Sparkplug minutes
5/12/2008
prepared by Jenny 5/19/08
First…an update:
Deborah and Josh welcomed little Zoë into the world on the Wednesday, the 14th. Everyone is doing well. She weighed 6lbs 3 oz and was 19.5 inches long.
Now down to business…
Members present: Karen, Lisa, Mike, Mark, Jenny, Kathryn and Peter. New people Christian Benefiel and Eva Hennessa.
Discussion:
Membership – It was discussed how to move forward with projects and still get the maximum enthusiasm and strength to continue in each project. The question of how large is too large was brought up and also if there should be criteria for membership. Several characteristics were discussed of fellow artists that we would hope to look for in someone entering the group. Development of a body of work, accomplishment, seriousness and commitment to working practice of art were all qualities and criteria we would like to look for. Further discussion will happen at the June meeting.
Blog – it is now public. The question of how it can benefit the community as a whole was discussed, as our findings from Learnapalooza were that there were some people that were really enthusiastic about creating, but may never actually want to join Sparkplug. Our question is how do we continue to reach out to those individuals?
E32 presentation draft: Lisa and Lea-Ann have done a great job in getting the draft of the presentation together. Lisa compiled all the images curated by Lea-Ann and put them together in a running slide presentation; each artist has 4-5 images. We did a couple run throughs of the presentation and made any necessary change notes. It was discussed that the show may run in June or September in New York. The general consensus was we would rather have it run in September to allow everyone to possibly get the time off to go see it. Lisa needs all info ASAP to complete the presentation. The presentation will be in it final format for the next meeting.
Cuisine des Artistes presented by Karen: DCAC’s biannual fundraiser is coming up on Wednesday May 28th. Sparkplug members are highly encouraged to participate in some way. Please contact Karen as soon as possible if you are interested in participating. If you are contributing food/art, Blair needs a paragraph bio and the “title” of your piece for the event by TODAY.
Arlington Arts Center proposal presented by Peter: We will be putting together a proposal for the Arlington Arts Center Community Gallery. The space is 13’ x 35’. Jeffrey Cudlin, director of exhibitions would like us in there in early 2009. Some issues to address in the proposal are: site specific to Arlington, how is Sparkplug’s mission different from DCAC’s, What is our idea of a collective. Several of these will necessitate a meeting with Mr. Cudlin to clarify. The idea of a sub-committee to take care of the initial dealings and proposal was brought up to make sure we submit a clear and concise proposal.
Eve Hennessa presented her work.
Next meeting Sunday, June 8th at 3pm at Jenny’s house in Kensington; poolside with potluck BBQ to follow. The meeting will happen from 3pm to 4:30pm then let the potluck begin! I will be inviting other artists to the potluck as a social art gathering. The pool should be open by then so bring your suits if you are interested in swimming. Please RSVP to jenny.walton@gmail.com this meeting and I will forward directions.
AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING
i. Continue discussions of membership
ii. View final presentation of E32 submission
iii. Arlington Arts Center proposal
iv. artist presentations (if any)
v. exhibition exchange with San Francisco collective Agent Peach
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
SPARKPLUG at Learnapalooza 2008 Saturday, May 10th
Hope you're planning to join us this Saturday for Learnapalooza DC
2008! Check out this awesome selection of workshops at DCAC:
http://www.dcartscenter.org/sparkplug.htm
SPARKPLUG at Learnapalooza 2008
Artist Materials 101: 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM taught by artist, Jenny
Walton
This short demonstration will take you through materials that artists
have traditionally used up to today's vast variety of widely available
media. We will explore the transition from dirt to paint and
everything in between, focusing on the genres of drawing and painting.
*Black and white
Graphite & Charcoal, Differences between each, how are they made
Inks: Sumi and India
Commercial – traditional vs. modern (natural and synthetic)
*Color pigment – what is it and where does it come from?
Natural vs. synthetic
How does it get mixed to create different mediums
Watercolor, Gouache, Oils, Acrylics, Pastels
*Paper - Small history lesson on papermaking
Examples today’s vast variety
Usage
Eastern vs. western methods
*Painting Grounds
Canvas vs. linen painting
Stretching Your Own Canvas: 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM taught by artist, Peter
Gordon
This demonstration (with a handout) will give people the knowledge to
stretch their own painting canvases in order to save them money and
increase their sense of ownership using a three step demonstration so
people can see the process first hand before attempting in their own
studios.
