{"id":22752,"date":"2015-07-24T22:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T05:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=22752"},"modified":"2016-06-02T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T05:02:13","slug":"push-through-the-messiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/push-through-the-messiness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;push through the messiness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon11.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon1\" width=\"584\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon11.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon11-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3695189\/height\/26\/width\/584\/theme\/standard-mini\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" width=\"584\" height=\"26\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m talking to\u00a0Portland based artist,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Congdon<\/a>. Yep, Portland! She just moved from her long time home of San Francisco&#8230; oh, and for the &#8216;speed round&#8217;, please note the\u00a0&#8216;California&#8217; tattoo on her arm in the photo above.\u00a0Alright, listen right up there, or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a>. As you&#8217;re listening, you can take a peek\u00a0at the things that Lisa and I\u00a0talked about, in the order that we talked about them. If you&#8217;re not listening, I&#8217;ll be honest&#8230; this post won&#8217;t make much sense!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, let&#8217;s do this. This is the glamorous &#8220;recording studio&#8221;\u00a0that I mentioned right off the bat:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon9.png\" alt=\"lisacongdon9\" width=\"584\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon9.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon9-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon9-298x300.png 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Very<\/em> high tech. <em>{Oh, and I mentioned the interview she and her wife Clay just did on the<a href=\"http:\/\/beingboss.club\/podcast\/podcast-episode-26-better-together-with-lisa-congdon-and-clay-walsh\" target=\"_blank\"> Being Boss podcast<\/a>, which you can listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/beingboss.club\/podcast\/podcast-episode-26-better-together-with-lisa-congdon-and-clay-walsh\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.}<\/em> I asked if she still had the first painting she ever did&#8230; this is the\u00a0first\u00a0still life painting\u00a0from the first painting class she took\u00a0<em>{just for fun}<\/em> in her early 30&#8217;s. She did this in 2001:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon2.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon2\" width=\"584\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon2-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love it! <em>{thanks for sharing this little gem, Lisa!} <\/em>This next piece was part of the\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">2012 Dorothy Saxe Invitational Exhibition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecjm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contemporary Jewish Museum<\/a> in San Francisco:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22901\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon31.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon3\" width=\"584\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon31.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon31-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gorgeous! And what an amazing full circle moment when her teacher stumbled\u00a0upon this at that show, years after teaching her how to paint! So cool. I also wanted to include a bunch of her <a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/portfolio\/fine-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\">current abstract work<\/a>, along with some of my favorites of her mixed media pieces from a few years back <em>{that large abstract below makes me think of the &#8220;painting curve&#8221; that she talks about}<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon4.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon4\" width=\"584\" height=\"1998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon4.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon4-88x300.jpg 88w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon4-299x1024.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love. And then we had to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/category\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\">her books<\/a>,\u00a0because there are <em>so<\/em> many of them &#8230;\u00a0this isn&#8217;t even all of them! These are just the ones we had time to talk about:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon51.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon5\" width=\"584\" height=\"2827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon51.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon51-62x300.jpg 62w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, they&#8217;re all so great! The new swimming book {&#8220;<span class=\"s1\"><i>The Joy of Swimming: A Celebration of Our Love for Getting in the Water&#8221;} <\/i>is going to be gorgeous, and\u00a0will be out next Spring! Ok, next&#8230;\u00a0<\/span>I asked her what she loves drawing the most:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon62.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon62.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon6\" width=\"584\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon62.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon62-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon62-548x1024.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patterns and flowers, obviously! Those images above are directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/portfolio\/sketchbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">her sketchbook<\/a>. Also directly from her sketchbook?\u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/new-fabric-collection-with-cloud9\/\" target=\"_blank\">gorgeous new line of textiles<\/a>\u00a0that she made with <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud9fabrics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud 9 Fabrics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon71.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon71.png\" alt=\"lisacongdon7\" width=\"584\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon71.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon71-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder when she sleeps? And finally, this is the sketchbook course she was talking about:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon8.jpg\" alt=\"lisacongdon8\" width=\"584\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon8.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lisacongdon8-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find info for these classes here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebug.com\/workshop\/sketchbook-explorations\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sketchbook Explorations&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebug.com\/workshop\/basic-line-drawing-with-lisa-congdon\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Line Drawing&#8221; <\/a><em>{and there is a new &#8220;Sketchbook Explorations&#8221; class starting this fall, so keep an eye out for that}<\/em> Phewf! She is a busy lady, and that was an action packed post!\u00a0Thanks so much to <a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saatchi Art<\/a> for supporting this episode, and to you for looking \u2018n listening.\u00a0The next episode will be ready for your artsy ears next Saturday.<\/p>\n<h5><em>*The top-most photo of Lisa was taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portraitstothepeople.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Deragon<\/a>, and the two photos of Lisa painting the large abstract were taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgirlbybay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Smith<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I\u2019m talking to\u00a0Portland based artist,\u00a0Lisa Congdon. Yep, Portland! She just moved from her long time home of San Francisco&#8230; oh, and for the &#8216;speed round&#8217;, please note the\u00a0&#8216;California&#8217; tattoo on her arm in the photo above.\u00a0Alright, listen right up there, or subscribe on iTunes. As you&#8217;re listening, you can take a peek\u00a0at the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[766,269,3,8,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22752"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25783,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions\/25783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}