Talk Announcement 
Updates
The Day Before

Here is awesome video of the evening, you can see a snippet of us at about 1:30 :



Selected Performances, Northern Spark 2013 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.


Things have been such a whirlwind afterwards that I never got a chance to post awesome photos from the event!

The event got delayed so we hit the Depot ground to promote!:

Some great images by attendees, Julie Abnet, Betsy Catron, Andrea Hoff, Kristilyn Vercruysse, Pork_Chop, and more! 

Our friends at Sendero Flamenco stopped by! 

Thank you so much to everyone who came out! I am immensely proud and thankful for the opportunity!