Portland, OR this Thursday!

This Thursday, I'll be in 2-timing on the west coast - 2 shows opening in Portland, OR!

First one being Daydreamers, a 2-person show with Suite Charlie, at Compound Gallery.

Daydreamers
Stella Im Hultberg & Suite Charlie
Opening Reception Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 7-10pm
Show runs May 2nd - June 2nd.
Compound Gallery
107 NW 5th Avenue (upstairs)
Portland, Oregon 97209
(503) 796-2733

+ Please contact { Molly at compoundgallery.com } for previews!

(scroll down for peeks of the process )
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Also on the same street, on the other side, i'll be participating in a fun show titled In the Process,
a group show of artist's sketchbooks (my favorite!!), curated by my talented friend Monica Choy
(whom i incidentally met through Compound Gallery 6 years ago), at Hellion Gallery.

In the Process : Curated by Monica Choy
Opening May 2nd, runs till June 1st
Hellion Gallery
19 NW 5th Ave, suite 204
Portland, Oregon 97209
503-851-6163

***2nd floor at the end of the hall, entrance next to Upper Playground***
Regular hours Tues – Sat 12 – 6pm

please contact the gallery for inquiries or for preview!

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Some peeks of the process :



So this is it for a while!

i'll be taking a small break this year from gallery shows (except for a couple more group shows in the fall**)
for some personal time and focusing on some other projects mostly - so please check my Facebook/twitter/instagram/blog
for that if you want to know what's going on...
It'll be a very wabi-sabi kind of process, if that makes any sense - going with the flow of things
- there is an image but no particular plans, so to speak.

i will hopefully be keeping up more with my shop with small originals and prints,
and maybe some other products (perhaps a new shop too?!!) instead.

See you in Portland!!!

** ok i lied, i realized that i'm in another group show in Philly, May 11th, with Thinkspace Gallery curating for Gallery 309 - although it'll be my older pieces. 

SCOPE NYC Art Fair

i have a few pieces (on the far back wall in first photo) in the SCOPE NY art fair with Thinkspace Gallery, 

over here in NYC - in midtown west (or north chelsea), at SCOPE Pavillion (Skylight at Moynihan Station). 

the fair is going on this week, right now, through Sunday, March 10th!

LOCATION

Booth H03
SCOPE Pavilion
Skylight at Moynihan Station
312 West 33rd. St.
New York, NY 10001

FIRST VIEW
Wednesday | March 6 | 3pm – 9pm
For VIP and Press
(or $100 donation at door)
Proceeds benefit The SCOPE Foundation

SHOW HOURS
Thurs | March 7 | 11am – 7pm
Fri | March 8 | 11am – 7pm
Sat | March 9 | 11am – 7pm
Sun | March 10 | 11am – 7pm

+ Please check here for more detailed information on exhibitors/access/fees, etc.

{ photo credit : Andrew Hosner / Thinkspace Gallery }

2013 Show Schedule

 Hello!

Below is my current schedule for the year, including some past ones already.
I've consciously tried to cut down on the number of shows this year (to about 2)
but somehow I have more than that!

{ 2013 Upcoming Shows }

February :: Year of the Snake. GR2. Los Angeles, CA (* art available online)
March :: Scope NYC Art Fair with Thinkspace Gallery. Scope Pavillion. New York, NY
March :: Art Collector Starter Kit. CHG Circa. Culver City, CA
May :: Daydreamers. 2-person show. Compound Gallery. Portland, OR
May :: In the Process : sketchbook show. Hellion Gallery. Portland, OR
May :: LAX/PHL : Thinkspace curated group show, at Gallery 309. Philadelphia, PA
September :: Group show. TBA.

+ Please contact respective galleries in advance for preview lists, info & purchase.


* above image from my instagram of a study. please check it to see more behind-the-scenes, otherwise
unblogged images! :)

Lasya Prints this Friday!

some of you might have seen this above photo from last december - of me signing the prints of Lasya,
one of my pieces from Borrowed Memories show at Thinkspace last september/october.

finally this limited edition print is dropping this { Friday, February 15th, 10pm PST } exclusively via Thinkspace Gallery!


Details below :

NEW PRINT from Stella Im Hultberg available this Friday at 10AM PST at Thinkspacegallery.com

"Lasya"

$75 each

Edition of 50
Hand-signed and numbered by artist
13x16" paper size
Giclee print on Museo Portfolio Rag Paper
with Epson Ultrachrome HDR ink

Direct link to purchase this Friday morning (10am):
thinkspacegallery.com/prints/

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it's only an edition of 50, and an amazing quality by Static Medium (i love them so).
so those of you who've been asking me about this piece turning into prints, this is your chance!!

