July 1, 2009  Happy Summer! Hello friend! Thanks for stopping by, new works are up now!

I'll be sharing adventures from my road trip around the US in July and August on my facebook fan page or my blog. Perry Hoffman was so kind to make a fan page for me after I kept saying I didn't want to be on facebook. It is so fun to get offers to have house parties for my art and/or music in Santa Monica, Van Nuys, Santa Clarita, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Portland, Wisconsin, Kansas City, San Antonio, Washington D.C., Western Mass.,. What fun! I'm really grateful for my community of friends, art customers and fans all over the country!

here is my schedule so far:

house concerts and art shows: (let me know if you want the details or addresses of some of these, we are not putting the addresses on line of all the shows since they are people's houses)

Santa Clarita, CA, , July 5, Sunday, pot luck 6:00 PM, house concert 7:30 PM

Culver City, CA, July 7 garden art sale at Joyce Davis' house noon-2pm, with lunch at a restaurant after for anyone who wants to join us

Santa Barbara, CA, July 10, Friday, house concert, 7 PM at Perry Hoffman's house

Santa Cruz, CA: house concert to be announced (probably Thursday, July 14)

Portland, house concert/art sale: to be announced (sometime the week of july 19)

Minneapolis, MN house concert/poetry reading/art sale at Terri Ford's house if her landlord oks it! (end of July)

Madison Wisconsin art sale and party, to be announced (end of July or early August)

Washington D.C. house concert (not for sure yet but hopefully)

Kansas City, house concert, art sale (sometime after August 20)

San Antonio, Texas house concert (not for sure but if so, sometime after August 23)

 

 

Thanks for visiting my good and sturdy art gallery! My art is 95% trash, made from stuff I find on the ground, at yard sales and thrift stores, broken stuff and stuff friends send me.  This art is made in my studio in Joshua Tree, California.

 

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I FEEL PRETTY

14" x 13"  $200

written in march, 2002, when i lived in kansas city and just visited my cabin for vacation getaways: Ingredients: old crate from out at the cabin; pencils, erasers, fish lure and watch bands from ramona otto of santa monica; wire from jennifer field of kansas city, mo; things i found on the ground (old sun-baked plastic); the mirror at the cabin which ramona gave me, which sadly broke when a gust of wind blew it over, love from shari

made in my cabin in morongo valley, CA, march 2002

I want this

from shari's private collection

 

ELVIS AND HIS CHICKEN

Elvis: "wanna play yahtzee?"

Chicken: "ok, but you always cheat"

14" x 19.5"  $125

Ingredients: board from constance walsh of pioneertown, ca; chicken from sandy crouse of ohio, same for the wood frame pieces (made for quilters to cut their squares--6" and 5"); other wood from my scrap boxes; eyes and elvis wood hair from the yucca valley swap meet; pull tabs on back from the cats' food; letters from sales and ebay and from friends, love from shari

 

SOLD (mahalo Hans Riecke on Maui, HI)

 

 

BOB

WELCOME FISH

9.5 x 7"  $45

15" x 9" $60

Ingredients: nancy fuller's old fence in LA; glitter, raisin canister lids and checkers from sandy crouse of ohio; sparkly mineral dust from pam and sue's estate sale in yucca valley; eyes from ebay; puka shells from a necklace i got at a sale, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Miss Terri Ford the Glory of the Continent in Minneappolis, MN)

SOLD (thank you Laura Archer in Calabasas, CA)

 

 

WELCOME FISH

 

 

14" x 7"  $45

Ingredients: old fence from a fence company in DHS; chocolate covered peanut can lid from sandy crouse of ohio; eye from ebay; pulltab on back from the art queen kitties' food, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Harriet Ratner in Santa Monica, CA)

 

 

 

