Holiday Art Events; Fiddleheads, Winter Bazaar & more

Feel the chill in the air?  Getting into that holiday spirit?  Then here are some fun holiday art events in Central NJ to check out as well as some other exciting art news from yours truly…including my annual HOLIDAY ART SALE!!!

Birdwatcher (c)2012 Lauren Curtis Watercolor & collage, prints available

“GROUP ART SHOW at FIDDLEHEADS”
Join me & several other local NJ artists at the opening reception for this holiday art show at FIDDLEHEADS restaurant!  FREE OPENING RECEPTION, SUN. 12/16/12, 2:30pm-4pm, REFRESHMENTS SERVED.  ALL ARE WELCOME!  27 RAILROAD AVE. (Rte. 522), JAMESBURG, NJ 08831, 732-521-0878, www.FiddleheadsJamesburg.com  Great art, great food, great times!

PAZ Winter Art Bazaar in Highland Park, NJ

“WINTER ART BAZAAR”
PAZ culture system, with the support of Main Street Highland Park, presents the first annual Winter Art Bazaar offering affordably priced art in a wide array of mediums from local artists.
The bazaar will take place in the Main Street building at 212 Raritan Avenue in Highland Park, operating two weekends, from 10am—6pm on Dec. 8th & 9th and Dec. 15th & 16th. Customers can also visit the gallery during Main Street’s regular office hours. Additional weekday hours may be announced or arranged by appointment. I’m excited to have work in the premier of this event!
All art is priced less than $125
For more information about PAZ culture system, check out our Facebook page here – https://www.facebook.com/pages/PAZ-culture-system/121567721323452

Photography by Lauren Curtis

HOLIDAY ART SALE!
It’s time for holiday shopping once again so why fight the crowds in the stores to buy what everyone else is giving when you can shop from the comfort of your home and buy AFFORDABLE, UNIQUE gifts?  I’m offering 20% OFF ALL PHOTOGRAPHY PRINTS!  Prices now range from $20-$60 (reg. $25-$75) for signed, matted prints, 5×7, 8×10, 11×14!  Also available, original GREETING CARDS, T-SHIRTS (& long sleeves) & FINE ART!  Discounts for multiple purchases!!  Paypal, checks/$ orders accepted!  Order ASAP to receive on time!   Reply to this email to order.    Visit these sites to see my work:
http://laurencurtisart.weebly.com  (NEW fine art site!)
http://www.laurencurtis.imagekind.com(cards, T-shirts, photography, illustration)
http://www.LaurenCurtisArt.com(commercial & fine art)  I’m quoted in well known PROFESSIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE !
I was so excited when renown artist and “artrepreneur”/art coach, Renee Phillips, informed me that she used my quote, about how I’m building my career, in her column in PROFESSIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE!  As a long-time reader and fan, I’m honored to be included in this publication!  Here’s a sample: (Go to page 24)  http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/professional-artist/pa-dec-12-jan-13/2012110801/#0Happy Holidays & thanks so much for reading & checking out the links!  Until next time…
~Lauren

Can you SEE ME?

There are many online art competitions these days but this one is very cool…and totally legit!  SEE/ME allows artists to post a free portfolio and get supporters (no money involved) to give us a chance at awards and to have our work seen on huge, electronic billboards in Times Square, NYC!

So…Will you support my artwork on See/ME?? Please visit my new See Me art page & click the SUPPORT button on the right side of my page, next to my artist statement, under this X-ray art image:

Digital photo collage using actual x-ray images.

You can do it via your FB profile so you don’t have to join the site!
Much appreciated….trying to get my work to Times Square!   You can also click on each of the images in my profile and LIKE them in facebook and PIN them in Pinterest.  Here’s the link: http://laurencurtis.see.me/

Thanks so much for your support!!

Oct. Art Features!

Autumn has been crazy busy so far between the usual freelance commissions and exhibits but then there’s also all the fun Halloween events going on too!  I LOVE this time of year and the crisp air, sunny days and brightly colored trees…and spooky Halloween decor!…really get me in full creative mode so I’m excited to have various types of my work featured on 3 very different but equally awesome art websites!  So, while you’re sitting in the comfort of your home, check out these sites for advice from artists on getting into galleries, to purchase very affordable holiday scrapbooking stamps and to see some seasonably gothic, dark artwork and literature!

