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Lemon Sponge Cake Ballet

by Lisa Call on March 9, 2008

Lemon Sponge Cake

I think I mentioned that the reason my show is only open to the public on wednesdays (from 9am-4pm) is that the gallery is in the lobby of the Macky Auditorium. It makes for a large captive audience for my artwork, which is very nice.

One of the performances at the auditorium during my show will be Choreographic Fusion on March 22 at 7:30pm.

According to the Boulder Philharmonic website:

Music and movement come together in fascinating ways in Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet’s interpretations of modern masterpieces by Arto Pärt. Then the full Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra takes the stage for Rachmoninoff’s orchestral tour-de-force, the Symphonic Dances.

I will be there with my kids in tow (currently unbeknownst to them as they return home from their 3 month trip to Europe with their dad tomorrow night – we’ll see if they picked up any culture).

If you attend the performance let me know as I’d love to say hello. You can buy tickets here and kid/student tickets are only $5.

Markings #22

Yet another of my favorites in this series as I love working with yellow and gray. My piece, Structures #31, in Quilt National 2005 was also yellow and gray. I liked the 9 square configuration of Markings #12 so I decided to revisit it in this piece, which is quite a bit larger. Markings #22 has more organic lines and it doesn’t have as much asymmetry as #12 but there is some.

I finished this piece at 9am on the day I had to deliver the work to the gallery, a full 3 hours ahead of the delivery time.

And no, it’s not really an accident I decided to write about the ballet along with this piece, kind of fitting.

Detail:

Tagged as: macky gallery, markings series, Markings: Repetition and Pattern

{ 6 comments }

nathan March 9, 2008 at 10:42 pm: I love textile arts, these are beautiful. My favorite is the “fear” entry.
Cherie March 10, 2008 at 4:38 am: When I saw the name and saw the quilt, I thought “How odd for Lisa to name her quilt like that. But I guess it fits.” But after reading your post, I guess you won’t be naming your quilts ‘cupcake’ or ‘shortbread’ or ‘muffin’ anytime soon, right?

I love your bright colors! Pink, purple, yellow. Love them!

Cherie
Cynthia March 10, 2008 at 5:57 am: I get it – though it took me a minute…

How wonderful that your kids are coming home. I would miss my daughter like crazy if she was in Europe for 3 months. Though I would enjoy my time.

I was just going to search for the times that your show is open to the public – I really want to see it in person.

I might try going this Wed.
jafabrit March 10, 2008 at 12:09 pm: I love the yellow and grey too, and really like markings #22, it’s really exquisite Lisa.
Lisa Call March 10, 2008 at 8:37 pm: Thanks Nathan and Jafabrit!

Yay Cherie – there is not likely to be any pastry inspired artwork names around here anytime so on.

Cynthia – cool – let me know if you make it up there.
Seth March 12, 2008 at 8:15 pm: I am not usually a big fan of the color yellow…but on this piece the color combination really sings!