So, Tuesday, December the 1st, is the opening of a senior run show (that I was apart of) at UARTS, which I will also have one piece in. I hope to have some images up from the show before long, as well as the piece that I had in it. As well, I will be posting some smaller drawings that I have been working shortly, and hopefully more...

Here is the press release from the Facebook page so you can get the gist of the show:

The senior painting/drawing majors present Pair Off, an exhibition curated by the senior seminar class featuring works by seniors and juniors in the Fine Arts, Crafts and Photo departments.

This exhibition brings together pairs of artists whose works seem to create a relating or contrasting dialog. Each individual artist speaks uniquely through his or her medium, however no artist exists in a vacuum. This exhibition pairs the trends and interests of young artists within the University of the Arts community, and when presented together, they form the larger conversation that drives the exploration and expansion of the contemporary art world.

Pair Off is on display from December 1st – December 10th in Gallery 224 on the second floor of Anderson Hall, 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, December 1st 5 pm. until 7 pm. The exhibition is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

So work moves on, and still, it goes well. I have completed another piece (a painting), and it is helping me to segue into making larger works. As well, this newer piece is helping me to stand back and compare it to others, and how I might incorporate similar elements to them/tie up loose ends for some. During my making I am trying, as of late, to think more through the process then through sitting and thinking. As to say, I am learning about what I am doing, and thinking about the piece while I'm making it (through the materials).

As well, I had spent some good time in New York City the past two weekends, and saw a good deal of work (some good and some bad). The ones that I particularly enjoyed:

Anish Kapoor- http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/anish-kapoor-memory

Dan Flavin- http://www.davidzwirner.com/

Wassily Kandinksy- http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/kandinsky

Wayne Gonzales- http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/475

Dan Fischer- http://www.derekeller.com/exhibitions.html

Wolfgang Laib- http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2009-10-29_wolfgang-laib/#

For the sake of posting

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

I just wanted to post this for the sake of posting.

Work is on the move, as it were, and the said painting is finished...for now. I still need to think more on this piece and whether or not I need to add another element or two. All together, I am pleased with the painting, and have been writing as much as I can about it. Still, further up and further in I go, exploring what possibilities present themselves to my mind's eye, and learning all I can. Through my working on this body of work, I discover more and more about who God is(as well as myself), just by finding my way through a drawing, or marking a canvas. More ideas are brewing for more works, and I am refining them in my mind to the best of my ability. Steady still, and productive, I believe things are coming along quite well.
Till next time---

I started a painting, however, production has been somewhat slow. I suppose my schedule has not been as doting, if you will, in terms of allowing time to come in and work. Not to mention that I have recently fallen ill. None-the-less, I believe it is still up to me to make the time to work (as to say, I shouldn't make excuses). Anyway, work goes on--reading--writing--and so on. Unfortunately, I have no images, as well, most of the images I have been posting were posted for the sake of posting. Verywell-- Adieu.

More work is still being made, and I have more ideas for more projects. As well, in some cases, I am working on more than one project at a time. Still, I have to think of tying everything together, though I much rather just make, get the work on the wall, and think broadly afterward. This is not to say that I am not thinking about what I am making and that it does not relate at all: it does relate in fact.

A current thought on my mind is transition. Of course, transition can be applied to many topics. Light to dark. Bright to dull. Bad to worse. It could even have a sort of transcending or ascending quality to it. It deals with separation as well as a gradation between two things that exist according to one another. Transition charts a distance between things as well: even time itself. This, I believe, is what makes it relevant. Transition in time. These are still just thoughts, and unrefined ones at that. However, though the thought it is still just a thought, a painting is underway.
C.S. Lewis, when writing about God and his being timeless wrote, that if a line on a page is the course of all time (past, present, and future) in which we are traveling, then God is the whole page that the line is drawn on. That is something to think about, as well I am.
More to come to be sure.

Older work I'm trying not to forget about.