Samhain/Halloween greeting card illustration (c)Lauren Curtis

ARTFUL VAGABOND BLOGSITE:  Featuring a post with one of my quotes and artwork is published in the “Ask the Artists” series. http://www.artfulvagabond.com/ask-the-artists-approaching-galleries-day-285/
STAMP-N-DOODLE STAMP WEBSITE:  Scrapbooking art challenge using my stamp designs:  http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.ca/
FRIDAY FRIGHTS:  My artist feature on this cool gothic art/literature website:
http://www.fridayfrights.ws/horrific-visions/lauren-curtiss-artwork/

BOO!  Have a Happy Halloween!

~Lauren

Strange Glue; Ultimate in Collage Art

Collage has been gaining popularity as an art form and I, myself, have been experimenting with this medium as well.  Now that there are many collage options with various computer programs as well as the old fashioned hand-cut & paste collage, the possibilities are endless!  So, when Todd Bartel sent out a call for collage art for his Strange Glue exhibit, I jumped at the chance and entered a few of my digital photo collages.  He accepted the one below to be in his online exhibit & catalog.  He also put together a gallery show as well.   Todd has really put his heart & soul into this expansive project so I invited him to write a guest blog about Strange Glue & how it began…

Micro-Macrocosm Tree (c)2010Lauren Curtis

What is your background with collage?

During the fall of 1981, I was exposed to collage, unaware of its potential during my freshman year at the Rhode Island School of Design. During that first year, in both my two-dimensional design classes I poured myself into each and every collage assignment given and there were several throughout the course of that year. I had three instrumental teachers who each contributed to my interest in the medium: Hardu Keck, Alfred DeCredico and Stuart Diamond. Hardu gave me my first assignment, in which I had to create five collages working with the famous quote by Comte de Lautréamont: beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella. I made over 40 collages for that assignment which for me was an early signal of my love for the medium, but it took two more years before I dove into the process and claimed it as my vocation. It was on a class trip to visit Alfred DeCredico’s loft studio at the end of that year that I actually fell in love with collage, standing in front of one of his collages. But it wasn’t until the first month of junior year when Stuart Diamond got me to apply my love for the medium to my own work in my painting classes. I have been actively studying and making collages since the fall of 1983. I became friends with Michael Oatman, who was one year behind me at RISD, that same year and we’ve been close ever since. We have collaborated on many occasions and our mutual regard for collage and each other’s work has spurred many projects and interactions.

Since those early years all of my work has been collage-based. I have pushed at the boundaries of collage by working virtually, employing additive and subtractive methods and borrowing or appropriating from just about every ism from the last 100 years. I have worked with assemblage, installation, film and traditional papier collé. I adopt techniques as fast as I am able and I think nothing of learning and fusing new techniques as needed. It often feels like I am discovering something new with each project I initiate.

Since 1995 I have actively studied the relationship between landscape and collage and have overtly dedicated my practice to that coupling. Since then, all my work has been series based.

Strange Glue Exhibit Card 2012

What inspired you to put together the Collage at 100 exhibition series?

I have been working to celebrate the centennial of the invention of fine art collage since the millennial change. I knew I wanted to do something special. I have personal projects I am working on but I also wanted to do something that had a reach into he public sphere. When I moved north to teach again at the Cambridge School of Weston of Weston, MA—I taught at CSW from 1986 to 1989, just before attending graduate school–I was hired knowing full well in 2002 the potential, then, to build a gallery at the school. In fact that is what pulled me back to CSW in the first place. I became the gallery director in 2006, before the building was completed, before we even had a name for the gallery and even in that rough state, I knew I would honor the centennial of Picasso and Braque’s joint invention of collage

I put out a call for collage-based art in July of 2011 and by the time the call closed, on December 30 of last year, I had received 524 applications totaling 3,332 images to choose between. I knew that I would get a lot of applications, but was just not prepared for those numbers. As an artist, a full time teacher, and a curator I am really in a very interesting position to create shows. Fusing these three disciplines is like a creating a massive multi-node collage over an extended period of time. By the time the series is complete, I will have worked for two years, will have mounted three shows and hung hundreds of works of art and published four accompanying catalogs.

