tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58465159026790357722024-03-15T02:59:16.474-04:00Wood Is ArtRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-51447086268432722242019-01-10T10:37:00.003-05:002019-01-10T10:37:54.951-05:00Last Pieces of 2018<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've always struggled with titling abstract work because I don't want the title to reference anything specific, anything that could lead the viewer to see something in the piece. I want the viewer to create their own journey, to ask questions and to leave their mind to continue thinking about the work. I've noticed other artists struggle with the same issue. Some artist simply refuse to title the work, others number their art. I've tried various things, including randomly picking words out of the dictionary, using unrelated song titles, or various other techniques I've abandoned. With this group I decided that abstract words would be an appropriate compliment to the work -- that is, I created my own words that people can assign any meaning they want to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These first two pieces are similar to a sculptural painting I made a couple of years ago, <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2017/03/canoe-strip-canvas-series.html"><i>Stage Fright</i></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most all of my work is experimental but these last two pieces were particularly so. I was just playing around with the underpainting of both, experimenting with small abstract amorphous designs. I was never completely happy with them but I took the time to flattened and polish them with shellac anyway. After a few months of looking at them I painted some zigzags freehand on top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are the indoor wall paintings I completed between February to December 2018. This first piece, <i>Binding Light III</i>, is part of a conceptual series of paintings that I have been making related to my curiosity about the nature of reality evolving out of my Buddhist practices. The random angled geometric shapes that have been a long time part of my art have always represented individuals to me. What I am particularly interested in is how individuals are "inseparably interconnected" to one another. The illusion of reality verses what is really going on. Consequently, although the painting is abstract on one level, my intent is not abstract at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">My zigzag work is less conceptual and more about playing with color, experimenting with their interaction, and trying to generate some kind of visual energy. As with much of my work, I am more interested in selecting color combinations that create visual questions more than to have something that is aesthetically pleasing. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">The title of this one, <i>Orange and Philinga</i>, is a reference to a tombstone I came across while wondering around an old graveyard in Morrisville, Vermont for Orange and Philinga Cleaveland. Orange died in 1889 at 88 and Philinga died in 1870 at 66. I know nothing about them other than what is on the tombstone but with such names I assume they must have been wonderful people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">The underpainting for </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Orange and Philinga</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> and </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Breathless</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> was made specifically to be painted on top of, whereas the underpainting for </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Redemption</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> was made on top of an old piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of all the zigzag paintings in this batch, <i>Redemption</i> (below) is the only one in which I painted over an older piece. With the others I created the underpainting with the intent of painting zigzags on top. I first started working on this piece in 2010, and brought it out again in 2017 before finishing it this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Would That</i> (below) is available through <a href="http://www.crossmackenzie.com/">Cross MacKenzie Gallery</a> in Washington, DC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I made <i>Innocent Insolence</i> I was interested in the wedge shapes created by the zigs and the zags so I decided to paint each of them individually. When I was done I realized I still needed something to hold it together, and to give the shapes context, so I painted the zigzags on top after removing the tape. This painting, as well as Orange and Philinga, is available through <a href="https://www.helenday.com/exhibitions">Helen Day Arts Center</a> until December 29, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Future Perfect</i> started as a practice board, a place to experiment with ideas before working on an actual piece. But has the ideas were layered on top of one another I eventually felt that it was interesting in its own right, so I decided to finish it. I found the result interesting and it served as inspiration for the piece that followed, <i>Present Perfect</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Present Perfect</i> is a combination of the piece above, <i>Future Perfect</i>, and the first piece on this post, <i>Binding Light III</i>. Although, with this iteration, I'm thinking maybe that binding light touches all around the beings rather than just at the points between them. I don't know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With this last piece of 2018, <i>Jatonisti</i>, I felt that it needed another layer of something when I was done and, more out of frustration than anything else, I decided to doodle on top of it.</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-74712519512384647072018-08-20T09:47:00.000-04:002018-08-20T09:47:17.914-04:00The Greatest<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Greatest</i> is a public art painting/sculpture installed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Farm">King Farm</a> in Woodstock, Vermont for the 2018 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LandARTLab/">LandARTLab</a> exhibit which opens on August 25, 4 pm to 7 pm. The exhibit is free and open to the public; and will continue through November. The title is, in part, a reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali">Mohammed Ali</a> who conceived of the poem, Me We, when asked for one by a student following a speech at Harvard University in 1975. Although it is the shortest poem in the English language, it is also enormously profound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The piece is also inspired by the teachings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya_Das">Lama Surya Das</a> who has mentioned the poem in both his talks and books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LandARTLab is an extension of <a href="https://www.sculpturefest.org/">Sculpturefest</a> where I have installed Home Dream Home, described in the <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2018/06/home-dream-home.html">previous post</a>. The two properties are joined by a path and, together, cover hundreds of acres -- making it one of the largest public art exhibits in the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-39947772852136819762018-06-28T11:05:00.001-04:002018-06-28T11:05:09.828-04:00Home Dream Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I constructed <i>Home Dream Home</i> for display at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sculpturefestvt/">Sculpture Fest</a>, an annual public art exhibit in Woodstock, Vermont. This year's show includes thirty-five regional artist and over forty sculptures. It is a very beautiful setting and a must see if one is in the area. Amazingly and very generously, the organizers (and owners of the property -- Charlet and Peter Davenport), make the site free and open to the public from sunrise to sunset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was honored to be invited to create a piece and even more so when I was named, along with my friend <a href="https://maryadmasianart.com/">Mary Admasian</a>, to be a featured artist. The exhibit opens with a reception Saturday, June 30, 2018 from 4:00 to 7:00, and continues until November 18.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My sculpture was inspired by my desire to see homes painted in interesting and fun ways with the hope that the work would encourage others to go beyond boring traditional painting schemes. I am also fascinated/obsessed with the idea of installing a multi-colored standing seam roof so I painted this one with that in mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used thirty-six different colors, most of which I mixed on my own. I consider it a trial run for my own building. I've already painted it with eighty-eight vertical stripes, all different colors, but it is on vinyl siding and I eventually need to remove it and fix the underlying clapboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The vinyl siding is well beyond its useful life so one of the advantages of the paint job is that it distracts from how bad it looks. