Art Show Host Swept off Feet by Blogstorm
by on 1/7/2010 8:59:53 AM
I was preparing my studio for the Club Tuesday Art Show when a storm blew in and knocked me into the blogosphere.
I had taken everything off the walls (even the pithy quotes intended to change my life someday). I had found and dusted my desk and made little arrangements on its wide open spaces. Tidy stacks of paintings faced the wall as if in time out. I sat down, looked around, and all that space seemed to be looking back asking, “What now?” And that's when the blog blew in. Just like that, my studio started taking on an alternative life – invisible to the naked eye –it became A Virtual Salon.
Whomever and wherever you are, if you are reading this, you are my guest here, so please, come in. Can I get you a cup of virtual tea? I hope to create (with your help) a gathering place to discuss our creative lives.
This Salon may be in Cyberspace, but it really is here/ there – warm and exciting: a place for artists and lovers of art to come and enjoy themselves.
Above is an invitation to the Club Tuesday Art show. If you are in town (Boulder, CO), please join us. It will be held in my studio on Jan. 15 from 6-9 p.m.
By cleaning up for this show and putting my paintings and paints our of sight, this blog came into existence, so what happens when you change your space?
Today’s question: When you clean up / organize your work area, does it make space for something new in your creative life?
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Tavern on the Green Auction in New York City- “Hey, that’s MY mural, yes THAT one, the one of Central Park with over a hundred horses!”
Any parent who has ever jumped up, waved their arms and wanted to shout from the bleachers, “That’s my kid!” will know how I am feeling. The child, especially if an adolescent, will probably be embarrassed. That’s the relationship that I have with my beloved Tavern on the Green mural. It will be sold off to the highest bidder and go to a new home – my own offspring – without any parental input. I want to go and shout out from the sidelines - but the hitch is, it isn’t mine.
How do you handle your relationships with your artwork once you no longer possess it? Do you hover over old photos now and then? To you ever want to meddle with its current life?
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Mostly, I make sure to let my inner desires known to my artistic self. Then I let it "cook" inside me until it automatically pops (or oozes) out. No time limits, no restraints, no further thoughts. It either happens or it doesn't.
Mostly, new changes in my art are triggered by changes in me, the way I see the world and my subjects, personality changes, etc. So the trick is to just keep painting and let the studio take care of itself.
Well...you should see MY studio. Or maybe you shouldn't!