This show is to begin in October and there are 4 artists from the US and 4 from Australia exchanging works. 2 pieces from each artist stay in their country at the gallery exhibiting the show. In Queensland it is the Childers Art Center and in Las Cruces, it is the Unsettled Gallery. In an earlier post I have shown 4 pieces which I put together as two diptychs for the Queensland art center. For Las Cruces, I am showing the pieces above. SUMMER ASPIRATION. And WINTER ASPIRATION. Each is 48"x 17.75" and acrylic on unstretched canvas. Hang 'em with push pins, so easy!
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This is a picture of just Winkler's sculptures and my Range Grass paintings and monotypes that are now hanging at the Deming Art Center for the month of May. Winkler and I curated the show of Hillsboro artists, including us!
The title of my new series of work. It began with the four drawings/paintings on paper I have completed for the Australian exchange show: WIDE BAY/HIGH DESERT. Those drawings had to be about 'home' and the region in which I live. So, I had such a fine time doing them, I decided to continue the theme only with a broader context. My first painting is 24"x 24" using acrylic, oil pastel and wax water based crayons on a wooden panel. Title? Well, thanks to lyrics from a Glen Hansard song, it is: WHEN YOUR HEART IS STRONG. And, yes, he knows I use his lyrics often and he even likes the painting. Whew.
I believe this sharing exhibition is scheduled at the Childers Art Space in Bundaberg, Queensland in August 2013. I'll have to check my contract to make sure. Meanwhile there are four artists from New Mexico via the Unsettled Art Gallery in Las Cruces, who have been invited to exhibit. We will each have four pieces, two for Australia and two for the NM gallery. The work needs to be about the place you live. NM for me. Not easy, as I am not a 'regional' artist. So far, I have 3 finished but for mounting and 1 to go....partially finished on my studio wall as I type. They are small images on paper...11"x 11" then I will mount each on approx 14"x 16" paper. Probably. In the order shown:
New Mexico by Day New Mexico Storm White Wish Joe Was Here These are pictures from 'my' area in the Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art invitational exhibition: Elemental: New Mexico.... I am extremely please with the hanging of the work, thanks to Joy Miller, the curator. I am also honored to be exhibiting with the five other artists from New Mexico that Ms. Miller invited. It's a fabulous show and I hope it is well attended and written about. February-early April 2013. Make the journey.
This solo show had over 40 pieces in it and Winkler and I hung it ourselves. I was very pleased with the outcome and got a fabulous review from Kathleen Sloan, who writes for the INK magazine, The Herald and THE Magazine of Santa Fe. If I can figure how, I'll put a copy of it here. Next, pieces from this exhibition will go to the Unsettled Gallery in Las Cruces, NM for a January show. Then, more of the solo works will go to an invitational exhibition at the Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art for a show titled: ELEMENTAL. That show runs from Feb. till April 6th. Very excited! I am now going to try to paste in Kathleen Sloan's review: |
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