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ideally, one day I can paint it somewhat like <i>Home Dream Home</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I titled the piece <i>Home Dream Home</i> because a house is just a building but a home, to me, invokes a feeling of love and play. I want the piece to be interactive. I hope that people go inside and have their pictures taken with it while looking out the windows and doors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also included washable colored chalk inside so that people can add their own inspirations. I feel that the sculpture isn't complete without the interaction of others, that the art isn't art until people go inside and interact with it. In that way, it is a living structure that is constantly changing, as a home should.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is my latest batch of work going back to last June. All photographs were taken by <a href="http://www.rlphoto.com/">RL Photo Studio</a> of Burlington, Vermont.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This first piece, <i>Binding Light (1)</i>, evolved over time to become something much more spiritual than I originally intended. I find that I am continually drawn to geometric shapes with random angles and sides. I like how they are all different and I like adding to that difference by painting them differently. As I paint them I am always thinking how their uniqueness is a metaphor for the uniqueness of all beings, the infinite variety of life. Consequently, I see this work more as portraiture than abstract art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I was working on this piece, I started to see how, if I painted the last, outermost pentagon the same color as the section in the corner it could infer that the same color (or light would exist around every other shape continuing beyond the unseen corners out to infinity. In this way, I feel it is a depiction of the nature of reality, the insepartablity of all beings that exist everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Binding Light (2)</i> is a conceptual continuation of <i>(1), </i>intending to show what it looks like to have multiple "beings" within the painting. I had changed the last pentagon to white after I realized that it made more sense since white light is the source of all other colors; additionally, both <i>The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Liberation Through Hearing)</i> and people who have died and come back to life talk about going toward a white light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Carlota</i> was originally started, and "finished," in 2013. Over the summer I pulled it back out to work on it again, this time adding the zigzag pattern on top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is what <i>Carlota</i> looked liked before I reworked it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">December 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mixed media on board</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The same with <i>Conundrum with Blue</i>, it was the second zigzag piece. I decide to make larger zigzags this time. Not sure which is better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conundrum with Blue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">42.5" x 46"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this is what <i>Conundrum with Blue</i> looked liked earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Untitled</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Homage</i> is, obviously, an homage to the many other artists that have inspired me while still adding my own style. I am not sure why but I find it really important to use a different color for each ring. I believe the aesthetics would be better if it had a pattern but I feel the changes make it more mysterious, adding questions to the viewers mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">48" x 41.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There must be a source light but I have no idea what it looks like or what the radiants look like either. This is an attempt at depicting it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Source Light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mixed media on board </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">48" x 41.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2017</span> </div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These next three are inspired by my <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2017/08/bumper-sticker-update-6.html">bumper stickers</a> ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mixed media on board </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11" x 36"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2017</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inductance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mixed media on board </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11" x 36"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13.5" x 24.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Physicianification</i> was first "completed" in 2013, but stayed in storage for four years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Physicianification</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mixed media on board </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17" x 36" x1.5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These last three were inspired by work I'd seen in NYC just before making them, though, if you see where my idea started you would not believe they where related. It worked more as a mental jumping off point. It was nice to find a good use for small scraps I had laying around the shop for years but couldn't bring myself to giving away for firewood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> acrylic and gouache on wood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7" x 10" x 2"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> acrylic and gouache on wood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8.5" x 27" x 2.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stack (3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> acrylic and gouache on wood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">23" x 12" x 2"</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-34624879202824993662017-08-30T10:26:00.003-04:002017-08-30T10:28:28.914-04:00Bumper Sticker Update #6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are my six most recent limited edition wordless bumper stickers, #33 to #38. As I might have mentioned in previous posts, my vision is that they act as seeds to open minds. To further that goal, I am committed to giving away one bumper sticker to every US resident that promises to put it on their vehicle. Likewise, to make it a self-sustaining project, I charge $10 for all other stickers. If you would like one, check my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/roberthitzig">Facebook</a> fan page or Instagram account @robhitzig to see the most recent edition and email or message me an address to send it to.</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-42289351078883277192017-08-30T10:12:00.000-04:002017-08-30T10:12:13.622-04:00Onion River Campground Bathhouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently completed painting the bathhouse at <a href="http://www.onionrivercampground.com/">Onion River Campground</a> in Marshfield, Vermont. It was a fun project, not least of all because the owners allowed me to do whatever I wanted, no pre-approval of concept or design. I found the project a useful reminder of just how much can be expressed with just simple colored stripes. I was going for something that would be both fun and challenging, balancing a fine line between welcoming and "out-of-place-ness." