Thursday, December 19, 2013
Saturday, November 30, 2013
R & R
Trying to catch up on some r & r after long quarter, but I can't sit too long. There is work to do! Plans for new installations in the works!
Friday, November 22, 2013
Grace is only an illusion here
To be honest, I barely made it through this quarter. It was full of wonderful things and difficult obstacles. Yet I survived.
I had my first solo exhibition this quarter through De Soto Row's Fellowship Exhibition program.
I am the President of Local Color, a painting club at SCAD. We hosted a collaborative show with the Sculpture Forum, Omnibus. Live music and over 40 works of art! Local Color volunteered at the SCAD Museum of Art for Family Day as well as Ex Libris for their Faculty and Student Appreciation Day. Local Color also collaborated with the Drawing Club to bring David Kassan to Savannah!
I am an officer in the Sculpture Forum. I had a giant pumpkin land on me and smash into a thousand pieces, covered in pumpkin guts and wet paint we still managed to crank out Cinderella's carriage for a commission for Disney on Ice. We also had the pleasure of a studio visit with local sculptor and gallery owner, Jerome Meadows.
I landed one of the best jobs in the world! A work study program as a Shop Monitor in the Sculpture Building. I also have the pleasure of representing the School of Fine Arts for the United Student Forum.
My time here at SCAD has been productive and definitely not easy. Only six months till graduation, we can do it! Here is some work from this quarter:
I had my first solo exhibition this quarter through De Soto Row's Fellowship Exhibition program.
I am the President of Local Color, a painting club at SCAD. We hosted a collaborative show with the Sculpture Forum, Omnibus. Live music and over 40 works of art! Local Color volunteered at the SCAD Museum of Art for Family Day as well as Ex Libris for their Faculty and Student Appreciation Day. Local Color also collaborated with the Drawing Club to bring David Kassan to Savannah!
I am an officer in the Sculpture Forum. I had a giant pumpkin land on me and smash into a thousand pieces, covered in pumpkin guts and wet paint we still managed to crank out Cinderella's carriage for a commission for Disney on Ice. We also had the pleasure of a studio visit with local sculptor and gallery owner, Jerome Meadows.
I landed one of the best jobs in the world! A work study program as a Shop Monitor in the Sculpture Building. I also have the pleasure of representing the School of Fine Arts for the United Student Forum.
My time here at SCAD has been productive and definitely not easy. Only six months till graduation, we can do it! Here is some work from this quarter:
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| Aerial White, Mixed Media on Canvas, 50"x30", 2013 |
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| Figure 1, 30"x30", Ink on Canvas, 2013 |
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| Aerial Study 5, Mixed Media on Paper, 2013 |
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| Aerial View I |
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Kassan Paining Demo
Local Color: Painting Club and It's All on Paper: Drawing Club was pleased to welcome David Kassan to Savannah this week! He performed two 3 hour demonstrations, one in painting and one in drawing. Here are some images of the portrait painting demo!
Thank you everyone who came to the workshop to see and learn from David and to support Local Color!
"Ultimately, there is a truth and timelessness to Kassan’s work because it is so deeply human. His subjects are distilled in an exact moment in time, patiently contemplating their present. We share in this present-moment appreciation, this slowing down of time, and see life for what it is."
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
There is Nothing and Nowhere to Hide
The world wants to make it easy for us to run and hide under the sheets, its easy to give up. It is too easy for people to make choices that aspire to shut down other's visions, missions and passions. However it is also as simple as making the choice to let them, to let them walk all over you and talk behind your back but it is just easy to make the choice to stand up and to make yourself heard. You have support, your friends and others who believe in the same vision, you're not the only one that sees it.
It is easy to make the choice to do what you were meant to do, to bring the good to those who are willing to learn, thrive and to grow with you. They can cut off the water source but there will always be rain. So what I am trying to say is this, stand up, do what you have to do and never listen to those who say you can't do it. Their words makes you want to do one of two things: A. Give up, B. Do it even better and make them watch.
