Upon arriving, I also received the good news that I was the recipient of a chashama exhibition award, an exciting opportunity to show a selection of the work that I made in Germany, here in NYC as a solo show. It opened on Sat. night, and is up until November 6th, so if you're in NYC, I hope you have a chance to come by and see it!
The following images start with our last couple weeks in Berlin, tracking our adventures up to the present. As always, a more comprehensive album (including more pics of friends and family) can be viewed on my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caetlynn/sets/72157637132004255/
Saying goodbye to Berlin:
Universität der Künste, one of the impressive art universities in Berlin, had their semester-end open studios and exhibition. We went to check it out, and I particularly liked this painting (center).
In the lobby of the main entrance--lots of interesting sculpture!
We also went to visit our good friend, and fellow DAAD grantee, Lindsey Landfried
There she is talking to Tyson while members of the public visit her studio
One of the last nights in our neighborhood... the color of the sky and the building struck me with nostalgic anticipation
Our living room all clean and ready for our departure...
And some last-minute art touring at the Boros collection housed in this giant above-ground bunker. It's worth checking out if you're in Berlin: Sammlung Boros
At the end of July, we left Berlin for California and Tyson's family's mountain oasis, a nice transition back to the states:
We got to stay in the new guest room above the garage!
Some very nice views...
Nothing quite like summer in California
I couldn't help taking a few pictures around the homestead...
Now that both of Tyson's parents are just about retired, they'll be enjoying a lot more of their sanctuary on the mountain!
We stayed in Santa Cruz for a week before heading north. We enjoyed visiting and feasting with a lot of family and friends, and I did a lot of swimming (the public pool in Santa Cruz is amazing!!!)
We stopped in Pleasanton on the way to Napa to see my grandfather, who just turned 91! He's doing well, and was excited to be featured at the Pleasanton museum in photos from the 50s, when he was a volunteer firefighter, helping to put out a legendary fire in the region:
Robert V. Juniper, my grand-dad, is the fourth from the right
One of the first things we did when we got to Napa, besides seeing my awesome parents, brother and sister-in-law, was to go to the re-opened Fagiani's! This place was the stuff of legends growing up due to a double-murder, and then the owner keeping the place closed for over 30 years. We enjoyed lunch with Amber, and through a mutual connection, met the head chef and one of the sous-chefs!
View from the 3rd floor terrace where we had lunch
Napa, you are pretty beautiful
Amber and Tyson and some pier construction
We also spent some time in San Francisco, our old haunt:
At the de Young
Where we met up with one of Tyson's best friends Marq!!
Nice views from the tower
We went to see the Deibenkorn exhibition. Photography was not allowed because it was a traveling show, but we also saw some good stuff from the permanent collection:
Edward Hopper detail
Charles Burchfield
Playful ceramic puppies, West Mexico, 300 B.C. - A.D. 300!!!
Mayan, God N with woman, A.D. 600-900
Back in Napa, we headed out to the di Rosa collection, where I previously worked for 7 years. The current Gatehouse gallery exhibition was a strong one!
This was my favorite piece in the show
The front side, chiming in response to your movement
And the back side, operating the magic
Back in San Francisco, we stopped by SF Camera Work, where Tyson had a couple pieces in a group show:
Nice to see in the context of the show!
Before heading East, we spent a little more time in Santa Cruz at the beach:
The Washburn's!!!
Our first stop on the East coast was Doylestown, PA, to visit with our relatives there and get oriented. Nancy took us over to Grounds for Sculpture one evening:
The brainchild of J. Seward Johnson, heir to Johnson and Johnson... this is one of his sculptures
And another!! There's Tyson, also enjoying "Luncheon on the Grass." I think you get the theme...
Really, really big lotuses
The body
Rousseau in 3D!
Another brew by J. Seward Johnson
Just in time for Halloween!
After a week in Pennsylvania, we headed to NYC:
And had a fantastic sublet for the month of September while we searched for an apartment
Our friend's beautiful place
Built in the 30s
Apollo, one of our roommates for the month, a very sweet cat
Bike ride out to Roosevelt Island
Sunnyside, Queens 7 train stop
Besides house-hunting, we got to go to some fun events, and reconnect with our dear friends Amy and Kevin!
Amy Lincoln's plant, and her painting of said plant
Walking around Bushwick
An opening at Interstate
After weeks of hunting for our new home, and seeing a lot of apartments, we finally found what we were looking for! The perfect spot:
Tyson is very excited about the dishwasher
There are several galleries and project spaces within walking distance, so we went to check out a recent group show at Ortega y Gasset projects at 17-17 Troutman:
My former classmate, Brian Scott Campbell was in the show, and his work was lookin' good!
Also in the same building, our friend Mairikke Dau has her studio! Great to see what she's been up to since last summer, when we were all in residence at the Vermont Studio Center together.
Yes
View from the train platform in our new 'hood
And another one... Seneca Av, you're the best!
Recently our friends Joe and Lisa visited NYC for the performance of one of Lisa's pieces. We got to hang out a lot, including going to the MoMA together. We saw the Magritte show (again, no pictures allowed), but the following works from the permanent collection struck me this visit:
John Covert, "Ex Act," 1919
Rodchenko, "Non-Objective Painting No. 80, (Black on black)," 1918
de Chirico, "The Melancholy of Departure," 1914
Lastly, besides moving in and the mind-twisting exercise of simultaneously opening boxes from NJ of two years ago, along-side boxes from Berlin, we installed my show at chashama 461 gallery in Harlem:
A great opportunity to install a selection of my work from Germany, a total of 11 pieces in all, together in one space. More pictures will follow in my next post!
Hope you're enjoying the Fall and doing well!
Until the next one,
XO Caetlynn