One of the things I have the freedom to do is to treat the creation of shows like creating a paintings in that I can allow things to distill while other portions of the greater project take precedence. For example, in the show that you are involved with Lauren, the Virtual Annex exhibition, that is a grouping of 49 artists that I actually could have cut out from the show altogether. But the quality of the work was so high that I kept postponing sending the letters until I finally realized I had a unique opportunity. Despite having too much work in the gallery—keep in mind that to accommodate 130 pieces in a room no larger than twenty-five feet square, I built a twelve by eight foot wall in the space as well as utilized an exterior wall that is forty-four feet wide by eighteen feet high—I decided to invite Lauren Curtis and the other 48 artists to show their work in a virtual setting rather then the analog space of the gallery proper. This was decidedly a strange thing to do.

For the analog show, I organized the exhibition into art-historical categories to examine the evolution of collages many faces, vicariously through the work of contemporary artists whose work easily stands in for a specific isms or references important artistic milestones of collage. Additionally, it examines the nature of analog glue and the strangeness of how artists today have pushed far beyond the original definition of the term collage.

The Virtual show, which was literally completed today (10/10/12), as I uploaded the first proof of the catalog for the show, is organized into categories that examine immaterial glues. In other words, if physical binders hold physical materials, what holds ideas and imagery together? That is the subject of the Virtual Annex.

The Virtual Annex can be viewed on line at:  thompsongallery.blog.com

Many of Todd’s  series can be seen at his blog website: http://toddbartel.tumblr.com/.

The Thompson Gallery website has a full slideshow of the entire analog exhibition as well as an additionally slide show of the installation:https://www.csw.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=796876

The catalogs for the show may be purchased at:http://www.lulu.com/shop/todd-bartel/strange-glue-traditional-avant-garde-collage/paperback/product-20441607.html

 

Jauntie; an oddly beautiful new zine

JAUNTIE: Not your typical fashion zine;  culture & style both classic & oddly beautiful!

Hopefully some of you remember that I used to have a monthly feature in the online zine LNGnails.com.  Well, things change and after a long run,  that site is no more but one of the former producers & friends have started a better, brand-new on line magazine called JAUNTIE!  Based out of the UK, this publication/blog not only focuses on the classic beauty and fashion themes and trends but also strives for something different!  Unique styles, creative fashion, art and culture are just some of the topics you’ll find in JAUNTIE and I was honored to be asked to write a monthly column about my own artwork and original style (including my real, 18+ inch fingernails!).

Me & my nails

With all the focus on Hollywood trends,  UNreal reality shows and anorexic models it’s refreshing to see a zine that goes beyond these stereotypes and pushes the limit!  So I hope you’ll check out my Halloween post this month in JAUNTIE:
http://jauntie.com/masks-mystery/

Please give it some LIKES and leave some COMMENTS on the website!  Thanks for reading and I’ll have an Autumn-themed art feature in next month’s issue!

Happy Reading,

Lauren

Haunting art happenings for Halloween

It’s lurking just around the corner….don’t you feel the chill in the air?  See how it gets a bit darker earlier every day?  Halloween is almost upon us and you need to be prepared to be scared!  So, start sending out those Halloween cards and sporting your Halloween shirts and get ready for a hauntingly good time…

ORIGINAL GREETING CARDS & 100% PRE-SHRUNK COTTON T-SHIRTS FOR HALLOWEEN!

Halloween flyer

Just in time for the spookiest day…night…of the year!  Get your cool T’s & cards today to have them in time to haunt your friends.  All cards, $3 each + s/h, minimum order of 5 cards.  Shirts are $25 – $35 each (INCLUDES S/H!) depending on size & color; white or black 100% pre-shrunk cotton shirts, S,M,LG,XL.XXL. LONG SLEEVE NOW AVAILABLE starting at $35ea.  To see more designs go to the shirts/card pg. here:
http://www.laurencurtis.imagekind.com PAYPAL ACCEPTED to forestwalker333@hotmail.com
Checks/ $-orders to:
Lauren Curtis
P.O. Box 193
Franklin Park, NJ  08823

AUTUMN & HALLOWEEN ART EXHIBITS;
Halloween is my favorite time of year so I’m looking forward to having artwork in these October exhibits;

Omen (c)2011 Lauren Curtis, oil painting with decoupage

1. 10th ANNUAL SURREALIST, VISIONARY, & ART of the SPIRIT    EXHIBITION    I’ll have several paintings in this ONLINE show so check it out on www.caladangallery.com from Oct. 1-31, 2012!  Artists from across the US & abroad are represented in this show!