Be strong, and two more things: There is nothing and nowhere to hide. Making things is never a waste of time.
All the best,
Sami Lee
It is easy to make the choice to do what you were meant to do, to bring the good to those who are willing to learn, thrive and to grow with you. They can cut off the water source but there will always be rain. So what I am trying to say is this, stand up, do what you have to do and never listen to those who say you can't do it. Their words makes you want to do one of two things: A. Give up, B. Do it even better and make them watch.
Be strong, and two more things: There is nothing and nowhere to hide. Making things is never a waste of time.
All the best,
Sami Lee
David Kassan
Local Color: Painting Club and Drawing Club bring you David Kassan, a NYC based artist who is coming down just for you! Take a break from finals this FRIDAY at 2:00 pm at Anderson Hall (Room 201) for a two hour portrait painting demonstration!
Wow! I am stoked! This is amazing, we are so lucky to have him come down just for the SCAD Painting Club. Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Let us all be optimistic
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candor.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Omnibus looking back
Wow folks,
It has been quite a quarter so far and it still isn't over!! This past weekend Local Color: SCAD Painting Club and Sculpture Forum hosted an exhibition of works all across the board. It was an incredible collaboration.
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| Designed by Ji Young Kim |
Thank you to Todd Schroeder and Jerome Meadows for being our guest jurors for the show, we were honored to have you!
Congratulations to Ann Haley for winning the "Best of Show" for Painting!
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| Ann Haley |
Congratulations to Kristen Crouch for winning the "Best of Show" for Sculpture!
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| Kristen Crouch, "Epiphany" |
Our runner-ups each receive an "Honorable Mention" for their works as well!
Sculpture:
Mirielle Jefferson- "Photoshopped 1, 2 and 3"
Mitch Biggio- "Untitled 2"
Painting:
Tyler Giordano
Also a big thank you to both BB Wolf and to the Rivals for performing at our opening!
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| The Rivals |
Thank you Special Effects and Visual Effects Artist Eddie Holecko for demonstrating some of your movie magic!
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| Eddie Holecko |
One more, Thank you to everyone who made this show possible! Especially to Mizuki Katakura, Tyler Giordano, Mirielle Jefferson, Jordan Acosta, Ann Haley, Mitchel Biggio and Ben Kramer.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Omnibus
Omnibus
Nov. 1, 6-9pm
2301 A Bull & 39th Street
Savannah, GA
This show is hosted by Local Color: SCAD Painting Club and Sculpture Forum. This is a collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works. It is an anthology of our generation of artists and a display of many works as one.
Also there will be an awesome performance of The Rivals at 8pm!
Call for entry is still open. Send images to localcolor@scad.edu. This is a juried exhibition, there will be one $100 prize for Painting and one $100 prize for Sculpture! Thank you to our honored guests and jurors: Todd Schroeder and Jerome Meadows!
Nov. 1, 6-9pm
2301 A Bull & 39th Street
Savannah, GA
This show is hosted by Local Color: SCAD Painting Club and Sculpture Forum. This is a collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works. It is an anthology of our generation of artists and a display of many works as one.
Also there will be an awesome performance of The Rivals at 8pm!
Call for entry is still open. Send images to localcolor@scad.edu. This is a juried exhibition, there will be one $100 prize for Painting and one $100 prize for Sculpture! Thank you to our honored guests and jurors: Todd Schroeder and Jerome Meadows!
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Interactive Demo
Thank you everyone who came and participated today at the Interactive Demo & Workshop at Desotorow Gallery! For those of you who missed out I gave a little background on my work, process and inspirations including the incredible Professor Scott, Will Penny and Emily Perez! Today we made some pepakura digitally fabricated sculptures!
The Art Also Rises
The Art Also Rises
Desotorow announces change of name and expansion of mission
by Paula S. Fogarty
Another First Friday Art March last week found the expanding underground art galleries south of Gaston brimming with bright young things and usual suspects. Much of the talk in the galleries centered around Desotorow Gallery's announcement that they received their first grant from the city to expand their non-profit efforts to support artist exhibitions.