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would be remiss if I did not also mention that I developed a relationship with the owners through their other venture, <a href="https://nuttystephs.com/">Nutty Steph's</a>, my source for the best granola in the world (note: this is an objective, unbiased, easily verifiable statement devoid of hyperbole). </span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-58634472394382708532017-08-29T10:44:00.002-04:002017-08-30T10:29:49.078-04:00New Group of Canoe Strip Canvas Pieces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had my second group of "canoe strip canvas" pieces photographed by <a href="http://www.rlphoto.com/">RL Photo Studio</a> in Burlington, Vermont a couple of months ago. With this group I experimented with painting the entire surface, taking wood grain out of the work. Because the pictures are, for the most part, taken straight on center, the best indication of the shape is found in the drop shadow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This first piece was painted while doing a residency at <a href="http://vermontstudiocenter.org/">Vermont Studio Center</a>. The free-form style was a big change and challenge for me, but was completely the result of being in that intensive environment and being pushed to try new things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a small garden plot in front of my house where I grow thing deer won't eat, like kale and mesclun mix. I love grabbing hand fulls of greens whenever I walk by and eating them immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love my truck, a 2003 Toyota Tacoma with >200,000 miles. If you saw it you would think, "I bet that's Rob's truck."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are two new pieces in my "ART?" series. I love that it is a completely ambiguous question, allowing many interpretations and many times more answers, so I feel it is a question worth repeating and recreating in different forms. Ideally, the ambiguity spurs discussion and thought, which I believe is more important than any specific interpretations people identify. Personally, though, I'm kind of stuck on the interpretation of what art can do in this increasingly divisive and scary political environment the US is experiencing; as in, "What good is art?" or "How can art be used to bring people together?" However, I love hearing what other people think when they see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To construct <i>ART?(5)</i> I used the actual forms from my 16 foot canoe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because the piece is so deep, I thought it was necessary to take images from each side as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a couple of show scheduled for 2018 where I hope to display these and my earlier ones. Stay tuned for more info.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After completing my canoe in 2013 I had quite a few strips left over that I had planned to use for something but I was waiting for inspiration as to how I could best use them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, over the past summer, I realized I could create interesting shaped "canvases." <i>Going Aboard</i> was the first. I was listening to <i>Moby Dick</i> a lot at the time (all the way through twice and then on shuffle with the rest of my music for about a month more) so I think it was fitting, on a couple of levels, to name it after one of the book's chapters. (Photo credit for all the subsequent images are RL Photo Studio, Burlington, VT)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon seeing the series, a friend implored me to get a 22 gage pinner to hide the attachment method. The result is definitely cleaner and less distracting. With this one I needed to mill new strips, this time out of curly maple, cherry, and walnut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Gam is another Moby Dick inspired title, it refers to the meeting up and exchange of pleasantries of whaling ships on the seas and though I wasn't thinking about the chapter when I made the piece, when I was looking for a title I realized the word expressed what I had in mind in designing it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was reading a book by the Dalai Lama over the summer in which he mentions that it is a good idea to have images of the Buddha around one's home. In thinking about it, and why I didn't have any, I realized I didn't like any Buddha images I had ever seen and that if I would have one that I'd like, I'd have to create it myself. With <i>Follow Wisdom</i> I wanted to abstract the image so that the concept of the Buddha would be more important that the specific person that modeled for it. Additionally, I chose to create radiating rainbow colors because Buddhist texts often refer to Buddhas dissolving into rainbow light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was in the Washington, DC area the week of the presidential election, going to museums and galleries, and seeing a lot of word art. I generally get annoyed by word art, probably because of my dyslexia, but on my way back to Vermont the two things were on the front of my mind when I was inspired to create a series of pieces that just said "ART?". As a dyslexic, I appreciate its brevity, but what I really love is its ambiguity. What is it asking? How many different ways can it be read? What is/are the answer(s)? I see it as a starting point for open-honest dialog, which is badly needed right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because it can be read so many different ways, I feel it is a question worth repeating. For my second <i>ART?</i> piece, I rework a canoe-strip canvas that I "finished" over the summer. I like that it isn't immediately obvious what, if anything, it says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">36.5" x 43" x 6"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also started reworking some experimental "shellac paintings" I created back in 2010 by painting acrylic designs on top. I think the play between the acrylic foreground and tinted shellac background is interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally, I had rough-cut Obsession back in 2014 but left it lying around the studio for a couple of years. Again, listening to <i>Moby Dick</i> gave me inspiration to finish it. The title refers to both Ahab's quest and to the act of creating this sculpture. </span></div>
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<br />Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-25567249555641646232016-12-20T10:57:00.002-05:002016-12-20T10:57:34.420-05:00Art Flag Commission<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the summer I was asked by <a href="http://gbarchitecture.com/">gbA</a>, a Montpelier architecture firm, to create an object (not necessarily a flag) for the flag pole outside their offices. After some thought, I decided to stick to a "flag" format because I love that with a flag there is an implied meaning but that with a unique abstract design the meaning is completely ambiguous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I researched whether to have the design printed but I didn't like the materials and I didn't think it would "fly" very well, and when I looked into buying the fabric and having it sewn together I realized it would look much better; thankfully, it was cheaper as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given that I lack the both the skills and equipment to construct the piece, this was my first opportunity to pay someone to make my art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The piece is obviously an outgrowth of my <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/search/label/bumper%20stickers">bumper sticker series</a>, hopefully I'll have more opportunities to create a series of flags as well.</span></div>
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-62778452862809817442016-12-16T10:34:00.001-05:002016-12-17T18:38:01.309-05:00Robert Irwin @ Hirshhorn Museum<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is my belated review of the Robert Irwin exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum titled <i>All The Rules Will Change (</i>April 7 to September 5, 2016). The show chronicled Irwin's early years and his rapid shift away from abstract expressionist paintings to ground breaking work that is entirely original in its efforts to break down the barriers between art and everything else. With many of his pieces he is so successful it is difficult to distinguish where the art ends, in fact that is the point, there is no boundary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the first series of work in the show are some of Irwin's "Pick Up Stick" paintings. They are designed with the children's game in mind. I believe there were three on view, all with yellow backgrounds and different colored over-lapping lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Between 1961 and 1964, Irwin worked on a series of much more minimal, much cleaner Line Paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The late line paintings became even more subtle, with Irwin painting only a couple of horizontal lines in the same hue as the background, making them difficult to distinguish background from foreground, and making it difficult to photograph as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overlapping a bit, chronologically, were Irwin's Dot Paintings. These went even further in obliterating boundaries by creating the sense of light on canvas rather than paintings. They were a major step in his effort to create a painting without painting. Though he used paint on them, they created the sense that he did not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are, again, very difficult