Blog: Studio, Shows, Reading, Random Thoughts
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A Book Is To Dream With
A Dusty Reading List I’ve recently undergone a rite of passage that many experience far earlier than I have: The loss of my last surviving parent. Dad was sharp and able up until the last couple of months. He spent most of his time in his chair, next to a stack of books, and it…
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Wild Thoughts
Wild Things, the Maurice Sendak show at the Denver Art Museum, is an absorbing show that only indirectly addresses some of the very complex issues that surround the artist. This is not too surprising; For one thing, the show was set up as one of those blockbuster, cattle call audience building shows, and at a…
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Reading Is Resistance
After a crazy year of traveling and shows, then a couple of months spent hiding from the New Model Army after the election, I’m back to a normal studio and class routine. By “normal”, I mean about 6-8 days each month as studio monitor at the Art Students League of Denver. You can sign up…
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Pop Go the Besties
It’s been a year. Filled with event, not all of them positive. We forge on, after a crazy summer of family matters, and my usual art show scramble. Not to mention the Red States’ massive brain fart in November. I survived the summer family drama, and then got through the art show rush, then I…
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Summer Art Market 2024
Don’t Box Me In After a very busy Spring that included MoPrint and a death in the family, I recently did Summer Art Market. SAM is both a big party/social event, and a grind as the years lengthen, which is why it’s my only truly large show left. I do enjoy seeing everyone ( and…
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Summer Muse
MoPrint took a bit out of me, blog wise. Its frantic pace stretched into April and I also took May off, mostly. By June, I was back into a regular studio routine, but never picked up the thread here. My latest studio icon is boxes. I sometimes like to take a simple image and explore…
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State of the Art
MoPrint Grows a Medium MoPrint 2024 is finally done now, and there’s a sense of relief for me. It’s hard work, and there are a lot of details and dates to keep track of. Sometimes, I get so busy and tired, I don’t get to see everything I’d like to. This year I did pretty…
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Trying To Reason with MoPrint Season
I had participated on the organizing committee that launched Month of Printmaking in 2014 and ’16. I remember that we were sort of shaking our heads at just how many printmakers there were working in Colorado. They seemed to be coming out of the woodwork. I still volunteer on various associated events every MoPrint Biennial,…
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Besties Be On My Way
I had a lot more time than usual to read this year, and I took it, sometimes ignoring my TV for days into weeks. I read quite a bit of prose this year ( finally finishing The Sot-Weed Factor), but there are reams and megapixels devoted to that, and so I return to my niche,…
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Holiday Twigs and Berries
2024 is a MoPrint year, thus, I’m very busy right now. There’s a lot of preparation goes into it in the Fall preceding. There are larger shows which require framing; and smaller “market” type shows which need smaller work. During my travels, I didn’t get any studio work done, now I’m trying to add work…
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