During the 1990′s Marti showed her work in prestigious fine craft shows from coast to coast. From the American Council of Craft to the International Handmade show at the humongous New York Gift Show. As a result, Marti’s creations were sold out of galleries all over the United States which lead to some amazing opportunities to sell her work Internationally as well. Additionally she began making contacts with fine art galleries for her paintings and this largely self-taught artist made a colorful splash in the modern art scene in Europe and the US.
Background info here:
http://www.happyart.com/info/creative-highs/
Selected Events
2011
• Early Winter – began felting fine fibers!
• Started to apply to fall art festivals!
• Added JoyRiders to the paintings offered.
• Contributing Artist: The Sketchbook Project (see Other Projects Links above)
• Needle felting being explored for it’s HapiLani potential…
• Hay Now! Equine Rescuers cartoon series launched featuring Alfie McFlakey and Iota McHippus. A flake of hay and a brave little miniature horse conspire to rid the world of inhumane treatment to horses (and ponies, zebras and all equines) everywhere!
• First ever direct international trade with fellow Etsy artist – A HapiLani painting is going to Italy in excahnge for a lucky scarf!
Scheduled:
• Art in the Barn, My barn. Topic: TBA
• Blueberry View Sabbatical, St. Joseph, MI in October – topic TBA.
• QuantumSparks: Volume 1, book based on the Animal Assisted Inspiration posts Marti makes weekly at her www.QuantumSparks.com site.
• The Year of the Unicorn has been expanded to become The Decade of the Unicorn, more paintings anticipated.
• Contributing Artist: A Million Pictures - April/May
• Starting the process to participate in some outdoor Art Fairs in later 2011 and 2012! We’ll add a Show Schedule to the site when that start happening!
2010
Published book, “HapiLani: The Natural History of a Dreamland”. 100 page full color compendium from the HapiLani series.
Published book, “CANS: the Life’s Work of an Optimistic Dog“. 170+ pages of the collected art of Marti’s cattledog, JoJo and the observations made from living and working with this creative canine.
Year of the Unicorn series of gouache on paper unicorns
Merry Horses FUNdraising paintings and small pieces to raise money to run EquineConnection.org.
Blueberry View Sabbatical, St. Joseph, MI in September – topic working with JoJo and his art (see book above)
Won International prize for video celebrating the arrival of the World Equestrian Games to Lexington, KY. Here’s the video:
2009
Further explorations in equines and HapiLanians
Art in the Barn sabbatical
Art Car Drive In Event in Louisville, KY
2008
Equine paintings, blogging and video production
2007
Studied Equine Management very little actual art made
Art Car Drive In Event in Louisville, KY
2006
Focused on ezines and blogging
2005
Open Studio (“HapiLani Redux”) at Lexington Art Center’s Loudan House 4th Friday Event
Equine Portraiture – Melanee Cooper Gallery, 740 Frankline, Chicago, IL
2004
Published first “perzine” (personal zine) in cartoon form called:
HappyArt.Com/ix Vol. 1, No. 1 – “Moving to Kentucky!”
Solo Show – HapiLani Revisited (More work like below)
Melanee Cooper Gallery, 740 N. Franklin, Chicago, IL
2003
“Fragments From Elsewhere – Other Worldly Curiosities” – Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD. A solo show of the ‘findings’ made as a discoverer of a different world. Sculpture, paintings, drawings, assemblages and other ‘artifacts’ from the journey.
Solo Show – HapiLani (Similar to above)
Melanee Cooper Gallery, 740 N. Franklin, Chicago, IL
2002
Big Idea A sequential web based art show in which I painted one painting a day for about 160 days during the first half of the year. Resulted in the inspiration which lead to the entire HapiLani series.
2001 and earlier
Focused on illustration for major national clients and almost 100 animations and illustrations for greeting card companies and amazon.com
Illustrated several children’s books for McGraw-Hill, NYC
Participated annually in the following prestigious national shows resulting in sales to top fine craft galleries across the US and abroad:
- American Craft Council Annual Shows; Baltimore, Chicago
- New York Gift Show Hadmade in the USA Section, NYC
- Buyer’s Market of American Crafts, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco
“Marti!”, Antiquites Gallery, Montpellier, Ardeche, France. Solo exhibition of new paintings.
“Neu Von Marti!” (New from Marti!), Scala Gallerie, Hamburg, Germany. Solo exhibition of new paintings.
“Around the Coyote” Art Walk. Bucktown, Chicago, Showed large paintings every year living and working in that ultra-hip neighborhood (10+ years)
“Neu von Marti!”, Slutsky Gallery, Franfurt, Germany. 30 recent paintings in a solo show.
SURTEX. Surface and Textile Design show by George Little Management Company. At The Javitts Center, New York, NY. Was featured artist and made a lobby presentation titled “Fear No Surface” in which I painted or created over 30 different permanent surfaces (a 1997 Saturn car, clothing, cans, glass, paper, silk, tiles, etc.).
The Art Car Parade, Chicago, IL. Art cars from around the U.S. were organzied and driven through the Wicker Park neighborhood. Mine was my 1984 Beauville van; painted!
“Artes” catalog of art. A major contemporary art catalog throughout Europe; showed one-of-a-kind painted suitcases, next to Picasso lithos and Herring originals.
Hanna Bekker von Rath Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany. 3 person show. Showed paintings and painted suitcases.
Before this worked and traveled between Miami and Chicago creating new bodies of work for every show under the title: Martoons!
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