Concurrent with the Satellite series … the Planet series. Also acrylic gouache, but on 11x14 inch vellum.
November 8, 2011
The newly titled Satellite series continues. These are acrylic gouache on 9x12 inch sheets of drafting vellum.
My good friend Melissa just started this amazing space in Pittsburgh! Please pass on the good news to book-lovers everywhere.
Spaces Corners bookshop opens this Wednesday in Pittsburgh, PA.
October 14, 2011
For Jerry, 9x12 inches, 2011.
I’ve been working on a new series of monochromatic pieces on vellum. This one is a gift for my good friend Jerry Bleem. He helped me re-learn hand loom weaving before I left Chicago … he taught me so much more than that over the past 6 years! I wanted to make him something to thank him. I hope he likes it!
I showed it to my neighbor on a plane today who then asked me if I liked baseball. That’s going to stick with me…!
September 30, 2011.
As soon as I am able to claim my new (temporary) studio here in Eugene, I can get back to this piece (top). When finished, it will be my biggest dot/orb painting to date (each panel is 24 inches square). I started it back in … January 2011, I think? If it turns out the way I am hoping, e.g., something like the much smaller piece (bottom) called “Orb 1,” it may end up in the upcoming Art department faculty show here at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
The four individual panels will be displayed a few inches apart so the floating orb is broken up into parts. I wonder if there is a word like ‘triptych’ for a four-part piece… [trip to wikipedia]… ah yes, it’s a tetraptych!
August 2011.
One of my first impressions: Oregon is beautiful.