tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62515398040548692442012-01-19T13:00:07.940-05:00Beyond the MFA • Where the process creates its own answers...Lynda Schlosberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00532876704079037588noreply@blogger.comBlogger751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251539804054869244.post-24917717107100420232010-02-07T15:29:00.002-05:002010-02-07T15:32:52.710-05:00

This blog existed for the purposed of my MFA degree at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. I will no longer post to this blog.Instead, I have created a permanent blog that I will use in the development of my art career moving forward.If you are interested in visiting it, you can find it at: www.lyndaschlosberg.com/blog.

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Just a quick post, to anyone who might be still checking this blog.It's odd to have not made any posts for the last six months while I worked on my thesis and finished up my MFA degree at AIB. What an experience it was, and well worth all the hard work, and sometimes pain in the process.The title of this blog has been "Where the process creates its own answers" and the AIB MFA program was indeed

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My previous mentor Cristi Rinklin has a wonderful show up at FP3 in Boston. I went to the opening this past Saturday. It's up until August 15th, so if you live or are visiting Boston you should go see her work. It's outstanding. Here are some details:Cristi Rinklin (www.cristirinklin.com)"Boundless"FP3 Gallery, Fort Point, Boston MAMay 8th - August 15th 2009Curated by James HullPress Release (PDF)

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Here is my most current artist statement. It is a continual work in progress. This still isn't "it" yet, but it's getting closer...The space between you and me, is it really empty? Consider all the unseen bits of data: radio, television, cell phones, wireless routers, email, instant messaging, the Internet. Our air is filled with waves of electrical currents, digital impulses, and magnetic forces

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Well, the past few months have been pretty intense. Writing my thesis was no small task. And I only made matters worse for myself--I had a complete draft written and decided it was the wrong story, and started over with only a few weeks left before it was due. I'm now just waiting for the final review with my advisor and hopefully will spend this weekend putting the finishing touches on it and

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A premise for my thesis, on the infusion of technoconsciousness in our everyday existence...Laugh (it IS hysterical). Then think.(it might take a few moments to load...)

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Here's what will most likely be my last post on this painting. I think I'm almost done with it. Or at least I'm going to stop working on it (sans a few final touches).It's been a learning experience, and in the end I'm not sure it has achieved fully what I want, but it is a big step along the way. It has at least made me more clear about what I want to work on further in order to fulfill my

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Here's the first stab at my thesis outline:Consciousness: The Space Between Thought and FormI. IntroductionII. Decoding the Phenomenology of Perception      a. Philosophical Narratives      b. Scientific TestimonyIII. Consciousness in Contemporary ArtIV. Abstraction of Form and Representation of the Non-Physical      a. The Role of Photography      b. The Role of Technology      c. The Language

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I went to NYC this past Thursday with AIB buddy Rebecca Moran Brine. We had a great time. Funny, we did the art thing and skipped all of the holiday festivities, lights or attractions that make NYC even more spectacular this time of year.We went to the Vincent Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night exhibit at the MoMA. Well worth the trip. The show had many pieces from his early work and then some

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Here are updated images of my studio work. It's going slow. I had a great meeting with my mentor on Monday and I loved the analogy she gave me about painting: "Paintings are like a relationship. There is the attraction phase, the courtship, and then issues begin to arise and things start to crumble. The good thing is they are finite, and you can move on to the next one. It's like a serial

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Here's the working draft of my artist statement for this semester...I'm still working on the end. Let me know your thoughts.Do individual thoughts contribute to a universal consciousness? Is there such a thing as a global brain? Can a collective mind change the corporeal world we live in? My abstract paintings explore the relationship between thought and form. Wall-sized works on paper,

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I've been working hard on my Matrix III painting, and while I'm happy with the experience up close to the work, when I step back I feel that it falls apart. The experience is "flat". I've been frustrated with trying to figure out what's not working, and realizing it takes 40 hours to make a "move" and the clock is ticking for the January residency.So yesterday I took a break from painting. I met

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Whew. This one took 38.75 hours to complete (but who's counting!?)Clearly, I'm going to need professional help photographing these large pieces. I just don't have the equipment or room to get a decent full-size shot...Here's what I was able to get this morning (the detail shots are obviously much better).Now I'm off to start the next layer. Yippee.