to photograph as the lens doesn't know what to focus on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My favorite work in the show were the two disks, below, that represented work from his disk period, 1966-69. They are very disorienting in a way similar to <a href="http://c4gallery.com/artist/database/anish-kapoor/anish-kapoor.html">Anish Kapoor</a>'s work. Looking at them from the front left me with complete confusion as to what I was looking at. The intent, and its realization, is to break down the boundary between the artwork and the surrounding environment. By fabricating a mysterious object and lighting it in a precisely designed way, he is able to create a situation in which the object, the lighting, and the wall have equal importance to the work of art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only from the side you can figure out what you are looking at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Untitled (1969) is equally mysterious and it is even more successful in blurring the line between where the object ends and the wall begins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final piece in the exhibit was a piece made specifically for this exhibit. Conceptually, it gives the impression of being a square that encompasses the inner circle of the museum. There was a warning before entering the section that the work can be disorienting for the viewer which creates an atmosphere of anticipation followed by disappointment or confusion when one enters the section and one is unable to determine what the art is or even where it is. Ultimately, the work isn't just the object but also a dynamic created by the mind of the viewer, the object (or lack thereof), and the intent of the artist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found the video interview of Irwin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1973 very interesting if only to get a sense of how he thinks and talks. He is very articulate in describing his highly abstract concepts. One thing I remember him saying is that there is no relationship between why he became an artist and what he was doing at the time (and I'm sure even more so now). He started on one path but it ended up leading somewhere he could not possibly have predicted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before this exhibit, I hadn't been very familiar with Irwin's work. I had seen an installation of his at <a href="http://www.diaart.org/visit/visit/diabeacon-beacon-united-states">Dia:Beacon</a> a few months earlier but I don't recall another occasion of seeing his art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consequently, I found the show to be a great opportunity to learn more about this unique and influential artist. The Hirshhorn did an excellent job in pulling off an exhibit of an exceptionally difficult conceptual artist to display.</span></div>
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-28121743177400112832016-10-05T12:36:00.000-04:002016-10-05T13:10:24.597-04:00Sealed-Bid Auction Experiment<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As with most artists I know, at times I struggle with too much inventory and finding ways to move older work. In thinking of ways to resolve this problem, I have decided to experiment with conducting a Sealed-Bid Auction. To start with, I am offering five pieces. Depending on the results, I may offer another five pieces in a few months.</span><br />
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</span> <span arial="" font-family:="" sans-serif="" style="follow: </span></span><br /> <span style=;">-- If you are interested in a piece, email me the amount you are willing to pay for it by 11:59 pm, October 11, 2016 (I'll reply with a confirmation email); </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">-- There is no minimum bid;</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">-- Highest bid for any piece wins, if there is a tie, the earliest bid wins;</span><br />
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</span> -- <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Potential bidders are welcome to inquire about additional images, including high resolution versions;</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-- Potential bidders are invited to schedule a studio visit to see a piece in person as well as other work I have available;</span><br />
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</span> --Because shipping costs will vary, i have posted the price for the continental US (other locations should inquire for cost);</span><br />
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</span> -- Winning bids are confidential.</span><br />
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-16584565216835730942016-07-13T10:23:00.001-04:002016-07-13T10:31:11.919-04:00Bumper Sticker Update #5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are my five most recent bumper stickers. I have been making them since April 2013 and I am now up to thirty-two. I am not sure how many total I've made and distributed because the editions have varied and it would take some math to figure out but it is somewhere around 300 at this point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I have mentioned in previous posts about them, I create them as anti-bumper sticker bumper stickers to counteract the effects of dogmatic and demanding bumper stickers typically found on vehicles in the US. To get them on the streets, I offer all US residents one free as long as they promise to put it on their vehicle; all other bumper stickers are $10. Just email me an address and I'll send one to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because they are limited edition, I usually only have the latest or latest two available to chose from. To find the latest version, please check my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/roberthitzig">Facebook</a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is the latest version. The six month gap between designs is by far the longest I've gone in my bumper sticker designing history. It must mean that I'm not getting out enough and meeting new people so I'll have to make an intention to do more of it, at least through the summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you like the concept and/or designs I hope you'll ask for one. I really would like to get more on the roads around the US, I feel they help to lower anxiety/stress levels because they are non-antagonistic (they don't tell other people what to think/believe/do), and we can certainly use more of that, especially on the roadways.</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-4586154565594430982016-07-05T13:37:00.000-04:002016-07-05T13:37:13.003-04:00Pick 'Em Up @ Exposed 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am please to announce I have a piece in <a href="http://www.helenday.com/exposed2016">Exposed 2016</a> along with fifteen other regional and national artists. The show is an outdoor exhibit throughout Stowe, Vermont and is organized by the <a href="http://www.helenday.com/">Helen Day Art Center</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My submission, <i>Pick 'Em Up</i>, is intended as a playful reinterpretation of the children's game Pick Up Sticks. I believe it creates an interesting contrast with the serious and austere historic New England architecture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it is a historic building, I wasn't allowed to screw anything into the bell tower columns. To get around this limitation, I strapped boards in front and behind the columns then screwed column "blanks" into my strapped boards. I was then able to attach my "sticks" into my blanks. From the ground the entire contraption is not very noticeable. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am very thankful that the curator, Rachel Moore, allowed me to install my piece on the bell tower. I know the Stowe Select Board was not happy about the idea of art being installed there and I am sure there will be additional "public relation issues" because of it, but the building does house an arts center so it is wonderful that the Helen Day is willing to push the boundaries a little bit in the service of art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought red, yellow, blue, black, and white paints; and mixed the other ten colors on my own. Each sticks is 120" x 2.5" x 0.75"; except the red one which is only 117" long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reception will take place on July 23 at 4:00 pm. People will meet at the art center and then start to walk around town with brief comments by each of the artists. The walk should take about two hours. The exhibit will be up through October 15.