Year of the Snake!

tomorrow (or today depending on when this is viewed) is Giant Robot's annual zodiac themed show,
celebrating the year of the snake for 2013.

so glad to start the new year in such good company (in spirit, at least).

the show opens tomorrow, and runs till February 20th.

Year of the Snake

Feb 2 - 20th, 2013

Opening Saturday, February 2nd, 2013

6:30-10:00 PM

GR2

2065 Sawtelle Blvd

Los Angeles CA 90025

my piece for the show is below :

Serpentine. 9.25" x 11.75". Watercolor and Acrylic on Tea-stained Paper. ©2013.

 i've been painting a lot with watercolor lately, and having been wanting to get some tea-stained pieces done,
i decided to start with the first piece of 2013. hopefully i portrayed enough of the snakiness in an abstract way.

happy new year (belated for 2013, early for Lunar new year next weekend)!!!

Another Mini Shop Sale on Saturday!

thanks for "coming" for a peek or a purchase for my last studio sale a couple weekends ago!
i was so surprised at how fast they flew off the shelf, thanks to you all.

so i'm having another super low budget sale this weekend - very last minute but hope you can make it!

Saturday, December 15th

2pm EST

shop.stellaimhultberg.com

this time, it will be mostly post-it notes for those who couldn't make it to Giant Robot's

8th annual post-it drawing show in LA, or for those who did go there but didn't end up procuring one

after standing in line for hours!

because of the scanning/packing/shipping process, the post-its will be $30-35 instead, but hopefully

that will still remain affordable originals for many (cheaper than some of my prints!).

i'll also have a few ink study pieces and maybe a half finished study painting listed as well.

thank you and "see" you this weekend in the shop!

Studio Sale this Saturday!

i'll be holding my annual Small Originals Studio Sale (like in '10 & twice in '11) this saturday!

Saturday, December 1st

2pm EST

shop.stellaimhultberg.com

although due to many personal tasks i had to tend to this year, i don't that many pieces as in the
past - but probably around 15-20 pieces, perhaps - so please mark your calendars!

i might be doing another small sale the weekend after, of post-it notes for those who can't make it to
Giant Robot's 8th annual post-it drawing show (where each piece is $25, cash-and- carry) in LA.

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also some new products i forgot to mention here!

artist olivia mew of stay home club made these awesome line of art patches (in addition to her other
amazing line of artists' fabric goods), a couple of the designs using my artwork from my last show!

 Ikiryo 01 Patch, $6, available here!

Ikiryo 08 Patch, available here!

i've gotten a sample of them here and they're really awesome!

printed on nice quality canvas, you could frame them (since i'll never release these ikiryo series as
a print), or cut them up into individual shapes and sew/iron them onto your clothes, bags, pillows, etc!
view all her other fun patches here!

NEW PRINT RELEASE!

please ignore the above image where it says "This Run Drops in...." : it's live now!!

http://1xrun.com/runs/Sacred_Journey/

12pm, November 28th - December 5th, 2012 ONLY

a very limited edition of 50, one-time run, during a period of 1 week only!!!

the sale of the run ends next Wednesday, December 5th - only 30 left now, so please hurry!

happy holidays!♥♥♥ 

Borrowed Memories : 2-person show, October 2012

{ title wall photo by sam graham }

finally getting around to posting about my show, Borrowed Memories, with Tran Nguyen, at Thinkspace Gallery that opened back in September!  

i had a lot of fun making the pieces that were bridging 2D & 3D worlds, and some with a lot of patterns that i'd been obsessed with...

some opening night photos :

lady artists : tran, me, audrey, amy (too bad mari was late!)

and the dudes : andrew hosner (of thinkspace gallery), jeremy hush, and esao andrews!

the showing artists : michael ramstead, tran ngyuen, me, & jeremy hush

finally met the super cute soey milk!

chueh chueh train! FINALLY got to meet luke & kim too! :)

the opening was so much fun - got to meet a lot of young artists and old friends, new friends. :)
and lots of people i've known for a while but hadn't met in person. thank you, everyone, who came out to the show and for making the night so wonderful!!!!

view all my works in the show below :

20 Pieces of Dreams, group show

opening this saturday is this amazing show that i'm so sad to be missing out on (for not being there),
celebrating young Sena's 20th birthday (curated by her awesome mom!)

