N E W W O R K

1/ I Open and Close
Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel
22" x 30"
2/ Nighttime Seeping into Both Sides of the Day
Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

18" x 18"

3/ The Morning Started in Pieces Far Out on the Water

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

18" x 18"

4/ The Consistent Shuffle, the Steady Stretch

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

18" x 18"

5/ To Show you Who I am I Dove Into the Sea

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

16" x 20"

6/ Element XXI

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

7/ Element XXII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

8/ Element XXIII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

9/ Element XXIV

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

10/ Element XXV

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

11/ Element XXVI

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

12/ Element XXVII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

13/ Element XXVIII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

14/ Element XXIX

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

Ned Evans / Carly Glovinksi / Liza Sylvestre @ Nahcotta

Portsmouth, NH – This April, Nahcotta combines the work of three spectacular artists – Ned Evans, Carly Glovinski, and Liza Sylvestre. On view from April 4 until April 27 and the opening reception is Friday, April 4, from 5-8 p.m., concurrent with Portsmouth’s downtown art walk.

Liza Sylvestre, a Minneapolis-based artist who’s shown in Canada, Brooklyn, NY, and Miami, FL, among other cities, will be exhibiting new pieces from her “Elements” series, acrylic and archival ink works on panel. Predominantly borne from the beauty of natural elements, these transcendentally gorgeous works are evocative of an elusive, mysterious recombinant - exotic flora coalesced with the intricacies of our inner organs. Glovinski’s “Phone Book Series,” ink, graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper, speak to the artist’s long-time fascination with the quotidian elements “so woven into our everyday experience they are often rendered invisible.” Glovinski cleverly recreates these objects, whether they are phone books or rags or plastic swimming pools, showing how they, in actuality, unite us all. She has shown her work throughout Boston and Maine, as well as London, England. Venice, California artist Ned Evans’s resin wall reliefs are part of his ongoing exploration of form to negative space, touching upon the wonderful translucency of poured resin in his hand-shaped, bright white polyurethane foam vessels. A lifelong surfer, Evans’s paintings, works on paper, and resin reliefs share elements of fluidity and radiance, with light glowing from an indiscernible and captivating, source. 

From my studio...

1. Working at some odd hour of the night.
2. Writing about working.
3. I mix paint in these little tubes. They are awesome for storing paint and also for their application.
4. Microns!!! My pen of choice. I've tried so many others, but the weight and length and everything else is perfect...
5. More writing about work.
6. More writing, but not my own. These are my favorite books at the moment. Especially Her Book by Eireann Lorsung.

Nahcotta!

Shipped off a bunch of artwork to Nahcotta on Monday. 

I'll post photos of everything after the show opens.

I'm busy working on finishing things up for my solo show in July. 

Lots of work to do!

It is cold outside and I am working away in the studio. Those are detail shots of two pieces in-progress. I've also been trying to set time aside every week to write... 

Getting ready for my show in April at Nahcotta and my solo show in July at the MacRostie Art Center. 

Lately . . .

. . . I have been busy with Holiday festivities and the hashing out of some new large scale paintings for my upcoming solo show. 

But these things have also been happening . . .

My work on the A List of the City Pages 

One of my Coil prints at a convention with Mammoth & Co.

Walking through the snow to pick up a package. 

Added some new original Element paintings to my shop. 

SooLocal Holiday Show + Pop Up Shop

Yesterday I dropped off these five new Element paintings at the Soo Local Holiday location. I got a sneak peak of all the awesome art that will be part of the show and I must say, these paintings will be in good company!!!

SooLocal is located at 3506 Nicollet. The show opens on the 30th of this month! 

My MN Original Interview is up and running

End of summer textures and thoughts

 

It is Fall again. It is darkness seeping into both sides of the day. Rain and scents of things that are slowly turning brown. Clouds that are low in the sky and heavy above the buildings.

I am in between. Waiting to move. Big projects pending on the packing of boxes. It feels yucky to have clean hands. I am itching to be settled and working. 

Coil XXV

Coil XXV
Watercolor and Gouache on Panel
12" x 12"

You can buy prints of this new Coil painting in the shop.

E L E M E N T S

Element I - XII
each is Acrylic and Archival Pen on Panel
each is 8" x 8" 

Element - 1. A part or aspect of something, esp. one that is essential or characteristic. 2. A small but significant presence of a feeling or abstract quality. 

A new series started. These first twelve have been shipped off to Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH for their Enormous Tiny Art show!

I have prints of this new work available in my shop!

This is the shape my heart makes

Last night I dreamt that I was diving into a pool over and over again. I stood on the side with my toes hanging over the ledge and made an incredible jump up, a turn, and a deep plunge down, down, down into the water. While I was underwater I kept moving downward, it grew increasingly dark and light colored bubbles moved past me with a popping texture. If I kept my form underwater my body would create a kind of pressure that pushed me back up toward the surface with incredible force.