I recently took a quick trip back East to surprise my sister-in-law for her birthday. We made it into a tri-city marathon, visiting Baltimore, Philadelphia, and NYC.
Step outside Baltimore city and it's horse country. So lush and green.
Sudden thunder, lightening, rain, and sun - fabulous weather! At Fells Point, Baltimore, MD.
We saw how much Baltimore has changed (in certain neighborhoods) where gentrification has taken hold, and what remained the same - in personality and physical structures. I sure do miss the east coast. As a Western Pennsylvanian, I'm not from "the coast", in fact, Pittsburgh is on the border between the midwest and the east. But I know my love of old architecture in Europe is rooted in old American cities.
This is the Phoenix Shot Tower built in 1828.
Shot Tower is a Baltimore landmark I've enjoyed ever since my husband bought a postcard with this image from me in order to introduce himself. We just celebrated our anniversary in Baltimore over 30 years later.
Candy-colored houses along Federal Hill Park, Baltimore.
First night in NYC at a Cuban restaurant in East Harlem. The mural behind me looks like a stage set or I'm actually IN Cuba. Yes, that's my microbatch textile scarf I'm wearing.
Whitney Biennial - Is she part of the exhibit? If so, I like it, a lot.
A colorful room at the Biennial. Thinking about site- specific art like this faux stained glass.
Love this brickwork in B-More.
Happy pooch in dog park as seen from a footbridge in Philadelphia.
I'd really like to know what other people think of the Biennial this year. I admit, I'm still puzzling over it. Maybe we just did and saw too much and my senses were simply over- and under-whelmed! In a single day I attended three trade shows, including Surtex, the art licensing show, which was really interesting to me as I'm investigating licensing my art for fashion, product and textile designs. All three (furniture and stationery too) were at Jacob Javitz Center. I went with my design/ illustration Parsons friends. THEN we went to the Whitney show with another group of art friends. No wonder I couldn't stand up for another moment at the end of our last full day....
So my interest in digitally printed clothing pulls me toward this complicated story at the Whitney Biennial.
At the Surtex Trade Show in NYC, for art licensing, an attractive booth.