Mari gathered 11 of her friends, along with herself and Sena, to round up a group show consisting of
20 works total (one each from all the friends, and 9 from mother & daughter).

what a really amazing way to celebrate a daughter's birthday!!

and here's my piece for the show : 

Crescere. 11.75" x 11.5" . Acrylic & Colored Pencil on Hand-cut Wood. © 2012.

i know i have yet to upload the last show's batch of works (i just have to edit them first),

but here is my last piece of the year!

i made this piece at the same time i did the wood cut works for that show, though just finished recently for this one.
it was fun to use the negative space/shape and work in delicate shapes for once...

and inspired me to make some textile works (in the future, still in the works).

the title Crescere is a latin word meaning to grow - i remember being 20 and feeling like anything is
possible, with the whole future wide ahead of me. i hope Sena's 20s will be even more growing and fulfilling for her!

hope you get to go to this awesome party of a show, and enjoy all the fun works in an intimate setting of GR2! :)

12xTwelve on Saatchi Online

i still have a lot to get around to posting all the pieces from my last show (yikes, sorry!)
but i have some new things brewing up this week already!

this year, i was invited to be a part of 12xTwelve, a specially-curated original art show for the holidays by Rebecca Wilson, Director of Saatchi Gallery, London, on SaatchiOnline.com.

i have an original painting in it (though it's not brand new), as well as a limited edition of 12 prints of it.

please check out the site to browse through a whole lot of (65 total) affordable art!

http://saatchionline.com/12xTwelve

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here's a piece of my contribution that might seem familiar (from 2010) :

Equinox. 12"x12". Mixed Media on Panel. © 2010.

you can see the process animation from the original blog entry here!

Borrowed Memories : 2-person show this Saturday

i'll be leaving for california in a couple days for my upcoming 2-person show alongside Tran Nguyen

at Thinkspace Gallery, opening this Saturday!

Borrowed Memories

Thinkspace Gallery

Opening Reception 6-9pm, Saturday, September 29th

6009 Washington Blvd

Culver City, CA 90232 [gmap]

310. 558. 3375

please contact the gallery for a preview list and for general inquiries about the show.

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i'll post the pieces in the show here after i return - for previews before the show, please contact the gallery

or check the show page on the gallery website later this week.

some sneak peeks of the pieces i'm putting in the show here & here!

+edit : Boing Boing did an exclusive preview here! (thank you, david!!)

see you in california! :D

also more sneaky pesky :

summer

..:: massive photo dump warning ::..

{ summer play }

fort tilden. bike ride.

there hasn't been much going on here fun-wise. in the past couple years i haven't been much

of an NYC summer fan, and i'm glad it's subsiding and we're going into fall...

most of the summer has been spent on working... experimenting...

and instagramming in lieu of blogging, apparently.

and lazy blogging by clustering all the accumulated instagram photos. yikes!! >_<

4th of july on the 17th floor, upper west side.

hanging on our roof.

creepy cat.

silly cat.

some backyard dining on cooler evenings.

{ around the studio }

{ rambles / thoughts}

lots of different kinds of works this summer - most of june, i took a break from my regular

kind of works and did some fun projects for myself.

the wire sculptures seen above are my Ruth Asawa studies.

because i'm very slow, it only took me ages to figure out her techniques (kind of). and i already

knew how to knit and crochet. :/

this reset my eyes and my mind to start some new works - i feel like i finally started to reconcile

some deeper rooted ideas and interests of my own within my work so far... maybe. it's something

i've struggled with in the past couple years.

something about the mathematical nature of the wire looping got me going on geometric shapes

(which i've always loved and appreciated but didn't quite take enough bold steps to incorporate

into my own works) got me started on some other geometric forms and shapes - 3d and 2d both.

having been obsessed with the wire looping for weeks, it was hard to start painting again in 2d.

which is why i started with some wood-cut shapes to draw and paint on.

a compromise, in a way.

thinking and working through all this, i feel that i have a new vision for new possibilities - still

incubating and marinating in my head, but there are some new ideas and projects afloat in my

head. can't wait for the fall/winter/spring!!

+ all works seen above are mostly for my shows in the fall - 2-person show, Borrowed Memories,

at Thinkspace Gallery with the amazing Tran Nguyen.

then a group show curated by Mari Inukai at GR2 for her daughter's 20th birthday.