Artspace Raleigh Summer Residency: 3 weeks in 2 weeks out

As if the chance to participate in a residency experience and sleep in my own bed weren’t novel enough, this residency is happening one mile from my last installation, which closed today.

After striking The Flanders Piece I brought the materials over to begin adding to the work in progress at Artspace. This is a new trick for me as the shows don’t usually happen in the same city, or in a way that the materials can be immediately added to the next show. The Artspace show will now become the repository for my current cache of materials(I’ve always said galleries are the best form of free storage for art). The show now includes the same lids I have been rearranging since 2009, the same stacked sleeves used in Stick Stack Show in Richmond in november 2011, in Weaving Stacking and Staining in January of this year, and in Fine Lines Found Textures and First Impressions in February. Of course prints and editions made while on the road are still available at the flanders gallery, and if you ask nicely I will include a swatch of sticks to hang with your print while supplies last. Below is what remains of the Flanders piece in combination with the Gr Haze Print.

Meanwhile at Artspace I have gotten the sticks moving in their final formation. Having the sections I salvaged from flanders will allow me to easily rough in areas and make serious tracks as I move towards the August 3rd opening.

I’ve been wanting to adjust the sleeve lines compositionally, but needed the sleeves from the Flanders gallery,and now I have them.