kristenEmoore - paint like you eat

2011-05-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

...and this too

2011-02-24T20:17:00.000-08:00

an idea of what I've been doing...although I don't really know what I've been doing

2011-02-15T15:53:00.000-08:00

These are the oil paintings I've made since I started renting my studio in mid August. There are also a number of drawings but I'll have to photograph them later. These photos are horrible, but I just wanted to put something up for now. I'm not satisfied with these paintings but I have been painting differently since graduation, so in that way these paintings are little experiments, and I am excited about that. They are almost all painted from life. They are various sizes. The still lifes are the newest, one I painted today.

I am still on the planet

2010-12-04T12:21:00.000-08:00

I am still here! I am still painting! I have a great studio two blocks from my house with a fantastic little coffee shop on the corner! So things have been good but I haven't felt like sharing or showing what I'm working on. It's not that I'm plotting a grand masterpiece, I'm just relishing the freedom of not having to be critiqued constantly. I realized that although I had some of the best times of my life at school it also took a little of the fun out of art. It's just hard for something to stay care free and fun when you have assignments, deadlines, and grades to worry about.

So I don't want to show what I'm working on, on account of the slim chance that someone will give me they're opinion. World! I love you but I just don't care what you think! At least not now.

That's it for now folks, I'm going to go hide in my studio for a while.

a long time coming...

2010-05-06T08:27:00.000-07:00

I am graduating!!! I've completed everything I just need to put on that dorky cap and gown and get the diploma. I haven't posted in a VERY long time because I have had a crazy semester! But amidst the chaos I managed to make some work so here it is.

This is a little series that I did as a part of a collaboration between the Tyler painters and the Boyer School of Music composers. My partner was Annie Neikirk and you can visit her website here: http://aneikirk.art.officelive.com/default.aspx
She wrote a piece in response to my PV2 series of drawings and then these are the paintings that I made in response to that work. All together we titled the collaboration Elegy. They're all a foot x foot on panel.

This is another series also about the military (big surprise I know!). I painted these paintings from some photos that a friend of mine that was stationed in Iraq in 2005 emailed me. These paintings were a nice "full circle" moment for me because I received these photos back in 2007 and tried to make paintings of them then. I never really finished them though because I felt that I couldn't make a painting that was as powerful as the original photos. This year, three years later, and the friend that took them has since passed away, it felt like a good time to try painting them again. The paintings came out really quickly, I only spent about an hour, maybe two on each of them. It feels like the photos have been floating around in the back of my head for three years and my brain has been slowly digesting them so that when I felt that it was time to revisit them my hands just knew how to paint them. It feels like a nice way to end my time at Tyler. They are all about a foot x foot on panel.

Last but not least are my embroideries. Making these things killed my hands and tested my patience. They each have at least 50 hours of work in them. They are all 4 x 6 inches, the exact size of the photos that they are copied from. I'm happy with them. I like that they read as a photos from far away. I'm interested in making something that is such a slow process out of a snapshot which captures a quick moment. Please forgive the bad photos. You can see my reflection in the glass, I will take some better ones soon.

one month, and the entire past 14 hours...my hands hurt

2010-02-25T20:35:00.000-08:00

These are horrible photos and I plan to take better ones but I needed to get this post up just to feel some satisfaction. I have been working on this embroidery for a month now, but I completed the last third of it or so TODAY. And by today I mean the ENTIRE day. I have spent the past 14 hours embroidering my little heart out. I have watched three movies, countless "This American Life" podcasts, and nearly worn out my radio. I have drank more hot chocolate than should be humanly possible. BUT IT IS FINISHED! I think that I'm going to try to make two more before the semester is up. I like the way that the photo translates into embroidery and I like how the very medium gives it a different read than when the same image is painted. It is 4"x6" the exact size of the original photo.

the front

the back

TA DA!

"safe with me" BFA show

2010-02-23T15:43:00.001-08:00

I'm sorry that it has been so long since my last post. I haven't been posting because I've been very very busy! with exciting things! I had my BFA show titled "safe with me" a few weeks ago; it was up Feb 3rd through the 6th. Despite the opening coinciding with a snow storm we still had a great turnout. I got a lot of good feedback on the show as well which was really great to hear. It took a lot of work but it was very much worth it. Here are some pictures:

Since the show I have a lot of new things in the works...I'll post about them later...

http://www.thepuddingweekly.com/featured-artist.html

2010-02-21T18:44:00.001-08:00

It has been so long since my last post and I have a lot of new stuff to share! But in the meantime check out this site. I am the featured artist!

http://www.thepuddingweekly.com/featured-artist.html

things in the works

2009-12-22T08:36:00.000-08:00

I suppose that I'm playing with how much information to give to a figure. I'm thinking about how when I paint in the face it changes everything because it suddenly gives the figure a specific identity. I'm not sure that's something that I always want to do. But then I ask myself why I'm painting figures at all. Maybe I just can't get the faces right. Maybe I'm just sick of painting ex-boyfriends so I'm avoiding it. I'm not sure if these are finished or not and I'm feeling stuck... any thoughts? anyone?

rainy day landscape

2009-12-22T08:31:00.001-08:00

I already sold this baby! Well, sort of...I traded it for a beautiful painting by the ever so talented Joanne Birely :)

still working on a title...

2009-12-04T08:09:00.000-08:00

This is a difficult one to photograph because there are alot of different whites in there, but you can get the gist of it.

