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Weathered Souls Opening night fun Recap

Seems like April 13th was so long ago now however I wanted to share a recap of the opening night photos with links and some fun vine video clips. Well I totally missed blogging in April so here is a recap of the fantastic opening night party for the 3 person show I was so thrilled to be a part of! My part of the show Weathered Souls is now on view until May 31st so there is still time to catch this wonderful 3 woman show at MF Gallery! 

 The show is up until Friday May 31st, 2013 and I highly recommend that you head over to MF Gallery and make an appointment to see this show! Martina and Frank  will be so happy to let you up to see the show on the second floor walk up in Gowanus Brooklyn. This 3 person show is fabulous showcasing my work along side Aya Kakeda and Nicoz Balboa. I believe our works compliment each other and you will love seeing this dark feminine wildly imaginitive worlds we all created. Also not to be missed is the on going mural that is growing when you first enter in to the gallery walking up the stair case you will be greeted by visions of characters from a multitude of MF gallery artists including Angie *myself, Aya and Nicoz.

 Another reason you should catch this show before it's over is if you happen to take your picture with my artwork and post it to Instagram hash tag #angiemason or @_angiemason_ on instagram or on twitter @angiemasonart tweet to get a treat! I will send a special surprise to any fan who sends me a picture of them at the show with my work via twitter or instagram! It's a win win! 

Show photos are can be seen in the following links:

• SEE MORE HERE: FLICKR PHOTO SET!

• ARTWORK FOR SALE IS HERE: ALL ART FROM SHOW FOR SALE!

• FB PAGE PHOTOS HERE:  FACEBOOK Art Page photo set

And Now some fun vine clips from opening night :)

And here is a vine made while setting up for the opening :)



And One more when there was a storm inside my studio

I also just released a new print on The Angie Mason Art Shop! 

Ok So that's my update for tonight :) NOW GO SEE THE SHOW!!!

Process peeking getting ready for art shows! :D

Process mold making success! Such great news...It passed my ice cube test! HOORAY! next up pouring resin and crossing fingers it sets well for cool new Angie Mason necklaces! The Storm Damage collection keeps growing! Increasing cloudiness around my neck and yours hopefully if all goes well! See all this new stuff at MF Gallery April 13th 7-10pm! And the show runs till May 31! Myself and 2 other amazing women artists Aya and Nicoz! will be taking over the gallery! We also will be performing a live mural painting during the opening!
Some random work studio shots including peeks at my new 'Pain Drops' pieces. Lots of drawing in this show and mixed media works on paper! I feel the clouds lifting and I see light at the end of making a show come to fruition... Just need to photograph all my new art and do some paperwork and deliver my babies to MF Gallery. This last work week will be a fun focus on jewelry hoping it goes according to my plans and visions.... So far so good!

I am on the fun video looping app called vine which lets you take 6 second clips of your life! It's so fun! Gofind me Angie Mason :D
here are some clips from the Angie Mason H.Q. Studio!

Drawing

Work table 

One of my studio assistants! So loyal has been with me for YEARS! 

YOU SHOULD GO! 

Sneaky peeks! 

weapons of choice! 

At the framer! 

Head down working....

OK Back to work on finishing things up! Hope to see you at the show! 

Weathered Souls by Angie Mason comes to MF Gallery!

in this promo 'Torrential Downpour Girl' ©Angie Mason 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 9th, 2013 MF Gallery is proud to present a new show of paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and installations by three international female artists: Nicoz Balboa (Italy/France) Aya Kakeda, (Japan) & Angie Mason (U.S.A.) These artists, all known for creating colorful and whimsical worlds where animals interact with girls and all sorts of fantastical characters, will have new art for sale, and each artist will also be creating a permanent mural in the entranceway to the gallery. Come see them paint the walls during the opening party on Saturday April 13th from 7 to 10 pm! 

Nicoz Balboa, Aya Kakeda and Angie Mason will be exhibiting some of their newest works and site-specific installations at MF Gallery from April 13th until May 31st, 2013. During the Opening Party, (on Saturday April 13th from 7 to 10 pm) all three artists will be doing Live Mural Painting in the entranceway of MF Gallery. Refreshments will be served. Admission is Free and open to all ages.

