I had a second opening this week. (It's been a busy time leading up to it all!)  This is a solo show in Albuquerque, currently up and running at Small Engine Gallery, through September 28th. Small Engine is a sweet space run by very cool people.

The Show, Among the Final Thunders of These Ices, features the larger Arctic paintings and drawings I've been working on this summer, plus a few small studies.

My friends Juan and Sharon played a couple of sets for the opening. I would have come just to hear them! I'm hypnotized by their music and grateful that they so willingly gave the reception a beating heart. Thanks, guys.



Reception Clip from wood on Vimeo.

For an upcoming show, I decided to try some large pieces in graphite.

Part of the Ship, 26.5 x 40 inches

The above drawing is based on documentation of a performance that took place on board our ship, Antigua, during the Arctic Circle residency. My friend and collaborator Christy Georg is a master of knotwork, and she helped me tie myself into this configuration.

  

Gullybreen, 40 x 26.5 inches

Below is a detail from Gullybreen, seen above.

A small drawing, resulting from the performance I posted about recently.

9x11 inches, ink on paper

Here's the result of a performance I've been mulling over for a long time (too long, really; I won't admit how long). I was at last prompted to execute it in response to an invitation to participate in a group show, The Fourth Wall (conceived and curated by Helen Braund), at Australian National University in Canberra in July.



cocoon (mark 1) from wood on Vimeo.


Participants were asked to create pieces that examine performance and performative actions and how they translate into photography and video, where “the body features as a performative tool, with the camera as the observer," and "the image becomes the fourth wall, the mediation between the spectator and the performer.” This is the first time I've presented documentation of performance as a work in and of itself, not simply as reference material for a painting...though in the long run, it will certainly fulfill that function, too.