Demonstration supplies:
• Unprimed canvas (3 pieces, roughly 14-17 inches each)
• Stretcher bars (six 11 inch/ six 14 inch length bars)
• Canvas pliers (1)
• Staple gun (1)
• staples (plenty!!!).
Framing Tips: 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM taught by artist and museum
preparator, Mark Planisek
In this demonstration the canvas that was stretched in the earlier
class is placed in a widely available standard size commercial frame.
Students will get pointers on the different fasteners that can be used
to hold the canvas in the frame, how to wrap a professional picture
wire, when to use D-rings and what kind of hanging nail to use with
each hanging mechanism.
Plus 60 more, learn Mandarin, Improv, Meditation, Juggling, Yoga,
Capoeira, Photoshop, Photography, Pool, and dozens of other things...
all for free.
. l
http://learnapaloozadc.com/workshops/list
AND... AFTER THE WORKSHOPS, LET'S MEET UP FOR DRINKS!
Learnapalooza After-Party
7-10 PM, Saturday May 10th
Local 16 (1602 U St NW)
$4 Learnapalooza drink specials
See you there!
P.S. If you want to help out, email i...@learnapaloozadc.com. We need
volunteers Friday evening 6-8PM and Saturday all day.
2008! Check out this awesome selection of workshops at DCAC:
http://www.dcartscenter.org/sparkplug.htm
SPARKPLUG at Learnapalooza 2008
Artist Materials 101: 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM taught by artist, Jenny
Walton
This short demonstration will take you through materials that artists
have traditionally used up to today's vast variety of widely available
media. We will explore the transition from dirt to paint and
everything in between, focusing on the genres of drawing and painting.
*Black and white
Graphite & Charcoal, Differences between each, how are they made
Inks: Sumi and India
Commercial – traditional vs. modern (natural and synthetic)
*Color pigment – what is it and where does it come from?
Natural vs. synthetic
How does it get mixed to create different mediums
Watercolor, Gouache, Oils, Acrylics, Pastels
*Paper - Small history lesson on papermaking
Examples today’s vast variety
Usage
Eastern vs. western methods
*Painting Grounds
Canvas vs. linen painting
Stretching Your Own Canvas: 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM taught by artist, Peter
Gordon
This demonstration (with a handout) will give people the knowledge to
stretch their own painting canvases in order to save them money and
increase their sense of ownership using a three step demonstration so
people can see the process first hand before attempting in their own
studios.
Demonstration supplies:
• Unprimed canvas (3 pieces, roughly 14-17 inches each)
• Stretcher bars (six 11 inch/ six 14 inch length bars)
• Canvas pliers (1)
• Staple gun (1)
• staples (plenty!!!).
Framing Tips: 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM taught by artist and museum
preparator, Mark Planisek
In this demonstration the canvas that was stretched in the earlier
class is placed in a widely available standard size commercial frame.
Students will get pointers on the different fasteners that can be used
to hold the canvas in the frame, how to wrap a professional picture
wire, when to use D-rings and what kind of hanging nail to use with
each hanging mechanism.
Plus 60 more, learn Mandarin, Improv, Meditation, Juggling, Yoga,
Capoeira, Photoshop, Photography, Pool, and dozens of other things...
all for free.
. l
http://learnapaloozadc.com/workshops/list
AND... AFTER THE WORKSHOPS, LET'S MEET UP FOR DRINKS!
Learnapalooza After-Party
7-10 PM, Saturday May 10th
Local 16 (1602 U St NW)
$4 Learnapalooza drink specials
See you there!
P.S. If you want to help out, email i...@learnapaloozadc.com. We need
volunteers Friday evening 6-8PM and Saturday all day.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Next meeting is planned for Monday May 12, 730 PM
Hello - Next meeting is planned for Monday May 12, 730 PM at DCAC,
definitely in the gallery - we need to de-install. For the 7 that
were in the show - if you can’t make this meeting you need to let me
know ASAP so I can arrange to get you in to pick up your stuff on
Sunday nite.
Agenda items for next meeting
1- deinstall - post-mort show & learn-a-palooza and document what was
great and what we need to do better
2- presentations
Kofi Dofour cannot make the meeting on Monday so will have to present
later.
