In Process

Preparing for the Beardsley Farm fundraising dinner to be held at the downtown Tomato Head.

Ideas

Rough quick sketch and colored final image proposing a podcast project to be completed at an artist residency. It pays to draw better sketches first and have less photoshop clean up to do, but I was in a hurry and kept it very loose. I like to keep some of the drafting lines in the final, but am not sure how much that helps the image.

I hope to try and complete this project with or without the residency, but the support would be helpful. Cross your fingers and pray to your favorite deity for me, please.

Flippant

Tomato does a chin up.

First Friday in Knoxville

Tomorrow is the first Friday of the month. In Knoxville (as in many cities) that means that many galleries host opening receptions for their new shows and several businesses stay open late. Although there has been in the past some disagreement over who "started" First Friday or who "owns" the event, it happens all over and without any overarching management. I think that's a great thing. While I hope for the continued development of Knoxville's art culture and scene, I do not think that management or cohesive advertising is the way to do that.

I think that the best way to develop Knoxville's art scene is to participate in it. Make art. Look at art. If you can afford to, and the spirit moves you, buy art. The First Friday gallery walk is a great point of entry. Below is a map of SOME of the galleries participating in First Friday festivities. I hope this can be a truly collaborative map. If you would like to be an editor of the map, please drop me an email or comment and I'll add you in. Once added, you will be able to add other collaborators, in addition to editing the map as you see fit.


View First Friday Galleries in Knoxville in a larger map

More Warming Up

Sometimes I think the warm up and practice stuff ends up nicer than the finished big works. This is a small study for a smaller print.

Warm Up Drawings

Some drawings in which I tried to think of unusual scenes or phrases and draw them quickly.

Worthy: 2

In June I had the opportunity to travel to Poland (and briefly to Berlin) for a printmaking exchange with students at the Art Academies in Poznań and Wrocław. It was not an especially productive trip in terms of making work, but it was profoundly inspiring in terms of art heroes. In addition to the hyper-talented students with whom we stayed (among them Ania Czuż, Agata Gertchen, and Marcin Szewczyk...with more coming to visit Knoxville this fall) we were fortunate enough to visit the printshop wonderland of Keystone Editions in Berlin.

Keystone Editions is the print home of Sarah Dudley und Ulrich Kühle, two Tamarind-trained printers who wandered the (printmedia) globe gleaning tips and tricks for setting up a functioning printshop. Their travels and observations have paid off, in addition to good light and exciting editions, Keystone has some damn fine feng shui. It made me wish I had a couple more years of school left so I could come intern with them and live in Berlin...

So here, I salute the worthy and well-planned efforts of Printmakers Sarah Dudley und Ulrich Kühle. Long may they and Keystone Editions live. And if you're heading to Berlin (or have deep pockets to purchase art) look them up here.