Sunday, March 17, 2024

Art Blog Shout-Out

 https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2024/03/artomatic-8th-floor.html




Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Artomatic Reopens!

Artomatic will (re)open tonight at 6 p.m., barring any further bureaucratic snarls, logistical mishaps, or krakens in the plumbing!



(orig. post:  Oh hey! Please note that as of Wed. 3/13/24, Artomatic is temporarily closed. (They just need a new/different temporary certificate of occupancy!) I will update here when I know more; hopefully we will be back soon!)





Monday, February 12, 2024

Artomatic!

This spring we are very lucky to have a new Artomatic for the first time since 2017, and it will be right downtown on the Red Line: 2100 M St. NW. Opening night is Friday, March 8th. My space is on the 8th floor between the bar and the lounge.

This will be my fourth time showing work at Artomatic (sixth, if you count two tiny shows at National Airport). Here is a little retrospective of my and Dan's Artomatic work. 

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Artomatic 2024

portrait of the artist (my face, smiling a little, in a sort of golden light)
Dorothy Hickson
Thank you for checking out my work at Artomatic 2024! To purchase a piece, you can do any of the following:

--- paypal:  trepan8@yahoo.com
--- venmo:  @ExtinctFlightless
--- email: trepan8@yahoo.com
--- leave a comment to this post

(Include the title of the piece, as well as the best way to contact you. Please double-check below to make sure it is still available.)

--- or find me on-site!

I will be at "Meet the Artists" on March 23rd, exploring with friends on 3/16 and 3/30, and volunteering on Friday afternoons in March. (Will add April dates.)

My space is #802, on the eighth floor between the bar and the lounge. (Turn right at the gryphon chaise longue!)

Details on each piece in the show:

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Open Studios, Local Community, Stuff About Me

 Yesterday, Mr. Darkness and I had a lovely walk over to Mt. Rainier and Brentwood, to the open art studios at Otis Street Arts Project and Art by the Tracks, the Washington Glass School, Portico, and the Brentwood Arts Exchange.

We had some terrific conversations and gave out several stickers with this blog address. So now seemed like a good time for a little reintroduction.

Sticker image: a chunk of melted green glass swathed in rusty wire

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Ambiguously Available Art

 A few weeks ago I visited DCAC and saw that one of my pieces, "Fear Eater," had a happy red dot on the wall -- sold! One of my friends expressed an interest in another piece, but we were told that it, too, had been sold -- as had a third! (despite their lack of happy red-dot stickers)

Alas! Confusion! When I returned to the gallery this Friday, the previously unstickered sculptures were unstickered once more. A different staffer told me that some mysterious glitch in the "Square" interface had led to a number of false positives around the exhibit. Only "Fear Eater" had actually been sold; the others had been suspended in a liminal state of nontransaction.

I still cannot guarantee that the hypothetical illusory buyers are not, indeed, real -- was it the sale or the unsale that was the glitch? Perhaps at tonight's Wallmountables closing party (6-7 p.m.), someone will reveal themselves as the secret, elusive, patron(s) of my art. But if not, you can still buy the things!


Unseen Toolkit: Night
(not one of the pieces that attempted to become unavailable)


Friday, July 7, 2023

Nutrition Information (Do Not Eat)

Further details of my 2023 Wallmountables (currently on view at DCAC)

Everything but the glue and paint has been salvaged, picked up off the ground, rescued or recycled in some way. A broken and melted glass jar dug up from the bank of the Shenandoah River. Scraps of rabbit fur found in a friend's childhood basement, from a decades-ago abandoned craft project. Copper wire unraveled from the transformers of broken gadgets.