Talk Trash With Me!

It's the penultimate weekend for Artomatic 2024, and the show has been amazing. If you haven't seen everything yet, come back and explore! This Sunday at 2 PM, we are having a fun little guided tour of various artists' spaces in conjunction with Earth Day:

Trash Talking Artists! The Earth Day Tour

I have already seen (& adored) several of these installations, and highly recommend checking it out! It's another opportunity to meet and chat with the artists, on a smaller scale (the last Meet the Artists day reportedly saw 7,000 visitors, including a Secret Service presence??) Focusing on one path through the building can help you avoid that Saw Too Much Art, Eyes/Brain Full feeling.

In other news, I have sold quite a few pieces! The link to the full list is here. Folks can pick up their purchases anytime during Deinstall (April 29 to May 11); email me to coordinate. Thanks so much!

"Brooding"

Artomatic 2024

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 hope to be at "Meet the Artists" on April 13, and will be in the building exploring with friends on 4/20 and closing weekend.

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:

Buy cheap art! Closing night party = Sept. 25th

 

Something Must Be Returned To Us (detail)

The Wallmountables show at DC Arts Center has been extended till Sept. 25th, when there will be some sort of closing-night party -- details to follow! Anyone who has bought our art can take it with them at the end of the party! (Or we can get it to you later.)

I do not have photos of the Opulent Tarnish pieces that are in this show, but they are exceedingly wonderful. You should buy them!

My own stuff (detail above) is mostly rose petal-mache and paper-mache with melted, salvaged bottle glass and other found objects. My work also has a lot of rage in it, again. A sizeable chunk of any proceeds I reap will be diverted onward to local abortion funds in the U.S. (30% to 60% of sticker price.)

Hope to see folks at the gallery! Just the tops of your faces. Masks required. I am also happy to do a virtual tour for anyone who wants to "zoom"/Jitsi in, on a day when the gallery is not crowded.

No Appointment Necessary!

DC Arts Center is holding its annual Wallmountables right now -- it's like a tiny Artomatic, all in one room! -- and you no longer need an appointment to visit (though I think you do need a mask).

Wed-Sun. 2-7 pm

through August 22nd

My stuff is on the front wall. "I'm Not Trying To Move You."

If We All Go (djh, 2021)

Be Alone With Art

DCAC is still taking appointments for 1 to 5 people at a time (quarantine-buddies, masks required) to visit the Wallmountables 2020 and NanoGallery shows. Wallmountables ends Oct. 18th -- your last chance to see this chunk of rust (with bird's nest, rose, and safety glass), since evidently it has been sold! Hurrah for little red dots!

"because survival is insufficient"

"Every Sin But Littering"

My social isolation during pandemic looks a lot like my trying to write a novel before this, but my hygiene is better and I miss going to yoga class.

Check out the above dangerous spiky, rusty assemblage and many other works by DC artists under the Instagram hashtag #SpringCleaningDC between now and March 31st. It's a Virtual Art Market and everything is priced under $100. ("Every Sin But Littering" now priced at $72, negotiable.)

Buy art, drink various liquids

I marked down the prices on my art at DCAC. Final three days!

Wed. 2-8:30 -- Happy Hour 6:30-8:30
Thu. 2-7
Fri. 2-7. possibly later since Zach and Kristen's improv/theater show is in the back room at 7:30! Catch that too!

DH2 @ DCAC

The DC Arts Center "Wallmountables" show opens tomorrow (June 29, 2018, 7-9pm) in Adams Morgan -- come check it out! DJH & DXH both have work in the show, as does Friend of the Collective Lori Walsh-Van Wey (http://opulenttarnish.com/). The show will be up through August 10th. Details at DCArtsCenter.org.

Big Flightless Art Sale

BIG FLIGHTLESS ART SALE! The artist blogging as "DJH" is very broke right now, and so we are letting go of some artworks with which we were hitherto more or less reluctant to part. See the whole lot at

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trepan8/tags/artsale/ 

and feel free to share the linkage with your friends, family, and wealthy acquaintances! Prices, details, and pix of things are below.

Order Now for Valentimeliness

Contribute to my incipient-novelist fund and receive a unique art/photo-assemblage card with a brief handwritten novel excerpt inside. (For Valentine's Day orders, please specify Sweet, Steamy, or Cynical.)

PayPal $8 to trepan8 at yahoo dot com -- Include prose flavor preference and addressee's mailing address. (Also specify if you want to receive card[s] with the inside right panel blank, to add your own message.) $10 for rush orders.

Two for $13: choose a second recipient (card will be totally different) or receive a second unique card at the same address, months from now when you've forgotten all about it.

Ten for $60 (all rather different) -- Support the arts and send your own unique greetings throughout the year!

Deluxe, Limited Edition -- $14 buys you the Extra Postage Required version. Deluxe collage-assemblages may include tiny bones, rusted metal, fabric, or other found-object elements. Sent in padded envelope.

It is fun to get mail. < citation needed >

www.dorothyhickson.com

Shop Now for Gurnenthar's Ascendance

"Dildo Mountain" has gone to its final dumpster, and several other works from my 2015 Artomatic have inexplicably been exchanged for actual money. Thank you, kind supporters!

If anyone else has small bills they wish to declutter, here are a few of the unclaimed assemblages that survived deinstallation.

"That Was Before"

A fellow Artomatician discovered that this piece looks INDESCRIBABLY GREAT with the use of a specific kind of prismatic "3D" glasses, which we will therefore include at no extra charge.

(OK, not indescribably -- they make the deep murky blues retreat into apparent fathomless distance while the gold and glass details leap forward, "3D-ifying" the canvas to an unusual extent. It is, we must concede, groovy.)

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"Klingle Gulch"

Torn from the pages of the novel (still seeking representation), this assemblage is redolant of bad witchcraft, urban obsessions and suspicious feralities. Literarily, not literally redolant. Actual artwork is odorless.

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"Like a drone about to take flight..."

We were less than certain that this assemblage would survive the bubblewrap, but it has done so. Nevertheless, postal delivery is to be considered moderately risky. Pickup preferred.

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{Prints of Oracule A &/or B can also be obtained, and I am getting into the flow with the Art Cards -- $8 for one, $13 for two.)

ORDER NOW FOR KRAMPUSNACHT

Artful Prosecards

Contribute to my incipient-novelist fund and receive a unique art/photo card with a brief handwritten novel excerpt inside. (You choose: juicy, spooky, funny, or evocative.)

PayPal $8 to trepan8 at yahoo dot com -- Include prose flavor preference and addressee's mailing address. (Also specify if you want to receive card[s] with the inside right panel blank, to add your own message.)

Two for $13: choose a second recipient (card will be totally different) or receive a second unique card at the same address, months from now when you've forgotten all about it.

Ten for $60 (all rather different) -- Support the arts and send unique Holiday/End-of-Year greetings!

Deluxe, Limited Edition -- $12 apiece buys you the Extra Postage Required version. These collage-assemblages may include tiny bones, rusted metal, fabric, or other found-object elements. Sent in padded envelope.

It is fun to get mail. < citation needed >

www.dorothyhickson.com