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I've been painting for 30 hours this past week (despite being horribly sick) and I don't think it's going to be enough to finish these two paintings for January. I had estimated about 20-hours per layer/color and that 30 hours per week would allow me to just finish them both in time. But the last two layers/colors have both taken over 30 hours to complete. In fact, this red layer on Matrix III is

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It took a full 30 hours to paint in the third (yellow) layer. Here are some really poor snapshots I took in the studio (hand held the camera, no lights...)Here's a couple of details...Started the fifth (maroon/red) layer on Matrix III (lower left corner)...And a detail...

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Here is the first two layers of the next big piece, Matrix IV, 110" wide x 55" high, acrylic on paperI will be working on this piece concurrently with Matrix III (below). I will do a layer on one, then a layer on the second, and back and forth until they are both finished. I'm estimating that I need to paint 30-hours per week consistently between now and January 1st to have these both ready for

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Here is the fourth layer finished on Matrix III...Here's a detail...

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I took my once-a-month visit to Chelsea. I'm finding that these monthly trips are proving to be quite valuable, and will become a lifelong routine. Not only am I getting more and more familiar with the area, the more often I go the less pressure I feel to have to "see everything" and I am spending more time at slightly fewer shows so that I can really observe the work and learn something.Here's a

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Here is my current painting with the fourth layer (out of twelve) partially complete. If you notice the small dots in the lower left corner the next step to complete this layer, will be apply those dots throughout the painting. I suspect it will take me all week to complete...PLUS, I intend to start a second large piece this week (at the suggestion of my mentor). Even though these paintings are

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Here's the new piece after a week. Three colors/layers done..."Matrix III" in process - 110" x 55" acrylic on paper.

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I finally finished my test painting. In the end I realize that this was just a means to an end and it really (in my opinion) doesn't stand up as a finished work. I learned quite a bit on it, and that's what is important. Means to an End (The Matrix II) 36" x 24", acrylic on paperBased on what I learned from this piece, the reading I've been doing on immersion (I just finished the book "Virtual

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I took my once-a-month trip to the Chelsea galleries last Friday. I really didn't have time to plan which shows to go see, so I counted on my intuition to guide me to the right shows (although there were two I did specifically want to see). I wasn't disappointed. I saw a lot of good work. A few shows stood out to me. I've been reading about the history of immersion art and I found myself looking

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My design business is very busy - now that summer is over everyone is ready to do their marketing campaigns again - the ants have crawled out of the woodwork! So I've been focusing on keeping my reading and studio practice going and maintaining updates to this blog is what has taken the hit as a result. I've also been working on my second thought piece "What Influences Our Perceptions of Art and

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I want to add more to this post later -- until then I am just adding some images of new work (in process) as a result of the meeting with my mentor...The short story: I'm in the process of re-creating one of the panels from my "TV photo" (shown in my July 24th post). I've started and abandoned two of them.This one has the most potential so far, and is why I'm rushing this blog entry, because I

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The studio reconstruction is done! Hallelujah! Here are some photos. For the few of you who saw my old space, you can imagine how great this is for me.These are roughly going clockwise around the room (note digital printing area in the third one down - yippee now everything is integrated back together again)....

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Studio RenovationThe carpenter came last week and tore down the old walls and studded out the remaining (new) ones. The electrician is currently doing all my feeds, getting the outlets set, and installing track lighting. Hopefully he'll be done by the weekend so I can get back to work. I'm NOT liking this "down" time.Here's a photo of the new raw space (sans wiring work).MentorI was finally able

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Academic UpdateI've been doing a lot of reading. Have finished four books so far. Really enjoying them:High Times Hard Times, NY Painting 1967-1075, by Katie Siegel (editor)Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation, by David EdwardsWays of Seeing, by John BergerA Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers, by V. S. RamachandranSeems I'm going down an

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It's been two weeks since the residency and I want to get back on track with my blog posts. I've been busy since June 30th.I finished the first thought piece.Studio RenovationI spent the entire July 4th weekend cleaning out my basement so that I can knock down some walls and go from working in 85sf to about 225sf. My tenants need to move their things into the area I cleared out for them first.

