A smattering of symmetryhttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/en-US2012-02-13T05:15:33ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)New work: Famous Fictional Family Feudhttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/new-work-famous-fictional-family-feud.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-02-09T18:13:58ZCollage Featured New Work Personal Work St. Louis St. Louis collage events gallery local art opening

Detail of final pieces; show below as a pair

I was glad to participate in the fifth installment of the annual Famous Fictional exhibit at Mad Art Gallery, curated by Dan Zettwoch. This years interpretation was Family Feud – over 30 artists were tasked with making two portraits, each depicting a family from either literature, cinema, or television. I selected The Catcher In the Rye, a favorite from literature and The Wonder Years, a definite favorite from television.

 

I don't feel like going into it if you want to know the truth     I N S P I R E D  B Y  The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
Yep that was me, Kevin Arnold – lone wolf     I N S P I R E D  B Y   The Wonder Years, 1988 – 1993

paper, graphite and acrylic on 6" x 6" panels

 Pricing available upon request

]]>Polaroids, Papers & Pavement = Unityhttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/polaroids-papers-pavement-unity.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-02-02T15:55:06ZEphemorabilia Personal Work Photography St. Louis ephemera polaroids type

 

Letter Exercise, Polaroid on found paper; St. Louis; May 2011

Fuji Instax Wide

 

Now Playing: Pavement; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
]]>Mysteries and Mannershttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/mysteries-and-manners.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-01-31T17:50:56ZEphemorabilia Inspired By Studies illustration inspiration vintage

The Mourner; Maureen O'hara Mixed Media on Antique Photographs, 7 x 5 Inches

Alex Gross via Junkculture

 

Completely enamored with this half in particular of a series by Alex Gross; a collection of over 20 small mixed media pieces on antique cabinet photographs from the 19th Century. He now offers a selection of the Heroes, Villans and Monsters as limited edition giclee print sets.

His work suggests the unspoken distress of humanity—that, which is understood by all, yet remains hidden from human consciousness.
]]>36 minutes of veiny floralshttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/36-minutes-of-veiny-florals.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-01-20T18:34:31ZArt/Music Pairings Inspired By Symmetry concept idea image bookmarking printmaking project textilesThe Design Center of Philadelphia University | Alyson Provax

 

The Time Wasting Experiment project by printmaker and fiber artist, Alyson Provax, pairs nicely with swatches from the Design Center.

The Time Wasting Experiments are an ongoing series of letterpress prints I've been producing which document time wasted. These are in part inspired by tracking 'billable hours' but also come from the compulsion to always be doing things and producing objects. This series is a sort of audit of how I spend my time, but the prints could also be thought of as permission slips allowing you to spend a period of time in a wasteful way. This project is ongoing...made with hand-set 10pt Caslon lead type, and printed on an old Vandercook press that is affectionately known around the studio as Tony.

♫ Etta James You Got It

]]>Tennessee tenhttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/tennessee-ten.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-01-18T17:29:49ZBuildings Inspired By Photography St. Louis St. Louis film photo

St. Louis, Fall of 2011   

Pentax K1000 SE; 35mm

 

Stopped to get a few photos of the hand painted lettering on the old Tenneessee 10 bar and was lucky enough to find Slaughter's Cleaners across the street! A few more shots here

♫ The Middle East Land of the Bloody Unknown

 

]]>And all the people were singinhttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/and-all-the-people-were-singin.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-01-16T06:59:01ZEphemorabilia FOUND Inspired By archiving ephemera vintage

Dylan ticket stub archive

 ]]>transfixed by his uncanny way of seeinghttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/transfixed-by-his-uncanny-way-of-seeing.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-01-10T20:42:22Z2012 Collage In Progress Life New Work Personal Work Photography archiving bookmaking life polaroids

A new venture for the new year; I'm aiming to fill a little 5.5" x 5.5" sketchbook with assemblages focused on various polaroids taken throughout the year, and hope to do the same for each year thereafter. I'm imagining a narrow shelf, archiving each year ...or at the very least a better way to have and hold my plethora of polaroids. I'll plan to share finished pages here and there. Michael shared a section from his current read after a walk through Carondelet Park last week. I thought it paired nicely with the shot I got of our leggy silhouettes that day.

The town which is alive, and beautiful, for me, shows, in a thousand ways, how all its institutions work together to make people comfortable, and deep seated in respect for themselves. ...A building or a town becomes alive when every pattern in it is alive: when it allows each person in it, and each plant and animal, and every stream, and bridge, and wall and roof, and every human group and every road, to become alive in its own terms. And as that happens, the whole town reaches the state that individual people sometimes reach at their best and happiest moments, when they are most free.

- an excerpt from The Timeless Way of Building, the first in a series of books which describe working alternatives to our present ideas about architecture, building and planning by Christopher Alexander.

]]>Riding toward everywherehttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/riding-toward-everywhere.htmlMary Frances Foster2012-01-05T22:51:00ZArt/Music Pairings In Progress Now Playing Symmetry pairings photo symmetry

]]>18. Stay Gladhttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/18-stay-glad.htmlMary Frances Foster2011-12-31T23:44:58ZFOUND Holiday Life

Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulin's

 

]]>When we crashed, it was from an enormous heighthttp://www.catchmeifyoufran.com/blog/when-we-crashed-it-was-from-an-enormous-height.htmlMary Frances Foster2011-12-30T05:27:03ZInspired By image bookmarking inspiration photo polaroids

polaroids by sigurdg • Title: Carl Oglesby

 

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