Inner Voice (c)2010 Lauren Curtis, digital photo collage from my “X-RAYted” series

2. UMDNJ FALL ARTS FESTIVAL RECEPTION   This show will have 2 of my large, digital photo collages from the “X-RAYted” series.Its a wonderful opportunity to chat with many of the exhibiting artists who will be present at the reception. RSVP: Noreen Gomez (gomezna@umdnj.edu).    Thursday, October 18, 2012  4:00pm-6:00pm
New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Ave., B-Level Grand Foyer, Newark, N.J.

GalleryU Something Wicked… Art show flyer Oct2012

3. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES…TO GALLERY U    Two more of my digital photo collages from the “X-RAYted” series will be in this fun Halloween art exhibit!  Masquerade party with Art from throughout NJ, food, music, costumes…if you dare…at the opening reception on THE night itself, HALLOWEEN!  10/31/12  6pm- 9pm  Gallery U, 80 Broad St., Red Bank, NJ  07710,  (732) 747-6696   http://gallery-u.blogspot.com/   Show runs to Nov. 20, 2012.  Be there or BEWARE!!!

Hope to see you at these events and thanks for reading,

~Lauren

All paths lead to ART

Happy October, everyone!  It’s still pretty summery here in NJ but definitely getting cooler and some of the leaves are starting to turn…a beautiful time of year (+ there’s Halloween!!).  Hopefully some of you remember my recent post about a new gallery in Metuchen, NJ called Nails in the Wall (located in St. Luke’s Church)and the 1st art opening with the exhibit called One Stream/ Many Wells.  The reception was a huge success with a great turnout of people, delicious food, nice wines, live music and, of course, amazing artwork from artist from across the US & abroad!

I’m thrilled to have my photo, Enlightenment, included in this show!  It’s a 35mm B&W photo I took of a Buddha statue while I was visiting the spiritual Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.  I digitally colored and enhanced the print and it’s become one of my top selling images and is also reproduced as greeting cards and t-shirts!

“Enlightenment” 35mm, digitally enhanced photo

I was so impressed with this new gallery space and the people who organized it!  If you’re in the Metuchen area, I urge you to check out this show, which runs for 3 months.  The diversity of the artwork is amazing yet it all centers around different forms of spirituality and religion but in an open-minded, universal way.

Here’s a short video shot during the opening reception…enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr1Shc90Yo&feature=youtu.be

I’m happy to say my Enlightenment photo got a great response at the opening and if you’re interested in purchasing one, here’s the info:

$50 for a signed, matted 8×10   $75 for a signed, matted 11×14  (+s/h)

For greeting cards, they’re just $3 ea. (+s/h).  5 card minimum.

For t-shirts, they’re $25-$35 depending on size & color; S,M,LG,XL,XXL, 100% pre-shrunk cotton in white, gray or black.  Prices of shirts INCLUDE s/h!!

PAYPAL accepted to me at forestwalker333@hotmail.com

Checks/$-orders to:

Lauren Curtis, P.O. Box 193, Franklin Park, NJ  08823

For all inquiries or orders feel free to email me at forestwalker333@hotmail.com

Thanks & Happy Autumn (or Spring if you’re on the other side of the globe!)

AMBIENCE and ENERGY FIELDS; a new exhibit

Wow, it’s already September and almost Autumn!  This month I’m exhibiting artwork in an event literally every weekend so I thought I’d share some of them with you.  Here’s a show you can all check out sitting in the comfort of your home as it’s online…I have several of my “X-RAYted” digital photo collage pieces in this show, one is featured on the postcard below!

CALADAN GALLERY presents a juried exhibition of 8 national artists entitled “AMBIENCE and ENERGY FIELDS”. There are pockets of energy all around us, both seen and unseen. Radio waves, televisions waves, microwaves; all of these influence light, matter, energy, and life itself. It influences consciousness, and decisions. It is reflected directly and indirectly in art and music. It stems from, also, planetary energies and the hidden messages of the cosmos. It manifested through Bach, in the repetition of sound, as well as the sound of rain as it reaches and permeates the earth. The work selected for this exhibition ranges from the subtle surface to the literal translation. It is the suggestion of the perpetual nature of motion that identifies and illustrates this exhibition.

