tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30926400272517530852024-03-12T17:06:27.338-07:00The Hundred Dresses ProjectArt, Bees a Chug and a PugTracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.comBlogger706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-34738529048109932002012-05-23T13:00:00.001-07:002012-05-25T10:21:01.139-07:00
Hola Monkeys!
It has been a while since I posted here. Quiet Monkeys, my last solo art show was a great success. I have more images of the art from the show, that I will share with you soon. Sharing the artists process is a major mission of this blog. The seeds of ideas that come from the most unexpected and mundane places. The ebb and flow of creative energy. Navigating studio Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-73083119602913656042011-11-08T08:36:00.000-08:002011-11-09T06:32:45.274-08:00Last chance to walk thought the Monkey GardenThe Monkeys will be leaving the gallery November 15th. This Saturday there will be a gallery benefit and closing reception at the Eric Schindler Gallery. If you haven't been to the show yet this would be a great time to visit. I am looking forward to a final viewing myself. Once the work enters the gallery it is all grown up, on its own, I am just the parent clumsily visiting with clean Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-77117675655695597782011-10-05T08:10:00.000-07:002011-10-05T10:49:01.098-07:0016 days till Quiet Monkeys comes to RVA!Hey Monkeys! I have been working very hard getting all the monkeys together for their big art show. The totem is done. I finished it on the 10th anniversary of 9.11. Those of you who have been long time followers of the blog know my story. Those of you who would like to read more about it, can, here.The shells in the piece were all collected from a beach on the Golf coast of Florida during aTracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-65967293124941748282011-08-08T07:58:00.000-07:002011-08-14T08:34:30.901-07:00Big announcement Monkeys
My dear friend Cami sent me these images of the announcements for my MFA Theses exhibition at Ford Hall at Eastern Michigan University--way back in the day, 1992. It truly feels like 100 years ago.
In 92, I was a worker bee working on my art night and day. It made perfect sense to send out time cards as invitations. I was working 3 jobs, teaching a few classes as well as working on art in Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-1616478652774608292011-06-09T14:40:00.000-07:002011-06-09T15:14:39.080-07:00Monkey Fruit SnakeProgress report: This one started way back in Oct. as you can see they were just tape monkeys back in the beginning. I added the stripes and filled them out at the end of last year. Then they sat in the studio where I played with them, studied them and mapped out a general plan of attack. This week I felt I had a handle on this encaustic waxing business enough to start back on the monkey Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-40184787526722034782011-05-25T05:05:00.000-07:002011-05-25T13:22:27.788-07:00what's up WednesdayWe do these things because they are hard! For the last week and a half I have been smoothing the wax on the Monkey Ball. In my head I kept hearing a mash up of JFK saying, "We do these things because they are hard" and Tina Turners intro to Proud Mary, "We never do things nice and easy we do things ruff". It is hard to explain how I find myself immersed in these long slow processes, they don'tTracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-41282978030055462682011-05-11T07:42:00.000-07:002011-05-11T07:49:35.470-07:00studio helpers at rest....The dogs enjoying our new wall color and notice no more holes in the wall!mmmmm good salad!Ms.Bella sunning after a good meal....thought I would provide a better view of this: Monkey cutting the head off the snake.Onward Monkeys!Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-23310525920695422662011-05-11T07:27:00.000-07:002011-05-11T07:41:05.236-07:00what's up WednesdayThe ReachingUp Monkey, (or Celebrating Monkey) has been painted twice since I last posted. I am adding the color as I do the last refinements making the color part of the process not a separate thing. I am still not sure what color he will end up. The new one, Twin Towers Totem is coming along. I have been holding off using the cardboard tubes for a large scale bust. But A few weeks back I Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-55491532574981763682011-04-27T10:51:00.000-07:002011-04-27T11:02:04.090-07:00One less hole in BellaFrankenstein is letting me know it is time to cut the lawn!The big news is the final hole has closed on Bella's side. She is officially healed, healthy and ready for action.The Murps waiting for me to come back in the yard.It seemed like forever going through Bella's cancer, surgery and long recovery, but she is all healed! She hasn't quite been with us a year yet, but has earned her place in Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-56648011021640058252011-04-27T10:38:00.000-07:002011-04-27T10:50:53.964-07:00what's up WednesdayI am in the studio working on the reaching up monkey and his pals.The roofers came by yesterday and put on the new roof. Check out our new hammock, yay!If you look closely you can see where I have outlined the new bigger front flower garden.Irises in full bloom!Progress is slow but, ever moving forward. I know in photos it doesn't look like much, but each new layer of paper and flour bring Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-14762295254576333762011-04-22T07:21:00.000-07:002011-04-22T07:24:11.785-07:00Nest building an artInspiration from some really awesome builders.Onwards Monkeys!Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-4428975787296024462011-04-14T10:55:00.000-07:002011-04-14T11:15:43.846-07:00Back!My 6 year old friend came by to give me a gift she made for me. It was a Valentines gift that got delivered just when I needed it most. She is awesome!I wasted no time getting back to work in the studio. It took me one full day to give the Reaching up Monkey a layer of paper mache. He is coming along.My first Monkey using shells from Sanibel Island Beach, is the guy up front with shell eyes, Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-56262937633038946312011-04-14T10:30:00.000-07:002011-04-14T10:55:37.693-07:00Again with the falling limbsOur home was impaled by a limb from our big oaksomehow it missed the painting, my head, the lamp and just poked though the wallIt snapped off this large Maple in our yardWhen we returned from Florida another limb had cracked off, this time hitting nothing but grassHow cute is Mr.Eleven!There was a huge limb waiting for us when we returned from our trip to Florida. Another huge limb cracked off Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-57928227713300958982011-04-14T10:10:00.000-07:002011-04-14T10:28:42.674-07:00Belly, Frankentiny, and Trubee!The hardest part about going away was leaving Frankenstein, Bella and Truman. We found the best pet sitter in David. He stayed with them, washed out Bella's incision and gave Truman a shower each day. It was great coming home and seeing the dogs sit next to him and show me they were happy with my choice. Truman went a wondering the day before we came home. We got a call from David saying he Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-50006579995952754652011-04-14T09:06:00.000-07:002011-04-14T10:06:55.686-07:00Beach Monkeys and other birdsMy happy feet in the sands of Sanibel Island.Some shells I collected. Each was chosen with a monkey in mind.Along the shoreI met some PelicansMr.Elevin's family catching some sun.The big family weekend came and went. It was a celebration of birthdays. Mr. Eleven, his mom and sister all had milestone birthdays, 40, 50 and 75. We rented 2 cabins on the beach, brought a beach tent and everyone Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-70822046344552250562011-03-23T10:39:00.000-07:002011-03-23T11:11:17.216-07:00Bella updateI am in bed with Bella today, again. It seems the only way to keep her immobile is to be immobile myself. Since my last post she has been back to the vet twice. Because of the placement of her stitches she reopens the wound each time she moves. Air and some infection puffed her up getting under her skin, literally, (you can see some of that in the photo above). Touching her, she felt like a Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-83471878337070962702011-03-17T08:32:00.000-07:002011-03-22T07:29:08.080-07:00Onward MonkeysA few weeks back I hung the mask on this wall rather than the one I have been hanging it on in the studio. It was then I saw the Masks sources of inspiration, where else but on my meager inspiration wall. The clown is an image I have held dear since grad school back at EMU in the mid 80's. I did countless portraits of myself as this clown. He is also Wattues Prerrot, another life long theme/Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-86698305004438261552011-03-17T08:15:00.000-07:002011-03-17T08:52:04.794-07:00No more Cancer!The vet called me first thing yesterday morning to tell me that Bella's biopsy came back and there are no more cancer cells! She had Mast Cell Cancer, the vet successfully cut it out! Yay! Unfortunately the stitches wrap around Miss Bella's front leg and they are not healing like they should. I am doing my best to keep her from moving, but it is tuff. I may have to take her back to the Vet Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-11625783544585984882011-02-16T07:16:00.000-08:002011-02-16T07:19:53.135-08:00what's up Wednesday part III cooked up a big batch of encaustic waxGroup of Monkeys in progress. Some are finished and some are just starting to bloom. But they are all coming along together!Onward Monkeys!Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-56467903807275637712011-02-16T07:06:00.000-08:002011-02-16T07:15:33.890-08:00what's up WednesdayThe mask is getting painted in layers, so far so good.Someone is very happy to have gotten some teeth-yay!A new monkey king sitting on top of a home grown gourd, taking shapeBella and the Monkey King sunningThese are just a few of the monkeys in progress this week!Onward Monkeys!Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-78713591213097239262011-02-01T10:09:00.000-08:002011-02-01T10:11:50.344-08:00Lizard eating orange sliceThat's one happy lizard! Sometimes it is the little things!onward Monkeys!Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-6960950541504177812011-02-01T09:55:00.000-08:002011-02-01T10:07:33.545-08:00progress!Almost killing myself with lacquer was a wake up call. It made me really appreciate what I have been doing with these paper sculptures. I had these notions of covering the Monkey Ball with mirrors or eggshells. But after sanding and painting it over and over, I found what I was looking for, is not in the materials it is in the process. It is in the quiet refinement, becoming one with the workTracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-52492887959884906512011-02-01T08:20:00.000-08:002011-02-01T09:49:49.035-08:00Dangerous art ahead!I have not posted in a few weeks because I have been so busy, but that hyper drive almost did me in! In fact this little tiny monkey head almost brought me down. I began on my Monkey journey Last Spring, it really kicked in when the Gulf Oil spill was going on. I was so horrified by the entire disaster but especially the images of that little bird immersed in black gunk they played over and Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-8254070720476893182011-01-13T11:11:00.000-08:002011-01-13T11:17:58.968-08:00DogsBest friends...sometimes dissagree...or make each other so crazy they have to smash their face in a blanket...but in the end they share a spot in the sun and nap side by side...Onward Monkeys!Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092640027251753085.post-42199448784913876822011-01-13T11:02:00.000-08:002011-01-13T11:21:19.674-08:00Monkey progressLots of tweaking going on, the Monkeys are getting ready to get their surfaces. Monkey Ball I decided will not have a broken mirror mosaic on it. I loved the idea but the pieces are just too thick and would kill the simple roundness of the globe. I am going to attempt egg shelling the entire thing. I keep thinking what have you gotten yourself into! But the end result has me very excited to Tracey St.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08867181764165452966noreply@blogger.com2