I like Sandra Marchewa's work and her personality, too. We met for the first time at last year's studio open house: in the portrait I made her face and art are full of whimsy. She has some new work this year, notably this piece with little portraits of friends affixed to lighters. Some of the people have died. On those lighters, Marchewa has changed the logo BIC to RIP. The objects are encased in resin. I couldn't photograph her next to it - the glare was too severe. So we decided to use the situation to our advantage and place her in the reflection. It worked, or we think so.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Portraits of St. Louis Artists: Sandra Marchewa
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I like Sandra Marchewa's work and her personality, too. We met for the first time at last year's studio open house: in the portrait I made her face and art are full of whimsy. She has some new work this year, notably this piece with little portraits of friends affixed to lighters. Some of the people have died. On those lighters, Marchewa has changed the logo BIC to RIP. The objects are encased in resin. I couldn't photograph her next to it - the glare was too severe. So we decided to use the situation to our advantage and place her in the reflection. It worked, or we think so.
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I like Sandra Marchewa's work and her personality, too. We met for the first time at last year's studio open house: in the portrait I made her face and art are full of whimsy. She has some new work this year, notably this piece with little portraits of friends affixed to lighters. Some of the people have died. On those lighters, Marchewa has changed the logo BIC to RIP. The objects are encased in resin. I couldn't photograph her next to it - the glare was too severe. So we decided to use the situation to our advantage and place her in the reflection. It worked, or we think so.
I like the creative way you chose to show her and her artwork.
ReplyDeleteThe RIP lighters are creative, they do make a change from candles in the wind.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are familiar with the tea parties that seem to bring out the best in Americans. The press have kept us informed, but if you were to poll the French, I'm not sure all of them would know!
une belle idée de création et d'hommage de la part de Sandra et puis bravo cela donne un beau portrait
ReplyDeleteVery creative. Interesting work indeed!
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I like this a lot. Very creative.
ReplyDeleteHa, very different portrait.
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