Conway Day 10, printy in pink

Since I never know what I am going to run into when working in borrowed print studios, I always love the little discoveries that come with printing on the fly on borrowed equipment. The great discovery at Coastal’s print studio was a huge cache of silver metallic etching ink. I had already been thinking about making these new sleeve prints  in a reddish color, and thus 2012’s first editions became metallic pink java jacket prints. Rather than make fixed collagraph plates like previous sleeve prints, I played a little bit with the patterning and arrangement of these. Although not a big shift, these sleeves are the ones I have been using to build the sleeve sculptures, and not the corrugated ones I have been printing with.  These same sleeves, along with the leftovers from Richmond, will be used again next month when I visit Columbia College. It is nice to be fully on the downhill of this gig, but still energized towards the massive print undertakings ahead in February with the Columbia College crew. In contrast to the tremendous site-work here, Columbia College’s show will focus on an as yet unrealized set of prints, paired with previously un-exhibited works on paper. For the sculptural form running through the gallery’s airspace I will try and make a much bigger sleeve construction than I have yet.  My hope is that with the lessons learned here and the discoveries yet to be had at Columbia College I will be able to develop some new variations for the show in June at Flanders Gallery. Following the Flanders show I hope to use my time as the Summer Artist in Residence at Artspace Raleigh to introduce and combine elements from my different works together in one site/project. Currently I am picturing a summer spent pushing fortunes, sleeves, video, percussion, sticks, metal, rust, vibrating coffee cups, sound and drawings together in the gallery/workspace like a blender, could be a mess but should be fun either way. In my mind I am calling that one the “Kitchen Sink project”, but that could change.