Kay Healy

Opening Reception at Moore College of Art

2012-01-28T16:29:00.003-05:00

PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, is pleased to present Introduction 2012, an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA). The exhibition, presented at the Widener Foundation Memorial Gallery, is on view February 1st through 25th with an Opening Reception on Wednesday, February 1st from 6 – 8 PM.

CFEVA’s Career Development Program is a highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate. This year’s applicant pool was 352 artists with just 6 new Fellows being selected. These six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region: Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Moore College of Art and Design
Widener Foundation Memorial Gallery
20th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Hours: Mon – Fri, 11 AM – 7 PM, Sat 11 AM– 5 PM

Peggy's Clock

2012-01-20T14:24:00.002-05:00

Peggy had a gold clock from the early 1960s that hung in her kitchen. She remembers when she was five her Dad took her and her cousins out for ice cream and they were out until 2:00 a.m. Her father pointed to this clock and told her it was the latest she had ever been up. As she grew older she would join her whole family who would often stay up until at least 3:00 a.m. every night.

Two layer screenprint on paper and fabric, 13.5 inches in diameter.

Fern Pattern

2012-01-18T21:25:00.001-05:00

I am making a fern pattern for the background of the dining room. Peggy has a vivid memory of her mother's striking red hair against the deep green of this wallpaper.

Frank's Coffee Percolator

2012-01-16T18:01:00.002-05:00

7" x 7" screenprinted on fabric and paper.

CFEVA Fellowship

2012-01-12T20:52:00.000-05:00

I recently found out that I was accepted as a CFEVA Fellow, so for the next two years they will be coordinating exhibitions of my work along with the other Fellows and helping me network to galleries and art collectors. I'm very excited to be a part of this wonderful program!

Kim's Teapot and Creamer

2012-01-11T20:48:00.002-05:00

Just finished printing Kim's teapot and creamer on paper and fabric. Kim still has these two pieces of china that her grandfather purchased in Japan during WWII. Kim's sister had broken many of them and was going to throw the whole set away, but Kim saved these two pieces before they went in the trash.

Finished Sewn Pieces

2012-01-03T19:03:00.003-05:00

These are some pieces that have finally completed the process of being drawn, screenprinted, sewn, stuffed, resewn, and edged for the exhibition at the Airport and Paradigm Gallery.

The photo above are of the Blue Teapot, my childhood Salad Spinner, Leroy's Cathedral Radio and Kim's Armchair.

Piano sewing progress

2011-12-26T12:39:00.003-05:00

Piano

2011-12-22T19:26:00.003-05:00

I printed the keys for fabric pianos today to be sewn and stuffed. This is Frank's piano, which he used to have lessons on when he was a child. His father was a duop singer for a band called the Vespars and encouraged Frank's musical pursuits.

Solstice Card

2011-12-13T21:39:00.002-05:00

Finished printing an edition of these cards for the upcoming Solstice.

Layer One

2011-12-06T20:42:00.003-05:00

Split fountain first layer for my 2011 Solstice card.

Sewing Shin Dig

2011-12-02T16:53:00.003-05:00

I had some great ladies helping me trapunto new furniture pieces last night at my studio. More Sewing Parties will follow.

Sewing

2011-11-29T21:45:00.005-05:00

I've been sewing all of the pieces for the airport exhibition in preparation for a trapunto get-together on Thursday evening at my studio.

Print Center Talk and Demo

2011-11-14T16:10:00.000-05:00

This photo is from my Print Center Store talk and Trapunto demonstration on November 12. Everyone left with their own stuffed outlet or light switch and learned about my many projects about displacement and home.

Print Center Talk and demo

2011-11-11T21:42:00.001-05:00

Just a reminder to come to my talk at the Print Center tomorrow, Saturday November 12 at 2:00 PM. First twenty people to arrive get a take-away trapunto demonstration piece.

Printed Repeat Pattern

2011-11-07T18:09:00.001-05:00

Finished printing a custom drawn repeat image for curtains. The print is of 13 different countries and the pattern is related to the population of each country (1 line = 100,000 people).

Outlets and Light Switches

2011-10-31T20:24:00.005-04:00

Just printed a new set of outlets and light switches. I will sew the fabric pieces for a trapunto stuffing demo during my talk at The Print Center on November 12 at 2:00 PM.

The Doors

2011-10-29T17:30:00.002-04:00

Life-sized doors printed on blue, brown, cream and pink paper and beige fabric.

