Reception – Saturday, May 25th from 3-6pm Shoebox Projects 660 South Avenue 21 #3 LA Ca 90031 Live Performance @4:30pm Memory. Loss. Trauma. Pain. Love. Anger. Thrill. Anxiety. Obsession. Seeking Connectivity. Constructing Consciousness. I am a compilation of knowledge, experiences and beliefs being constantly broken up and rearranged throughout life’s unexpected turns. Everything that is… Continue reading Artist In Residence | Solo Show “Peripheral Nerve”
Tag: experimentation
Twilight On The Pier / Live Painting
This past September into October, I was honored to be a part of the annual Twilight On The Pier art and music festival on the Santa Monica Pier in Southern California! I was one of three artists painting live and it was my first experience working outside the studio with it’s benefits and limitations. Here… Continue reading Twilight On The Pier / Live Painting
Studio Update: Tying Together
Getting fired up in the studio! This fabric series is really transforming and I’m starting to make some visual and visceral connections between my current experiments and both finished an unfinished projects from the past. I’ve been obsessed with voids and holes, with shapes both pushing forward and receding back into space. Let me begin… Continue reading Studio Update: Tying Together
Artist Feature // Asymmetric Magazine
Artist Feature in Asymmetric Magazine 2017 An excerpt from the interview: AM: We love your layering and use of mixed media! Can you tell us a bit about your process for creating a new piece and choosing materials? KC: In my studio, I always foster an environment of playfulness. I make no preliminary sketches or… Continue reading Artist Feature // Asymmetric Magazine
Stitched Stagnation: New Drawing Series
This series was created for my most recent show in downtown Los Angeles at Basic Flowers as part of Wet Silk: Illustrated Edition. Touching back to sewing paper with the new addition of vellum as a layering device. The process began with a small old drawing from my study abroad trip to France back in… Continue reading Stitched Stagnation: New Drawing Series
“Deceptive Clarity” – EN EM Art Space – Sacramento, CA
En Em Art Space is pleased to present joint solo exhibitions of new works by Joyce Nojima and Kayla Cloonan. Please join us October 10th, 6 – 9 pm for a reception. We hope to see you there! “Deceptive Clarity explores the fine line between chaos and energetic expression. Cloonan’s paintings – which consist of… Continue reading “Deceptive Clarity” – EN EM Art Space – Sacramento, CA
Artist Journal #26
7/2/15 < Sheets > It’s about the fabric, its history, the palette it offers in color. Three larger paintings, stretched unevenly so that the edges of the wood shows. One pink, one green, one blue. < Paper > It’s about the shapes, the isolation of the space, the illusion of atmospheric relations. the final layers… Continue reading Artist Journal #26
Progress in the Studio: Work for EN EM Art Space
Finally photographed some of the stuff I’ve been working on in the studio the last few months. This is work for a series to be shown at my first show with my new representing gallery EN EM Art Space! The show is in Sacramento, CA and will be on display from October 1 – November… Continue reading Progress in the Studio: Work for EN EM Art Space
UPDATE: Involvement in ‘The Sketchbook Project’
Following up with my involvement in The Sketchbook Project in 2014! I now have access to their Digital Library documentation of my sketchbook. It feels like forever ago, but the ideas from that little book are still pulsing in my studio. The energy, the shapes and the experimentation with media continue to translate. My sketchbook… Continue reading UPDATE: Involvement in ‘The Sketchbook Project’
Soaked Strings
Drawings from the series “Soaked Strings” Soaked strings, streams of ink thick and thin. Clumps and pools, and vast deserts of empty space. The marks are an attempt at harmony and yet with a furious dissonance. Quick energetic marks play with the subtitles of each pigments application. The crumbling, gritty and dried-out quality of the… Continue reading Soaked Strings
Kal L. Cloonan 