The gang at Desotorow has been in charge of organizing the gallery efforts south of Gaston, and as of January 2014 will change their name to Art Rise Savannah.
Lauren Flotte, president of Desotorow, explains, "Art Rise Savannah will expand the Desotorow fellowhips beyond our own gallery into others and support thirty-day fellowship exhibitions for artists."
The newly-named organization is also now ready to solicit members from levels of $35 and up. This is great news in a city where SCAD MFA grads must pay for their thesis exhibitions.
Additionally, the Art Rise Savannah website will offer an online chronicle of the arts called Savannah Art Informer.
Inside Desotorow Gallery, Sami Lee Woolhiser's fellowship exhibition "Translations" explores relationships between materials, images, form and viewers.
Of her work, the artist says that "working in painting, installation and sculpture, the medium of a piece is determined by the work itself. It knows what it is and what it should be."
Her exhibition is up for a month and provokes viewers to think about the relationships between materials and forms. On my way out, she gave me the best take-away art quote of the night: "Making things is never a waste of time." Hear, hear!
More explorations of materials through were found at Non Fiction Gallery's packed house of enthusiasts for an exhibition by the dynamic duo of Akiyo Kaneko and Daniela Izaguirre titled "Kokeshi." The objects examine what the artists call "the disconnected story of human relationships" through the eyes of Japanese Kokeshi dolls.
The interactive installation of fiber sculpture is worth a look. But moreover, the overall mixture of fibers, painting, sculpture and installations is shrouded in a mysterious aura from a faraway land. This one is highly imaginative, to say the least.
Art marchers found a new twist in the mix of items on display at Sicky Nar Nar, with a standing room only trunk show of vintage clothing and an art historian reading tarot cards. Funky fashion and fortunes all in one place! This is in keeping with this upscale, hippified gallery's goal to welcome new ideas.
The rising tide of Savannah's underground art scene, now augmented by Art Rise Savannah's increased funding of exhibitions, will be something to watch. I question whether the Hostess City's charmed, yet dirty, face is going to be scrubbed up a bit by these efforts.
I am reminded of T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:
Let us not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room
The women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo
Surely, the yellow fog of Prufrock's world still rubs its muzzle on the window panes of these new galleries, but surely things are bound to change. Get out and make the visit and join the metamorphosis of art galleries south of Gaston. For more info visitwww.artmarchsavannah.com.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Savannah Daily News
Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:00 AM
Oct. 1, 2013 – Local artist Sami Lee Woolhiser's exhibition entitled, "Translations" at the Desotorow Gallery will be celebrated on Oct. 4 from 6-9 p.m. during the First Friday Art March. Woolhiser's work combines an array of materials that bring attention to moments that go unnoticed. Her honest work evokes dialogue between the art and the audience adding a new element to her list of materials. Woolhiser states, "It is with art that we may spend an hour, or a hundred hours within a moment."
Desotorow is also hosting a digital sculpture demonstration and workshop led by Woolhiser on Oct. 11 from 2-4 p.m. Woolhiser will be showing examples of her process and providing small "Pepakura" sculptures for attendees to assemble themselves and take home.
Woolhiser is the second artist to be featured as part of Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program. The Fellowship program is designed to give all artists and/or artistic groups, a chance to showcase their work in a professional, public gallery. Selected artists exhibit outstanding quality, exceptional concept, and dynamic community engagement. This seasons recipients of the Exhibition Fellowship include Hayden John, Sami Lee Woolhiser, Rachel Evans & Lynn Serulla, and Adam Gabriel Winnie.
Winter Exhibition Fellowship submissions are currently open until Oct. 31. For more information visit desotorow.org/exhibition-fellowship.
Desotorow Gallery is a branch of Desotorow Inc. a non-profit arts organization in Savannah. Desotorow Inc. promotes a sustainable creative economy in Savannah.