Custom Curtains

2011-10-28T15:30:00.003-04:00

I am screen printing these custom curtains for my brother's birthday present. He wanted depictions of countries with interesting shapes and I added the texture based on the population.

One line = 100,000 people, so note the three lines for Iceland, and the thick patterns of India and China, which need 11,000 - 13,000 lines each. I still have another 5,000 lines for India and another 8,200 for China...

Graffiti

2011-10-26T17:18:00.001-04:00

A collaborator.

Printeresting review

2011-10-21T19:54:00.004-04:00

Check out Amze Emmon's wonderful review of the To Scale exhibition.

Frank's English Teapot and cup

2011-10-17T20:08:00.003-04:00

Printed on paper and fabric.

Hallway Installation

2011-10-05T17:11:00.004-04:00

I installed this chair last week in Hedi Kyle's home (that's right, the creator of the flag book).

Hawthorne Hall install

2011-09-30T13:00:00.010-04:00

I pasted 36 prints onto Hawthorne Hall at 3849 Lancaster Avenue, and there is still room for more! I'm hoping to get permission to continue adding pieces as I print them. The opening is tonight across the street from 3849 at 6:00 PM.

To Scale Exhibition Review

2011-09-22T14:45:00.005-04:00

Check out the To Scale exhibition review by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Hawthorne Hall

2011-09-18T19:15:00.000-04:00

Yesterday Greg helped me paste a series of pieces onto boards and glass in Hawthorne Hall on 3849 Lancaster Avenue. So far I've pasted 36 pieces, and I'm hoping to do a few more before the opening on September 30.

Chandelier Reprint

2011-09-15T18:07:00.002-04:00

Back by popular demand. Hope to have them for sale at the Print Center soon.

Lancaster Avenue Arts Project

2011-09-08T15:11:00.002-04:00

I recently found out that I will be a part of the Lancaster Avenue Arts Project and will be wheatpasting furniture in the 25 windows of this old theater and boxing venue at 3849 Lancaster Avenue.

Print Center sneak peeks

2011-09-03T20:17:00.006-04:00

To Scale exhibition opens Thursday September 8, 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the Print Center.

Piano positive

2011-08-20T07:44:00.001-04:00

Frank's claw foot tub

2011-08-19T08:36:00.000-04:00

Frank's tub, silver and dark blue screenprint on paper and fabric.

Postcards!

2011-08-17T15:33:00.001-04:00

Kay Healy
To Scale
The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
September 8 – November 19, 2011

Opening Reception, Friday, September 8, 5:30 - 7:30 PM Kay Healy will exhibit twenty life-sized furniture screenprints based on interviews of Philadelphians’ memories of their childhood homes. These pieces are part of a series created for an installation that will be exhibited at the Philadelphia International Airport in August 2012.

Gallery Store Talk, Saturday, November 12, 2:00 PM Healy will talk about her artistic influences and large- scale screenprinting process at the Gallery Store Talk at The Print Center.

POST, Saturday - Sunday, October 15 - 16, Noon - 6:00 PM Healy’s screenprinting studio at 1241 Carpenter will be open to the public for Philadelphia Open Studio Tours.

Kim's chair process

2011-08-16T08:30:00.000-04:00

Projected drawing

Positive

First screen

Second screen

Third Screen

Completed print

Kim's Grandma's Radio

2011-08-10T19:31:00.004-04:00

Two color screenprint on paper and fabric

Process pics: Letterpressed business cards

2011-08-08T08:30:00.000-04:00

I estimated that making these business cards took about 17 hours plus the cost of materials. Even though I have 400 of them, I hesitated when my Mom asked me for one. A wonderful process and with great results, but $20 offset printing may be in my future.

First I drew a pattern and screenprinted it on 100 pt. cover from French Paper.

Next Amanda and I set the type, being creative with @ symbols and the lack of "y" letters.

We spent about six hours setting up the press and correcting/packing the type. We then printed the 50 sheets in about 25 minutes.

I cut down the cards on the UArts board sheer.

Final product.

Leroy's fridge

2011-08-04T16:18:00.002-04:00

Positive for Leroy's fridge, a little over five feet tall and hopefully only six screens.

New Prints for Pasting

2011-08-01T20:53:00.001-04:00

New Prints for Pasting
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Coffee Maker

2011-07-31T21:52:00.000-04:00

Leroy's Radio

2011-07-30T21:50:00.003-04:00

Leroy's Radio
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Printed Leroy's cathedral radio on fabric and paper tonight.

