Funny thing about "11-18-2011" was since it was so big I couldn't get it to NYC for the exhibition at Sideshow. Funny how life works out. Wasn't very long before I tried to send that off, I got an opportunity to exhibit with one of the best painters in Ohio at Marcia Evans Gallery. Marc Ross. Marc called up and said Hey you wanna be in a show with me at Marcia's. I said SURE. Typical of a pending exhibition I wasn't too worried about what I was going to exhibit as I knew I had plenty of great work for her space. But once 11-18-2011 didn't make it to NYC, I felt it was a great addition to my next show.
Here are the photos from that opening. I had a particular painting, "05-02-2011" that I knew I wanted to exhibit since I truly felt it was my most subtle painting I had made. For years I had been working on using glazing as my pouring, transparency was the name of my pouring-ism at the time. I had always loved transparent colors for my pourings but that didn't always come out the way I had desired. When I learnt about Dale Chihuly and his glass work, I immediately knew I had more work to do with the transparency of my colors on a canvas. 05-02-2011 I still feel is the pinnacle of my transparency in painting. The entire work barely has any pigment to it at all, except a very thin grey pouring over the texture. Even the canvas was coated only in acrylic medium. Well, once that painting had been hung, I began working the lighting to see what I could do with it. I grabbed for the light and in one swoop of the light, I had lit it as perfectly as I could. It immediately began to glow and I knew I had made the right choice in this painting.
Here are the photos from that opening. I had a particular painting, "05-02-2011" that I knew I wanted to exhibit since I truly felt it was my most subtle painting I had made. For years I had been working on using glazing as my pouring, transparency was the name of my pouring-ism at the time. I had always loved transparent colors for my pourings but that didn't always come out the way I had desired. When I learnt about Dale Chihuly and his glass work, I immediately knew I had more work to do with the transparency of my colors on a canvas. 05-02-2011 I still feel is the pinnacle of my transparency in painting. The entire work barely has any pigment to it at all, except a very thin grey pouring over the texture. Even the canvas was coated only in acrylic medium. Well, once that painting had been hung, I began working the lighting to see what I could do with it. I grabbed for the light and in one swoop of the light, I had lit it as perfectly as I could. It immediately began to glow and I knew I had made the right choice in this painting.
Once it was lit. I HAD to grab a photo.
In the studio/bedroom as it was drying.
As the show was being hung.
From out front.
Marc Ross, Marcia Evans and I.
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