Life as an Artist

March 27, 2022

2022 - Women in the Arts, Celebrating the Genius of Women

Thrilled to be accepted into the 2022 - Women in the Arts, Celebrating the Genius of Women. My piece, titled: pandemic daydreams vii, is from a series I completed at the start of the covid pandemic. Click here for full series.

2022 -Women in the Arts, Celebrating the Genius of Women, juried group show inclusion. Orlando Public Library, FL. The show runs March 10 - April 22, 2022.

Women in the Arts, Inc. presents the 11th. annual international competition: "Celebrating the Genius of Women" at the Orlando Public Library, in honor of Women's History Month. This juried exhibition highlights selected works from local finalists and honor awardees; including a digital exhibition with selected works from United States and international artists.

January 03, 2022

Winter Beach Days, 2022

My first love was photography. Their is nothing as thrilling as a new camera right out of the box. The smell, it's sleekness, combined wonderfully to make the first foray out on a shoot extra special. I loved learning the camera's capabilities, figuring out the options it avails you, all to create a vision unseen by others. I am constantly encouraged by the possibilites enticing you. Making the unseen visable is magical to me.

Thank you for viewing!

Callie

CallieArt.com

December 24, 2021

Home, Inside and Out

Home interpretations.

Thank you for visiting!

Callie

CallieArt.com

December 12, 2021

Studio visits, one at a time.

I am now offering studio visits, or, virtual visits. My first one today went very well!

Sold!

Brutalist Society: The Promise of Glass, 2018 For decades, writers photographers and artists have focused on the modern urban landscape, hoping to access its towering language of dehumanizing jutting angles.

Inspired by the glass architecture that has been invading big cities around the world, Callie has created a series of paintings of abstract glass buildings that flirt with illusions of transparency and reflection. The Brutalist architecture deflects light, maintaining the mystery of what lies behind them. Geometric shapes and muted colors imitate the soulless feelings provoked by the facades of structures that appear empty and devoid of life. As this series evolves, vibrant colors begin to crack open the façade and morph into new reflections on hope and transcendence.

Glass buildings convey implicit and explicit meanings to passers-by and facilitate ways of seeing and being seen. They are simultaneously reflective, illusory and amorphous leaving it up to the viewer to interpret what’s transpiring. Callie’s interpretation of these window views, more reflective then transparent, serving as her own reflective feelings of the present reality that envelops us.