Time in the studio painting has been pretty non-stop for the past few weeks… Summer in the southeast makes any prospect for cyanotyping hard to gauge with hurricane season.
I am almost done with Nebraska and Arizona in big blue paintings.
Archive for the 'new work' Category
After spending the beginning of the summer in California, interning at the Sylvia White Gallery and cyanotyping I am back in Savannah, GA and back in my studio. Here is my newest painting… almost done.
This piece is 6′3″x3′ in size. I have two more built and ready to go. Below is the subject for my next piece:
I am looking forward to spending some time with Nebraska:)
I am now officially an MFA candidate. The 45 hour review at SCAD went very well, and I passed, and am on my way to pulling together the thesis show for the fall.
A friend at the woodshop helped me with the framing job which I am happy with. I white washed all of the walnut. The velum drawings are floating between two sheets of plexi glass to emphasize their translucency. The cyanotypes are uncovered in shadowboxes.
The newest and most exciting piece in my work now is a large scale oil painting (6ft x 4ft) done with the visual language of my state cyanotypes. I plan on moving in this direction to eventually do all 50 dates in this way.
a detail of the upper right corner:
Finally included was two globes and two panels from the journey series.
Fun with etching, sewing and cutting… updates
Published May 1, 2008 cyanotype , line , new work , printmaking 2 CommentsI have been working hard. Im sorry that its been a while since the last post.. Right now I am revisiting printmaking, which has been a load of work but fun, and getting things together for the big review in 2 weeks. New stuff, enjoy!
My first stab back at printmaking…
Stage one of my copper plates…etching remnants of the journey series.
For midterm I printed the first two panels of the journey series and presented them on sheets together.
I also took two of the squares from the vinyl drawings and had them enlarged then printed those 20″x20″.
I would really like to cute out each of the squares, mount, and display them like this:
I have machine sewn the path of travel with red thread through each of them. They are floating about an inch off the wall, on a wood block. Everyone else wanted them all together so I mocked some up to get the idea. The verdict is still out…
The Journey series is a project with a beginning and an end. It is a memory of a migration, an uprooting and adventure from coast to coast. When I moved to Georgia I drove my car, with all my possessions within 3000 miles from California. These are the trips you never forget. I have reproduced the map tracing point A home (Thousand Oaks, CA) to point B new home (Savannah, GA). This journey has been separated into 4 ½ in. squares each representing 15 minutes of driving. I am revisiting the journey in real time by allowing myself 15 to draw each square map onto a grid of vinyl. The purpose is to eventually expose this negative in the cyanotype process and present the move in a linear way… I hope you enjoy seeing the project in progress.
I have half of the squares drawn out and just sun printed them yesterday…. excited for installation when they are all done!
details:
I have been working on a new little tangent that fits nicely with my work I think. I am painting over pre-exsisting globes. I am challenging our idea of the world and the way it can sometimes feel to us… They will be all maps from memory. I am looking forward to this group to add to the work. It anyone would like to donate an old globe to the cause that would be turned into a piece of fine art, send it my way!
These are not the final images. Work in Progress.
After I completed drawings of all 50 states (although Nebraska is MIA)… I have assigned myself another daunting project. After much input I have divined that my maps need to be more personal.I am going to track the great distance between my home in California and my home in Georgia by retracing the map of my journey of a road trip that I took when I moved east. The almost 40 hours of driving has been broken down into 4 1/2 in squares that represent the amount of road driven in 15 min. I am retracing each one in real time by spending 15 min drawing each. I have laid them all out on my studio wall in a grid with vinyl over which I am drawing on. 140 squares later I will use the vinyl panels to make sunprints of each and install in a singular row wrapping a room. It should be very powerful.This is the first step…
dont mind the mess on my walls, it shows a history of messing painting in that space.
I have been working on the United States…all 50 of them. Its taken some time but i have each state individually represented and I put them up together in an installation recently.
They filled the room… More detailed photos of each one to follow. These pen and ink paintings are done on vellum so that they also double as negatives for cyanotypes later.
Also working on flowin’ the Mississippi. Large scale cyano prints!
Finally. Feeling caught up.
Mississippi River Paths…Cyanotype and Pastel
I am doing all 50 states…working toward an installation of them all together.
Working on scupltural shading in negative with these Cycladic figures.
From the end of the Fall:
US lights at night
and detail
This week marks the beginning of yet another new quarter at SCAD. Of to a good start I think. I am still working with the cyanotypes. I hope to work in some more layers in the more recent work now. Here is what I have done so far:
Just drew this today to be printed as soon as the sun comes out. It is a geography of the world’s continents in a bubble map. Each circle’s size is in relation to my knowledge, understanding and personal perception of a place.
I did this over the break at home. I am playing with the significance of the Mississippi River. I currently have a 15ft map of it taped together in my dining room. It is a very long river…
I had a studio visit with Steven Yazzie today. It was very positive. He really likes the way my work is going and had some good suggestions. Check out what he is up to in Arizona.
