relative motion in print

Last weeks Dayton City Paper, our free weekly paper, published a review of the zoetropes on display at the Dayton Art Institute's Experience Center. The review is based upon an interview of Bridgette Bogle and myself by Susan Byrnes, a sculptor I have shown with in the past.

You can link to the article here at addressing dress

hats in relative motion

I have noticed that when sitting down to eat with friends that conversation drops off relative to the flavor of the food. If the food is prepared with love and eaten by individuals with a strong appetite, exchanged words tend to be rare. 

Maybe that makes sense. 

I use this as an analogy to explain the lack of reports from the studio. I have been busy with a few exhibitions and my second collaboration with Bridgette Bogle. This one involves zoetropes. Four of them. Below is a raw series that will include the use of color over the silhouetted figure.

B.G.F.G.A.

News from Ohio Art League's Annual Fall Juried Exhibition. 

Both Bridgette Bogle and I have work in this show. Her collection of paintings, "Twelve Little Mistakes", won a second place juror's (Melissa Vogely-Woods) award. Even with the strong showing of painting, three of the anthotypes were juried into the exhibition. One of them or maybe the three together garnered a "Bad Girls for Good Art" award. 

The exhibition runs  from October 21–December 6. The Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery's schedule: 8 am - 4 pm Monday through Friday with the exception of Wednesday. The gallery remains open until 6 pm on Wednesday. 

A closing reception is planned for December 6 5:30-7:30pm.

the night was mostly a blur

My dinner with Bridgette, Jill and Tim. Much to the annoyance of my dinner companions, last Saturday I propped a white Diana Mini on our table at Woodberry’s and commenced to make long, time exposures while we ate and drank. There are two images by Tim Castlen and the rest are mine except for the last one which is also by Tim.

By Tim Castlen…



The rest of these should be by me but the night was a bit of a blur. Maybe everyone at the table collaborated on this.



One more by Tim.

paper cuts and map tacks

Works in progress. Actually pictures of works in progress. The 24 piece image "Don't Take This Personally" is getting closer to completion. Some of the pieces need to be reprinted due to overcoating of emulsion which creates different degrees of silvering. Each section will be cut on two sides and overlap its neighbor. I haven't decided left or right but top pieces will hang over the bottom ones. Last night I cut the bottom edges on the lower two rows. More cutting today.

Applying a brief lesson in painting from Bridgette (www.bridgettebogle.com), I hand painted 100 map tacks. Nine of which I created an off white paint form Titanium White and Light Burnt Umber acrylic to match the high key areas fo the final assembled image. Thanks for being my painting instructor last fall BBo!

[insert winking emoticon here]

In time for your springtime sneezing and wheezing comes word from the O.C. that Forces of Nature is on display.

Here's a link to the press release from the Orange Coast College website. The exhibition runs concurrently with the showing of the platinum printing of Stan Klimek. The PR smacks of precious metal favoritism [insert winking emoticon here].

Closer to home, the link to the Christopher Yates review in the Columbus Dispatch of the Naturalists, curated by Bridgette Bogle, can be located here.