Studio Processes

I’ve been working-mad for the past two weeks. I’m in the studio and creating. I feel if I do that, it’s almost this step of faith that something good will have to come out of. I don’t really understand the importance of the pieces I’m doing right now. I understand how important the “work” is, but not the individual canvases. Trying not to think, or at least I tell myself not to. Go on this adventure with material and see what happens, and if you hate it, then end it. It’s not like you spent your whole life dreaming about its result. I’ve literally been acting on every idea I’ve had. Some fail, some…..



Paper/ gesso, cheese cloth.
The cheese cloth isn't actually attached to the piece it just sticks to the rough gesso, so there is this performative aspect to it.

re-woven paintings.

Most of what I’m doing right now is fighting against the part of me that wants to prove to herself and everyone else that she’s talented. Not a good artist just talented. So, I’m stepping out of the box of figuration and just working, in trying to get over my pride.

I think this one is a portrait of this quirky girl. When they interview fashion designers they always ask "who are you designing for?" I  was trying to relay this kind of spunky attitude as if you could understand something about this person, just like you would in a portrait.

Mindblowing threads: Emil Lukas at Sperone Westwater, New York; ABMB

 There is an artist, Emil Lukas, who does these string paintings. They are really strange and ethereal. It’s just string, no paint, but the way he uses the material, the piece becomes a sort of color-field inspired color study. (In the one above his uses a mixture bright colors to create that dark edge). Mine are not so contained. They’re more about tension and space than anything else. These are the latest two pieces (they are both unfinished). I'm really enjoying the process of making them. I'll probably continue here for a little while.



This is actually the two, one behind the other.



 

 



I don’t want to say too much about the work right now. I haven’t sat with it for long enough and I’m afraid my thoughts on it now will box it in. I’m not ready to marry any one idea.

I'm looking foward to more citiques!