Constructed Drwaing 00401 © Heidi Van Weiren

One of the great pleasures of my gig at the New York Times Local, is having a chance to meet all sorts of interesting artists and art professionals. Heidi Van Weiren is no exception.

Heidi’s work has been on my radar for a while; I’ve been drawn to her dreamy landscapes since first seeing them at Margaret Thatcher Projects in Chelsea a few years back. I imediately felt a kinship with her use of glue as a medium (the very first paintings in my Nowhere Here -2006 series were composed using glue as the layering medium).

Heidi — a native to western Michigan as well — will be joining me and over 1200 other artists in Grand Rapids, Mich. later this month, as we all take part in this very interesting experiment that is ArtPrize. I thought it would be interesting to look at what it takes to break into the New York art market as an outsider.

Read what she has to say…

Badlands 00701 © Heidi Van Weiren

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"The Ship" by Cheol Yu Kim

You may have noticed some changes around here.

All you generous souls who have bookmarked or linked to my blog may be surprised to see a new blog in town. No, no — don’t go! You’re in the right place! Running With Scissors, my sweet baby blog, is no more. In its place is an all-grown-up blog: Nowhere Here.

There were a few reasons I wanted to make this move: Mainly, I wanted to switch from the free, hosted version of WordPress.com to hosting my own blog on WordPress.org. That got me thinking about the title. I always liked Running With Scissors — and I still think it would be a great title for a show — but I was facing some stiff Google competition with a book and movie of the same name!

Nowhere Here was a natural choice of name for me, and I have Rachael Faillace to thank!

Rachael is an artist herself and curator of the Mikhail Zakin Gallery, which is associated with the Art School at Old Church in Demarest, New Jersey. She invited me to do a show with Brooklyn-based artist Cheol Yu Kim — and titled it “Nowhere Here.”

I’ve always felt like Rachael’s enigmatic title captured my work so well — so I was delighted that when I told her I’d like to use Nowhere Here as the title for my new blog, she gave me her blessing!

So here’s to new beginnings!

Rachael Faillace

Installation shots of the Nowhere Here exhibition

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