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My "Box of Courage" sculpture will be on display in front of ECHO, Leahy Center For Lake Champlain on the Burlington water front until mid-October. This is the third installation of the piece I made in 2013 as part of <a href="http://www.helenday.com/">Helen Day Art Center</a>'s <a href="http://www.helenday.com/exhibitions/exposed">Exposed</a> exhibit in Stowe, VT. It was also on view in Burlington last year as part of the <a href="http://seaba.com/category/art-hop/">Art Hop</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As usual, I found that children intuitively knew how to use it and immediately started climbing inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm very happy ECHO chose the piece for the front of their building because it offers plenty of exposure with around half a million people passing by it through the summer. Additionally, ECHO arranged for an interview with Tom Messner of WPTZ, Channel 5 in Burlington, giving me regional exposure as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to say that the interview was a lot of fun, and, being that it was filmed live and I needed extra courage to feel comfortable doing it, I can now attest to the fact that the box really does work, it certainly gave me more courage.</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-75170899964117484132016-06-08T09:38:00.001-04:002016-06-08T10:00:21.793-04:00Crafted: Objects in Flux @ Boston MFA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.mfa.org/">Boston MFA</a>'s exhibit <i><a href="http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/crafted">Crafted: Objects in Flux</a></i> (August 25, 2015 to January 10, 2016) challenged and effectively obliterated the false dichotomy between craft and art in a way that reminds me of the <i><a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2012/11/craft-is-dead-long-live-art.html">40 Under 40: Craft Futures</a></i> show at the <a href="http://renwick.americanart.si.edu/">Renwick Gallery</a> in 2012. This exhibit, curated by <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2014/01/22/emily-zilber-mfa-contemporary-craft-and-her-must-see-pieces/RZE11NSRSXjknu5YokuvwK/story.html">Emily Zilber</a>, goes even further by including artists of multiple generations and multiple nationalities. The show is also very important in breaking down the barriers between "craft" and "art" because, surprisingly, it is the first time an exhibit of this kind has been held in an encyclopedic museum.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My favorite work in the show were these pyrographs by Japanese-American artist <a href="http://www.etsukoichikawa.com/">Etsuko Ichikawa</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuHblq0spztfcDL3npyYoFVi9XSylk2rFxBR1vZKBvaBkzN8l3aGdBCZXGq92pDn2J7nDMRJXIZ9P9mdSysxwTY0kGCNsHCYMfF7-hRCmwHo1gjrC9nZppXesevD0SFQsI17q9e5pF7kw/s1600/1ichikawa_trace2012_2112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuHblq0spztfcDL3npyYoFVi9XSylk2rFxBR1vZKBvaBkzN8l3aGdBCZXGq92pDn2J7nDMRJXIZ9P9mdSysxwTY0kGCNsHCYMfF7-hRCmwHo1gjrC9nZppXesevD0SFQsI17q9e5pF7kw/s400/1ichikawa_trace2012_2112.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; ">Etsuko Ichikawa</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; ">Trace 2012 and Trace 2112</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; ">glass pyrographs on paper</span></div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pyrographs themselves are both beautiful and interesting but what makes them truly great is watching the accompanying video that shows how Etsuko makes them -- by snaking molten glass on paper and using an immense amount of skill in creating beautiful designs without causing the the entire effort to go up in flames. Part dance, part performance, part glass making, the end result is a work that captures a unique moment in time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://renwick.americanart.si.edu/">Renwick Gallery</a>'s inaugural exhibit following a major two year closure and renovation is aptly titled <i><a href="http://renwick.americanart.si.edu/wonder">Wonder</a></i> because, not only does each of the large room filling pieces inspire wonder from the viewer, but the exhibit as a whole makes one wonder what what the Renwick, the self described museum of American craft, is planning for the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In remodeling the interior space the Renwick seems to be remaking their entire image that includes being more visible and drawing larger crowds. As part of this process they have created signage that has been controversial and drawn the ire of the National Parks, National Capital Planning Commission, and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts who decry, ask for removal, and question its legality, particularly of the one on top-center of the building which reads, "Dedicated To ^ the future of ^ Art." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether ugly or illegal, the sign has certainly done its implied purpose of drawing publicity to the institution. P</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ersonally, I don't have a problem with it. I like the contrast of old and new, and I like how it challenges stodgy attitudes toward design. Not everything has to "go with" everything around it. Shaking up the viewer and getting them out of their "safe place" is part of what art should do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first room most visitors will encounter is an installation by blue chip artist <a href="http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/111/tara-donovan">Tara Donovan</a>. She is a master of taking inexpensive everyday objects and turning them into something mysteriously organic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this case she has used millions(?) of stacked paper 3" x 5" index cards to create stalagmite-like mounds. It is a great piece and a great draw to the rest of the show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From this perspective the work is both jagged and soft, seemingly made by some sort of natural process. Only from a tight closeup is it clear that it is made from index cards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Angus's installation titled <i>In The Midnight Garden</i> evokes wonder with hundreds of dead insects pinned to the wall and a red dye wall wash made from the cochineal insect. Given the numerous skulls created in a ring around the room, the work seems to be a meditation on death. It is a great piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jennifer Agnus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Jennifer Agnus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It draws viewers in with a fascinating array of large, beautiful, and unusual insects; working on the macro- and micro-scale. And it guides viewers in thinking about life and impermanence, whether they realize it or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Similarly, John Grade's piece, Middle Fork (Cascades), is a meditation on life and death. With it, he has cast and recreated the form of an actual tree (hemlock) in the Cascade mountains of Washington.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is built with thousands of blocks of reclaimed red cedar, evoking wonder about, amoung other things, its natural beauty and how it was re-created. It captures a moment in the life of the tree, like a photograph, and after the exhibit, it will be returned to the forest and allowed to decompose next to the tree that inspired it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patrick Dougherty's <i>Shindig</i> is beautiful, and fascinating, but to me it feels cramped and out of place even with having been built in one of the largest rooms. The willow saplings, woven together, look as if they have come to life and are dancing, however. being placed indoors with a low ceiling, it is hard to see the full impact of the piece. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Patrick Dougherty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gabrieldawe.com/">Gabriel Dawes</a> piece, Plexus A1, brilliantly creates the illusion of light passing through a prism using only colored thread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many aspects of this piece that illicit "wonder," but one of them is the disbelief that it is really made with only thread. Well, here is a view of the ceiling to give a clearer understanding of how it is put together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In learning about this exhibit and seeing that <a href="http://www.echelman.com/">Janet Echelman</a> had a piece in it, I was excited to see it in person. I've seen numerous images of her floating "net" sculptures and wanted to experience one. And, judging from the crowd of people lying, looking, and relaxing underneath it, one could say it is clearly a success. For me, however, it felt like a bit of a let down. As with Patrick Dougherty's piece, it felt out of place, claustrophobic, and artificial being confined to a room, even if it is the largest room in the building. Regardless, I am excited that this (along with the printed textile flooring that Janet also created for the exhibit) will be permanently installed in this room. Perhaps my opinion will change over time as I repeatedly view it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One advantage of having the piece hang in a room, however, is the wonderful shadows it casts on the walls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maya Lin is another "blue chip" artist most famous for her brilliant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial">Vietnam Memorial</a> in Washington, DC. Her <i>Folding the Chesapeake</i> is installed on the second floor of the Renwick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The piece is a map of the Chesapeake Bay projected on to the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room and constructed out of large green fiberglass marbles, the same type of marble her father used in the 60's for glass blowing in the early days of the studio glass movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The work clearly has personal meaning for Maya in terms of the history and emotions associated with the marbles. The wall text also makes clear that she is trying to sharpen "our attention to the need for conservation" of the Chesapeake and other natural wonders; but for me there seems to be a disconnect between the material, the image, and the concept. The piece does induce "wonder" but the wonder that I am stuck on is "what is the connection between marbles and bay?" which ends up being a distraction and ultimately makes it less interesting than many of the other pieces in the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Anonymous Donor</i> by <a href="http://www.chakaiabooker.com/">Chakaia Booker</a> is an almost-maze-like structure made of rubber tires and, for me, seemed to be the least effective piece in the show. I tried, but I was not able to find the piece emotionally, conceptually, or aesthetically interesting. Even after reading the wall text, which attempts to guide our interpretation with the thought that "By massing, slashing, and reworking a material that we see daily but never fully consider, she jolts us out of complacency to grasp these materials for what they are: a natural resource marshaled through astonishingly complex channels into a product of great convenience and superabundance." Unfortunately, I can't say the piece makes me feel "jolted out of complacency," rather, I spend my time wondering what the connection is between her goals and the structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://villareal.net/">Leo Villareal</a> chandelier is a permanent installation. It is made of hundreds of rods, each with dozens of LEDs and is programmed to flash in a way that the chandelier never illuminates that same way twice. I found this to be a confusing and disappointing selection for the space. He may be a great artist with many impressive installations, but this piece is so completely cold and impersonal I can't help but wonder why it was selected for permanent installation in what was once considered America's premier craft museum. Perhaps there is justification in association with the concept that it never illuminates the same way twice; and that idea probably represent individuality and the uniqueness of craft work, but looks very industrial and with just a single light color, all the different illuminations seem to be exactly the same, not matter that they are all said to be unique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the exhibit there was a nice video presentation of each of the artists talking about their process and the work exhibited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Typically this types of presentations are only given cursory viewing by audiences, so it is a testament to the quality of the show and the interest it has generated that so many people took the time to sit and watch it, often through completion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overall, I was extremely impressed with the Renwick's inaugural show. It definitely met its goal of inducing wonder and the work is really top notch. However, I am also left with wonder about what the show means for the future of the Renwick's collection and its history as a "craft" museum. I believe that the term "craft" is very limiting and may have past its historical usefulness in situations where the artist's goal is to create art using "craft" materials, but I hope the museum maintained a historical connection to its past as a "museum of american craft." With the major exhibit before the renovation, <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2012/11/craft-is-dead-long-live-art.html">40 Under 40: Craft Futures</a>, the Renwick did a remarkable job of balancing the past and future of art/craft. This one makes me wonder about the museum's future and whether it has decided to abandon its past in search of larger audiences.</span></div>
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-86104647125969939522016-03-03T16:49:00.001-05:002016-03-03T16:49:15.496-05:00Flag Series Revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a three year hiatus of working on my flag series, I have been re-inspired to revisit them because the presidential election season is well on its way and I am constantly reminded why I started -- to honor our country by promoting a non-dogmatic patriotism that helps create space for an honest, non-partisan dialog about national issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe the quality of political discourse in this country is embarrassing, dangerous, and disingenuous. I realize solutions are hard to find, a</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">s discussed by Maria Konnikova in </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/i-dont-want-to-be-right" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">this New Yorker article</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, once someone's world view is tied to an issue, facts are no longer capable of changing minds -- data is rejected and discounted. Because political dialog is inherently tied to personal identity, it is particularly difficult to change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But I believe that art has a special ability to open minds because it doesn't use facts, it can enter the mind visually and challenge preconceptions in ways that words can't. I believe that art can make a difference and my flag series is an attempt to do something -- no matter how quixotic -- to address an issue that disturbs me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is the ninth in the series. I started it in 2013 but was never completely happy with the results so I put it into storage. Thankfully, my new work with diagonal acrylic stripes gave me a path for finishing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I like how smudging of the blue stripes creates a shadow effect that gives the work depth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I completed my first flag in 2009 but have refused to sell any until I can show them all together in one venue. My goal is to have at least thirteen for the show and will focus on completing several more this year. I think they have a much greater impact and create a greater opportunity for dialog as a group. I also think </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they are individually interesting but I especially like the opportunity of seeing the historical progress of my work in them. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to see the previous eight there are images on my website </span><a href="http://roberthitzig.com/flagproposals/flagproposals.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-74531327011133258462015-12-20T20:04:00.000-05:002015-12-20T20:05:28.179-05:00Washington Post Show Review<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm happy to report that The Washington Post published a review of my show at the <a href="http://www.crossmackenzie.com/">Cross MacKenzie Gallery</a>. You can read the review <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/galleries-one-view-of-how-people-of-color-are-portrayed-in-pre-modern-art/2015/12/03/adb92406-9781-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html">here</a>.