The work is on its way

Yes, I've packed it up and taken it to UPS - it takes 5 working days to arrive in Boston.  You'd think I would be relieved and relaxed but no, I have lots of writing and reading to finish up.  I tinkered in the studio until the last minute, added some not-square boxes and continued to play around a bit. You can see the pile of stuff from the other photo in the studio.

The taller piece by itself in the photo is separately on its way to the Boston Young Contemporaries show. Thanks to Anarita for the hand delivery today. That show opens the last Friday we are there - June 26th at Boston University.

Until next semester, good bye!

paper and ink

These surfaces on newsprint are threatening to overwhelm my studio.  I have stacks of different patterns and motifs - some on the classified sections, some on plain newsprint.  I use sumi ink and acrylic spray paint to make the marks and then let go of the control as much as possible.  I am taking big sheets like these to make assemblages - which I later cut up and collage on some of the chunkier pieces. I actually liked the uneven-ness of this piece just as it is - which of course comes from not caring or thinking about what I am doing and being surprised later.  Moving around the brain.

Stacks

These blocks are consuming me a bit this week.  They are 10" cubes - so not huge but not teeny.  They just make you want to pick them up and arrange/stack them.  I have stacks and stacks of ink and paint treatments on paper and this is a good outlet for those.

Meanwhile I'm still working on some bigger, more sculptural applications.

More 3-D exploration

I am continuing to push out in different ways with the 3D applications.  This week it was some boxes and using the sides to explore different surface treatments.  If all goes well, there might be a stack of them for the residency.

I am still making the big cut-out shapes too - It is two different pursuits, the forms and the surfaces and now they are coming together.  Much to evaluate before packing it up.  I have found some terrific new artists to research and some great old ones. I am immersing in Dubuffet again and finding all sorts of new avenues into his work.  As for surface treatment , there is the work of Terry Winters - amazing.

Different textures/images

Continuing the exploration - some text printed on colored paper, using strips and a side trip with some old vintage photos from books that I enlarged 200%.  I just finished a paper on Eva Hesse, which has inspired me to obsess and explore all sorts of surfaces.  The 3-D shapes are ongoing.

April 17

I cannot come up with a catchy title today- another week marked in the studio - new things happening -

or as my mentor says, "percolating".  I am immersed in some written work and thought about content and meaning. Pre-thesis work and it is bringing up some new and further thoughts for the work.

The piece above is collaged over that pink construction foam - I've been making these shapes and chunky tablets and using those as the base for the collage work.  It's like a big paper mache' project - brings me back to all the work I've done teaching art to children.  This piece is exploring marks made with sumi ink - and then cut and laid over the newspaper.  The general feel and look is intriguing to me - the ink smears just a bit, everything becomes a little blurry.  I'm moving back towards the long banners today and placing a second layer over those.

Positive-Negative

I'm going after more value range and have reversed out lots of sheets to use - the 3-D dimension is emerging and that is very interesting and very time-consuming.  All of the construction and covering takes hours, but it is a lot of fun.  The up-scaling continues and I'll soon be looking for new places to store and view things (my studio is not large - and the one big wall is a community space - fortunately, my studio mate likes having my stuff up right now -)