Revival

My beautiful friend Cameron was recently featured on this blog. I showed you Cameron's work back in November when she had her deliciously inspiring BFA show. Now Kelsey Sykes of the cute and vintage blog Revival Boutique is showing off Cameron's personal style. I think it's obvious from seeing Cameron's house and style how much her life informs her work and vice versa. Cameron's an amazing girl who is destined to do amazing things. Check her out here.

Hey look! That's an old print by me!

BFA Show, Cameron Cox

I'm back!

I'm still having camera problems but thanks to a good friend I was able to get these photos off my camera and onto my blog.

The weekend before last I traveled to Kentucky to see one of my best friends' BFA show and it really blew me away. I have not been able to see much of Cameron Cox's work since I moved away so finally being able to see her whole show and all of her art in one place was really exciting. I have always been a huge fan and admired her ability to make work that was all at once funny, sincere, nostalgic and beautiful.

As usual my camera and I fought while taking pictures so the quality at times isn't wonderful. I did, however, create a video of Cameron's work so you can see the video in her show and get a better idea of the installation. It's not very long and really worth a view. You will see Cameron in the video as well as other art favorites: Claudia Dishon, Meghan O'Connor and Rachael Madeline.

Cameron doesn't have a website yet but hopefully she'll get one really soon. Be ready to start seeing a lot more of Cameron Cox.

Favorite Things

Since I've been at my parents' place I've been a little on the lazy side. I brought some good paper and drawing supplies with me but I've mostly been doodling. I have, however, been catching up on my new favorite show Mad Men. It started innocently. I finished the last disc of season one before I came home. Since I can't get my netflix here I thought I would download only one episode just to see what was going to happen in the next episode. After watching that episode I thought I may as well buy the next three from Itunes so I wouldn't have to get the first disc of season 2 from Netflix. Now I'm on to episode 8 and I can choose to stop there... but with seven more days to go here I feel like I will end up watching the whole season. I did get a gift certificate to Itunes.

Have you seen Mad Men? I feel like most people know what it is by now. It's so beautiful and glamorous but I sort of hate the main character. Maybe I'm suppose to hate him. I read a good article in the latest Bust magazine about the Mad Women of the time. I think advertising could be an interesting job. Does anyone remember Amanda (Heather Locklear) on Melrose Place? She was in advertising and was probably a female version of Don Draper. Is that a horrible connection I just made? Sorry, pop culture.

Another thing I'm loving is my new mustache necklace made by one of my best friends, Cameron Cox. She whipped up a different mustache for each of my friends and we wore them when we were in Clemson for my other best friend Claudia's show. Third best friend Janey was there also. Claudia's art show was beautiful. Her work has grown so much since we were in undergrad together. For some dumb reason I didn't get any picture of her work installed. We barely got to the show before it was over. Waking up at five in the morning and driving straight to South Caroline from the Chicagoland area was rough and pictures were a little far from our mind. I bought a piece from Claudia that was sort of a collaborative piece. I drew images and she shot them into a screen and printed them. I think it's called Nerds with Nerves and it's about how she and I both love parties but we also have a touch of social anxiety. We have to find ways to make those two things work together. It's a neat piece and when I have it in my possession I will photograph it and post it here. I realize this was suppose to be about the mustache necklace and it went this way.... sorry, Cameron. I love the necklace!

I was also going to make a list of artists I like but I feel like I've already written a book that would rival War and Peace in length. Guess I'm making up for lost time. Today I will compile a list of artists and images and will be ready bright and early tomorrow with a new post. I also go to the dentist tomorrow. The post will be the best part of my day.

Happy Holidays!