I have had inquiries from five or so new people. If you are one of
those new people and would like to present some slides let me know
ASAP. Bring a CD of only five or so jpgs representing your most
current work and plan to talk for 5-10.
3- Working on getting a draft of the E32 project to screen - but not
sure that is going to come through in time for Monday - if it does
we’ll show it
4- Talk about Cuisine des Artistes - DCAC really needs everyone to
help with this. I am glad many of you have mentioned ideas to me, but
you really, really need to email bstan...@dcartscenter.org so he knows
you are confirmed and can put you in touch with the coordinator for
the event. We can brainstorm more ideas at the meeting as it would be
fantastic if everyone that was just in the exhibition could do
appetizers and talk about your experience so far with Sparkplug to the
guests (those that can ‘show us the money’) at this event
5- Talk about my draft for the new Sparkplug web page on
dcartscenter.org as well as possibility of documenting the 1st show
with an online publication
6- plan a June meeting some where other than DCAC (the show that comes
in after us will be de-installing both Sunday and Monday) - options
could be another party or meet at a museum or someone’s studio,
7- decide what you want to do about meetings for July & August so I
can let B & DCAC know
8- ~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk
about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND
ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
definitely in the gallery - we need to de-install. For the 7 that
were in the show - if you can’t make this meeting you need to let me
know ASAP so I can arrange to get you in to pick up your stuff on
Sunday nite.
Agenda items for next meeting
1- deinstall - post-mort show & learn-a-palooza and document what was
great and what we need to do better
2- presentations
Kofi Dofour cannot make the meeting on Monday so will have to present
later.
I have had inquiries from five or so new people. If you are one of
those new people and would like to present some slides let me know
ASAP. Bring a CD of only five or so jpgs representing your most
current work and plan to talk for 5-10.
3- Working on getting a draft of the E32 project to screen - but not
sure that is going to come through in time for Monday - if it does
we’ll show it
4- Talk about Cuisine des Artistes - DCAC really needs everyone to
help with this. I am glad many of you have mentioned ideas to me, but
you really, really need to email bstan...@dcartscenter.org so he knows
you are confirmed and can put you in touch with the coordinator for
the event. We can brainstorm more ideas at the meeting as it would be
fantastic if everyone that was just in the exhibition could do
appetizers and talk about your experience so far with Sparkplug to the
guests (those that can ‘show us the money’) at this event
5- Talk about my draft for the new Sparkplug web page on
dcartscenter.org as well as possibility of documenting the 1st show
with an online publication
6- plan a June meeting some where other than DCAC (the show that comes
in after us will be de-installing both Sunday and Monday) - options
could be another party or meet at a museum or someone’s studio,
7- decide what you want to do about meetings for July & August so I
can let B & DCAC know
8- ~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk
about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND
ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Congratulations and thanks to everyone that helped make this show a reality. Can I just tell all of you how impressed I am with everyone's contributions and thankful I am that you have welcomed me in participating in this experience. The learning and resources shared by this "gang of nine" in the past 4 weeks has surpassed what I had ever imagined and is only the beginning.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Meeting Minutes 04/13/08
SPARKPLUG 4/14/08 minutes (taken by Karen) There were 12 people in attendance : Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, Lea-Ann, Philip, B, Kofi & Karen
Agenda items were covered as follows AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RESPOND WITH QUESTIONS, CORRECTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS –WE COVERED A LOT!:
1-introducing
We had one new prospective member attend the meeting. His name is Kofi Dofour and we will plan of having him do a short presentation of his work at the next meeting. In the meantime his website is http://kofidofour.com/splash.html
2-Slides “E32”
Lisa was kind enough to volunteer to take everyone’s images and burn them to a CD so Lea-Ann could take them home and work with ordering them – at this point we did not put a dead line on this.
• Lea-Ann will put them in a power point so we can all take a look at the presentation.
• Once the presentation is OK’ed Lisa will work on sizing the chosen images (and syncing the music choice),
• Karen or Kathryn need to go back through their emails and get the submission format requirements for resolution to E32 and send to Lisa,
• When we have uploaded to E32 we let Kathryn know so she can let her contact Linda Griggs know,
3-Sparkplug the exhibition
Lea-Ann will be contacting people in this first exhibition (Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, & Karen) to schedule studio visits to get a dialogue going about what work we should be bring for installation on 4/30. She will post these times as open studio times if others are available at the set times and want to participate in the studio visit.
