The Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica puts on a juried annual benefit show where artists produce fifty 6 x 6" panels in fifty days. This year's show is juried by Lonnie Lee of Vessel Gallery, Oakland. My panels are a figurative and based on sketches, photographs, and images from various media, and are a kind of visual diary of encounters and images across the fifty days. See the pieces in detail here.
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Done in conjunction with the Made For You And Me show, these 7 x 5" matted collograph prints are available from The Compound Gallery for $45 each. A collograph is a print taken from a block that is essentially a relief collage. By layering several blocks and experimenting with multiple colors, each print is unique. You can see a selection here. The solo show Made For You And Me went well at The Compound Gallery in Oakland through June and July. You can see the show online here . It was a thrill to make large paintings and 3D pieces for the space and I a big thanks go out to Matt and Lena of The Compound for giving me the opportunity. A montage of studio shots taken whilst working on the pieces that are now in the Made For You And Me show at Compound Gallery.
James Scarborough wrote a nice preview of the Made for You and Me show in The Huffington Post saying, "To experience the work in "Made for You and Me: New Work by Martin Webb", is to come across sophisticated folk art, conceptually vigorous, visually intriguing folk art, in some out of the way place you stop on the way to somewhere else." Read the full article here. Just completed this studio-visit video which was beautifully shot and edited by painter/videographer John Yoyogi Fortes at Digital Boondocks. Martin Webb from Digital Boondocks on Vimeo. Really looking forward to this show. The work is still taking shape but expect plenty of large-scale paintings and an equally sizeable sculpture/installation piece.
After a winter of studio-hibernation, Spring brings the artist back out into the world with a frenzy of activity ... (relatively speaking). Opening March 16th at The Compound Gallery, Oakland, the show Outside the Box II is a group show of work by artists who contribute to the Art in a Box art subscription project. The artists will be showing their "full-size" work including some 3D pieces of mine. Details about the show here. As a sideline to that show, Compound is launching a special edition of hand-glazed plates available to Art in a Box subscribers. My contributions are pictured here >>> and more information can be found here. Still at The Compound, I'm continuing to make work for my solo show coming up in June, opening reception Sat June 15th. I'm excited to be planning a show in such a great space and the new pieces intend to make good use of it. There should be a few surprises ....! Meanwhile, I'm a finalist on a couple of public art commissions and am really enjoying the process of developing concepts and visuals for those designs. The public art process can be quite a process, but it makes a great contrast to working in the studio and at this point the two things are feeding each other nicely with ideas and images.
Finally, I've been installing some commissioned art into paving at Coddingtown in Santa Rosa in various phases since 2008, and we're currently planning the final piece of that work to be done sometime this summer. I have a couple of pieces at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station for their group show "Out of the Blue" juried by Ruth Braunstein. The reception Sunday 13th 3-5pm and the show is up til Feb 3rd. Head on up there, go for a hike, eat some oysters, go see the show - I guarantee it won't rain at all! This day-laborer piece "Closer" is at Berkeley Art Center's show "Wonder". Dec 6th - Jan 27th.It's a super-eclectic show of over 250 small works. 1275 Walnut St, Berkeley. www.berkeleyartcenter.org. |
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