Economy of Means: Robert Storr & Denzil Hurley
In the Seattle Times, Robert Ayers reviews the current exhibition at Francine Seders. Ayers focuses primarily on the biography of Storr, and places great importance on the externals such as his successes as a writer, critic and curator, and incidentally fails to say much about the work. In doing so, he gives inadequate attention to local artist … Read more
True Perception
This past summer I created a series of watercolor drawings of flowing water from the rivers and creeks we spent time at on our 170 mile hike in the Cascades. In the fall I made watercolor paintings on panel from these sketches. Working on absorbent ground on wood, the watercolor slipped and pooled around the … Read more
Amid a Space Between
During the months of March and April, SF Artist MOMA Gallery, is exhibiting six diverse artists whose common ground began in Ireland. Participating artists, Richard Mosse, Alen MacWeeney, Nuala Clark, Helen O’Leary, Helen O’Toole and Katie Holten all came to live in the States, and have been working on an international level. Through this shared … Read more
Emily Gherard
Listen to interview with: Emily Gherard I recently met with Emily Gherard to talk about her work in context to the spiritual in art. To get to her studio, Emily led me out of the house into the backyard. Only a few steps away from the back door, we walked under a trellis that had dried … Read more
Integrity
Last night at the Seattle Repertory theatre I went and saw Red by John Logan, directed by Richard E.T. White. I was surprised how well the production captured the cultural dialogue which occurred between artists during the era of Modern art as it transitioned through the various movements of Cubism, Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. … Read more
Materials
I recently had twenty wood panels in the dimension of 12″ x 20″ made for me by the artist Mathew Olds www.holdstudios.com/ . After laying down three layers of Gesso and sanding in between each application, I brushed on two layers of absorbent ground so that I could use watercolor on the panel. The reason for sanding between … Read more
Spaciousness for Change
Recently I completed a sequence of watercolors based on still images from a video I made of silt swirling around in water. Having had the opportunity to sit, lie and sleep with the work twenty-four seven (now that my studio is temporarily in my bedroom as I transition to moving to San Francisco) I observed that the twenty … Read more
Working in Sequence
In ”Twenty Seconds of Change: Paintings in a Sequence,” I aim to: Create a Commitment to inquiry See process as expression of itself Empty image of self expression Empty paintings of thought Act on curiosity and discovery Give significance to chance Reveal each specific “image” as a display of its time of production Propose paintings as sets … Read more
A K Mimi Allin
Shortly before the New Year, I had the opportunity to meet with Mimi Allin, Seattle Poet and Performance artist. She was the first artist I have interviewed in my search for who is making work today that engages with notions of spirituality. My intention to do so has been to explore what makes something spiritual? And, … Read more
Loosing the Interpretation
I just read Against Interpretation, by Susan Sontag, who corroborated some of my recent reflections on how our thoughts and interpretation of them take us out of the moment and the experience of “just this”. Early in the article Sontag states that:, ”To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world – in order to set up … Read more
