Color & Contour - Show Recap
Opening night! (pre-storm)
I loved this room.
We had wind, rain, lost balloons, champagne, puppies, cheese and - art.
Color & Contour - About the Work
Many of these paintings had lives as other paintings. During the first days/weeks of the pandemic we were told to wipe down our groceries (remember that?) my canvas supply began to dwindle and I wasn’t sure how to safely replace it.
But I still needed to paint.
Out came old, unfinished or unsuccessful work that had been stored away. It was re-gessoed, added to, painted over, given a new/different life.
Marks had begun to emerge as my process shifted from one informed by what was outside of my studio, to one that existed purely within it’s four walls. I spent a lot of time making contour drawings of my immediate surroundings. No plant was safe from still-life set-ups.
These sweeping arm/wrist movements became familiar over time and carried through the various lockdowns, and when I could leave the studio again - remained.
Similarly, the colors that previously were taken from new environments and new places became extraordinarily localized. I found myself returning to the same plants, same shadows and these tones dominated much of the work.
I’ve broken down the process among several paper collections to give the viewer a look into these marks as they existed in my sketchbooks and provide a little more insight to the movement and colors explored on the canvas.
If you couldn’t make it, here’s a little photo recap. New work from the show hasn’t been listed for sale yet, but will be soon.
(Make sure you are a part of the VIP list to get first dibs when it goes live!)
The set-up.
I adore this space. LOOK AT ALL THESE PLANTS.
The show was so much fun and I am so incredibly grateful to everyone who made it out / sent good vibes from afar. Thank you all so much for spending some time with me talking about art and sharing what you saw in the work - it was just so wonderful to get to see you all after this strange and scary year!
