It's almost time for Explorations!

Explorations officially opens today, and the opening gala is this Friday from 7-9pm!

Here's a little photographic review of what these past few weeks leading up to the show have been about.

Last you heard from me, I was wondering the best way to display my work. Well, I started an experiment with photo transfers on canvas....

My photo-transfer process.

Lining up the transfers, trying to figure out a configuration.

Underpainting.

First coat.

Second coat.

Rethinking configurations.

Thinking about configurations of multiple sets on the wall.

Putting wire on the back of each canvas...

Then, my classmate Eben and I volunteered to make a poster for the show. 

"What should be on the poster?"

"I dunno, random colourful brushstrokes or drips?"

"Sounds good to me!"

Creating a drip painting to photograph for a promotional poster.

See the final product at the top of the page!

Monday, we set about hanging the show. With 15 artists, and WAY different styles and methods, this proved to be quite the challenge! We carted paintings back and forth to see how pieces interacted... but we finally found a visually cohesive layout. Yay!

Come to the opening to see all the amazing works in person, and to talk to the artists, grab some munchies, drink some wine, and see what we've all been working on since January!

Check out the Facebook event here. If you can't make it to the opening, the show will be up until Sunday, April 8th.

Looking for the big picture.

In working in the graduating art class this semester, we have to keep thinking about how we want to present our pieces. This is something that I, in particular, have to think about. These aren't just paintings that you put up on the wall. Some of them are, but then there's the question of the sculptures themselves, the photographs, the drawings. What would I choose, and how would I exhibit them together? How would they interact with one another?

I think that the best option for me would be to leave the original sculptures out of it. They of course are invaluable to the entire process, but that's just the thing: they are part of the process, not the final product.

I love them to pieces, but this is about vaulting them into new dimensions, and figuring out how they can be shown at their best. As sculptures, in person, they just don't have the same impact.

Case in point:

BAM. See? Impact.

Let me know what you think!