Fall 2017
Go big or go home
Found a new way to show all things digital.
Motivated by an invite to a group show at FLYNNDOG. One of my favorite spots!
Motivated by an invite to a group show at FLYNNDOG. One of my favorite spots!
Oh, and another gig with Paula. Brilliant as always <3
Blue Rewind from PH Dance & Ers on Vimeo.
Winter 2016-17
The solstice brings change; both intense and beautiful...
2016: We are all made of stardust...
Carved a new piece for a group show called "The Artists' Family"
It's called "Cosmic Egg." Also worked on pretty stuff with visiting artists from France. :)
More later,
xo
Moving right along...
finding time to make stuff, while reading and
writing
writing
writing.
An exercise in multiplicities, no beginning and no end.
More later,
xo
finding time to make stuff, while reading and
writing
writing
writing.
An exercise in multiplicities, no beginning and no end.
More later,
xo
Winter 2014-15
Getting ready for a couple of new opportunities coming this winter.
First a group show at Burlington Beer...theme will be "Winter."
Next, my first SOLO show in February at the North End Studios!
Trying to concentrate on finishing up the semester, so I can get back to work. Here's a preview...
More later.
xo,
W
First a group show at Burlington Beer...theme will be "Winter."
Next, my first SOLO show in February at the North End Studios!
Trying to concentrate on finishing up the semester, so I can get back to work. Here's a preview...
More later.
xo,
W
October 2014
Still plugging away at the recycled/upcycled art.
Just signed on to be represented by the folks at
One Arts in Burlington. Very exciting!
Created a new piece especially for a one-night pop-up show at a mortuary in Montpelier.
facebook.com/MontpelierAlive
In case you missed it:
“…Absence is a house so transparent
that I, lifeless, will see you, living,
and if you suffer, my love, I will die again.”
-Pablo Neruda
Just signed on to be represented by the folks at
One Arts in Burlington. Very exciting!
Created a new piece especially for a one-night pop-up show at a mortuary in Montpelier.
facebook.com/MontpelierAlive
In case you missed it:
“…Absence is a house so transparent
that I, lifeless, will see you, living,
and if you suffer, my love, I will die again.”
-Pablo Neruda
August 2014
Well hello! It has been over a year since I posted any new work. I have been working, just not consistently. Hoping to rectify that now. :)
The pieces you see here were completed this summer for two different group shows. For one, the theme was "The Artist's Childhood." The other was open-ended, so I decided to do something with my collection of small bottles and packing tape. Yea, I know. :)
More later...
xo,
W
January 2013
HEY, how ya been?
I've been alternately studying for the GRE and making new work.
Oh yeah, and the holidaze... Crossing my fingers that it all sorts itself out, and I'll have some interesting objects d' art to put on the wall in a couple of weeks.
Hope to see you there!
xo
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New Work: Canvas, Collage, and Textiles
by Kecia Gaboriault and Winnie Looby
Rose Street Artisits' Cooperative and Gallery
Opening Reception: JANUARY 4 ... from 6 to 9 pm
*Showing by appointment through the month of January
Contact: [email protected]
HEY, how ya been?
I've been alternately studying for the GRE and making new work.
Oh yeah, and the holidaze... Crossing my fingers that it all sorts itself out, and I'll have some interesting objects d' art to put on the wall in a couple of weeks.
Hope to see you there!
xo
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New Work: Canvas, Collage, and Textiles
by Kecia Gaboriault and Winnie Looby
Rose Street Artisits' Cooperative and Gallery
Opening Reception: JANUARY 4 ... from 6 to 9 pm
*Showing by appointment through the month of January
Contact: [email protected]
A few shots from the gallery.
The opening reception went really well; only a couple of panic attacks-- ha ha :)
Get in touch if you want to stop by.
More later,
xo
The opening reception went really well; only a couple of panic attacks-- ha ha :)
Get in touch if you want to stop by.
More later,
xo
June 2012
A couple of shows are in the works for later in the year. Still figuring out what to make for them. I'm really motivated to produce new stuff, but still have no idea what it's supposed to look like. That's the best part actually.
In the meantime, here are a few bits and pieces. More later... xo
(She's a marionette...shh)
December 2011
(A neighbor added the sofa. I like it!)
Rose Street Gallery Presents Holiday Art Show and Sale.
Artists include Matthew Thorsen, Mr. Masterpiece, Winnie Looby, Melissa Knight,
Ethan and Jesse Azarian.
Mixed-Media, Paintings, Photography and Batik Fabric Collage.
Show runs through December with a preview Friday December 2nd, 5-9pm and Opening Reception Saturday December 3, 5-9pm.
The show can also be viewed by appointment.
