Me, Myself, and I opening this friday July first

    This is it.!! Zero hour week for putting it all together for the Opening Evening Blow-out...  Lots of
Art Work is being delivered to the gallery and audience participation performance pieces are being
constructed... The window display is up and, I must say, is FABULOUS..... and the evenings events
are growing and growing, thanks to Terri for Face2Face....   I'll be in town every day preparing for
the opening and exhibit.. Thank You everyone for creating their self portrait...you still have three days
to go !!!!!   see you ALL Friday evening July first at the Marshall Arts Center... Dress Theme is to
come as your "other" self....  ta da
lois simbach

simbach design: Me, Myself, and I

simbach design: Me, Myself, and I: "Call to all Madison County, NC artists.... Opening July 1st. 2011 - Self-Portraits of Madison County in 2011 - titled 'Me, Myself, and I'....."

Me, Myself, and I

Call to all Madison County, NC artists.... Opening July 1st. 2011 - Self-Portraits of Madison County in 2011 -
titled "Me, Myself, and I".. any media, any size...multi-media, performance, out-the-box, literary, fashion....
Any manner you want to portray yourself, but MUST be a "self" portrait. Pieces must be at the Arts Council the last week of June. Performance and such must meet with Arts Center's capabilities.
    Conceived as both an artistic exploration of SELF, and as a historical documentation of the people and talents in our community at the start of this new and fast moving decade.  Who's here now ?!!!?
    The exhibit will be up for 2 months July & August, during which several events involving participating artists will be scheduled and open to all.   call the arts center at 649-1301 for more info.
Curated by Lois Simbach

Ju-Ju Voo-Doo Dolls to New Orleans

     Coming up at the end of this month April is the annual Jazz Fest  in New Orleans.
I am busy busy sewing as many Ju-Ju Dolls to send to my Fabulous Accounts in the French Quarter,
RAZZLE DAZZLE  and BIJOU NOLA.  Both are beautiful shops run by Beautiful Women!!! right in
the heart of the quarter.  Go See.. and be sure to ask to see my Ju-Ju Dolls...I've been creating them
since the early 1980's.. each one is original and hand-made by Simbach Design..i.e. me!
     I am toying with variations and new Doll designs also, which I plan to list on ebay in the near future...
....I'll check to see exactly where they will be listed..perhaps a tag word will be "voodoo doll"?

     This is my concentration now for this SPRING month of April..Wild Flowers and Blossoms everywhere!
Lois Simbach 4-8-11

Paintings at Zuma Coffee - a HIT

   Thank you all for the compliments about my new work...  I was so excited while painting that I was actually dancing about my studio...This new road feels good and I have already begun more and have plans for two new series...   I will be looking for more venues to exhibit, so if any galleries out there like what they see, please contact me... also if anyone has any other ideas to share, please do...I am wanting to expand!!!
ps..this saturday November 20th at 7 pm at our Local Arts Council here in Marshall... we are having another
Fashion Show.. put on by the local designers, using local models, and making everyone beautiful!!!  These have become annual and even twice annual performance events... My fashion juices are bursting and I am creating a new line of tapestry dresses and jumpers...  hope you can make it...
lois simbach

artist statement for my painting exhibit

     For those of you who will not be able to find you way to Zuma Coffee in Marshall to see my new paintings.  Here are two versions of my artist statement that I will be posting on the wall...  I have choosen the top one.

Artist Statement:

     Emotions run deep in the forest.  They spring up from the earth to become waterfalls in the creek flowing across my face.

     The big questions can never be answered.

     I only ask for the strength and courage to continue and develop.

     This drives my work daily onward.

     Good friends push me to think bigger.  I thank you.  Keep pushing.

     The concentration it takes, the emotional excitement during these hours in the action of spontaneous painting, and the joy I receive looking at what has been created -  (by God, by Me, by Everyone) – I swear my heart will one day burst out of my chest in the wonderment and beauty of it all.

     lois simbach

                                   www.simbachdesign.com

               

Artist Statement:

     With a much needed kick in the pants from GOOD Friends, I am pushing myself to think bigger.  Studying many mentors to expand my little life here in the forest – where I can see the entire world in a one inch patch of dirt, realize our physical sameness in the veins of a leaf, and awaken to the awesomeness of god-stuff in the bear at my window.

     Sitting by my morning fireplace I am about to self-ignite with this new enthusiasm.  As the Thoreau quote, imbedded in cement on my home states, “Heaven is under out feet as well as over our heads.”

     These days Heaven is coming straight thru my arm into the

action of painting.

lois simbach

                                    www.simbachdesign.com