</span>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-42863440236140928202015-11-25T16:21:00.000-05:002015-11-25T16:21:00.629-05:00Cross MacKenzie Show Installation Pics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I installed my show of new striped paintings/sculptures at the <a href="http://www.crossmackenzie.com/">Cross MacKenzie Gallery</a> in Georgetown (Washington, DC) on November 11. The show has been extended one week, now being on view until December 15. Originally, the plan was to install eight pieces so I brought twelve to give the gallery a selection of work to choose from but, fortuitously, we were able to hang all of them. Though it is difficult to see, we installed four pieces in the front window, including three of the one-sided paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though we hadn't originally planned on showing my canoe, the gallery director found images on my Facebook page and asked me to bring it. This canoe is absolutely not for sale but I agreed to let the gallery negotiate a commission one. I love the idea of it being considered a work of art because I built it with that idea in mind. I also agree with the gallery that it gives the viewer a clearer understanding of my art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though we hung more pieces than we planned, I am happy with how much space they have, I don't feel they crowd one-another at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you get/got the chance to see the show, the work really is much better in person. Additionally, the gallery has agreed to offer my <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/search/label/bumper%20stickers">bumper stickers</a> with the same conditions that I do. I left some of my last three designs (#28, #29, and #30), so if you do stop in, you would have the chance to acquire at least one of my pieces for free.</span>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-67242254809370916852015-11-07T11:39:00.002-05:002015-11-07T11:39:54.548-05:00Show Card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the card for my show at <a href="http://www.crossmackenzie.com/">Cross MacKenzie Gallery</a>, November 13 to December 9, with a reception on Friday, November 13, 6 to 8pm.</span></div>
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<br />Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-72297465151619524042015-09-29T11:44:00.001-04:002015-09-29T12:00:11.717-04:00Solo Show @ Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm excited to announce that I have a solo show scheduled at the <a href="http://www.crossmackenzie.com/">Cross MacKenzie Gallery</a> in Washington, DC (opening November 12, 2015). In preparation I took my most recent work to<a href="http://www.rlphoto.com/"> RLPhoto</a> in Burlington, VT to get them professionally imaged. I wrote about the first six of these previously, <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-2014-march-2015-and-april-2015.html">here</a> and <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2015/08/may-june-and-july.html">here</a>, but these images are so much better than the ones I captured I have to share them again. They are a really top notch professional photography studio and they are really great to work with -- I feel lucky that I am able to use them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you looked at the earlier posts you may notice I made the titles more memorable so that I can talk about the work without having to refer to my notes to know which is which.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also upgraded the hardware of this piece since it was first photographed. It now has a custom made stainless steal hanging system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In making all of these pieces I've struggled with finding the right balance of bleed-out from the acrylic paint onto the wood. I want some because I like the play between the clean line caused by taping the paint and the soft fading of the color around it, but I don't want too much of it because I feel the piece ends up looking "muddy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also like how the bleeding of color captures some of the natural and added texture on the piece, like these diagonal lines below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't often use cherry as a primary wood in my work because I love how the lighter woods work with color, but when I saw this piece in the lumber yard, with significant figure and plenty of light sapwood to add contrast, I had to make an exception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with cherry, I've had a bias against using walnut but this board was so gorgeous, I again made an exception. In truth, I felt disappointed with it when I was done because I felt the colors didn't standout from the dark background enough but I've gotten so much positive feedback I can only assume that it was more successful than I had thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">58" x 10" x 1"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also found it interesting how my feelings for <i>April Dawn</i> have evolved. As I was making it, I was enamored and thought it would be a great piece; but when I finished I first hung it horizontally and I was surprise by how unhappy I was -- it just seem to lack energy. After a couple of weeks I changed the orientation to vertical and was much happier but still a little disappointed, mostly because I felt I hadn't left enough wood visible and I thought the bleed was a little too muddy. However, much to my surprise, as I've shown it to friends I've consistently heard them say it is one of my strongest pieces. I've long thought that artists are often the worst judge of their work but I find it so interesting when I see it in myself as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">April Dawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">72" x 16.25" x 2"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is hard to tell from these images but this piece is two inches thick in the middle and tapers down to about a half inch on the sides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After hanging <i>April Dawn</i> in my own living space and seeing how it interacted with other vertical stripped pieces in the same room, I was inspired to make a single piece that played with the same effect, this is the first to evolve out of that idea. One of the things that I like about this design is that it allows for the possible construction of an installation across an entire wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anonymity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">45" x 10" x 5.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anonymity (Side Two)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These last six pieces were all finished in September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are all hung on a mortised french cleat that I made myself. It is a super strong hanging system that lets me keep work tight to the wall even with a small surface area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the simplicity/austerity of this piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I originally envisioned these two pieces (above and below) as a single piece, displayed off-set from each other, but as I was working on them I realized they should hang separately, that they are more powerful on their own than together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In Remembrance, For Ornette</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like that one side is much lighter, having a lot of sapwood. As I've mentioned, I generally don't like using walnut as a primary wood because it is so dark but this board was so gorgeous, I had to make an exception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In Remembrance, For Ornette (side two)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the saw mill marks left on this board, with the rough and smooth surfaces next to each other. I also love how the mill marks create gaps that can be filled with color. I feel that these "imperfections" have a commonality with O.C.'s sax playing style, hence the title, though I do feel a bit uneasy about making the comparison with such a great musician.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With these independently hung multi-piece pieces I'm not particular about hanging them exactly the same way each time. Rather, I have principles that I want to follow -- I want them to be off-set from one another; the order of the boards should be the same (in this case the dark board should be in the middle and the live-edge of the small board should be on the outside); and two of the boards should be close enough together that it isn't easy to see what is between them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Namibia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first came up with idea of using mortised french cleats to hang work on edge I was excited because I realized that it opened up the possibility to make work like these last three, work that can appear to be flying off of the wall or maybe even floating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also love that this work demands to be seen by protruding into a room. They don't blend into the background and they force the viewer to walk around them. I also love how they exist in a place that isn't distinctly painting or sculpture, but equally both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love apple season in Vermont. There are so many great and rare varieties arriving in the market and changing throughout the season. I know and love a few of them but mostly I'll randomly buy unknown varieties without worrying about learning their names, just being confident that I'll like what I taste and happy to be surprised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also love the saw mill marks left behind on this board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are in or near DC in November/December 2015, I hope you'll get a chance to see the show and look at the work in person! If you do, please share your thoughts with me.</span></div>
