Green Chalk Contemporary is a new gallery showing really interesting contemporary work in Monterey. They have a group show, Fresh Fish, looking at the oceans and the creatures that live in them. I made these two wood columns for the show and took woodcut prints from them. Green Chalk is at 616 Lighthouse Ave, Monterey, California, 93940 and the show opens July 12th.
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Some wood pieces I made for my show at Atelier 20. The show also features paintings and prints and runs through july 5th.
Here are details of several shows coming up in the next month or so spread around the "Greater Bay Area". I hope you'll make it out to say hi at one of the receptions or just check out the work if geography allows. Atelier 20
I’ll be showing paintings, prints, sculpture, and even a couple of furniture/functional art pieces. Lot’s of reclaimed wood! Atelier 20 is a great interior design store and studio in the funky Midtown neighborhood of Sacramento, run by my old friend and former colleague, designer Kristi Hughes. Atelier 20. Opening on the Second Saturday Art Walk June 14th through July 5th. 915 20th St, Sacramento, CA. Open Tues – Sat 11-6. Stanford Art Spaces Curated by DeWitt Cheng, I’ll be showing around 30 large paintings from 2006 to 2014 alongside photographs by Charles Anselmo. Stanford Art Spaces is an exhibition program based in the David W. Packard Electrical Engineering Building and other buildings on the Stanford campus. Campus can be confusing so I will post a map and directions on my website blog! Show runs July 1st to August 29th with a reception Thursday July 24th 4.30 to 7pm. Green Chalk Contemporary Green Chalk is a newish gallery in Monterey showing some great contemporary work. I’ll be taking part in their group show Fresh Fish, which looks at issues around our oceans and the creatures that live there. July 12th to August 9th with an opening reception July 12th. Green Chalk Contemporary, 616 Lighthouse Avenue, Monterey, CA. Public Art In addition to all that wine and cheese over the next few weeks, I’ll be installing a pair of complementary public art pieces, a sculptural piece and a mural, at a site in Palo Alto. I'm working on new pieces for some upcoming shows throughout the year. Expect new paintings, large prints, lots of wood, and some picks of older work too. June 2014 at Atelier 20 in Sacramento CA July 2014 solo show at Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA July 2014 group show at Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey CA. November 2014 at The Thoreau Center For Sustainability, San Francisco CA. Dates and details to follow as they're confirmed. Proposing ideas for public art projects is a funny business. In a relatively short time you have to come up with an idea for what is potentially a huge piece of work that you could then spend months making. It's very unlike my studio practice which is more "lets see what turns up on the journey", but that contrast is one of the things I've come to appreciate and enjoy. Each project proposal is like a crazy intense exercise that, if unsuccessful, gets quickly left behind and moved on from, or if accepted becomes "the big thing" to keep working on for some time.
I just did one suc proposals for some panels to be installed in a high school in Alaska. In the end I didn't get the project but enjoyed making the proposal and samples over a rather manic few days on April. I'd been in New Zealand for most of the proposal-making time window so had been chewing over a lot of ideas but had to commit to making and presenting one in a very short time. The idea was to make forty panels for the top half of some tall columns supporting a ceiling - the panels would give the impression of light coming through a canopy of foliage. I used a simple construction of layered plywood which had a much cleaner, slicker look than my usual work - interesting to see how that turned out. I made a couple of sample panels to give an idea of what the forty individual pieces would have looked like. As with all experiments into new areas, I could see lots of aspects that needed changing or refining, but I liked the gist of it and hope I get the chance to develop this kind of thing further for some other application. Here are some shots of the samples. I'll be doing a print project at The Compound Studios, Oakland over February and March. I've never had much opportunity to explore print as a medium til recently and I'm finding that I can approach it in a similar way to the way I paint - layering images, using texture and translucency etc. Here are some images of prints in progress. I'll post proper scans once I finish the project. I've finished the commission for the Regional Water Quality Control Plant and Household Hazardous Waste Station in Palo Alto, CA. The RWQCP&HHW (!!) is sited right at Baylands a conservation area on the South SF Bay marshes. It's a haven for migrating birds and a great visual manifestation of the water cycle, or at least what we have of it this year. This piece will be installed at the public entry to the facility that is used by householders and educational groups. The installation is scheduled for April.
UPDATE - June 11th, I installed the piece at the entry to the plant. Photos here. The landscaping is nearly complete and I'll soon be starting the mural that accompanies this piece. There's an open day planned sometime late summer when the whole project is complete. It's Jan 2nd 2014, and the first piece of work this brand new year is to complete a commission for The City of Palo Alto - eight wooden posts with a composition that runs across them in carved relief, paint, and metal. That spell of freezing weather in December kept me out of the studio long enough that I didn't get them finished so have a few days of work left. I should install them sometime in the next couple of months but here they are in their current state. 2013 was a good year for making some painting progress - I found some new avenues to go down, a few dead-ends, but most leading to some interesting new places to explore. I wrapped up the year by completing the three 24 x 24 pieces below. They all started off intending to be pieces for the Woody Guthrie series that made up my Made For You and Me show, but these three never quite made it. They'd been incomplete and unloved for many months, but enough time had past for me to forget the original intentions and look at them afresh. Eventually they became three very different pieces, from each other, and from my original ideas for them. |
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