Progress in Birmingham after the second day; Sleeves are tensioned and in position, sticks have begun to be laid in through the sleeves, and The pattern for the coffee grounds is beginning to be marked out on the wall. Although production time is extremely brief on site, I am hopeful that by bringing all the Read more...
I’ve got a week in Birmingham to pull off my last installation of the year before beginning work on a new permanent steel work. For Birmingham I have a simple strategy ; Bring everything I’ve got left over from this year that happened in North and South Carolina. In case you are wondering sleeves used Read more...
Along with the installation in fresno, I also created a new suite of prints, and a set of sparkle printed t shirts. This work like many of the editions i’ve pulled in the past 3 years have been the result of enthusiastic printmakers like Matt Hopson-Walker, and his crew Jason Bonilla and Grayson Brown, who all pitched in their energy and know how to pull off an absurd amount of work in between my building of the Fresno Piece.
Today I did finish the Fresno Piece. Although this is not a shot of the finished piece, it is an awesome view of a kindergarten class doing a site visit from above. A few minutes after this they descended on the gallery and immediately engaged in the ultimate game of 52 stick pick-up. With no Read more...
I am progressing comfortably through the Fresno Piece. The space continues to be a joy of various lighting conditions, and people watching opportunities for me while I work. I look forward to finishing the bulk of the physical work on this piece and documenting and cleaning hopefully early next week. This should give me enough Read more...
The sixth day is done, and it was a good day. Progress continues on the Fresno Piece, and my guardian angel printmaker delivered a final proof of the 2 sided cmyk fortune soon to be printed on discarded richard serra paper.
once printed on the richard serra paper the ori-ginal fortune will become a free standing Read more...
The first of six new fortune varieties about to roll off of the Fresno State presses courtesy of Matt Hopson-Walker and his amazing crew of students.
A new screenprint of a new shape, in new silver sparkle infused white ink on new white paper.
A squeegee action shot courtesy of Julia Bradshaw.
The first half of my day Read more...
It really is like the difference between night and day in here, especially when it changes from day to night. Tomorrow will be first split day with morning spent in the gallery, and afternoon spent in the print studio. With any luck the evening will be spent in ethiopia.
Day 3 was a good day. I managed to get the sleeves suspended and begin laying in some more of the sticks. It has been really amazing being in this room as the light changes throughout the day. Today I finally looked at all the video monitors around the building that were glowing with images Read more...
Today was a good second day. I began to set up the sleeves for their eventual hoisting, and progressed further on making my stick components. I also had my first session in the print studio.
Here we are still adjusting the final color choices for the ori-ginal print
Here is some extra thick rives cream paper originally Read more...