Delivered and Installed!

Opening reception @ Aucociso today from 2 - 5 p.m.!

I'll blog more about it all later - wish me luck!

A Girl's Primer

I have been working on this trio of drawings for 9 months and I'm finally ready to march these ghosts out of my studio. My triptych, A Girl's Primer, will be in a group show at Aucocisco Gallery in Portland for the month of December. I'm thrilled to be invited to show at Aucocisco with four other artists: Michele Caron, Rachael Eastman, Tanya Fletcher, and Judy O'Donnell. I'm just about finished, still doing a bit of fine tuning, and I need to make the hanging mechanisms. They will hang unframed, and I'm planning to string wire to three boards and attach each drawing to its respective board with velcro. They will then simply hang on picture hangers. Theyre not heavy, but they're big, at 4' x 8' each.

Here is my working artist statement which still needs a tweak or two. I don't want to say too much - just a sort of lead in...

My mother’s loss of memory due to the ravages of Alzheimer’s and her recent death prompted me to create this series of drawings, a triptych populated by three major spirits: my mother, my father, and my maternal grandmother. A Girl’s Primer speaks of love, loss, dreams, desire, memory and experience, and the early forces that shaped me.

Imaging Imogen

Judy Dater
Imogen Cunningham and Twinka

Henry Swift
Portrait of Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham

Self-portrait, 1932

Imogen Cunningham

Self-portrait, 1974

Imogen Cunningham

Self-portrait, 1974

Another artist to add to my Who I Want to be When I Grow Up list...

(My apologies about the spacing - I edit it, and then when I publish the post, it's all wacked. Does this happen to anyone else? How do you fix it??)

Triptych Update

Kittens and zinnias, kitchen curtains made of dotted swiss, barnacles, crabs, ghosts of old loves, and a house on fire...

Some of the images emerging in my triptych.

The Devil's in The Details

My most recent progress on the Primaries triptych - I think that's what I will title it. Primaries.

Saturday Studio

I was in my studio from 11am - 11pm yesterday. Here are some triptych process/progress pics, not necessarily in chronological order. I can't back away from it enough to get a picture of the whole wall at once. These panels are slightly overlapping right now, but I intend for there to be space between them when they are exhibited. It's coming along. Tomorrow I will get over into that right hand panel...

Shape Shifting

More changes to the left panel of my triptych.

Although some splashing from the tub made its way to the center panel...

So much for my clean studio.

I'm interested in the larger shapes that are emerging as I work this piece....