Birth to Earth

recent arrival

I have been scanning some images from my Studio Journal. I have kept one since art school. My Sophomore Studio teacher, Keith Morris Washington, mentioned it as a helpful tool). I also saw other students using one as well. At first I jotted color recipes in it, notes from class, lectures and critiques and quotes from readings I was doing at the time. I am still reading Bachelard's 'The Poetics of Space' and making notes. As time went on the journal became a repository for all sorts things, drawings, maps of paintings to be, ideas, color maps and collages and a place to put everything that seemed to be important to me.
Sometimes I will return to page over time and suddenly will see that something has arrived.

Alchemy & Inquiry: mostly Terry Winters

Went to New York this weekend to celebrate our nephew's graduation from High School. He survived!!!
Also saw my sister in the Bronx and we went to Wave Hill to see a wonderful exhibit with Philip Taafe, Fred Tomaselli, (drum roll, please) Terry Winters. Winters is one of my favorite artists. I could spend hours looking at his work.
The bottom image in this post is Terry Winters' Morula III (Gouache, graphite, ink on paper). It is a piece that wasn't in the show but I love it so there you go.
The work in the show was specific to Wave Hill which is a 28 acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and the Palisades. If you can get there go, fast.
The bottom image is Wave Hill (oil on paper mounted on composite board, 38 x 44 inches)
Each painter had a room to themselves in the Glyndor Gallery and had visited the gardens in the fall. Each of them chose a particular garden as a theme and went on from there.
Winters brief was the Herb, Dry and Alpine Garden and he had relief prints and paintings.
A wonderful show. I will write more about Tomaselli and possibly Taafe later. Too tired right now...

recent monoprint