Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Finally! My Philly-Themed piece is in a New York City Show

Show & Tell: A unique evening of visual and performing arts

Time	Saturday, October 1 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm

	Studio 580 580 8th Avenue, 5th Floor (at 38th Street) New York, NY The LOVE piece will be in the show. Scroll through the posts if you haven't seen it, or come out to the show! All the food and drink will be pink--should be interesting! Also--I finished the Bird of Paradise painting on the wall a few weeks ago. (Except for one little baby stem!) It looks good. I've gotten a lot of compliments for beautifying the block, and it feels good. I can't wait to see it in the snow. Even the naked bike riders like it!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Poplar & Hancock get a floral facelift: August 2011

Neighborhood initiative in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia

(This was taken a few months after completion- don't worry, it didn't snow in August!)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Yards Brewery FIRST FRIDAY Featured Artist-June 3rd

Time	Friday, June 3 · 5:00pm - 10:00pm

Location	The Tasting Room @ Yards Brewery 901 N. Delaware Ave Philadelphia, PA

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Happy Hour Specials!!!!
Music by The Jazz Horses 7-9pm
Art/Paintings by Sarah Rado
Great beer, fun music, and glittery paintings!
(and it's Stu Kaplan's 30th Birthday)

Sunday, May 8, 2011

I have spent the past two months working on a new body of art experimenting with glitter, varnish, and feathers. I also screwed around with a clear silicone gel to have elements in the painting appear to "float". I showed my work at the open studios in my building (which is a natural success, I don't even have to do any promoting! Yay less work!) the verdict is that people gravitated towards this black painting, which you will see here. I believe I will do a series based on this painting. Next, I would like to do a bunch of large scale floral paintings, and then towards the end of the year I think I will start doing nude female portraits on abstract backgrounds. I guess I will see how it goes once I get my work hung in some local shops in Northern Liberties, but that's my gut instinct at this point. Also, the LOVE painting is finished after a year of working on it. I ended up peeling/ ripping the entire bottom half of the painting off the canvas and starting over, but I fixed it in two hours what I had been working on for four months so it worked out just fine.

Loving my new space at Liberty Vintage Motorcycles! We are planning on doing a big party for Trenton Ave Arts Fest/"Judgement Day" on May 21st.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

New Year, New Studio

Now that the whirlwind of the show has died down, I spent some time looking for a new studio during the rest of November. IRS was a great starting point for me, but I realize I need a larger area to work in since I would like to start painting larger scale (four feet plus). I am moving into a spot in Fishtown that shares a building with Liberty Vintage Motorcycles (coincidence?) near the Rocket Cat Cafe and a few other hip little businesses at Sepviva and Susquehanna. It used to be used for a performance art space for Extra Extra (that's what you'll find if you google the address). My good friend Delia King, who is on the Mural Arts program, is in the space above me and we are separated by a large set of stairs. When I moved in a few weeks ago, the walls were unfinished so I haven't been around much (that and I've been uber busy with other things like wrapping presents and trying to get ready for my big party). Anyway, it's in a cool part of town that I will easily be able to host open studios during Fishtown First Fridays, and I am looking forward to setting myself up, building some shelves and a desk, and getting organized. I always feel I am better able to accomplish things when I have a good feng shui going on, so I don't end up wasting time looking for things (blue glitter, army men etc) or getting distracted (with gold leaf, glue, etc).

I've pretty much taken December off from any artmaking at this point, I have a hard time staying motivated in cold weather and I don't like working at night (going to and from my car in the dark gives me that creepy feeling!)

When the space looks good enough for pictures, I will post :-)

Sunday, November 14, 2010

VIOLENCE and GLITTER: Show Opening

The opening for Violence and Glitter was packed. There were about 150 people who filtered in and out of the event over the course of a few hours. We received online publicity through Out of Print Magazine , Philly Weekly Online, Temple University News , Phillyist , and McJawn. Good news spreads! We also sold a few pieces at the show which was an extra bonus. Word of mouth, Facebook event invitations, blog entry, flyering, and posters in windows of all the local businesses (which I am lucky to have the support of, especially The Foodery, Liberties Parcel, and Druid's Keep). Liberties Parcel did all the printing--if anyone is interested, they're at 2nd and Brown and they use recyclable wax-based ink which is a new type of printing that is environmentally friendly.

If anyone has additional questions or comments or would like to purchase any work from the event OR stop in to see the show (appointment only) please shoot me an email at sarah.rado@alumni.tufts.edu

Thanks to all the artists who participated and made the event a diverse and interesting collection of work!

Enjoy the pictures!

Root 222 adds the first layer to their live painting

Meghan VanAlstyne's "Department of Weights and Measures" in the foreground

Sean Johnson's "Pinata Contest" on the flat screen

My favorite co-workers (Myssimae's Delicious cupcakes!)

Watching EL Putnam's "Fauxmance"

Reading about the Artists

Brett Scott spins favorites on vinyl

Jack Reed's "Glitter War Blood"

Yours Truly, with my painting, surrounded by Jesse Beamesderfer's brush paintings ("People watch out, Jesus is COMING!)

work by Carol McDonough, Sarah Rado, Delia King (Pornaments are for sale for $100 each, please email me for details, won't they look stunning on your Festivus Pole?!