New prints

2011-07-25T20:32:00.002-04:00

Kim's phone

Leroy's sidetable

Kim's Step Ladder

2011-07-23T19:43:00.001-04:00

Kim's Step Ladder
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Life sized screen print on fabric. Kim's grandmother used to sit on this step ladder in the kitchen and talk on the phone all day long.

Patterns

2011-07-16T16:01:00.001-04:00

Patterns
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Gouache on paper

Light-safe box

2011-06-29T19:40:00.003-04:00

Built a light-safe box for emulsion coated screens with the help of Paige and Amanda. One step closer to our own screenprinting setup.

Letterpress Business Cards

2011-06-23T17:18:00.001-04:00

Letterpress Business Cards
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Set some type for business cards this week.

Filming

2011-06-10T14:14:00.006-04:00

This past weekend Josh Camerote videotaped interviews with Leroy, Kim and Frank. Hope to share some sneak previews soon.

Kim's Armchair

2011-06-10T14:10:00.000-04:00

Kim's orange chair from her living room.

Oberlin Ohio Pastes

2011-05-30T14:08:00.004-04:00

In town for my reunion and thought I'd leave some art. The hard part was finding an alley to paste in this quaint town...

Kim's Broom

2011-05-25T16:37:00.003-04:00

Made a print in the new studio of Kim's broom on paper and fabric. It references the story Kim told me of when her grandfather found a pigeon in their bathroom and chased it around the house with a broom screaming "bad omen!" knocking everything down but the pigeon...

This was is a three color print I made with my new intern Amanda. Look for it around town soon!

Frank's Coffee maker

2011-05-13T13:43:00.000-04:00

Paratransit

2011-05-10T19:14:00.003-04:00

Gouache on paper

Kim's Bathroom Tile

2011-05-07T19:24:00.003-04:00

Kim's bathroom tile, to be screenprinted and stuffed as a repeat pattern eventually...

Leroy's Wallpaper

2011-05-05T14:27:00.001-04:00

LeroysWallpaper
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Future repeat pattern for the dining room.

Kim's teapot and creamer

2011-04-24T20:25:00.001-04:00

More furniture

2011-04-23T20:02:00.003-04:00

Frank's fan

Pickle jar

Frank's piano

Jug

Furniture for the airport

2011-04-15T16:13:00.002-04:00

Leroy's China Cabinet

Leroy's Cathedral Radio

Pencil point rattan desk

I have completed two interviews for the airport project, one with Leroy from Eastwick and one with Kim from Southwest Philly. Next week I will be interviewing Frank from South Philly. I hope to start printing their furniture on fabric in early May.

UArts Faculty Enrichment Grant

2011-04-05T17:20:00.001-04:00

I was awarded a Faculty Enrichment Award today to cover the costs of materials for my Airport Project. Thank you UArts!

Healy Raspberry

2011-03-27T11:08:00.005-04:00

One layer screenprint with gouache, 18 x 24.

Print Center Store

2011-03-26T15:26:00.003-04:00

You can now buy my work on the Print Center Online Gallery Store. I hope to have many pieces available soon!

Cameroon Finfoot Etching

2011-03-18T14:03:00.001-04:00

Aquatint Etching of a Cameroon Finfoot, 10" x 13", 2011

Hand Painted Philadelphus

2011-03-12T13:58:00.003-05:00

30 x 40 one layer screenprint with gouache.

Airport Case

2011-03-04T16:47:00.001-05:00

Airport Case
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

This is the forty foot case where I will be installing stuffed pieces at the Philadelphia International Airport in 2012.

Airport Installation Dummy

2011-02-24T14:51:00.002-05:00

Airport Installation Dummy
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

My first fabric collage sketch for the stuffed piece I will be installing at the Philadelphia Airport. One inch = one foot.

Shrew Etching

2011-02-20T20:30:00.001-05:00

Shrew Etching
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

First proof

Painted Windhover

2011-02-18T15:03:00.001-05:00

Painted Windhover
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

One-layer screenprint hand painted with gouache.

Etching: Shrew

2011-02-12T18:17:00.001-05:00

Etching: Shrew
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

I've been dabbling in etching lately. This is the first of a series of animals that I will proof next week.

Submit your own lists or drawings

2011-02-04T15:41:00.000-05:00

Submit your own drawings or lists of plastic items on my new tumblr blog:

http://adayofplastic.tumblr.com/

A Day of Plastic zine

2011-02-03T16:52:00.002-05:00

A Day of Plastic zine
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Fifty copies of A Day of Plastic are on display at Amze Emmon's exhibition Refugee Reading Room:

Space 1026
1026 arch street 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Opening - Friday, February 4th, 7-10 PM
February 4th – 25th, 2011

Submit your own day of plastic here: http://adayofplastic.tumblr.com/

Stuffed: New lens!

