NEWS: Finding Urpflanze: drawings through collaboration

I am excited to be involved in a group show with Fritz Horstman and Martha Lewis, opening June 6th at the Institute Library in New Haven, CT.

NEWS: Upcoming Residency at Helene Wurlitzer Foundation 2015

I am pleased to have been invited to attend the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM from June to August of 2015, as an artist in residence.

Please find more information about the residency here: http://www.wurlitzerfoundation.org/

New Silhouette Drawings

I am working on a series of silhouette drawings from things I find on my beach walks.

Here are a few shots of the process of preparing the images for copper leaf using R. Kushner's gilding technique:

residency at can serrat -- studio

Laying out drawings, sewings and tracings in studio

residency at can serrat -- drawing shadows

Sat out on in the field behind the residency today and did some contour drawings of grass shadows and the mountain. It was an incredible day surrounded by wild rosemary, thyme and cicadas.

NEWS: Current Exhibitions and the Alber's Foundation

photo by Helen Wilks

I am excited and honored to have just been invited to participate in a residency at the Josef and Anni Alber's Foundation located in Bethany, CT! Please find more information about the foundation here:
http://www.albersfoundation.org/

The show, "Young, Emerging Artists of Mendocino County", has also just opened and will run until October 25th. I pleased to have three photographs included in it.

residency at can serrat -- sewn interpretations

Sewing is a drawn method of interpretation that I have been exploring in doing contour drawings as well. Where some mediums allow the viewer to escape into them, I enjoy that sewing as a medium is constantly reminding you of itself (thread, pace, number of marks/stitches). When I look at something that is hand-sewn, my mind associates it with the visual process the person underwent while producing the image of looking, touching, estimating where to puncture surface, how quickly to move, how tightly to pull...