Thinking About My Art

I apologize for the delay in publishing the second part of my Vermont Studio Center experience.  A week ago today my wife and I had to put down our wonderful cat, Maisy.  She had suffered a stroke the week before and was unable to recover.  We miss her terribly.
OK, back to the residency experience…
The Studio
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I’ve written a great deal about the work I made while at VSC.  Without a doubt, the month of January was the most artistically productive time of my life.  Remember, I was able to complete 43 works in 24 days, and this only counts the work I felt was worthy of hanging on the studio [...]

I still plan to write more about my time at VSC, but I wanted to interrupt the flow of posts with a quickie sharing the first new paintings I’ve made since being back home.  As you can probably tell, I decided to pick up right where I left off.  These paintings are slightly larger (16″ [...]

While in Vermont for my residency, fellow artist Rob Hitzig visited my studio to see my work in person.  Prior to his visit he had only seen jpegs of the new wood panels I’ve been doing.  Walking around them in person proved to be a much different experience.  He was kind enough to write about [...]

As mentioned in the last post, a fellow resident, Baltimore-based Kim Manfredi, gave me an idea for a painting that piqued my interest.  She responded to the works where the applied paint looked like bands of tape with an idea along the lines of “what if the wood was the ‘tape’ and the paint was [...]

As discussed in the last post, I finally began to feel somewhat more confident making paintings.  I took that confidence and moved forward to make some larger paintings.  I also felt more experimental with color and let myself branch away from the mucky colors that got me started on the right track.  Below are images [...]

As discussed in my previous post, it took about 2.5 weeks in residency before I started feel like I was getting a grasp on the painting I wanted to accomplish.  My approach for doing these paintings evolved over and over again.  One visiting artist told me that she really appreciated how willing I was to [...]

Before I left for VSC, I decided that I wanted to spend the majority of my time experimenting with painting on plywood.  I came up with a set of rules for myself to follow and prepped about 20 pieces of maple and walnut plywood to work with.  I often work in a rule-based manner and [...]

Before going to the Vermont Studio Center for a month long residency, I spent a great deal of time thinking about what I wanted to make while there.  Ultimately I decided that I wanted to spend the month experimenting with paint on plywood, something that would be entirely new, challenging and exciting.  Just prior to [...]

Well, I survived Vermont.  As you know, I spent the month of January taking part in an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.  I lucked out since it was a very mild January.  One day even hit 50 degrees!  I’ll be writing several different posts describing my experience at VSC, but [...]