January & February slipped by in the blink of an artist eye.

The weather is wait a minute change, as I look out my office window to a fierce total white out and think what a perfect day for daydreams and strong black coffee. 

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Please note I would like to express my great appreciation and thanks to all that have worked, helped, hindered, enlightened my path recently.   Life is magic thanks for being there.

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Tonight - "Blue Blood" for "Saratoga 150th Now and Then" @ Saratoga Arts

in Saratoga Springs - August 3rd at the Saratoga Arts, 6 to 8pm
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Cohoes Artist Showcase

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Memorial Day

   As Memorial Day approaches, let us not forget the sacrifices our veterans made to preserve our freedoms.

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Go Fly A Kite- A Tribute to the New Jersey Shore

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Forget the Super Bowl Game Sunday-

Don’t know/don’t care which teams are playing in the Super Bowl this year?

 Forget the Game Sunday- Lucas Confectionery 12 Second Street, Troy NY 12180

Come join us this Sunday, Feb.3^rd, Kick- off is at noon for the

“Don’t Know- Don’t Care- NoN Super Bowl Event”

Half time Artist miChelle M. Vara (www.michellevara.com) of Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery located Wilton NY, will be showing metal sculpture at Lucas Confectionery 12 Second Street, Troy NY 12180. 

*Enjoy Lucas's Non- team tackle championship-caliber wines, cheeses, and meats, carefully chosen from our playbook.

Thinking on Rabindranath’s writings-

I found this so stimulating to think on-
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Old Metal Cast Fluted Posts become pergola.

History saved-
The cast iron posts are from a demo in Albany. It has been told to me they are from the 1800's.
They are now re-worked and erected as a pergola at a home over looking Lake George NY.
The wood slats for top will be installed in the spring. 
We have more antique post available if your interested please contact Ballard Road Art Studio, Wilton NY at 518-587-8706.

Custom is are game!

Sneak Peek - Elms College Borgia Gallery to Feature miChelle M. Vara’s “inVoices” Art Exhibit

New Works and Jewelry

The exhibit is open 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily from October 28 through November 16.

(Chicopee, Massachusetts)—The Borgia Gallery at Elms College will feature the work of miChelle m. Vara, titled inVoices, from October 28 through November 16, 2012. The artist’s reception will be held 12-2 p.m., November 16 in the gallery, located on the second floor of Mary Dooley College Center on the Elms College campus.

Thanks for the Fun!

Thank you all new and old acquaintances for a wonderful opening reception.

The music, food, work was perfect!  The energy was ecstatic and fun.

So many thanks for your participation and in-put!

~ I appreciate it!

North Bennington Art Park’s 15th Outdoor Sculpture Show

Opening reception- July 21^st 4 to 8pm

35 nationally acclaimed Artist, Food, Music, Ice cream, Live show

Located- Rt. 67 on the property’s around the post office

Show runs through October 13^th 2012

Horses Horses and more Saratoga Horses!

 

miChelle has created a large new inventory of sculpted horses for the opening of race season in Saratoga NY. The newly Published article reads (previously posted) about how meeting the artist is free family fun while vacationing in Saratoga. The artist has been welcoming visitors for more than 20 years, from around the country at the Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery, located Exit 16 off the Northway one mile East on the corner of Rt50 (you can’t miss it). The studio gallery has a large display of outdoor sculpture in various styles that are available for purchase. The artist works by commission and personal vision. Vara has 4 shows solo shows coming up so please visit again or go to http://www.michellevara.com/for the updated information and pictures.

If you are seeing this through some one else's site (hacked) please visit Vara's ACTUAL SITE:

HTTP://WWW.MICHELLEVARA.COM

-Thank you!

Experience Junkie

I’m reading about the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s relationship with artist Eduardo Chilida. I found there point of view very interesting and of my personal perception and thought.  I enjoy, look forward to, have many, I am always reaching for more experiences.  From those experiences I do build perception but with that also comes the art. My art is the heart of who I am. In this process I can say the journey reveals discovery leading to development of my works. Unlike Eduardo Chillida, I do not feel that experience is one foot in the past. I like to think that all of me even in reflection is in the present or the now.

This is the excerpt I am referring to:

Eduardo Chillida engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. When the two men met, they discovered that from different angles, they were "working" with space in the same way. Heidegger wrote: "We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place," and that sculpture is thereby "...the embodiment of places." Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.

Chillida has been quoted as saying: "My whole Work is a journey of discovery in Space. Space is the liveliest of all, the one that surrounds us. ...I do not believe so much in experience. I think it is conservative. I believe in perception, which is something else. It is riskier and more progressive. There is something that still wants to progress and grow. Also, this is what I think makes you perceive, and perceiving directly acts upon the present, but with one foot firmly planted in the future. Experience, on the other hand, does the contrary: you are in the present, but with one foot in the past. In other words, I prefer the position of perception. All of my work is the progeny of the question. I am a specialist in asking questions, some without answers."

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Art words

DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
I admit I do not know how to speak your language, that is, the language of your art.

 Nevertheless, I tell you that profoundly and still more profoundly, inside this heart of mine I feel a sentiment. The same as it was that day, when I saw an image for the very first time. Something touched my heart deeply: something happened inside me – without being aware of it - something that changed my life. Since then I felt that something was rushing and rushing inside me, through my veins, enrooted its seeds into my spine. 
I love art, trying to love it as love loves. I do not know any other reason to love art, rather than simply love art. What can I say, more than this? 
You know what I mean. I just want to say to you that anytime I talk – or write – about art is… that I love it. Sometimes I suffer that someone can just reply to what I’ve said and not to my love. Anyhow, as I told you, I do not take anything for granted: I will never ask art for more that it has decided to give me, don’t you?

Unknown author

Sidney Harris comic on recycled fashion

“Spring” Art Opening North Country Arts Center -March 16th

All are welcome to attend opening reception of the show called “Spring”                                  

March 16th at 6-8pm Opening Reception                                                                                                    

runs until                                                                                                                           

  April 28th 2-4pm Closing Reception

Reception- Aug 26th, “NEW YORK Narratives”

Juried Exhibit "NEW YORK NARRATIVES"
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Center, Glens Falls NY

Jurried Exhibit in compliment to the Hyde Collection’s
“New York, New York”the 20th Century~
Reception: Friday August 26th, 5-7pm
Show ends- September 23rd 2011

Snacks & Music by: Jonathan Newell

"Gone 2 Seed"- sculpture

“Gone to Seed” is the sculpture finished and shown for the month of June. This sculpture is made of re-thought metal finished with translucent flip flop color (that dosnt show well in photos) and clear. It opened at a show with John Van Alstine, Gyula Varosy, David Bender, Noah Savett, called “Metal Works” put on by: Jessica Golden. The opening reception was outstanding and the sculpture sold. Detail picture shown below-

A little about the sculpture- The artist says she woke one morning and looked across the sculpture field to see dandelions all in seed sparkling in the harsh morning sun. In the moment she remembered the 3 large buckets of bolts that had been acquired, thinking that would make the perfect material for an extra large sculpture construction. She worked feverishly to the finishing stage at which point she felt translucent flip flop color and clear coat would truly capture the original morning motivation.

Sculpture made of large recycled metal bolts, oil tank, welded. Finished in translucent flip flop sliver/blue and clear.
-Sold
Photos By: Jim Mclaughlin Studio 518-792-5175

Koi Fish are Fun

Koi Fish- Commissioned functioning sculpture, mail box holder made with recycled materials and finished in color.

Painting in the New Year

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