2011-02-01T18:18:00.002-05:00

I recently bought a polarizing lens and how have an image of stuffed without my own reflection. Amazing! If you haven't seen this piece, please check it out at City Hall before it comes down on February 6th.

Cover

2011-01-29T18:39:00.002-05:00

A Day of Plastic

2011-01-28T19:00:00.002-05:00

I have finished the drawings- all 105. Now for the cover, layout, printing and binding...

More from "A Day of Plastic"

2011-01-23T14:36:00.001-05:00

DSCF2820
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

I have drawn 92 things and have a few more to go.

A Day of Plastic

2011-01-16T19:40:00.003-05:00

A Day of Plastic
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

I am making a zine of drawings of everything plastic that I touched in one day for Amze's zine exhibition. It will feature over 100 drawings and an interactive blog: http://adayofplastic.tumblr.com/

Moving Studios

2011-01-05T12:27:00.001-05:00

Moving Studios
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Moving to 1241 Carpenter

Rapidograph colors

2010-12-28T20:34:00.002-05:00

Rapidograph colors
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

My new Christmas present...

Kitchen

2010-12-20T22:21:00.001-05:00

Kitchen
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Windhover

2010-12-05T10:46:00.001-05:00

Windhover
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

This is my 2010 map that I drew and screenprinted just in time for the Space 1026 Art Auction. It is a neo-gothic farm that was converted into a performing arts non-profit called Windhover in Rockport, MA. I've been spending summers there since I was seven and it is one of my favorite places in the world.

Wallpaper for Showpaper 42nd St

2010-11-28T16:30:00.001-05:00

Wallpaper for Showpaper 42nd St
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Paint Shed and Compass Rose

2010-11-19T18:44:00.002-05:00

New Dorm and the Dance Studio

2010-11-18T23:55:00.000-05:00

Windhover Map - Rockport MA

2010-11-12T18:19:00.002-05:00

The Music Barn

Hidden Cricket

I am working on a map of Windhover, a beautiful converted farm in Rockport, MA where I went every summer as a child.

Bathroom Tile

2010-11-08T22:46:00.002-05:00

Printed on fabric. To be sewn and stuffed soon.

Snyder Factory

2010-11-06T17:18:00.001-04:00

Gouache on paper.

Alhambra Pattern

2010-11-03T22:13:00.003-04:00

Granada Pastes

2010-10-30T13:25:00.004-04:00

Did these pastes while in Granada, Spain.

Exhibition in Spain

2010-10-25T17:44:00.005-04:00

This exhibition is on view in Lorca, Spain as part of an exchange with UArts and a collective of Spanish artists.

Mouse

2010-10-12T22:54:00.001-04:00

Pattern

2010-10-12T22:51:00.002-04:00

Mices

2010-10-09T16:44:00.001-04:00

Mices
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Female Kachinas

2010-10-01T18:14:00.001-04:00

Drawn for a Space zine, Girls

Arch Street

2010-09-28T21:40:00.001-04:00

kayhealy
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Gouache painting on paper

Center City pastes

2010-09-23T19:45:00.001-04:00

Nailz

2010-09-10T11:03:00.003-04:00

I'm part of a collab project called Nailz for the Sisterly Love Block Part on September 18th. We are building an anonymous nail machine which will give participants alternative manicures and handing out our Nailz zine.

Stuffed Kitchen

2010-09-07T08:26:00.004-04:00

This set is being sent to Lorcha, Spain for an exchange exhibition with UArts.

Stuffed Spoons

2010-08-31T17:03:00.005-04:00

Sewed and stuffed these spoons while sitting in traffic on the way to and from Rockport, MA

Kitchen Cabinet/Counter

2010-08-23T16:59:00.001-04:00

Kitchen Cabinet/Counter
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

I'll be printing this three-part counter tomorrow.

Clock

2010-08-17T20:03:00.002-04:00

Clock
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Sewed and stuffed

Clock and Salad Spinner

2010-08-14T17:12:00.002-04:00

Bathroom tile

2010-08-13T09:58:00.001-04:00

DSCF2136
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy

Printing on fabric on Saturday

Northern Liberties

2010-08-05T19:29:00.002-04:00

Stuffed the animation

2010-08-03T20:57:00.002-04:00

Stuffed
Originally uploaded by Kay S. Healy