Solo exhibition artist GEORGE SHAW writes of his sculpture: “In a moment everything changes. The past is changed and the future is transformed. All is revealed and the sky looks different. That moment acts as a portal into the possible. The Buddhists refer to this as kensho. This recent series of work is an exploration of that moment. Most of the paintings are 12”X12”, with multiples approximately the same size. I have kept this scale to invite a personal exploration of a moment. The paintings are treated as objects and are not intended to be pictorial representations of a portal or the Moment, but as an impression or idealization of a particular moment in time. “In Time, All Will Be Revealed”.”  These exhibitions will be on-line at www.caladangallery.com from September 1 – 30, 2012. For more information, please call (617) 838-8929 or email us at director@caladangallery.com.

Of my work in this show, gallery director Marjorie Kaye says:  Works by gallery member Lauren Curtis (Franklin Park, NJ) are part of a series entitled “X-Rayted CurioCITIES”. By the utilization of x-rays and the superimposing of digital images, the artist has created an energy field; although it seems alien in content, it is a parallel of the energy field of feeling, emotion, and experience. If our thoughts have an energy field, the artist has caught the essence of the subconscious and the contemplative in these works.

“Ambience & Energy Show”, Caladan Gallery. One of my x-ray digital photo collages is featured on the top right.

Something Wonderful This Way Comes!

When the Carnival Comes to NJ…

I LOVE carnivals…and they definitely fit into the Steampunk genre with their “old-timey” sideshows and eclectic fan-fare.  So below is an article I wrote for the Steampunk Landing Gazette, a 50+ page, full color magazine now on it’s 4th issue.  This is just a teaser of what awaits you in this publication which can be yours in hard copy or PDF version for a VERY reasonable price.   To see more of the wide world of Steampunk, get your issues here:  http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Landing-Gazette-Volume-ebook/dp/B008X47MQU/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1344953270&sr=8-27&keywords=elmo+adams

Have you ever watched those old-time movies where every summer, an entire town gets really excited knowing the carnival will be coming to town?  Then, when the big day finally arrives, people from all over come out for the festivities?  Well, that still happens, at least in Central NJ!  Now, this is no small town but every summer a huge carnival visits the North Brunswick area, taking up a giant lot off the expansive Route 1 Highway.
It seems to grow every year too, adding new acts, rides and vendors, so I’ve really enjoyed my trips to this carnival over the last couple of years.  So, being that old-fashioned carnivals and sideshows directly relate to the Steampunk experience I thought I’d share some information and photographs with you from this event.

The carnival comes to town every June for about a week.  An empty lot is transformed into a wonderland of bright lights, monstrous rides, greasy yet delicious foods, exotic animal acts and, of course, a home to a sea of people of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds.  First, the rides; I’ve always been fascinated by the colorful, loud, lit-up rides at a fair…I was never one for riding a lot of them, although I LOVE the huge Ferris Wheel where you get a bird’s-eye view of the whole enchilada!  But I do enjoy watching the screaming masses getting whirled, flung and twisted around on these dangerous looking metal beasts.  The North Brunswick Carnival really has an extensive selection of rides from the classics like the horse-driven Merry-Go-Round, to tall towers with extended, spinning arms that fly people through the air in head spinning circles and drops.  And the colors and lights…especially at night…really awesome!  The whole look and feel of the carnival with the big, Victorian sideshow style signs and posters, flashing lights, barkers taunting you to play their tricky games, the smell of fried food and fresh corn on the cob, striped big-tops…this all transports you to a different time and place.

Now for the shows!  This year they really stepped it up.  I always love the big red & yellow striped tents enclosing the classic sideshow with the sword swallowers, fire eaters, contortionists, jugglers (& I even got in for free due to my 18 inch fingernails…we “freaks” (& I mean that in the best way) do like to stick together!).  Also favorites are the animal shows.  Now as a huge animal rights advocate I’m always leery about animal shows as I don’t want to support any group that mistreats their four-legged co-stars but I have to say the acts here were well done and very respectful of the animals.  The performers (the human ones) also stressed facts about protection for the animals such as sea lions and horses, and the shows represented groups that specifically deal with their particular species.  There was also an extensive petting zoo with domestic and foreign wildlife that did all appear to be well cared for and to be in healthy conditions.  I do hope these animals came from  rescue zoos or shelters but it was such a busy night that I didn’t have time to inquire.  The attendants did seem to be caring and attentive to their penned “co-workers”.

