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Rose Guterbock & A.I.Miller are the artists behind CvilleArtBlog, a great new resource covering the artistic array of Charlottesville. I met them both at the opening reception for Ex Ex Libris and shortly after, they shared this review.

Long has captured the essence of Terry Pratchett’s L-Space Theory and uses it to remind us of the importance of books. By weaving a tapestry with their covers, she shows how they can warp space and time to remind us of who we are and what makes up our history.

The show hangs for another week. The Bridge is officially open Monday-Wednesday 12-6pm, Saturday 10am – 3pm, but is hosting events nearly every night this week, many as part of The VA Festival of the Book, 3-20 to 3-24, 2013. Tonight there’s storytelling with the Big Blue Door Jam and tomorrow a wild poetry slam and dance party at the Emily Dickinson Afterparty.

I will be hanging out gallery sitting this Saturday 3/23 from 10-3. Pop on by!

January 22, 2013

Snail mail

Preparations are underway for my show at The Bridge. 38 days until the opening reception. Postcard design met with a ~few~ scheduling hitches along the way. I capitulated to the calendar and cranked up my ancient graphic design skills, which involved Barry helping me figure out which version of Photoshop to open, creating a 5″ x 7″ postcard I can live with.

The resulting digital art has many favored found items: brittle scotch tape, worn book binding, textbook bookplate with student signature from first day of school September 8, 1969, red-inked library rubber stamps, and red sharpie X marks-the-spot to really send home the this-book-IS-discarded message. The “Graduating 36” piece colors seem to nestle well.

The back of the postcard has the usual rigamarole, sans indicia.

Frankly, I worked hard to find 28 consecutive and well-placed words to describe my art. I either blather or sit mute. Of pithiness, I know nothing. Honing, distilling, being concise are a challenge. Barry gave it the thumbs up. So as we used to say in the prepress department when we were sick of proofreading and preflighting, PRINT IT!