posted: February 14, 2012

Here are a few experimental items that I painted on stupid wooden plaques from the crafts store.  The romantic, bucolic, colonial past at work and leisure.
 
All drawnings reinterpreted from 19th Century French Advertising cuts.

posted: December 21, 2011

Announcing the first ever FIEDLER&FIEDLER exhibition!  Joseph Daniel and Eryka Fiedler have conjoined to create an exhibition that is part of the WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL, an annual event sponsored by Nevada County's SYCRL.  SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival inspires people and unites communities to heal the earth.  Through these films, Wild & Scenic both informs people about the state of the world and inspires them to take action. The Festival raises resources and awareness for SYRCL’s initiatives to recover California’s wild salmon and to protect and restore the Yuba River. And SYRCL’s Film Festival On Tour serves as a national platform for local environmental advocacy.!

Both Eryka and I deconstruct nature on a path divergent from traditional "nature art": I through quasi-documentary Field Guide parodies and she through a transfiguration that stems from the molecular to the intensely physical and lands squarely in the mythical. This marks the first time that Eryka and I have shown our work together and we are excited for the debut! The exhibition is part of a larger, curated exhibition including over 50 artists in over 30 venues in and around Nevada City for the duration on the Film Festival and is sponsored in part by Nevada County Arts.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FIEDLER & FIEDLER
December 18, 2011-January 16, 2012
Miners Foundry Nevada City Box Office
325 Spring Street
Nevada City, CA 95959

WED-SAT: Noon-5PM
Come Check it out-great sushi [Sapporro on TAP!!] and local wines on the same block too

posted: November 29, 2011

These are my rejected entries to SOI 54. All thirteen of them.  How many did I get in?  None. My very good year has just turned to shit. Don't enter THIRTEEN!

posted: October 17, 2011

…Or another kind of Process.
 
Ever since Ken Burns got me to read John Muir, I’ve been on a quest for wild.  My wild probably isn’t as wild as yours or Keith’s but it speaks to me.  Last week I drove up to Oregon to see Crater Lake National Park, which closes for the season  today.  It’s the deepest lake on the United States containing the purest water on earth (since the crater is not filled by any stream-only snow and rain).  If emptied, it would provide every person on earth with 700 gallons of the purest water available on our planet. We are very fortunate here in CA as we have so much to see within the state itself.  I think it’s important to see the wildest our world has to offer and the food at the lodge was terrific too!
 
Since Crater Lake Lodge has no Internet service and cell reception was spotty at best, naturally on return there was a job commission email waiting-past due.  Apparently, crime stats in the now uber famous Treme section of New Orleans led some researchers to investigate the correlation between NFL policies and practices and crime reduction in certain neighborhoods. Could I do it for tomorrow?  Well, ten years ago, I’d probably have to punt that one but I was unflagged, especially since it’s an old client who knows me and it’s exciting to rise to a challenge even so small.
 
For the first time ever I did a verbal pitch and it worked. I said Badda-Bing! And the AD said Fuckin’A!
 
Dose of the wild!
 
All photos © Nancy Jean Nelson except Nutcracker and Lodge/Lake view.