Two shows two cities

Hello all!  Been a busy beaver in my little room in Asheville, getting ready to install two shows in two different cities, two weeks from each other!  It's a great time of birth and momentum for me, and though the pace is a bit frantic this week I'm grateful to be living so fully within my passion.

I'm looking forward to catching up with many of my dear friends and family, as I will be spending two weeks each in Philadelphia and Maine around the installation and openings of each exhibition.

Spider and Kite (formerly titled Spider and Sparrow, to clear up the confusion with the image) is an installation around the correspondence between Bri and me, which has been evolving over the past year as we take flight in our own directions.  The piece is an open writing desk, housing our letters and drawings we've been mailing back and forth, objects that have become meaningful or symbolic parts of our tales of adventure and discovery.  The desk is not full...we intend it to invite collaboration from our communities and viewers, emphasizing the importance of reflecting on and sharing your unique story.  You may add a piece of your story as you see fit to the installation, or write it to a friend on one of the stamped, blank postcards provided on the writing surface.  We are all dynamic threads in the human myth, spiders weaving a collective web, birds free to fly after our own dreams.

Dream Medicine is two recent bodies of watercolor and ink paintings.  This has been an exploration of dreams, spirituality and the meaning I see just behind an ever thinning veil of the everyday.  Influencing and enriching my day and night dreams and visions are archetypes (animal, mystical, or energetic) from First Nation storytellers (native North Americans), aboriginal cultures from Australia and Oceania, Greek mythology about constellations and sky beings, the astrological tradition, American folk music, and Jung's foray into the shadow and the subconscious.  All of these living threads of human myth enrich and deepen my own connection to the present moment.  They paint into my mind's eye vibrant images and symbols empowering me to understand and express the truth I find in my relationship to a moment, thought, person or pattern. 

Click on the photos for more information, and feel free to email me with any inquiries about either! (jacquelinekmaloney@gmail)

Callisto's Tide

 Callisto's Tide.  44"x30" watercolor. 

When Hera found Callisto out as one of Zeus's (Jupiter's) lovers, she stripped the nymph of her youthful grace and made her walk the earth as a bear.  Zeus removed her heavy body from the earth and immortalized her in the sky as Ursa Major.  We perceive her revolve around Polaris (the Pole Star) throughout the year, only ever dipping her toes below the horizon (some would say into the ocean). 


In our more recent mythology, Callisto takes the form of metal and ice as the outermost of the Galilean moons (those in Jupiter's orbit.)   Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons became a pivotal point in his argument against a heliocentric universe.  The universe is comprised of many central bodies, exerting force over their environment.  The moon Callisto is the oldest astrological body humans have observed; astronomers theorize that her surface has remained unchanged for over 4 billion years.

the prints are here!

Hello friends!

I have finally found someone making fine art prints that I love, so I can offer high quality reproductions of the recent two series (Dream Medicine and Dreamscapes) at least through the holidays.  The first round is now available through the Loki collective's Etsy account.  Alternatively, you can email me (email below).

These are the beautiful images Douglas took of my paintings with his fancy camera:

Heron Moon.  giclee reproduction 24" x 18" (8 color archival pigments on 100% cotton rag paper)

Back to the Web.  giclee reproduction 8" x 8" (8 color archival pigments on 100% cotton rag paper)

 

Hive Home.  giclee reproduction 8" x 8" (8 color archival pigments on 100% cotton rag paper)

The Magician.  giclee reproduction 8" x 8" (8 color archival pigments on 100% cotton rag paper)

A Rearrangement of Things.  giclee reproduction 8" x 8" (8 color archival pigments on 100% cotton rag paper)

Sky beneath Sea.  giclee reproduction 18" x 24" (8 color archival pigments on 100% cotton rag paper)



I want to share a little about my first experience with good reproductions, as this process has consistently been a struggle for me
throughout my journey towards a career as a full time artist.  Prints are a necessary part of the game, but I've never once been satisfied with the quality of a reproduction of my work.  But it was so exciting picking up the prints yesterday!  Douglas treated my art with such care throughout the whole process, restoring my brutalized paper to its calm, flat state in the vacuum press, literally handing back the originals in better shape than he'd received them.  His camera is up to museum standard, and the pigments in the prints are so vibrant and accurate that I can hardly tell the difference between the print and the original.  And he has excellent taste in paper, which I am super picky about. 

I am all for affordable art, and happy to have found a financially viable means of offering it.  If you have any questions or feedback about these prints, I would love love love to hear from you.  Maybe you have a different size in mind for one of the paintings, or would really like to see a different painting in print, or want framing ideas.  Please feel free to email me at jacquelinekmaloney@gmail.com.