The show will be open by appointment until the end of May. Contact Martina or Frank at (917)446-8681 or email: info@MFgallery.net to make an appointment to see the show. All of the art will also be available for viewing and purchasing online on: www.mfgallery.net/Angie-Aya-Nicoz/Angie-Aya-Nicoz.html


Angie Mason often creates character driven works that explore psychological, emotional, dark yet humorous situations inspired by life. Her darkly sweet playful cartoon like characters navigate through worlds in vibrant colors to muted gray pencils works.

For this exhibition, the 'Weathered Souls' collection, a series of works will include stormy characters in the form of drawings, paintings,sculptures and jewelry she likes to call "wearable art". These moody weathered souls are worn out beauties yet have a spark of hope and fire left in them. Having gone through life storms both metaphorically and literally Mason's collection of Weathered Souls is a reflection on those times.

In the artists words: "I visually explore the balance of opposites between darkness and light / humor and sadness through the creation of character narrative works. The work reflects how I cope and see things within our modern world. Much of the work stems from personal life experiences, dreams, memories ,fairy tales, to everything I encounter.

I filter all these things through as ingredients toward cooking up my personal visions which have a flavor I like to refer to as Grotesque Folk Pop. This melancholy menagerie of characters and worlds are a funny, whimsical, dark and tragic view at the wonderful mess of life. The human experience is full of many strange tragic moments that are sad yet, at the same time, so full of comedy. It is this mix of comedy and tragedy that I enjoy fusing together. Humor and horror married together to give birth to a family of characters that are my reflections on the world. By utilizing my characters I aim to paint truths about being human creating a balance or a tug of war between good and evil, hope and despair all while telling stories and navigating through my life. These character documentations are my modern fairy tale I am weaving together, growing it with time and experience. My characters ,me and the viewer are all on a journey together."

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Angie Mason was born in 1973 in Northern, New Jersey, but was uprooted quite often during her younger years. This chaotic, disjointed upbringing helped inform her visual imagination and sensibilities. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her extensive body of work has centered on a visual examination of modern life in a unique and sometimes frightening look through a 'grotesque folk-pop lens' of character narratives. Angie Mason has been involved in several published book projects which showcased her artworks (*The Lowbrow Tarot Project) as well having her work in a number of private collections. She has even had her  beloved hand sculpted and painted 'Rotten Tooth Gang' earrings featured in IFC's original show from David Cross The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret worn by actress Amber Tamblyn. The artist has been exhibiting her artwork in both solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States as well as internationally for the past ten years.

MF Gallery is located at 213 Bond Street, between Butler and Baltic Streets in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, NY. Take the A or G to Hoyt/ Schermerhorn, the F or G to Bergen, or the R to Union.

New art show - 3 Person Show coming This April To Brooklyn

So happy to be doing this show! 

One of my work tables currently! 

I know I have been a bit quiet on the social media life pulse... but real life has been a bit overwhelming and leaving me with little time these days... all of my free time is going to getting things together for this show as well as working on a new job that is exciting and super creative but also takes up my time, energy and makes me sleepy which makes it hard recently to keep up with my blog and online life I am getting better and will post more I promise this to myself and to all you reading this and following along with my creative life.

But really I CAN'T wait for this show! I HOPE TO SEE MANY
FRIENDLY FACES AT THIS ONE! 

OK well I am going to get some more drawing in tonight
so this is a short and sweet blog post! 

First post of the new year!

GOOD BYE 2012!

2012 is flushed and has gone the way of all the other previous years... poof vanished into thin air never to happen again! OH YEAH and the world didn't end which is pretty GREAT news! 

Currently I am working on an art collection / body of work I am calling 

 'Angie Mason's Weathered Souls' 

for my upcoming 3 person show this 

April in Brooklyn, NY at MF GALLERY! 

My head has been in this Storm system of thought... pondering this theme and making works for it which will include drawings, paintings and sculptures (which I am very excited for). I just got off the phone with Martina of MF Gallery and was talking about my plans for this show. It's feeling real and I am looking forward to see this Storm System of Weathered Souls move through Brooklyn this April!

