I’ve been asked to participate in CoCA’s 24 hour marathon. I laugh at this a little, because the premise of the marathon is to put art-making into an unusual and exciting time constriction, but given my method of working, 24 hour marathons have been the only way I make any art at all.
I used to bang out paintings one right after another, fast as a rabbit, up all night. The research, image collection, planning and prep time would take forever, but the painting would be done very quickly, so it would look like nothing was happening for months and months, then BANG! Giant paintings emerged one after the other, seemingly from nowhere, and suddenly there’s more than the gallery can hang! Lately though, my new interests are taking me into a slower pattern of working. Instead of 6-12 hours, I’m looking at artworks and methods that take 6 months to a year. I’m slowing down, putting more time into my work. (I’ll be talking about these processes and more in the fall session of Thursday classes.) It’s pleasant.
So this CoCA Marathon… 24 hours to be a rabbit, when lately I’ve been feeling like more of a tortoise. I wonder what will happen.
CoCA 24-Hour Marathon & Auction
COCA 24-HOUR MARATHON
24 hours of on-site art making
Thursday, September 12, 10:00 am until Friday, September 13, 10:00 am
ART PREVIEW PARTY
6-9pm, Thursday, Sept 12
GALA AUCTION FUNDRAISER
5:30pm, Saturday, Sept 14
Live and silent auctions to support local artists & CoCA
With Fundraising Auctioneer, Laura Michalek
I chose the clip above for Kerry James Marshall’s thoughts about how identifying as a Black artist is not a real choice, because only white artists are not burdened by the problems of race. Then the paintings of Black artists in the ‘Being an Artist” video (above) led me to seek out more of Marshall’s …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8162″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] They started as doodles of cups on legal pads, these thoughtful experiments in color and line by Lendy Hensley. The color concepts were inspired by colorist Josef Albers, the linear compositions were inspired by potter Gwyn Hanssen Pigott. Lendy combined the two, plus quite a bit of her own …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9495″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the fourth part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every …
24-Hour CoCA Marathon
I’ve been asked to participate in CoCA’s 24 hour marathon. I laugh at this a little, because the premise of the marathon is to put art-making into an unusual and exciting time constriction, but given my method of working, 24 hour marathons have been the only way I make any art at all.
I used to bang out paintings one right after another, fast as a rabbit, up all night. The research, image collection, planning and prep time would take forever, but the painting would be done very quickly, so it would look like nothing was happening for months and months, then BANG! Giant paintings emerged one after the other, seemingly from nowhere, and suddenly there’s more than the gallery can hang! Lately though, my new interests are taking me into a slower pattern of working. Instead of 6-12 hours, I’m looking at artworks and methods that take 6 months to a year. I’m slowing down, putting more time into my work. (I’ll be talking about these processes and more in the fall session of Thursday classes.) It’s pleasant.
So this CoCA Marathon… 24 hours to be a rabbit, when lately I’ve been feeling like more of a tortoise. I wonder what will happen.
CoCA 24-Hour Marathon & Auction
COCA 24-HOUR MARATHON
24 hours of on-site art making
Thursday, September 12, 10:00 am until Friday, September 13, 10:00 am
ART PREVIEW PARTY
6-9pm, Thursday, Sept 12
GALA AUCTION FUNDRAISER
5:30pm, Saturday, Sept 14
Live and silent auctions to support local artists & CoCA
With Fundraising Auctioneer, Laura Michalek
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