Current Group Shows:

• "Groundbreaking: The Women of the Sylvia Sleigh Collection"

at Rowan University Art Gallery

Also featuring selections from the "The Sister Chapel" installation

August 29 – October 1, 2011

Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 6th, 2011, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Featuring:

Princess Dorothea

• "(Dis)covering the Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces"

Jennifer Heath, Curator
Cyrus Running Gallery
August 28 - September 25, 2011

Featuring:

The Fantasy Series with the animation.

• THE VEIL:Visible and Invisible Spaces
  

July 31- October 9, 2011

The Art Museum of the University of Kentucky

• ECCENTRIC PORTRAITS
  

Exhibition Dates: September 9 - October 16, 2011, with the Opening Reception on Saturday, September 10, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Curators Talk: Sunday, October 9, 3:00 pm, Curators Talk at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 - 6:00 pm

Featuring:

more teacups

New Tea Cup

Did you ever go to an Argo Tea Shop? They are all over NYC. I love their cups. This is my version of their small hot cup.

Today's Work - Little Betty Jane collages

I made some collograph prints of Little Betty Jane. I used my baby press that I got for my last birthday. It came a few months late, but it is still hard to believe that I hadn't had time until now to really figure out how to use it. I posed her and put her on the vintage images I got at the Antique Garage market on Sunday. Then I put them on other images...
This one is put behind a Dover Book illustrated border.


This one uses a page from a book I have on French decorative patterns. I actually cut it out of one of my favorite books.

more teacups

As you know, I have been working on teacups. This is the second cup - a yellow cup with flowers that I bought at the Antique Garage Market. It is from Japan - I think. There are three versions. Some very sketchy, one more finished. I have glued the painted paper cups onto reproductions from these magazines that I bought at the Met for $1.00 each. I like the added meaning. They are all about 5 inches square. The last one is circular.

testing embedded vimeo

Childhood Reverie from Elizabeth Bisbing on Vimeo.

I just opened a vimeo account. This is a very early - very rough version of the video animation I am working on.

small clip

For some reason, I am having trouble uploading video. I made a very, very short clip of my newest project entitle "Childhood Reveries." Maybe I should change that to childish reveries. Don't know. In this piece, Little Betty Jane will be trying on all the fantasy cards that were in my last exhibition. She also does cartwheels, dances, and ....

This link should work. If it doesn't - let me know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqaIq0bRBXY