Openings Connecting: February 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

UPNESS

     many of life's little surprises are UP...
   and OPENING US....to LIGHT,

SECRETS,

EXPANDING PATTERNS.

WHAT MAY SEEM UNINTERESTING,

COULD BRING SUCH JOY!

A LITTLE MYSTERY IS GOOD.

JUST DO WHAT IT TAKES TO SEE:

KEEP YOUR CHIN UP!!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

COLLECTING THE EARTH @ the Altered Page

(JUST CLICK ABOVE on chapter 6 THIS FOR SETH'S SITE)

Seth Apter's ALTERED PAGE has been featuring artists' collections the last few weeks...THIS WEEK, some clay pieces that i've acquired over the years are featured there with others' obsessions as well.

take a peak.

the above are works by martha rosenfeld, maria scott, elena justice, brian hurt, james watkins ..

my statement is below in white.

I collect the Earth, clay/pots and rocks. The pictured clay works are all LARGE, very large, some vessels/others sculptural......and small pieces everywhere. And rocks!! Many many rocks and stones in and out of our house. And years ago i began wrapping rocks...my RAPT rocks, enRAPTured===carried away with great emotion.

FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

UPNESS

Sunday, February 6, 2011

COLLECTING THE EARTH @ the Altered Page

Collectors Edition: Chapter 6

(JUST CLICK ABOVE on chapter 6 THIS FOR SETH'S SITE)