Contact: Ted Looby 802-540-0376 or [email protected]
Artist Information:
Ethan Azarian - www.ethanazarian.net
Melissa Knight - www.batikbydesign.com
Matthew Thorsen - www.matthewthorsen.com
Winnie Looby - http://artmapburlington.com/artistdatabase/?portfolio=winnie-looby
Mr. Masterpiece - https://www.facebook.com/lindsay.vezina
Artists include Matthew Thorsen, Mr. Masterpiece, Winnie Looby, Melissa Knight,
Ethan and Jesse Azarian.
Mixed-Media, Paintings, Photography and Batik Fabric Collage.
Show runs through December with a preview Friday December 2nd, 5-9pm and Opening Reception Saturday December 3, 5-9pm.
The show can also be viewed by appointment.
Contact: Ted Looby 802-540-0376 or [email protected]
Artist Information:
Ethan Azarian - www.ethanazarian.net
Melissa Knight - www.batikbydesign.com
Matthew Thorsen - www.matthewthorsen.com
Winnie Looby - http://artmapburlington.com/artistdatabase/?portfolio=winnie-looby
Mr. Masterpiece - https://www.facebook.com/lindsay.vezina
March 2011
Together with my good friend
Leslie C. Baker, I had some new work up at Nunyans Bakery and Cafe for the month of March. Some old and new,
re-configured and, egad... framed.
It was tricky balancing my need for honest storytelling, and the "honesty threshold" of the general cafe-going public. I think we did a good job!
One of my goals for the coming year is to seek out new exposure opportunities.
If you have any ideas, send them my way :)
Leslie C. Baker, I had some new work up at Nunyans Bakery and Cafe for the month of March. Some old and new,
re-configured and, egad... framed.
It was tricky balancing my need for honest storytelling, and the "honesty threshold" of the general cafe-going public. I think we did a good job!
One of my goals for the coming year is to seek out new exposure opportunities.
If you have any ideas, send them my way :)
More stuff that's keepin' me busy...
I 've been doing some costume design for Theatre Mosaic Mond. We're working on George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession for a production in May. Next will be Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, for a production in the fall.
Oh, and then there's dancing, and a lot of it. I have been honored to be a part of the Big Action Performance Ensemble while we're working on a project called Everyone Can Dance.
I have been stretching every muscle--bodily, psychically, and spiritually for the last several months, and it's been a blast!
More later...
xo
Oh, and then there's dancing, and a lot of it. I have been honored to be a part of the Big Action Performance Ensemble while we're working on a project called Everyone Can Dance.
I have been stretching every muscle--bodily, psychically, and spiritually for the last several months, and it's been a blast!
More later...
xo
2010
ArtPM Challenge
Four new pieces of artwork, completed in the month of February.
One piece to hang with the other survivors.
Rose Street Artist's Cooperative and Gallery
78 Rose Street/ Burlington, VT
And the winner is...
I decided to keep with my current installation fixation, and complete four "teeny tiny" ones by the end of the challenge. Finished with days to spare, they are contained in wooden boxes of varying dimensions. The one that I included in the showing was of a bubble bath. Materials used: glass soapdish, plastic and glass beads, beeswax (for candles, ooh lah lah!) a mirror, paper and ribbon. Two of them have working lights.
This was lots of fun and got my butt in gear.
This was lots of fun and got my butt in gear.
2009
The Word Show/ Visual art infused with words
***A very nice review by the Vermont Art Zine! http://vermontartzine.blogspot.com/
Axel Stohlberg /Winnie Looby/ Roger Coleman
Alman Arguelles/ Jon Turner/ P.K. Ellis
Drew Cameron/ Maggie Standley/ Sharon Webster
November 5, 2009- January 2, 2010
Flynndog Gallery
www.flynndog.net
208 Flynn Ave. Burlington, VT
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"At first, Winnie Looby's enormous piece comes off as a collage of random elements on paper - images, thoughts, notes, events, drawings - tacked together and framed on top by a painting of a pelvis and on the right by one of a skeleton, and on the left by a beautiful cascading paper river of painted words, which turns out to be Neruda's poem, Los Nacimientos (births). It's the reading of the poem: We will never remember dying. We are so patient about being, noting down the numbers, the days, the years and the months, the mouths we kissed...that suggests the nature of the collage: these are the artist's notes of her being, the numbers, the months etc."
(Vermont Art Zine, review by Riki Moss/Dec. 4, 2009)
(Vermont Art Zine, review by Riki Moss/Dec. 4, 2009)
2006 and earlier
c.W.Looby 2009 All rights reserved
Most of this work was completed between 2005-6. My medium of choice at the time was acrylic on canvas. I was also experimenting with sculptural installation. I'm hoping to return to that at some point. There were some specific reasons for the images that I came up with, but I don't think it's that important to talk about. It either provokes a response or it doesn't, you know?