Above this is a super rough beginning of one of my Cloud Creatures based off my Storm Damage Character! Very excited to bring these guys to life! 

Speaking of Storm Damage I visited my beloved Jersey Shore pretty recently and was so sad to see the crazy amount of destruction, the whole of the boardwalk and buildings are GONE! I know they are working on rebuilding but all my memories are washed into the sea. It honestly sank my heart into my belly seeing it in person. It's part of growing older living through storms both metaphorical and physical. The past 3 years I have seen some storm damage on both sides real and symbolic and that is a big part of why I am putting my show 'Weathered Souls' together to explore through my characters all these "Storm Systems" we go through in life. 

In other Angie Mason Art Shop news please visit:

 www.angiemason.com/STORE 

for lots of new items I added recently! 

Also visit my main site 

www.angiemason.com 

as I updated the artworks section! 

This is just a page from my sketch book... brain spills and doodles of sad life truths. We all go through this I am sure!

OK well this is my first post of the New Year and I hope to be making lots of new posts soon with daily updates of art going on and just life in general. I hope you are all beginning the new year on a good note! I will say so far January has shown me some great things and new opportunities I look forward to a new year ahead filled with great learning all thanks to a new super creative job I am taking on... and of coure here's to a full year of making wonderful art for shows and sharing it all with you! 

The year of the Snake looks to be a good one! 

'Sharp Tongues Poison Minds' ©Angie Mason 2008

2013 is the year of the snake! "The Snake prepares us for shake-ups in old realities that open the way for forward movement, refreshed understanding and growth. As the Snake sheds its skin, we are invited to release old thinking that has blocked growth and progress. This is a year with the energy to inspire newfound ambition to achieve great things." Reflect, Ponder, Plan and Progress! ♥

End of the year ramble scramble ponder fest.

When I was a little kid 2012 felt like the future not just literally but like a sci-fi kind of future with robots and flying cars and jet packs and well you get the picture. So fast forward to 2012 almost being over and I am an official person of the future typing this space log blog on a tablet pad like I am right out of Star Trek. Who do I think I am? Captain of my own starship! The future came and went and now I am sitting here looking onto 2013!

2013 will be a big year for me at the end of May I leave my 30's behind and enter into a new decade known as my forties, It's weird growing up and older because mostly you feel no change the idea of age was mostly always silly to me I just like to embrace life and do the things I dream of without letting outside perceptions and judgements of age affect me for the most part though sickness is harder when you are older so the you that is I do my best...your best to be healthy and balanced.

I still hold onto this idea and try to live life without worry of age and time. Though time the way it moves so swift and sharp nearly blinking your life away in a flash is the part that is a challenge. So often I wish I had special powers to slow living down but our modern society only sped things up making us run at break neck pace. One of the biggest challenges in real adult life is to find balance between doing the things you want and doing the things you have to right down to the boring minutia of brushing ones teeth to doing ones laundry. In our modern lives there are things we all must do because in the end they some how,these basic things, tasks if you will make our lives better you know not having rotted teeth to chew food and enjoy smiling while you still have them is a good thing.

But back to time I ponder our human cycle often seeing its bitter sweet beauty in the grace of those who are lucky enough to grow old, seeing walls fall away as you get older is a difficult thing to imagine at that end of the human cycle... It's like you have been the center of a rose bud and all your petals fall away exposing your stem its scary looking and fragile yet full of beauty for coming full circle I try to hold on to that beauty of life having stages and phases shifting growing and constantly changing until we are dust.

So thinking of 40 it really is kind of a human mid point, if life expectancy is an average of 80 years old for a full human life cycle. I feel the first half of my life, looking back has been overwhelmingly full of art creation and love...with bits of misfortune and loss thrown in the mix. What's life without some black and blues we all have them. It's normal, the downs we all face make the ups worth working through hard times. Life cycles, seasons change, friends come and go out of our lives, loved ones pass on...like my garden things grow die and bloom again newness is always there with each sunrise we get to see life is always new and never consistent only ever changing. The last few years for me have been a balancing act and often times were not easy but I am here and made it through rough waters with a supportive loving group of family and friends. Sure the storms not over yet but I do think some full sunshine weather is coming my way as I navigate towards the sun and my garden will bloom again.