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-78765870759732516012015-09-23T15:41:00.000-04:002015-09-23T15:41:00.731-04:00The Power and Mystery of Ursula Von Rydingsvard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently ran by this large maple stump in Montpelier and immediately thought of <a href="http://www.ursulavonrydingsvard.net/">Ursula Von Rydingsvard's</a> work that I had seen on a visit to <a href="http://www.stormking.org/">Storm King Art Center</a> in July. I thought it was interesting because I've wondered about her inspiration for her creations since seeing them, though I still believe the resemblance is mere coincidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maple Stump -- Montpelier, Vermont</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ere is </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Paul. </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps the resemblance isn't total coincidence in that her work is monolithic and organic so an occasional tree stump will be VonRydingsvard-esque, but what I find interesting, and captivating, about her sculptures is that they are more than organic and monolithic, they are also mysterious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her work draws viewers in by causing them to ask questions. What is the material? Stone or wood? I looks organic-ish but there are still hard edges, so is it man-made or natural? Additionally, it is interesting on both the macro and micro scales, as viewers look at it from a distance they need to come closer to answer questions but as they get closer the texture and detail bring them closer, and the closer one gets the more there is to look at, until one is a few inches away examining the wood grain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In both of these images, above and below, For Paul looks like it might be a wall of stone but it is confusing because of the deep crevices, that look like they might have been gouged out by water, but the edges are so sharp, contradicting the water theory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think the monochromatic nature of the work adds to the mystery of the material and method, helping to hide the human involvement in its construction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Luba</i> creates similar levels of confusion, questioning, and interest from viewer though it has an added aspect of being partially made with bronze. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The integration of the bronze is so well done that it is hard to identify through a casual examination of the piece (the narrow "legs" -- on the lower left in the above image).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, the quasi-natural look is mysterious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The work is constructed out of stacked four by four cedar but depending on the angle of the cut on the end-grain, it may look wider, adding to visual confusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mystery of Ursula's work goes beyond questions of construction and materials, it extends equally to her inspiration, what she is seeking to accomplish and what her inspiration is. Writers tend to spend a lot of space discussing her early childhood in German labor camps, her associated exposure to rough lumber and harsh living conditions, and her difficult emigration to the US; but few actually discuss the emotional quality of the work and her goals in its construction, including Ursula. For me, the power and mystery are the point, where the line between natural and man-made are blurred and the forces of either can be overwhelming, dwarfing where we stand.</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-7583252149349878162015-08-14T12:50:00.000-04:002015-08-14T12:50:41.387-04:00May, June, and July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After completing <i><a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-2014-march-2015-and-april-2015.html">April 2015a</a></i> (note: all these titles are place holders, I'll create something more personal in the future but just didn't want to deal with it immediately) I decided to make an complete series of stripes on board because I really liked the interaction of the vertical colors with the wood grain as well as the opportunity to create interesting relationships between the different stripes. In living with these in my own space for a while I've also found it very interesting how they all work with each other, that the vertical stripes have an additive affect and effect, but that if one of them is hung horizontally it starts to cancel the others out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of the interaction I noticed between the different pieces, I wanted to look for a way to create a single piece that would have that same effect; so I came up with a system for hanging a series of them perpendicular to the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">acrylic, oil pastel, epoxy, shellac on wood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">45" x 10" x 5.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took me two days to work out the hanging system but finally decided that a mortised french cleat was the best way to do it because of its strength, stability, and clean look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the idea of hanging them "a little too tight," so that the viewer can't easily see all the sections, I think it adds a little mystery and tension, keeping the viewer engaged and wanting more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm happy with the resulting interaction between the colors as the viewer looks at the top, bottom, and walks around it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">acrylic, oil pastel, shellac on wood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">63" x 7.5" x 7.5"</span></div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12213131293368857479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846515902679035772.post-85748212989832922202015-07-10T15:33:00.002-04:002015-07-10T15:49:14.765-04:00More Barn Art <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I mentioned a <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2013/09/barn-art-new-series.html">couple of years ago</a>, I created a series of "barn art" sculpture/paintings for the exterior of my barn/house. Recently, I moved two of them to a barn in Marshfield, VT on Route 2 so they would get more visibility. The move, however, left a void on my own space and because I had some extra scraps laying around, and because I didn't like one of my existing pieces and wanted to reconfigure it, I made a few more pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Untitled September 2013 barn art pieces on their Marshfield, VT location</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the process of playing with the shapes and colors, and trying/struggling to make something that I'm proud of, a good exercise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">June 2015a (barn art)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">exterior latex paint on plywood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">34.5" x 24" x 1.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this one in particular would look great blown-up, perhaps to three times its current size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was looking at all the pieces I had cut up, and painted, I kept on thinking there had to be good art in there somewhere. And slowly, as I mixed and matched, and re-mixed, they were revealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the contrast of contemporary art on an old traditional structure, but I also like the unexpected quality of them, how unusual it is to see something like this on the outside of a home, so I think they would go well on a regular house as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">June 2015e (barn art)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">exterior latex paint on plywood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">40" x 18" x 1.5"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year I made a piece for a barn near Asheville, NC, as I mentioned <a href="http://woodisart.blogspot.com/2014/07/north-carolina-barn-bling.html">here</a>, so site-specific commissions are welcome and, though I enjoy living with all of the ones I've created for myself, I'm happy for them to move on to other people's homes so I have room to make new ones. Don't hesitate to inquire if you are at all interested.</span></div>
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