Friday, December 18, 2015

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.)

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Final evenings of Artomatic 2015

Last four days/eves: Dec. 9th through 12th. Artomatic is open Wed.-Thu. 5 to 10 p.m. and Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m. to midnight.

I will be there Wed. and Sat. evenings. Still much unbought art! Plus installation elements with varying degrees of ephemerality. It all goes away (or to new homes) next week.

See previous post (below) to order art cards. Thank you, early supporters! Coming soon, limited fridge magnets. All different, hand-collaged, logo-free, inedible. Inquire within.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

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

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Dodo's First Art Sale [etc.] - Artomatic update

More than one piece in the current Artomatic show, "My Novel Is Seeking Representation," has now been sold! Come out to New Carrollton/Hyattsville by December 12th to see "Sampling" and "Rust Is Heavy" before they go to their new homes.

Artomatic.org

Plus, there is a little interview with me here: www.artomatic.org/artist-interview-dorothy-hickson

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Artomatic 2015: My Novel Is Seeking Representation

The "Artist Statement" is true: I have a novel in search of an agent. It spans the genres of fantasy and literary fiction to explore the realms of magic and skepticism, sex and other intoxicants, ancient powers and corporate propaganda. (My fangirl crushes include Ursula LeGuin, Tim Powers, Margaret Atwood, and David Foster Wallace.) A tiny sliver of the story may be found here: dorothyhickson.com. Agents, publishers, and rich patrons of the arts are invited to email me at trepan8 @ yahoo.com for a synopsis, sample chapters, SASE, and/or the whole manuscript.

You can also follow me on Twitter and Instagram @dorothyjhickson (note the middle initial J).

My space at Artomatic is 6-016, in a tiny corner room on the fourth floor -- right behind Eye of Ra's nude photos.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Opening, meeting, closing (Chance of snacking)

Artomatic opens this Friday (10/30) in New Carrollton, Maryland. "Meet the Artists" night is Saturday, Nov. 14th and the closing night party is December 12th. The building is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, as is only proper.

Monday, October 19, 2015

BxiieVision at SculptureFest

This weekend's guest art handlers also brought news from the North: