What I'm working on in the studio today
Unbelievable show. Check it out at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Chelsea.
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!
