It’s official yall! I am excited to announce my first ever official solo art show. The exhibit will be held at Peters Street Station in Atlanta, GA during the months of October and November of 2022. The opening reception will be October 14th. “Blooms Floating World” will feature all new paintings, tattoo design concepts and clothing. I am hoping to tie all three mediums together into a unique and multi-facetted expression.
Today marks almost exactly 3 months until the opening of my show. To be honest, I’ve been feeling a lot of resistance to this announcement, feeling both total excitement and definitely some pressure. For me, I really want this show to be special and historic. I want to create a body of art that I am proud of and that show’s the world who I am as an artist. I’m viewing this show, in part, as my introduction to the world at large, and am allowing myself to dream of how far it all can go.
I decided to call it Blooms Floating World (after a few months of thinking about it) as a way to nod to the ancient Japanese art form of Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e, when translated to English means “floating world.” In the Japanese sense, “floating worlds” described the ethos of the artwork, which served to romanticize the ephemeral aspects of everyday life. I am using this title as a nod to the original idea of ukiyo-e, but also as a way to express the feeling of being in between many worlds. In many ways, this is a core value I hold and in is in part why I am here I believe - to use art to help bridge gaps in culture and to tell the real stories of life.
This idea explains the logo, the simple venndiagram, showing the merging of multiple ideas… beautiful and new things caught in the middle.
Anyways yall, I am so excited to get started on all these paintings. I’m really going to go for it on this one. I appreciate yalls support and following along the journey. See yall October 14!
-AB