Past Lives Exhibition

Two of my pieces are currently on display in the Past Lives exhibition at the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Below is a collage that was done in response to a poem by Hilary DePolo. The show runs through November 5th and features artists working in a variety of mediums who used Hilary's "encounters from previous sojourns" poems as inspiration.This collage, "All I Needed," is 42 x 18" and is composed of two panels that are joined. A detail of the smaller panel was featured in a previous post, Makeshift Studio.

Best of Show

Wow -- I was thrilled to be awarded "Best of Show" for my collage titled "Undercurrent" at the Rocky Mountain Collage Society show. But I completely forgot to write about it! The show has just come down but the Society and show were covered in the Grand Junction Free Press. At left is a detail from Undercurrent.

Makeshift Studio

This is a 12 x 12" portion of a collage that I have been working on in response to a poem by Hilary DePolo. It is for a "Past Lives" show of art, and the poetry that inspired it, at the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center, opening in October. I was able to get away for a few days to Keystone, Colorado recently and I took my collage in progress with me. Here is a photo of my temporary studio near the picture windows of our room at the lodge, looking out on a mostly rainy day.
What the photo doesn't show is the four tote-bags of magazines and papers I took along, plus a 36 x 18" panel and the smaller square panel. (The bellman got a kick out of it, and a nice tip to boot!) I have now finished both pieces, which will be attached to each other for the show. It was a nice change of pace to work from a room with a big view! Since we had rainy weather, it was perfect light and a hugely productive time. Thanks to my friend JP for the timely invitation to travel!

Flight patterns

On a flight to New York... and nobody is seated next to me so I have time and room to work on a collage constructed entirely from the Hemispheres in-flight magazine. I nearly always travel with a glue stick and burnishing tool. Since I don't have a sketchbook with me, I'm using a ripped out piece of the magazine as my support. I always wonder what the next traveller will think when they open the magazine and encounter such randomly placed holes! The photos show the collage in context of my travelling art studio and a detail from the collage -- high altitude creativity!