Writing a bit each day is wonderful. I actually am remembering where I left my art practice. Sounds strange... but I tend to terrible forgetfulness, especially with all the geographical shifts.
I have been thinking very much of my four graduate school colleagues. They are all wonderful artists. Here is an image of the project called
Smile Generator by
Peter Goff who went to Malawi in 2009 on a Fulbright Grant. He has a
talk today on the project: good luck to him! From what I gather in the
writing, the Smile Generator was a goat. I am smiling. The other image of the sculpture is from our graduate show at the Weatherspoon. Peter always has a delicate line somewhere...
I think of
Katie's drawings and painting all the time nowadays. She had such a light touch, and in my memory she spent her entire graduate career taming the
ephemerality of space in her work--well taming it enough so she could catch an image of it, but the space it seems (inside and outside a body) will always be wild and intimate at the same time. I wanted to post her
drawings too, but can't get a link to them...
Jeff has a new body of work since graduate school as well. His sculptures are an amalgamation of memory and material. Even though Jeff and I probably had vastly different childhoods, there is something about his work that makes me nostalgic for my
toys and fantasies from when I was little. I always wanted his sculpture the 'Rider' (pictured below) for myself. I wish I wasn't always moving all over, so I could carry and keep my friends' work with me. Soon perhaps...
Kelly's work just is. I remember how she even stuck feathers and sequence on her painting once--it was like a painted party! Very intelligent, honest, and colorful. Kelly's studio was right next to mine and whenever I would step in Kelly was of on some other adventure in space and form, sometimes a large painting sometimes little tiny ones. Latest from
her blog post, she was gathering text into her paintings.
Have to exchange and collect my friends works soon!
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