Peter will work on formatting resumes, etc. for a gallery binder for the show. Please send him a resume and statement in Word ASAP so he has time to mock up everyone’s resumes in a similar format.
Karen will work on getting an email phone list distributed for this show so we can contact each other directly rather than through the group in the next two weeks. (You should have received this already) She should also be able to send you a pdf/html of the show postcard for you to send to your individual email lists between the 16th & 18th. Hard-copy postcards should be available the week of the 23rd. Stay tuned for more details on dealing getting hard-copy cards.
Once you have spoken with Lea-Ann make sure that you have the following information for all the works she has selected/suggested you bring to installation
Your name,
title of work
Medium
Dimensions h x w x d
Year
For all future projects – make sure you provide this information with any images that are collected!!!!
critical details as discussed:
Submit resume/statement for binder Sun., April 20
Drop off work and hang the show Wed./Thurs., April 30 & May 1
Opening Event - Fri., May 2
Learn-a-Palooza/Meet the Artists Sat., May 10 – 2 PM to 5:30 PM
Take down show remove work from gallery Sun., May 11 (After 7 PM)
Mon., May 12 (730 PM & after-this is also our next meeting day)
3-Learn-a-Palooza
link to last years Learn-A-Palooza http://www.learnapaloozadc.com/
It was agreed that the format of offering the three workshops we are brainstorming as 25 minutes classes in the following order would be preferable:
230 PM – materials show & tell
330 PM – stretching a canvas
430 PM - Now you want to frame it
If we get a good turn out this will leave us plenty of time to answer questions so we don’t run over out time limit. Right now we can still use the theater for the workshops. The gallery opens at 2 PM.
Lisa and Kathryn can help with set and break down and then assist in the gallery if people come to the meet the artist (though we need to clarify times for them as I don’t think either of them can stay the whole time). We need to be cleaned up and out of the theater by 5:30 PM.
Karen will work on getting the class descriptions posted to learn-a-palooza and the DCAC listserv and approach Utrecht for material donation. Hope to have an answer about that by the end of the month – if not we will need to get stretcher bars to fit in Mark’s 11” x 14” frame.
3-goals for goals
Cuisine des Artistes – is DCAC’s major fundraiser. This year it is on Wed., May 28.
There is more information on the dcartscenter.org website about how to participate. If volunteering artists services will not fit into your schedule please see if you can volunteer in some other way for the event: like help set-up, clean-up, sell memberships. Volunteers are critical to making this a success. Passing on information to people that might attend is also really important to expanding our membership.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
a-Suggestions for the short term to get it ready for the show on the May 2: Post the html of the show card and details and make it link to the blog ASAP before the postcards go out.
Not ASAP but sooner rather than later - we talked about what we needed to add to the Sparkplug page of the DCAC website to more accurately reflect how far we’ve come. So far the belief is that focus, themes and discussions will change and ‘prospectives’ should feel comfortable with working in the collective for the duration of their interest (I think the idea here is along the lines that commitment is only required for ‘projects’ not for participation-does that sound right?)
Participation in the monthly meetings was critical to motivating projects and the artists & curators that were participating so far would welcome anyone that makes the effort to ‘be there’. It is this sharing of experience and idea and being able to lend you individual skills at what you are good that is making this venture collective and a much greater motivating factor than just being a ‘member of a group’.
In general making the blog public was Ok with everyone. Adding a list of shows or some kind of group resume to the blog was suggested that lists the projects we complete. Karen will work from her notes from this discussion to draft something for dcartscenter.org/sparkplug. Be on the lookout to respond with comments to the ‘updated description’ that she will send out on the Google group.
b-curatorial development. Lea-Ann noted that at the first meeting at Bedrock Billiards A LOT of curators showed up and that perhaps we needed to comb through the list and work at re inviting these people to try coming to the set meeting times and get involved in the dialogue. DO we need to also try to develop in the area of writing too?
c-In the future if we want new people to come – we may have to strike doing so much administrative business at the monthly meeting and set secondary meeting times or REALLY use the web & phone ….
4~ACTION!