ME AND MY MONKEY

22.5" x 15.5"  $150

Ingredients: board from out at the cabin; frame wood from my old neighbor, santo dimaggio's porch remodeling job in kansas city; water bottle caps; book ends from a three rivers thrift store and made from redwood; cutting board from the evangelical free church rummage sale; scrabble tiles from nichole fromm in wisconsin and some sales; string from sandy crouse of ohio; door stop from a sale; rusty can lid from the desert; eyes from suzanne jenkins of md, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Michael Blackwell in Palm Springs, CA)

made in morongo valley, CA, april 2005, reworked in june 2009

 

GIRL POWER

5" x 5.5"  $75

Ingredients: board from my cabin; glitter from ebay; pearls from the swap meet; pull tab from the cats' food,

love and strength from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Kate Melina)

 

 

THIS WAY TO THE FUN

14" x 8.5" (cross makes it 2.5" taller)  $150

Ingredients: this old box from the yucca valley swap meet; bridesmaids and jesus figures from the thrift stores of the desert and friends; letters from ebay and the swap meet and sales; cross from sandy crouse or bianca juarez of chicago, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Joyce Wensley in Delta, BC)

it was so nice to be there that day that joyce stumbled upon the crochet museum on her visit from BC, Canada last month. it was a week i was trying my new plan of working on art 20 hours a week instead of 10. that was the same week Rainn Wilson came by and twittered about me and my art (and i got something like 5,000 hits on my website the next day). well, my 20 hours of art making per week only lasted 2 weeks, but good things came out of it. p.s. it is raining in the desert now, heavenly!

 

 

 

 

DOG IS EVERYWHERE

41" x 20"  $400

Ingredients: cool old rusty metal frame thing from way out in wonder valley during high desert test sites a few years ago and which i have been saving for a special piece; paintings from the stuff we got for art queen from moby dick's art collection, i don't think he painted those paintings, he did folk art and would sign his name on paintings he found (like someone we know); wood from art queen storage; glass eyes from ebay; pearls from the swap meet; wooden beads from sandy crouse of ohio, love from shari

SOLD (thank you anonymous)

 

GOD

15" x 11"  $40

Ingredients: lovely unsigned portrait of hilary clinton from robert fischer's yard sale in palm springs a few months ago; vintage pink german glass glitter from ebay, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Miss Terri Ford the Glory of the Continent in Minneappolis, MN)

 

QUEEN OF THIS PALACE

23" x 13"  $250

Ingredients: wood from the recycle yard in santa monica; picket fence from the side walks of alta dena; electrical cord which i found in a thrift store in yucca valley, ca; take out food container; rocks from bourget brothers in santa monica; milk bottle caps from nancy fuller and david and jesse; and apple juice bottle caps from wild oats; pearls from laura at john muir flea market; old rope from some place, love, as always, from shari

SOLD (thank you Susan Sarris in Riverside, CA)

from shari's private collection! made in february of 1999

 

 

 

WELCOME TO THE BATHROOM

8 x 8"  $75

Ingredients: board from art queen storage; beads and jewels and glitter from sandy crouse of ohio and friends and the swap meet; shells and bracelet from the swap meet; wire on back from pam and sue's estate sale, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Patti Neighmond in Los Angeles, CA)

 

DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY

WELCOME FISH

12" x 6"  $40 (don't worry be happy)

11.5 x 7" $50 (welcome)

Ingredients:old fences from nancy fuller of los angeles and a fence company in DHS; raisin canister lids and glitter from sandy crouse of ohio; mineral dust from pam and sue's estate sale in yucca valley; eyes from ebay; pull tabs on back from the art queen kitties' food, love from shari



SOLD (thank you Jacqui Hecht in Bellaire, TX)

 

MAN LISTENING

5.5" x 6"  $50

Ingredients: cut wood from a box of those from the yucca valley swap meet; pulltab on back from the cats, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Susie Saunders in Los Angeles, CA)

 

YES WE CAN

4.5" x 6"  $50

Ingredients: smashed can from a dirt road in joshua tree, ca, i think, wire i also found someplace in the desert; glitter from the YV swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Jean Shreve in Friday Harbor, WA)

 

 

 

 

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