Hi there!I know its been a while since I've written, but the last few months have been about hiding in my studio and working. I'm so glad I did!
Sometimes when you clear your head and focus, that's when great things happen. You open up your vision and positive things come to you. My studio practice was getting pretty challenging earlier in the year, but I was determined to work through it. For some that is not the solution, but for me that is always the one thing I can rely on to get me through tough times - the work.
One day, I was pleasantly surprised to see an e-mail in my inbox. Silas Marder Gallery was inviting me to do three new pieces on canvases they would provide, 8 x 10 each. Any subject, any composition, as long as it was uniquely my own work.
Wow.
I was so excited. It was so flattering and fantastic to be invited to a group show AND to be asked to make new work. Somehow, despite my struggles in the studio at the time, I knew exactly what to do. I gathered my resources, reviewed all my photos, and went back into all my memories. I found 3 perfect images, and got ready to work.
Every weekend, I worked as hard as I could to chip away at these pieces. Every weekend was a new layer of paint onto the canvas, and the concept of an ideal studio practice coming all the closer.
Its always the fantasy: you're working away in your little corner of the world and the world comes to you, invites you to play. Its easy to hide in this corner and if no one comes, you never play. I am thankful for this invitation. It reminds me of all the interesting opportunities there are in the world, and how important it is to play.
Here are the details of the show...
The Big Show
Silas Marder Gallery
Bridgehampton, NY
Opening Reception:
May 30th, 4-9pm
May 30 - June 24, 2009
See the pieces here.
I feel very renewed after this project, very restored. In fact, I just ordered new stretchers, canvas, and a big roll of watercolor paper.
I'm ready to play.
