Completed Memorial Piece!

I just completed this piece for our dear friend Donald. It is a memorial piece for his husband/partner, Bob Poplawski who passed last year.

Donald liked one of my pieces with this top and we decided to make it a larger piece by adding the long base. The blue LED light runs through the base of the sculpture and the intensity of the light grips your heart on an emotionally level.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out and even though I did not know Bob, I know that he was an art lover and feel that it would have been something he would have loved.

Getting ready for 2nd sat oct 10 at the Kennedy with someof my fire sculptures!

New Studio Space!

I've recently moved my display studio space to the Kennedy Gallery and Art Center at 1114 20th St. The building is right next to Headhunters across from Faces. Its a beautiful space, with high ceilings and an opening feeling. I'm so excited because it gets a lot more traffic than the Sac Art Complex and it has more of a gallery feeling with acid washed floors, white walls, and the high ceilings.

I'm there with several of my artist friends including Michelle Mackenzie, my studio mate, Judith Monroe, Angela Ridgway, my work studio mate, Micheal Kennedy, Brenda Boles, Pat Orner and Kieth Hopkins, Phil Meyers and Susan Rabinowitz!

Come join on us for our grand opening on Jun 13th 2nd Saturday!

SN&R Newstands

This a the newstand I just finished for the Sacramento News & Review. 20 artists from the SAC decorated newstands and they will be on display April 11th 2nd Saturday at 2110 K. Street.

The wild paint job was done by Jessie Brooks and all the metal was done by me of course!

New Fire Tables!

I'm so excited about my new fire tables. I've created these cute little aluminum tables (all recycled metal) and they have a hole in the center for the Sunjel can! My good friend Kanika is making beautiful glazed ceramic rings to go in the center so that the heat is absorbed by the clay and not the metal.

My Favorite Pastime

Well besides actually being in my studio and making metal sculpture, my other favorite past time is looking for recycled metal for my sculptures.

As a metal sculptor, I use almost all recycled metal. The piece of metal becomes the inspiration for my work. How can I transform this industrial, greasy rusting castoff into a beautiful piece of art?

The color, shape, and texture all come together to inspire my creation. In a lot of cases I let the metal "talk" to me and it leads the way to the piece. In other situations I have a vision in my head and I go to the scrap yard envisioning the exact thing I need and about 90% of the time the scrap yard provides what I had in my head! Its an amazing thing that happens.

I love the process of walking through a football field full of bins with every kind of metal imaginable. Its like Christmas to walk up and see what is hiding in the next bin. And when I find the perfect treasure of punched out circles or copper tubing for my fire sculptures I'm elated! I love knowing that i'm doing just a little bit to contribute to helping out the environment by saving the metal from decomposing in some landfill for hundreds of years.



Look at the excitement in finding the perfect piece of expanded metal! Ha.

Fire Sculpture

Hi all,

It's been a while and my goal for this year is to update my blog regularly! One of my other goals is to make a big leap with the fire sculptures. I will be putting a lot of emphasis on the fire pieces and creating a variety of fire sculptures in different price points.

This is a recent commission I completed that incorporated several different designs. It uses alcohol gel for the flame source.

Stay tuned for more information!

Kristen