-Make sure you get in touch and set up your studio visit with Lea-Ann
-Make sure your schedule is clear AT NIGHT in the 30th & 1st so you can help out with the installation – keep both days free in case we can’t hang everything Lea-Ann chooses you will need to get it out of the space on Thursday nite
-Make sure that you come to DCAC with all the price list info-title dimension, etc….
-make sure that you can or arrange for someone else to pick up your works for De0install on May 11 or 12 (we will do our regular meet up on the 12th, 730 PM)
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is planned for Monday, May 12 at 7:30 PM
at the DCAC gallery
~De-Install works from the show that ends on May 11
~Kofi Dofour will present
~hopefully see a draft of the E32 presentation in power point
~plan summer meetings
~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
Agenda items were covered as follows AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RESPOND WITH QUESTIONS, CORRECTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS –WE COVERED A LOT!:
1-introducing
We had one new prospective member attend the meeting. His name is Kofi Dofour and we will plan of having him do a short presentation of his work at the next meeting. In the meantime his website is http://kofidofour.com/splash.html
2-Slides “E32”
Lisa was kind enough to volunteer to take everyone’s images and burn them to a CD so Lea-Ann could take them home and work with ordering them – at this point we did not put a dead line on this.
• Lea-Ann will put them in a power point so we can all take a look at the presentation.
• Once the presentation is OK’ed Lisa will work on sizing the chosen images (and syncing the music choice),
• Karen or Kathryn need to go back through their emails and get the submission format requirements for resolution to E32 and send to Lisa,
• When we have uploaded to E32 we let Kathryn know so she can let her contact Linda Griggs know,
3-Sparkplug the exhibition
Lea-Ann will be contacting people in this first exhibition (Jenny, Kathryn, Mike, Mark, Lisa, Deborah, Peter, & Karen) to schedule studio visits to get a dialogue going about what work we should be bring for installation on 4/30. She will post these times as open studio times if others are available at the set times and want to participate in the studio visit.
Peter will work on formatting resumes, etc. for a gallery binder for the show. Please send him a resume and statement in Word ASAP so he has time to mock up everyone’s resumes in a similar format.
Karen will work on getting an email phone list distributed for this show so we can contact each other directly rather than through the group in the next two weeks. (You should have received this already) She should also be able to send you a pdf/html of the show postcard for you to send to your individual email lists between the 16th & 18th. Hard-copy postcards should be available the week of the 23rd. Stay tuned for more details on dealing getting hard-copy cards.
Once you have spoken with Lea-Ann make sure that you have the following information for all the works she has selected/suggested you bring to installation
Your name,
title of work
Medium
Dimensions h x w x d
Year
For all future projects – make sure you provide this information with any images that are collected!!!!
critical details as discussed:
Submit resume/statement for binder Sun., April 20
Drop off work and hang the show Wed./Thurs., April 30 & May 1
Opening Event - Fri., May 2
Learn-a-Palooza/Meet the Artists Sat., May 10 – 2 PM to 5:30 PM
Take down show remove work from gallery Sun., May 11 (After 7 PM)
Mon., May 12 (730 PM & after-this is also our next meeting day)
3-Learn-a-Palooza
link to last years Learn-A-Palooza http://www.learnapaloozadc.com/
It was agreed that the format of offering the three workshops we are brainstorming as 25 minutes classes in the following order would be preferable:
230 PM – materials show & tell
330 PM – stretching a canvas
430 PM - Now you want to frame it
If we get a good turn out this will leave us plenty of time to answer questions so we don’t run over out time limit. Right now we can still use the theater for the workshops. The gallery opens at 2 PM.
Lisa and Kathryn can help with set and break down and then assist in the gallery if people come to the meet the artist (though we need to clarify times for them as I don’t think either of them can stay the whole time). We need to be cleaned up and out of the theater by 5:30 PM.
Karen will work on getting the class descriptions posted to learn-a-palooza and the DCAC listserv and approach Utrecht for material donation. Hope to have an answer about that by the end of the month – if not we will need to get stretcher bars to fit in Mark’s 11” x 14” frame.
3-goals for goals
Cuisine des Artistes – is DCAC’s major fundraiser. This year it is on Wed., May 28.
There is more information on the dcartscenter.org website about how to participate. If volunteering artists services will not fit into your schedule please see if you can volunteer in some other way for the event: like help set-up, clean-up, sell memberships. Volunteers are critical to making this a success. Passing on information to people that might attend is also really important to expanding our membership.