Artist Statement

2009-11-20T14:34:00.000-08:00

My paintings are personal and often autobiographical. I frequently use candid photos as source material; the kind of photographs whose lot in life is to make their way into scrapbooks or to be hung on refrigerator doors. These photos, taken to be seen by friends, lovers or family members, are meant to capture a moment in time. They are a physical and visual way of remembering; they can simultaneously feel posed and natural. My work translates photos of this quality into paintings. This translation interests me because this type of photo caries specific memories and associations for a particular person but when it is translated into a painting it becomes an image that is meant to be viewed and accessible to many people. This creates a tension in that the image then serves as both a specific and personal image as well as referencing broad and universal themes.

My imagery highlights that which is simple yet significant: families, friendships, communities, time and memories, but through these themes they ultimately discuss larger issues such as war, the military, death and decay, the loss of innocence, and regret and mourning. I am interested in when the themes of life, that are too overwhelming to fully comprehend, interact with daily life. How do you mourn someone; how do you cope with the permanency of death? One might surround themselves with the deceased’s photos yet try to move on, because we want to heal but we don’t want to forget. A photo can be a connection to the past and yet it can also be a constant reminder of one’s regrets, the permanency of time, and the inability to change the past. I use photos as source material because they are nostalgic, romantic, and deeply personal; that for me is ultimately what painting is about.

the thin line between finished and unfinished

2009-11-10T11:35:00.000-08:00

and I've started painting...or something like that

2009-10-31T09:09:00.000-07:00

These are mix of drawing and painting using oil, acrylic, and even pencil. I have started some larger oil paintings and even finished one, but I don't have any images of them yet.

york and frankford

2009-10-31T09:01:00.001-07:00

This is a series of drawings that I made for my landscape class. All of them are drawn from the windows of my apartment between the hours of 6-8:30am. Or at least that was what I attempted to do, some of them are drawn a little later in the day :)

some miscellaneous drawings

2009-10-31T08:52:00.000-07:00

PV2 Lancaster

2009-10-31T08:41:00.001-07:00

I made these drawings almost a month ago. I had a post about them before but these are some better images. I've changed the piece a bit too. I built a kind of simple frame for five of these; five felt like a better number than seven and a more practical size. I'm excited about the frame because it isn't a conventional frame. The drawings aren't behind glass, they are just taped from the back onto a piece of board that it is then attached to a wood structure. This keeps the fragile look of the drawings which I really love. I'm ashamed to say that I dont have an image yet of the whole piece together.
I entered the piece in Arcadia's Works on Paper show. I'll find out in about a week if it got in. I'm excited, I haven't entered a show in a while, actually I haven't entered many at all :)

a hodge podge of September

2009-10-01T12:32:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted much lately but I have been working alot and in a few different directions. These are some acrylic and watercolor drawings, small oil landscapes,and a painting from the summer that I worked a bit more on.

i'm drawing!!!

2009-09-10T17:57:00.000-07:00

colorado

2009-08-23T21:55:00.000-07:00

Senior Year

2009-07-11T10:56:00.000-07:00

I just found this painting while I was cleaning out some old work. I made this my senior year of highschool and now that I'm about to enter my senior year of art school it seems fitting to post it.
I've been feeling drawn to painting really personal and emotional subject matter lately which is the only thing that I was interested in in highschool. It feels like a full circle moment.
Stay tuned, perhaps I have more nude self portraits up my sleeve ;)

Summer 09

2009-07-11T09:51:00.000-07:00

I'm a little unsure of these so I would love some feedback from anyone that happens upon this blog. These paintings are intensly personal so my own judgement might be a little foggy. I'm considering completely re-doing the portrait but there is something there that I like that I'm afraid of losing. Maybe I'll just make another painting of it.

i feel really good about these...

2009-02-19T15:21:00.000-08:00

I feel really good about these...finally something! They feel like a good solid start. After looking at these I feel like I know where I want my next step to be. I need to start working bigger, exploring color more, and working from life rather than photos. I'm hoping to start some drawings of interiour spaces of my parents house, my apartment, Carl's aparment... Oh! It feels so nice to feel like I made something!

a work in progress...finally...

2009-02-09T19:23:00.000-08:00

I'm having a hard time getting into this semester since being back from Rome, or at least that's what I'm blaming it on. I need to get my act together. Read more, draw more, paint more, THINK more. These are a start.

things I've been making

2008-11-21T06:14:00.000-08:00

things I've been looking at

2008-11-21T05:12:00.000-08:00

2008-10-30T10:26:00.000-07:00

i never thought that i would like orange curtains so much

a painting and some pics

2008-10-29T11:38:00.000-07:00

these two pictures are from my trip to Tunisia, and another little painting I made a few weeks ago

things I've made in Rome

2008-10-02T10:24:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to get better at slowing down and cooking more.
This semester I want to:
-look
-read
-cook
-paint

It sounds simple enough but I keep getting distracted and stressed out. Its beautiful here but I can't help but be homesick. I want to carve a pumpkin.

Rome from the Roof...and a lightning storm and Morandi

2008-09-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

We just got the key to the roof and the view made me rethink the stuff that I've been working on. This is where my mind is today.

some things from Italy

2008-09-07T11:32:00.000-07:00

so much

2008-08-17T14:41:00.001-07:00

I feel like I have so much to learn. It's overwhelming.

some older paintings that are still close to my heart

2008-08-12T16:54:00.000-07:00

pawley

2008-04-14T17:38:00.000-07:00

pawpaw's birthday

2008-02-15T20:51:00.000-08:00

baby painting

2008-02-15T20:47:00.000-08:00