The list of what I want to do for my 40th year is another blog post ponder fest to come in the next few months leading up to that point in Spring time. I have been writing about it in my journals thinking on that... a new decade of creation lays before me I want to map out a visual guide to help lead the way and start the new process.

This past year upon reviewing my personal collection of photos was personally a year of much art creation and poor spotty health literally with full body hives starting back Christmas night of 2011 going strong throughout the year mixed with other health issues. Somewhat fitting I am ending the year getting over a cold. Happy to say I'm feeling good now!

I am refraining from talking about 2012 world events as that's not what this blog has been about, its focus is on my personal journey in life in relation to art. With that said I know 2012 on a whole has seen great darkness and sadness with so much loss due to violence and natural disasters.
NJ and NYC was hit hard with Super Storm Sandy leaving us with no heat or electric for a week but I'm grateful that was the extent of our loss, we came out lucky and my heart aches for those who lost their homes. But I don't want to go on about current events and become crippled in fear and sadness I want to keep moving toward the light and simply just keep trying to be better and progress and help others where I can. I hope on a whole the human race can progress into a more peaceful age where we respect and honor our differences and learn to live together. Call me dreamer I don't mind being called that.

Ok on to some memory lists from this past year :D

So one of the biggest moments I am most proud of this past year was my solo show in NYC Project 30 the Hand Pick 10.   It was a great way to interact with all of you who follow my work as well as making a new rich body of work I am very proud of.

Other Shows and Events worth mentioning are:

1. In the spring I did my Art Star Craft Bazaar Event 
2. In May my baby sister gave birth to my beautiful Niece!
3. In October the release of the Lowbrow Tarot Book and Deck were published
4. Monster A Day Project for October :D 
5. Numerous group shows and art events at:

•  MF Gallery
• Modern Eden 
• Last Rites Gallery
• Jinxed Gallery
• Nova Beligca Gallery
• Sacred Gallery and 
• Maxwells. 

So where do I  see me in relation to 2013? I see more art being created the visions never stop, I see growth in my creative life both professionally and personally. I see more balance and better health. I see more strength and understanding. I see more openness and flexibility within my personal career path. I see paths clearing and me walking down them into the darkness of an unknown forest that is full of life and possibility. 

The darkness is not always something to be afraid of it is in the unknown territory that we can have the greatest growth. I am looking toward the branches and vines and I am ready to get twisted up in new challenges. This world and economy has been keeping me under it's thumb with it's demands too long I am looking to find my way and break free in 2013 it will be a shift and great change for me I believe this to be true. And it's in that simple statement that is the catalyst for all great change... the first step is in believing something. I will make the changes happen even if they are not ready for me.

 2013 is lucky 13 and I am ready to shed some light into the darkness and shine so the world knows I am alive and knows that I love being alive and knows how I want to continue sharing my visions and characters with it and hope that the world is even more open to embrace me back for it is in that mutual embrace that I can truly flourish and find my balance. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 

A HOLIDAY GREETING FROM ME TO YOU!

A look back at some shows I just did...

It's the end of December time to reflect.... it's always a time of reflections both to look back and to look forward thinking about what's next. But in this quick post before I lay myself down to sleep of the Sickmas germs I caught here are some photos from the Sacred Gallery - End of Days show in NYC and a shopping Art Event I did at Hoboken's famous Maxwells! Enjoy! OH be sure to visit my facebook art page to see who won the big contest :D www.facebook.com/angiemasonart and hit like to follow along while you are there :) I have a bunch of goodies I will be adding to my Angie Mason Art Shop over the next few days so be sure to peek it and grab while you can! www.angiemason.com/STORE  Well that is all for now expect a longer reflective blog coming soon I am sure of it! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 

Sacred Gallery NYC 

Sacred Gallery NYC 

My artwork at Sacred Gallery NYC 

Me with wonderful paper artist Christina Graf 

Opening night at Sacred Gallery NYC 

Maxwells in Hoboken, NJ I saw so many great bands play here! AHHH memories :D

My table of goodies at Maxwells also available at Angie Mason Art Shop!

Hand painted plates Angie Mason ArtWares! 

Hand pulled baby jumper Angie Mason Art Wear!