RESIDENCIES
Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
Produced in part with support from Inside Out Art Museum
May 5 — June 3, 2015
Attending IOAM Artist Residency in May 2015 provided me with a brief introduction to the people and culture of China. The opportunity to meet world class artists and administrators expanded my knowledge of contemporary and historic Chinese art. I alternated painting in the studio with tours of art schools, museums, galleries, gardens, and historic sites. The publication on my blog of 46 travel posts was a substantial focus of my work during the residency. Following four weeks in Beijing, I went to Shanghai for an additional week. There I toured university graduate school art programs, architectural sites, museums, and the city itself. Please see links below for the travel blog link and artwork.
To see all blog posts click here for my China Travel Journal or select the tab above marked PROJECTS > INTERNATIONAL. Because it’s a blog, the order of dates is last to first. Scroll to the bottom to select page tabs and read first to last, pages 1 thru 6.
“Let them eat mooncakes.”
Music: Ancient Zither
mp4: 2:15
© 2016
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Beijing gouache paintings
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VSC WALKABOUT WITH STILL-LIFE
Produced in part with support from Vermont Studio Center
Nov 30 — Dec 7, 2010
Sketchbook animation of pen drawings.
Music: Fantino by Sébastien Tellier
mv4: 3:15/em>
© 2010
THE MEDITATIONS OF RABBIT AND PIERROT
Laraine Armenti, author, illustrator & designer
The Meditations of Rabbit and Pierrot is a picture book of original gouache paintings. The book is a wordless narrative of two characters, a toy rabbit and a silk costumed doll. They each begin in isolated reveries until meeting — Rabbit, a happy-go-lucky bon-vivant, and Pierrot, a naive and questioning clown.
Paperback, 6″ x 7-3/4″, 24 pages, Copyright 2010
Available in reprint $35.00
Produced in part while in residence at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
TEN STEP PROGRESSION
Produced in Syracuse University, NY, 1976.
Instamatic slides form a narrative of a life in ten steps.
Music: Andrés Segovia, Tarrega: Reuerdos de la Alhambra
m4v: 1:25
© 1976