Aferro Opening, May 1

Sing, Sing, a Song: for younger self (in situ, Gallery Aferro, at the opening reception May 1)


Many thanks to the gallerists Emma Wilcox and Evonne Davis and visitors for Saturday night's lovely reception. Three shows opened to a curious, game, and engaging crowd.

I was absolutely ecstatic with the response of the viewers to my artist's books; folks followed the cues and stood, climbed, knelt, laid down, and sat to 'read' six new works that are my residency project "belles lettres".

A slightly longer take of the work can be seen on my website.

Excited to share the work from the last year!

Setting up/laying out/hanging my show @ gallery Aferro. Show opens May 1.

Spoke and Art

One of my new projects is the community arts and action group Spoke and Art. Our website says it all, including our call for submissions. head on over to spokeandart.com and go to the open call and events pages. Hope to see you there!

Open season.

Below are some pictures from the aforementioned opening last Saturday at Good Question Gallery in Milford, Pa. The gallerist, Rich Cuttrona, did a wonderful job with the space and curating the paintings and my books.

(Interestingly, I had a love affair years ago with Letraset, the rub on lettering used -past tense- by graphic designers, and Lisa Z. used them in her paintings. I was swooning a little from that.)

Two of the books, Ladder and Abacus I and II explore the concept of order, of the human desire to make and organize information and develop systems of organization for information.

The other set of books, 100 (see margin photo), which is 10 editions of 10 books, explores the more esoteric relationship we have with images and text. The series of books are a personal letter from the author to an unnamed recipient, with the narrative being drawn from a subject line in their written communications.

Ideas, otherwise known as little hiccups in the brain.

The new idea shouldn't be an idea, but I have to live with it anyway. Shouldn't have been allowed into my brain in the first place, but there is less and less control with these things I suppose.

Mini golf. Seriously.

I'm not kidding. I'm thinking about large book structures, a bunch of volumes, looking like grand, hardbound, special books dedicated to classical antiquity or the English language, or to misdeeds of American presidents; and then, "Viola!" open the book and out cascades mini golf holes. Little hazards sculpted out of paper.







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The move.

Just about a month ago I was awarded a studio residency at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. This fall, after putting together the application and requisite writings and portfolio requirements, I put the whole lot of it in the mail and hoped for the best. And the first part of 'the best' happened - the studio space will be mine for the term of 6 months, and I will be granted a solo show after the residency has concluded. Now, it is wait and see for the second part of that best - the money (commissions, tutoring, and grants) - to be figured out.
The above photograph is of the raw space, just a few of my things in it after "move-in" this weekend. I am one of five residents at Aferro, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working in such close proximity to artists all being granted the same thing - space, access to community, and access to resources.
The other artists in residency are located on the Aferro website (see People, Places, Things).