My friend, Murph, and I at the Monet show in Denver recently.
The importance of childhood books… how deeply I enjoyed the gift of my first art history book.
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Collages from the time and balance series, which incorporate time cards and assorted found papers, including newspapers.
Collages representing work from several of my series are on view through September 29 as part of the “Mixing it UP” exhibition at Children’s Hospital Colorado on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.
The show also includes stellar pieces by other artists working in collage, assemblage, and mixed media: Colby Brumet, Malcolm Easton, Liz Hickok, Suchitra Mattai, Kelton Osborn, Collin Parson, Angie Piehl, Melanie Rothchild, Jonathan Saiz, Jerry Simpson, JC Spock, Meagen Svedsen, Meghan Wilbar, Sarah Winkler, and Zelda Zinn.
The gallery space, located adjacent to the soaring main lobby, is open 24 hours a day, just like the hospital. Here’s hoping the show provokes some smiles among the patients, their families, and staff.
A view of my section of the exhibition, with thanks to curator Heidi Huisjen, who selected works that represent nearly my whole collage-making career… loved seeing them all hanging together.
Enlarged reproductions from the Daily Mail collage series.
In the studio…
At long last, an update for my website is nearing completion… I believe it shows the scope and scale of my work a lot better. Browse around and let me know what you think.
New: A pretty-robust search function at upper right on the Collections page allows you to look at work organized by series (via drop down menu) and to filter artworks (sold/available) as well. Play around there to see what I mean. And If you click on an image, you’ll see a larger view with more details. I still have lots more artwork to add — that’ll be happening over the next couple of months.
Previous blog posts didn’t all transfer to this new platform with quite the same look as before, but the content is there, even though their layout may be a little awkward. (The perfectionist graphic designer in me begs your forgiveness…) Somehow none of the photo captions on the blog made the transition to this new site, so I’ll be adding those back over time.
If something on the site isn’t working for you, I’d be grateful if you’d let me know!
In other news… Recently I’ve been using a little diary as a collage sketchbook, adding one composition per day, sample spread shown here. I’m posting images of the datebook pages daily on Instagram stories if you’d like to see them on a regular basis.
Hope you’re enjoying the summer… it’s certainly flying by!
Diary collage compositions
I rarely participate in traveling/mail art projects however, every once in a while, I jump in.
While traveling in February, I had a chance to visit with artist Bonnie Ruttan who had received a passport-sized book to create artwork in and then pass along. It was so compact and interesting. It had originated in Austria, then traveled to Ireland, and now was being passed around in the US. Eventually it will (hopefully) make its way back to Kevin Geronimo Brandtner who started the project.
Inside cover of the mail art project book.
Intrigued, I decided to participate. The pages were small and had some stamps already in place as a background. Most artists were giving a nod to the passport/travel theme in their collaged responses. One of the fun things about the package was that it included a small packet of business cards and paper ephemera from artists who had participated before me, along with earlier mailing envelopes with scars and stamps.
The starting spread…
Here’s an image of what I started with and another of what my page spread looked like when completed.
My finished contribution to the project.
I included a ticket from Denver’s light rail A-Train to the airport that features a squiggle of reflective holographic security foil, plus other imagery that related to the colors and design already on the page. A nice departure from my usual work in the studio and the book is now off to its next stop in New Mexico.
Fun!