Preparing new canvases
I met Gretchen Skogerson at a residency at Ucross in 2009. I was a little intimidated, as she'd just come off doing the Whitney Biennial. But it turns out, she's awesome. Her work is gorgeous and smart. And she is also a really good baker.
She just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of her new film Strange Play. I pledged $35, and I'm going to get a new ringtone that she designed, as well as the warm fuzzies. Check out her project here:
I had a lovely visit to the studio of painter Hannah Barrett yesterday. Her paintings are dark, jangly, gender-bending and beautifully painted. They are loaded to the hilt with historical, decorative and folk art references.
Hannah in her studio
I just got back from a studio visit with painter Nate Ethier, and wow. Kenneth Noland said he wanted his geometric chevron paintings to be read from a speeding car. But Nate's paintings reward the careful viewer. He has a beautiful touch, gorgeous surfaces, and color and patterns that thwart your expectations.
this pattern has a complex repeat
An amazing experience in the canyons of Richard Serra yesterday with my friend Dana.
Rust turned velvet.
Yesterday I went gallery-hopping in Chelsea with my friend Gretchen. There were some better-than-usual group shows, including this stunner of an abstraction show at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, featuring Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo, and Judith Scott:
Gretchen checking her phone at a show about technology
Some great drawings by Denise Kupferschmidt at Nicole Klagsbrun:
And beloved Richard Tuttle at Pace:
I call this one "grapes and a bra, ringed with hotdogs." Or maybe I was hungry.
I spent a lovely evening noshing with and visiting the studio of Dana McClure. I first met Dana across the hall from my studio, doing great design work at Double Triple. Recently, she's been making bright process-oriented silkscreens through a faculty residency at Parsons. Check 'em out:
the studio
Orchid Screen Print
The Latest: one of Dana's "Curiosities Collages"
My favorites: Line Series Monoprints
More of Dana's work at danamcclure.com
Chris makes off-kilter fantasy-landscapelike abstractions inspired by a recent trip to Antarctica:
Today in the studio, I'm working on peeling paint, highlights and shadows on two metal grates. And I just finished one!
Some images of the gorgeous copper plates I'm working on with Max of New West Editions, BEFORE the work begins. Stay tuned for progress...
the plates in their transport sleeves
in its gleaming glory...
and the strange/awesome tools Max sent for me to try out
more soon!
A print-project-through-the-mail with Max
I'm working on
...stretching some gorgeous linen
...and canvas
...and doing some experiments with *acrylic*
Three weeks to go until the opening of Two Way Street at the Slag Gallery in Chelsea, and things are cooking in the studio.