lit, ink and gouache on paper, 5″ x 7″

I am participating again this summer in the 100 days project, an online collaborative started by my friend (and past collaborator) Carianne Mack Garside.  She started the project in 2008 as a way to structure her summer of production, and soon her solo endeavor had turned into a group of artists from around the country (and now internationally) who are producing one thing a day – a poem, song, painting, drawing, photograph, video – and posting them on individual blogs that are linked to a central website.

My individual blog is http://tenweeks.typepad.com, the same address where I blogged about my fall residency at Anderson Ranch.  Each day during this 100 days I will post a new 5″ x 7″ ink and gouache drawing; the drawing above is the first I’ve made for the project.  These drawings are derived from the 100 photographs that I took last summer for the project, and are also in dialogue with the work being created each day by the other project participants.  You can find links to each of their work at the central site for the project, http://onehundreddays.net. Follow my blog to see each of the drawings this summer as I produce them.

The exhibition STARK at the Foothills Art Center is opening tonight from 5:30 – 8, and the exhibition will run through July 3.  For this show, curator Michael Chavez asked me to create a large-scale installation that incorporated the stained glass windows in the exhibition space, which was recently renovated. A former church, the walls were recently renovated with crisp new drywall, which highlights the orginal stained glass. I have been busily at work in the space for the past two weeks, painting an image that I created from the pattern within the windows, duplicated and overlayed with that of a willow tree. STARK features 5 local artists: Nathan Abels, Chris Perez, Monique Crine, Steve Legg, and myself, all working in black and white. In addition to the large wall painting, I will also have a new small ink and gouache drawing, seen below.

In other news, Tonia Bonnell and I recently had an eloquent and glowing review of the Ironton exhibition by Kyle MacMillan of the Denver Post.  You can read the article here.

And, I will be participating in the 100 days project again this summer, started by my friend and painter Carianne Mack Garside. Check back for link to the blog – we will be starting the project May 26.