Happy Easter
Similarities with the Bavarian Flag
Garden State
Spring forward caused the tulips to spring forth.
The State of the Table
Lockdown 3.0 or is it 4.0?
Sassy sheep
Il Mulino dei Veraghi, Molina (VR)
Steve Ingham, birthday boy
with inadvertently matching gifts (hat and sweater).
Infinity mirror with Campari.
Café Martél
Butts.
What remains.
Butts.
What remains.
A Quarter-Plunk
Quiz Nite
Trounced.
Our flag was still there
We took it as a sign. #joebiden #kamalaharris #markwarner #abigailspanberger
La voglia del mare
The beach feeling lingers
Space Invader invaded Ravenna.
We drove to see the mosaics in Ravenna
Le ville venete
Villa Pojana, Andrea Palladio, ca. 1563.
Prima della Quaresima
Will we spend the Quaresima in quarantine?
Steve and Me at 23
23 years of this-n-that.
Stephen’s Dream
OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers.
Artists in Nature – The Artists
The artists posing with our hosts in front of Schloss Neuhaus an der Donau and Anna Maria Brandstätter's sculpture. Photo courtesy of: Tips.at and Martina Gahleitner
Artists in Nature
Location, Location, Location
Schloss Neuhaus an der Donau
Bobby in Austria
We are organizing the photos from our residency in Austria. In the meantime, here's a photo of Bobby on site. Photo courtesy of Christof Huemer.
Austria Trip
A few pics of our working vacation in Austria.
Texture Study
Velvet and yarn.
The Bureau of Roadside Attractions
A Sunday drive in the Bassa Veronese
Artfarm Pilastro 2019
We're looking forward to this year's Artfarm. We have a gigantic installation planned.
A pranzo con il mondo 2019
Our third year at the Avesa Sagra.
Quick trip
Stazione Centrale, Milano
Netmaking 101
Trying out our first idea for Artfarm - just how hard is it to make a 30ft x 30ft net?
Upcoming show in Austria.
Steve and I are participating in a land art show at a castle on the Danube River in Austria at the end of August.
Ca’ Zeppa
New business cards.
Mignolo
Stinky pinky?
Memoire Open House
Steve was invited to show some work at our cool, local brocante store.
Idea
Opening a can of whoop a--.
Isabel’s gazpacho
A leisurely lunch in Montagnana, a drive to the antique market in Piazzola sul Brenta, and back to Artfarm for dinner.
Boundless. Sharing the land.
A very dirty work of art.
Artfarm Official Business
More Artfarm secrets revealed.
Prenotato per Ingham
The Vermont Porter-Inghams take a trip to the old country.
First Halloween at the Ca’ Zeppa
We've lived in Italy since December 2005, but haven't ever really done a proper Halloween.
Olive harvest near Illasi.
A gorgeous fall day spent helping friends with the olive harvest.
AGSM Corporate Collection in collaboration with MyHomeGallery
Works by Steve Ingham, now part of the AGSM corporate collection!
Laurea
Steve is now "laureato" in painting, magna cum laude, from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona, Cignaroli.
Ca’ Zeppa
Dropping roots in the "Old Country" - we closed on a new house today and decided to call it Ca' Zeppa.
Show at Studio La Città – October 1
"Your Redeemer" - video performance by Steve Ingham. Part of First Step 7 at Studio La Città gallery from Oct 1-Oct 8, 2016, organized by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona. Opening October 1.
Casarini Prize – 1st Place
Steve has won first place in the national "Premio Casarini" Competition, sponsored by the Hotel Due Torri in Verona. As part of the prize, he is being asked to paint a wall panel in one of the hotel corridors. Congrats also to 2nd and 3rd place winners Daniele Vanzo and Giacomo Segantin.
Art Farm 2016
Conceptual sketch for our installation.
1st Place Prize
First place prize for Steve in the competition "Engineering Art Project" - the drawing is going to be enlarged into a 4 meter (13 foot) wide poster.
Codice Italia at Palazzo Grimani
Steve has been selected to show in the finissage of the 2015 Venice Biennale as part of the Codice Italia Academy (Italian Pavilion). More details to come!
Egger Roseneder in Vienna
We have been selected by the Egger Roseneder Contemporary Gallery in Vienna to participate in a group show called "Fortress," as part of the UAMO CITY TOUR 2015/16.
Atelier Estivo at the Accademia
Steve is conducting five weeklong art-themed English workshops for kids at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona this summer.
ArtFarm Pilastro 2015
We are getting the essiccatoio (tobacco drying barn) for our space at ArtFarm Pilastro this year.
Venice – Italian Pavilion Workshop
Steve has been selected to represent the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona in a three-day painting workshop at the Venice Biennial, in conjunction with the Italian Pavilion. Complimenti!
In-Flux
Lawren participated in the creation of a video art piece with the art collective Officina delle Nuvole. In-Flux is at the ReSignifications Exhibit, May 30 – August 29, 2015, Bardini Museum, Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy.
Camera Oscura
My first ever experiment with a pin-hole camera in Sara Rossi's photography course at the Verona Academy of Fine Art.
Iperglyph & other works
Some new and old work submitted in an application for a workshop at the Venice Biennial.
Trip to Milan.
We spend a long weekend in Milan for the wrap-up of Design Week.
Upcoming Show – Ritorno da Porto
A group show of the pieces we exhibited at the University of Fine Arts Porto last July.
ABCs for Class
Steve has to find the alphabet in the city for photography class.
Notes for Arich.
Regarding the Guggenheim.
Lunch at a Rifugio
We took a drive up to a mountain rifugio in Lessinia to eat homemade gnocchi with Monte Veronese cheese.
A trip to Bologna & Palazzo Poggi.
We go in search of "La Venerina" and find the original woodcuts for Fortunio Liceti's Monsters.
Venerdì Gnocolar.
Carnevale 2015 - Venerdì Gnocolar.
Lupo di corsa.
Wolf on the run.
Epiphany
After a few false starts, it's official. The befana is burned. Addio 2014!
Holiday sojourn in the USA – Part 1
Last year we stayed in Verona over the holidays, having blown our bank on a stateside trip during the month of August. This year we arrived a week before the Big Day so we could help Peg and Mr. Spera stand up the “real tree” and decorate the house.
Venice Weekend
Mary, Steve and I take a weekend trip to check out the architecture Biennale in Venice.
18th Anniversary
A lazy 18th wedding anniversary day spent junk shopping.
Trip to Porto
Ghost of a one-time maritime prosperity.
Art Farm 2014
We spent four days at Casa Polazzo creating our third installation for the group show, Art Farm Pilastro. This year it was titled "VELARE SVELARE RIVELARE".
Milan 2014
This year, we stayed in a funky 1960s apartment right near all the action in Zona Tortona. Here are some images from our week: a few from The Fiera in Rho; some nights out on the town; and others from Fuori Salone (exhibits in the city center).
Slovenia
We take my parents to the Piran Peninsula in Slovenia, just three hours from Verona and a few miles from Trieste. The town of Piran was once part of the Venetian Republic.
USA – August
3 Weeks in the USA - Boston, New Hampshire, San Francisco and then a few days in Richmond, Virginia.
Escape from the Bassa Veronese
Artfarm is in the Bassa Veronese, a very flat (sunny and hot!) expanse south of Verona. After five days of ceaseless labor and intense heat, we drove about 30km north to the mountains for some much-needed rinfrescamento (cooling off).