3-ideas about ideas-in no particular order
a-Suggestions for the short term to get it ready for the show on the May 2: Post the html of the show card and details and make it link to the blog ASAP before the postcards go out.
Not ASAP but sooner rather than later - we talked about what we needed to add to the Sparkplug page of the DCAC website to more accurately reflect how far we’ve come. So far the belief is that focus, themes and discussions will change and ‘prospectives’ should feel comfortable with working in the collective for the duration of their interest (I think the idea here is along the lines that commitment is only required for ‘projects’ not for participation-does that sound right?)
Participation in the monthly meetings was critical to motivating projects and the artists & curators that were participating so far would welcome anyone that makes the effort to ‘be there’. It is this sharing of experience and idea and being able to lend you individual skills at what you are good that is making this venture collective and a much greater motivating factor than just being a ‘member of a group’.
In general making the blog public was Ok with everyone. Adding a list of shows or some kind of group resume to the blog was suggested that lists the projects we complete. Karen will work from her notes from this discussion to draft something for dcartscenter.org/sparkplug. Be on the lookout to respond with comments to the ‘updated description’ that she will send out on the Google group.
b-curatorial development. Lea-Ann noted that at the first meeting at Bedrock Billiards A LOT of curators showed up and that perhaps we needed to comb through the list and work at re inviting these people to try coming to the set meeting times and get involved in the dialogue. DO we need to also try to develop in the area of writing too?
c-In the future if we want new people to come – we may have to strike doing so much administrative business at the monthly meeting and set secondary meeting times or REALLY use the web & phone ….
4~ACTION!
-Make sure you get in touch and set up your studio visit with Lea-Ann
-Make sure your schedule is clear AT NIGHT in the 30th & 1st so you can help out with the installation – keep both days free in case we can’t hang everything Lea-Ann chooses you will need to get it out of the space on Thursday nite
-Make sure that you come to DCAC with all the price list info-title dimension, etc….
-make sure that you can or arrange for someone else to pick up your works for De0install on May 11 or 12 (we will do our regular meet up on the 12th, 730 PM)
5-Agenda Items for next meeting
The next meeting is planned for Monday, May 12 at 7:30 PM
at the DCAC gallery
~De-Install works from the show that ends on May 11
~Kofi Dofour will present
~hopefully see a draft of the E32 presentation in power point
~plan summer meetings
~ALWAYS ALWAYS feel free to email me anything else you want to talk about or think needs to be added to the next meetings agenda-AND ANYTHING I MAY HAVE FORGOT!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, October 5, 2007
Ian Jehle - Here's to You
Hi Folks,
I've been AWOL from Sparkplug for some time now, but I've been keeping up with the goings on and I hope to return to full participation after my upcoming show has opened. Here are two of the large drawings
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Deb Carroll Anzinger- cartographs of transient displacement
title: recombination
dimension:~Approx. 30" x 60"
media: Graphite, gouache, acrylic matte gel and tracing paper on 8" x 10" sketch sheets
I'm preoccupied with the way an individual and its environment inform each other. For this drawing I completed one composition comprised of adjoined sheets of paper which i then dissasembled and rearranged to form a completely new yet still unified "map" without changing the content of the individual sheets. My process for the above drawing functions as a conceipt for my current preoccupation. I felt it was also important for me to explore the potential fallacy of the notion of only one natural conformation.
you can see a bigger image of it at www.deborahcarroll.net
-deborah
p.s. i'm working on some other paintings along the same theme that i'll share at some later point.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Adrienne Moumin Recent Work
Smithsonian Castle Gate, 68x42
Kaleidoscope (Starrett-Lehigh) [detail], 37" diameter
Wall (Starrett-Lehigh), 28x20
These are the first three in a new series of cut-and-pieced inkjet photo collages commemorating and re-visioning architectural landmarks.
For more info see http://www.picturexhibit.com
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Jenny Walton - recent works
The process of illness, injury, and healing of the human body are the catalysts for this current work. I work towards bringing momments of injury or specific events in a body’s history that are both beautiful and horrific into the work to create visual tensions. This work also deals with ideas of inside and outside, the privileged viewership of the medical profession, and the mystery that is left for the rest of us.
For more info see http://www.jennywalton.blogspot.com/
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