Dordrecht residency, week two
I've realized that I didn't address some of my early decisions in the previous post, so I will do that here:
In August I had found out I had an exhibition set up in Berlin, that could actually open while I was in town visiting a friend in town. So, only seeing a map and some pictures from the website, I knew I had a decent amount of running wall space, and that they had a set of large windows that you could see the work from the outside, and that they would keep the lights on all night so the work could be seen even when the gallery was closed. Combining this with know I had a small amount of travelling to do with two suitcases of my things, I decided to work on drawings and paintings that would all be the same height, and would be a visual investigation of relationships between the pile and collections. The local art store in Dordrecht had 150 cm tall rolls of paper, so I decided on 75 cm, so I would be able to bring the work with me relatively easily. Also the studio had a number of random paints and varnishs, along with paint sticks, so I only picked up some brushes and enamel paint at a hardware store. I also ended up buying computer speakers for my walkman so I wouldn't go insane.
After going through these boring tasks I was able to really get working, trying to work on a number of strips at once, using the walls, table and floor to work in different ways, and allow some works to dry and gestate while I works on others. Eventually I found a ladder and was able to work three high. I was working from the prep drawings and photos posted here earlier, and thinking of different ways of layering this imagery, along with new things I was seeing while travelling around Holland and Dordrecht itself.
Here are some more images pulled from the second week, to follow the evolution of some strips, while others that were finished or going nowhere were rolled up to make room for new work.
In August I had found out I had an exhibition set up in Berlin, that could actually open while I was in town visiting a friend in town. So, only seeing a map and some pictures from the website, I knew I had a decent amount of running wall space, and that they had a set of large windows that you could see the work from the outside, and that they would keep the lights on all night so the work could be seen even when the gallery was closed. Combining this with know I had a small amount of travelling to do with two suitcases of my things, I decided to work on drawings and paintings that would all be the same height, and would be a visual investigation of relationships between the pile and collections. The local art store in Dordrecht had 150 cm tall rolls of paper, so I decided on 75 cm, so I would be able to bring the work with me relatively easily. Also the studio had a number of random paints and varnishs, along with paint sticks, so I only picked up some brushes and enamel paint at a hardware store. I also ended up buying computer speakers for my walkman so I wouldn't go insane.
After going through these boring tasks I was able to really get working, trying to work on a number of strips at once, using the walls, table and floor to work in different ways, and allow some works to dry and gestate while I works on others. Eventually I found a ladder and was able to work three high. I was working from the prep drawings and photos posted here earlier, and thinking of different ways of layering this imagery, along with new things I was seeing while travelling around Holland and Dordrecht itself.
Here are some more images pulled from the second week, to follow the evolution of some strips, while others that were finished or going nowhere were rolled up to make room for new work.
posted by Lou at 3:41 PM
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