Desotorow is also hosting a digital sculpture demonstration and workshop led by Woolhiser on Oct. 11 from 2-4 p.m. Woolhiser will be showing examples of her process and providing small "Pepakura" sculptures for attendees to assemble themselves and take home.
Woolhiser is the second artist to be featured as part of Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program. The Fellowship program is designed to give all artists and/or artistic groups, a chance to showcase their work in a professional, public gallery. Selected artists exhibit outstanding quality, exceptional concept, and dynamic community engagement. This seasons recipients of the Exhibition Fellowship include Hayden John, Sami Lee Woolhiser, Rachel Evans & Lynn Serulla, and Adam Gabriel Winnie.
Winter Exhibition Fellowship submissions are currently open until Oct. 31. For more information visit desotorow.org/exhibition-fellowship.
Desotorow Gallery is a branch of Desotorow Inc. a non-profit arts organization in Savannah. Desotorow Inc. promotes a sustainable creative economy in Savannah.
Savannah Connect!
Woolhiser's work combines an array of materials that bring attention to moments that go unnoticed. Digital Sculpture Workshop: October 11, 2-4pm Woolhiser will be showing examples of her process and providing small "Pepakura" sculptures for attendees to assemble themselves and take home. Part of Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program.
Desotorow Gallery
- 2427 Desoto Ave. Savannah-Midtown
912-335-8204
Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program
Hey everyone! If you haven't heard about Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program you should definitely look into it! I was fortunate enough to have been selected this fall, they did an amazing job of hosting my show this month and we put on a wonderful reception last night. Thank you all who came and supported me!
If you are interested in showing with Desotorow the submission deadline is Oct. 31st. Good luck!
Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program.
When: Through Oct. 31If you are interested in showing with Desotorow the submission deadline is Oct. 31st. Good luck!
Desotorow's Exhibition Fellowship program.
desotorow.org
Designed to give all artists and/or artistic groups a chance to showcase their work in a professional, public gallery. Selected artists exhibit outstanding quality, exceptional concept, and dynamic community engagement. This season's recipients of the Exhibition Fellowship include Hayden John, Sami Lee Woolhiser, Rachel Evans & Lynn Serulla, and Adam Gabriel Winnie. Winter Exhibition Fellowship submissions are currently open until Oct. 31. Information: desotorow.org/exhibition-fellowship.
Desotorow Gallery
- 2427 Desoto Ave. Savannah-Midtown
- 912-335-8204
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Pepakura Giveaway!
The first 50 attendees to Translation's reception tomorrow night will get a free takeaway for the workshop next week! I wonder what we can make out of this pepakura laser cut form?!?
Root beer floats at Desotorow gallery from 6-9pm!
Interactive Demo/ Workshop!
Friday, Oct. 11, 2-4pm
I've never found making things to be a waste of time.
Root beer floats at Desotorow gallery from 6-9pm!
Interactive Demo/ Workshop!
Friday, Oct. 11, 2-4pm
I've never found making things to be a waste of time.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Translations
I would like to announce my first solo show at Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA!
Translations, October 1-12, Reception October 4th 6-9pm. Interactive Demo October 11, 2pm.
"SCAD Senior, Sami Lee Woolhiser, is opening her first solo show at Desotorow Gallery entitled, Translations. Her work combines an array of materials that brings attention to moments she believes goes unnoticed. Her honest work evokes a dialogue between the art and the audience adding a new element to her list of materials. It is with art that we may spend an hour, or a hundred hours within a moment."
Translations, October 1-12, Reception October 4th 6-9pm. Interactive Demo October 11, 2pm.
"SCAD Senior, Sami Lee Woolhiser, is opening her first solo show at Desotorow Gallery entitled, Translations. Her work combines an array of materials that brings attention to moments she believes goes unnoticed. Her honest work evokes a dialogue between the art and the audience adding a new element to her list of materials. It is with art that we may spend an hour, or a hundred hours within a moment."
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