Excited to be part of a two person show opening in Charlottesville on Friday, September 18th. Recent hand surgery has made for a challenging summer and for preparing works, but all is well and I’m psyched to deliver the work in just a few days.
Materials? Discarded library books and ephemera, old text book covers, marbled end papers, leather bindings, one feather, one tiger and quite a few butterflies.
More to come.
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!
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