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Mark TobeyFranz AckermannHans HofmannFriedensreich HundertwasserEllsworth KellyStephan WestfallThomas NozkowskiRobert IrwinAgnes MartinDean WalshRebecca MorrisPeter YoungMary HeilmannFred TomaselliPhilip TaaffeGerhard RichterRex RayPhil FrostHeide TrepanierKristin BakerMichelle HinebrookLee BontecouEd RuschaUrs FisherChris OfiliYayoi KusamaSigmar PolkePeter DoigJohn CurrinPhilip GustonRosemarie

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This semester I intend to pursue two simultaneous tracks:1) A series of smaller paintings (8 x 10 or smaller), to deconstruct my work and formalize each part of the construct (color, pattern, forms) and to explore alternative materials other than paper (wood, canvas, aluminum, etc.) to refine my personal vocabulary and to begin to develop a very conscious and systematic approach to the process

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Academic reading selections will evolve accordingly as the semester progresses. There will be a continued concentration on the history of contemporary painting and contemporary artists along with readings on theories that relate to work being conducted in the studio.Current suggested readings include:Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion by Oliver GrauEyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's

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I've been busy trying to wrap things up for the next residency so will keep this briefer than I'd like.Julie MehretuOver a week ago I was able to see some drawings/watercolors by Julie Mehretu in her exhibit "Eye of the Storm" at the Montserrat gallery named in my sister's honor/memory The Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. What a treat to see Mehretu's work in Carol's gallery! I also met with the

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I had my last meeting with Sarah Slavick on Friday. We talked about scale again. She really wants to see the work about four times larger, as do I. The problem right now is the tiny space I'm working in makes it impossible to go larger. But as I mentioned in my last post I hope to rectify that this July. So we talked about doing some really small work (4x4, 6x6, 8x10) which will allow me to

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I didn't realize it had been three weeks since my last entry...so here's what's been going on...Studio SpaceOver the last several months I've been doing a lot of ruminating over what to do about my studio space. I've been working in my little 75sf space for five months now (after losing my glorious 600sf studio in Somerville last January), and it can be very frustrating at times not to have more

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I went to the Dia:Beacon museum yesterday with fellow AIB classmate Rebecca Moran Brine. It was a long day of driving but SO worth the trip. For some reason this museum had been "calling" me since January. I wasn't sure why, I'd never been there before, but I couldn't get it out of my head. There is a Sol LeWitt show there and I knew that I needed to see that too, but not sure why.Well, it all

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AIB ExhibitOn Friday I got to see the AIB Faculty Show, "Sketch, Mix, Draw, Paint." It was great to finally see my mentor Sarah Slavick's work first hand. Sure is a good example how mediation through print and web media don't even come close to doing the work justice. Her work absolutely needs to be experienced in person, I was floored by the spacial illusions created by the raised wood panels. I

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I met with my mentor Sarah Slavick yesterday and had a good meeting. She liked the work I brought and felt I am making quick progress. We talked a lot about ways to develop my vocabulary further. Other ideas for mark making, playing more with perspective, creating atmospheric effects and increasing the "contrast" - since my work continues to be pretty dense overall (although I really like being

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Started reading Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" this week, and it has opened a lot up for me. It's all in my latest thought piece so I won't expand in this entry only to say that it is helping me understand my perspective on form and formlessness, and he is putting into words what I have been attempting to do (and struggling with) in the studio. The tension with my 'attachment to objects' is really

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Working on writing the next paper, so keeping this entry short.I finished the piece below this week in the studio. It was a further exploration in layering and masking. This week I'm going to try and work even bigger - as big as I can handle in my 7x11 studio space expanding on this visual language. Not sure how it's going to go, I literally will be tripping over myself, and have no idea where

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Montserrat...Friday I drove up to Montserrat College of Art to drop of one of my sister's paintings and a piece of mine as donation to their yearly art auction. I love going there, I always feel so at home. While there I saw a great exhibit titled "It's Getting Hot in Here" that had art created from recycled materials. It is a small show, but very impressive. I also got to see Catalina Viejo

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Working a bit more deliberately on this piece. Investigating the interaction between transparent and opaque layers. Also really testing and understanding the materials I'm working with, I'm bumping into a few technical difficulties that I need/want to sort out.I'm also noticing something about my process that has been unconsciously present (until now) since the first time I started layering

