6:48 PM:
tomorrow morning we’re loading the paintings in our suv & driving them an hour and a half to buena vista. brian, director of carbondale arts, will also be driving 1 1/2 hours from carbondale to meet us half way, in buena vista. we’ll transfer the work, and he’ll drive it back to the gallery.
i ended up creating 9 13x19” printouts as a visual support for visitors who want to know more about me and my process. yesterday i posted one of those pages; here’s another one. it introduces visitors to 19th C. plein air painters i’ve studied. they valued the impressions of the moment more than a finished look. they were all on the same page with this, and we’re fortunate to have visited an exhibiton dedicated to them and their work in nyc in 2001. i’ve been tuned in to this aesthetic for years. winess this 2006 landscape, where the entire forground, which should be a sandy beach and the aegean shore, has been left unfinished. i’ve told this story before, so if you’ve read it, bear with me. this painting was part of a solo exhibition at skoufa gallery, just off kolonaki square in athens. as i was working on it, when i reached this point, my gut said STOP! so i did. and i wondered, how would it be received? it was the very first painitng to sell, the night of the opening. so they got it. there was no issue. if anything, it seemed refreshing to the attendees.