Another excellent show was the magic act!  The magicians performed the classic tricks like making someone disappear, having animals and birds appear seemingly from thin air, but with a new twist.  What was most impressive was they performed on a relatively smaller stage with the audience very close and yet no one was able to decipher how the tricks were done.  Real magic perhaps??  They also called audience members up on stage, sometimes with much persuasion, to help with some of the tricks and this really engaged the viewers.  I was especially impressed by the magician’s ability to roll with the punches when a very young boy was asked to help with a trick and wasn’t quite following orders.  It turned into a comedy routine but in the end the trick went off successfully.

Finally, the food!!  Yup, you have your choice of burgers, dogs (as in hot), fries, funnel cakes, deep fried Oreos (disks of heart attack??), ice cream, cheese-steaks…all the typical carny  fare…but one of the best treats…and a much healthier one…were the grilled corn on the cobs with a wide assortment of toppings and seasonings.  Also,  fresh squeezed lemonade was delish and refreshing in the June heat.  This year there was also a big food pavilion with grilled chicken, pizza and other choices that was under a tent with a bunch of picnic tables so that made it more convenient to eat as opposed to walking around trying to balance your meal in your hands while navigating the huge crowd.

The turnout for the fair was amazing and I have to say, although it’s great to experience the carnival during the day, it really comes alive after sundown when the lights are in full bloom and everything is glowing, moving, making noise.  Something about the fair after dark really brings out that hint of mystery and uncertainty as to what lurks beneath the big tops.  Before I went to the carnival this year I had recently finished reading Ray Bradbury’s (RIP!) Something Wicked This Way Comes and as I strolled around the festive complex I couldn’t help but wonder if there were any supernatural, sinister beings running the show behind the scenes…not that I encountered any or found reason to think something shady was going on…but it’s that hint of danger in the rides and shows (& maybe some of the food, depending on your digestive composition) that really adds to the excitement of the event!

Oh, and by the way, at $4 per person, it’s affordable too…that includes all the shows but the rides can get a bit pricey so if you’re a dare-devil, bring more cash.  The food was reasonably priced and there was also a bunch of vendors selling colorful wares and souvenirs.  And of course the games where screaming barkers will taunt you to step up to their booths and try to shoot, knock over, blow up their crazy set ups of dolls, balloons, pins, balls, etc. for wacky prizes.  I’m sure many people ended up paying $20 for a $3 stuffed giant banana but it’s all about the fun, right?   So it’s really up to you to decide how much cashola you want to splurge with but you can get away with an inexpensive night if need be…but if you can go crazy, why not?

So, next summer, if you find yourself in the Central NJ area in June, drive down Route 1 until you see that big Ferris Wheel looming in the sky and come out and enjoy the carnival!   You can’t miss it from the road and there are huge, free parking areas all around the festivities.  In the meantime, as a teaser, I’ve included a bunch of my favorite photos I shot when I attended the carnival.  Here you can see some of my favorite rides and shows as well as get a feel for the event as a whole.  And maybe something wonderful like this carnival will come your way too!  If so, feel free to share it with your friends at Steampunk Landing!

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New day for a new art-site

OK, so I do have several different websites for different artistic and networking purposes, as many of you most likely do but I was dismayed to learn recently that one of my main fine art sites was no more because the hosting service folded and didn’t give it’s artists any warning!

I had just updated it too…I posted the link in a blog and when I went to check to make sure the link worked, low and behold…no site!  I emailed the hosting service and got a form email saying they had went under and were sorry to say none of the sites were saved…so “POOF”..all my work gone in 60 seconds (to use a movie title for emphasis).

Now I do have a paid for domain name, this blog, facebook, LinkedIn, etc. etc. but I needed another free artsite hosting service ASAP so after much research I decided on weebly.com and so far so good!
And now, with no further ado…here’s the BRAND NEW SITE:

http://laurencurtisart.weebly.com

YAY!  It’s up and running…new painting, photography and digital collages along with an up-to-date resume, artist statements and exhibition listings!  There’s also a contact page and links to this blog, my FB & LinkedIn pages.  So hope you’ll give it a look-see and enjoy…and if you love what you see…you can own a piece of my work too!  I have pieces to fit every budget & Paypal is accepted. 

Thanks for checking it out!

35mm B&W photo shot along one of the many canals in Amsterdam.