Artspace Summer residency done, now on to down under.

My 3 weeks working at Artspace have come to a relatively painless end. The show itself opens This Friday August 3rd, and remains on view through September 21, with a closing destruction party on the 22.

This week I return temporarily to the art handler/preparator pool at the NCMA, before taking off to complete a commission for the Cairns Festival in North Queensland Australia. When I return from Australia I’ve got about two weeks to turn around and head out to Fresno for my final install of the 2012 season at CSU Fresno. Needless to say by the time the Artspace show closes I will have completed two more installations, a new slew of visiting artist prints, conducted one professional workshop for teachers, given 3 artist talks, a pecha kucha down under, and maybe even something else my calendar is keeping track of. It is hard to believe that it has been 3.5 years since I thought I would take a couple of months to work a series of  related installations, to now work sometimes on a couple installations a month. The Artspace time and space provided another opportunity for me to continue to bring the sticks back into their original context. Pairing them along with their sister materials. Also special to this show was it’s physical and temporal proximity to the previous installation. I’ve had overlapping installations, and even shows closing while the next one is in process, but never in the same zipcode. It was serendipitous when the folks at Flanders gallery and then the folks at Artspace reached out to me, not knowing that the other one had. This allowed that after the closing of the Flanders show last week I could bring over some of the materials for the installation at artspace.

now I just need to activate my aussie sim card, and pack my bags full of 150lbs of stir sticks and I should be on my way