Thursday, February 2, 2017
Photos from the Residency
Photos from the Residency
One of the most valuable things about the VSC residency was meeting all the other artists and seeing their work. I took pictures of their work at Open Studio on our last day, but wont post here. Instead, here are a few of the artists who were there:
Galen Cheney, Molly Bosley, Kit Donnelly, Lyal Michel, Janet Fredericks, Kathleen Fiske, Lily Hinrichsen, Irene Cole, Warren Kimble, and of course there were many more (fifty-six of us altogether).
Here are a few more pix of my work in progress, maybe some are finished:
This is just some of what I worked on. The verticals are 11"x30".
Another valuable experience from the residency was coming to terms with my own limitations - my attention span, my stamina. Not just how-long-can-I-stay-in-the-studio, but How Long Can I Sustain An Idea? Do my ideas only go so far and then peter out? What happens when I try to push an idea further than my usual attention span and studio time allow? I tend to work in short series, and often feel like I flit from one thing to another, and yet I know that common themes and aesthetic issues surface across various series and bodies of work. Should I be more intentional? Should I try to push my ideas further? Should, should, should.
What I discovered is that my brain peters out before my physical stamina for staying in the studio. I want to be working longer, but the paintings come to a point where they need to be left alone for a bit, even if I work on several at once. My work is pretty decision-intensive, even though the decisions are intuitive. There is very little "busy work" that I can do on my paintings when my brain is tired. So maybe this is a good time to make patterned collage papers, do cut-outs of shapes that I am now painting, make repetitious marks, or go back to my 4"x4" collage-paintings (of which I did NONE last week), or push paper around. Thanks for listening!
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