The Rotting Zombie

@ Wake the Dead coffee shop in San Marcos, TX.

If you like art, tattoos, horror, gore, monsters, and fun then you will enjoy this year’s Horror for the Holidays art show.

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                                      Halloween 2011

Every Halloween it is a challenge to decide what type of zombie/zombie killer I want to be. This year instead of going as Alice from the last four Resident Evil movies or Claire from Resident Evil: Code Veronica video game I decided to be a police woman…and I hooched it up this time. Creating the outfit to make it as unique as possible is always fun. I purchased a plain dark blue dress and sewed buttons, badge, an American Flag and clipped pins to create this zombie cop costume. To make the blood slashes stand out in this dark outfit, I cut the material and sewed red lace behind it. Pair with a cop hat, black gloves, gun, tall boots, and you’re ready to go!

My boyfriends outfit was much easier. Required a white t and black electrical tape and blood smears. Waalaa! 

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Juror: Jeff Dell

Statement: Jurying is almost always difficult. There is merit and weakness in all of our works. There is ambiguity as to how we define good, better or best. The biases of jurors will always be present.  

I decided that I would gauge the work significantly according to how all the works by one artist were working as a body. I chose to do this because the Expose competition seemed to highlight this as important: allowing up to five works, the awards being a exhibition of multiple works, a portfolio website, or photographic documentation of a body of work. Thus if all you have is one great piece, then you haven’t yet found that vision for how to build this work, how to grow it, and how to create a sense of momentum with it. I do think this momentum is really important to us as artists. We always need to find a way to make the work about the work.

I also put a large weight on conceptual development. This means that technique alone really won’t get you very far. On the other hand, it also means that if your work is conceptually heavy-handed, awkward, over-thought or very familiar, that’s also a weakness. In conceptual, I’m looking for something that has poetic breathing space, develops and grows through the body of work, is not too literal or too straight forward (I don’t want to “get it,” I do want learn/ask interesting questions) and feels very honest to the artist. If it feels like you’re trying too hard to be someone else, or to do what you think is what other people want to look at, then that’s a weakness. I fully recognize that I will sometimes fail to be correct in this judgement, but that is one of my guiding principles.

We do have a sort of responsibility to be aware of what has already been done and what is being done by others now. So if your work looks too much like someone else’s, then that’s a bit of a problem. It’s not hard to make it your own, but we all need to make the effort to do that.

I was glad to be able to award three honorable mentions, as it was difficult to choose the top three. Other jurors would probably choose a different ranking, and that’s the way it goes. Part of the message here it to enter many competitions and to not take it personally when you’re not chosen.

Thank you all for the opportunity to look at your work,
Jeffrey Dell

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Art and music competition going down this Sunday, October 16, 2011 at Tantra Coffee House off Hopkins across from the little HEB in San Marcos, TX

Doors open at 4pm. No cover. Live music. Cheap beers.

24 artists will have their art on display and Jeff Dell (printmaking teacher at Texas State University) will be announcing the art winners at 10PM. This competition includes prizes and an opportunity to have a solo show at SodaTooth Gallery.

Come support local artists and musicians.

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Live art show Saturday, October 22, 2011 in Austin, TX from 7pm-2am.

Come support local artists and check out art in the making!

Facebook Zombie Fan Page. Check it out.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monica-Berniece/139124002768980#!/pages/Monica-Berniece/139124002768980

Medusa Undead.

Now framed and hanging at Tantra Coffee House for a chance to win prizes and a gallery show at SodaTooth in the Expose the Arts competition October 16, 2011 from 4-midnight.

http://www.exposethearts.com/

This is my sixth painted zombie. The scene was created with non toxic acrylic paint and a live snake to really capture Medusa Undead.

http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/monicaberniece

This web address will lead you to my personal shop of art where you can order framed prints, canvas prints, greeting cards, posters, art prints, etc straight from this site!

Check it out and let me know what you think.

More zombies to come!