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I had my meeting with Sarah Slavick on Friday. It was very informative. In our discussion we focused in on my struggle with "object attachment" and what I'm now terming as "compositional struggles" as being just that: MY struggle. That it most likely comes from my 25-years as a commercial artist and the fact that I have been working artistically for other people and it has been my job to make

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I just got off the phone with a friend and we got talking about my work and about Jackson Pollock's work. She doesn't quite "get" (or like) abstract expressionistic work and so I found myself explaining the process. His process. What I'm learning about the expressive side of my process. Being able to talk to her about this allowed me to hear my own thinking out loud and therefore crystallize

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I just finished my thought piece for this month and I'm burned out with writing so am keeping this entry short. The topic I chose for my thought piece: "Safety and Our Attachment to the Object" was a much larger theme to investigate than I initially anticipated. It is complicated, mostly because I'm still trying to understand my personal viewpoint and position with it, and since there are so many

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I've been really exhausted this week. I've been putting a lot of studio time in, late hours, going to bed late and then not sleeping well. I've blamed my exhaustion on those factors, but I realized it is something more. Something is draining my energy.I have lost my connection with nature.I used to spend a significant amount of time outdoors everyday. The site, sounds, smells fuel my spirit. And

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I've been thinking a lot about "safety" this week. How we want things to be nice and neat. Tidy. Safe.There is safety in the familiar. An object. A sense of space. Pleasing color. Yet in my studio I live in a world with no object, no space, and colors that create optical vibrations that may not be viewed as comfortable. As I grapple with making work that is not safe, I find that I too long for

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I moved out of my comfort zone this past week, and have begun developing a new one. Since I was getting so stuck with my brillow pad image, at Sarah Slavick's suggestion, I made some paintings without using a photograph as my source. I just began to experiment with mark making. I have found this process liberating. I can better control everything while at the same time creating my own "chaos" in

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This week I wrote and finished my first thought piece. I started reading "Chromaphobia."I had my first meeting with my mentor Sarah Slavick. We had a great meeting. She's going to push me out of my comfort zone. I agreed to try as a project—producing a piece where the point of departure is created by merely manipulating the materials. Immediately after our meeting I went out and bought some

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• Chromaphobia• Albert Munsell (color theory)• Dr. Who TV Series• Bookworm by Rosamond Purcell• Big Bang Exhibit Catalog (DeCordova Museum)• You Are Here - Personal Geographies & Other Maps of the Imagination by Katherine Harmon• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit• The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind Krauss• Formless: A User's Guide by Rosalink Krauss• Josef Alber: Formulation:

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Wade GuytonJulie Mehretu (3 recommendations)James SiennaPeter YoungBarbara TakenagaSarah SlavickRosamond PurcellTerry WintersCy TwomblySigmar PolkeRichard LongBridget RileyPhilip TaaffeDaniel ZellerEl LissitzkyMathew RitchieFranz AckermannPeter DoigGustav KlimtRichard DiebenkornSol LewittThomos NozkowskiMichelle StewertJennifer BartletteMax Ernst (his rubbings)Helen Frankenthaler

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Drawing journal consisting of “daily” sketches in order to see the influence of the hand outside of the mediation of the photographic/digital work.Exploration of color to develop a personal color palette and the effects of color in the work.Continued investigation of layering relationships through different uses of texture, source materials (photography based and non-photography based) printing

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Academic reading selections will evolve accordingly as the semester progresses. There will be a continued concentration on the history of contemporary painting and contemporary artists along with readings on theories that relate to work being conducted in the studio.Initial readings will begin with:• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit• The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind Krauss

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I'm still working on my transition from the residency back into my work life (getting caught up on all my client requests) and trying to develop some new academic and studio practices (especially now that my studio is in the basement!) Here's a quick update on the week's activities, I'm a little shy on the hours but plan on putting in some serious studio time for the next three days...Academic

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I just completed my second residency and am beginning to attack my second semester work. My goal is to make a blog entry once a week (on Friday) to document progress made during the week, both academically and in the studio. So below is my update for the first week:Academically Speaking...This week I ordered the books on my reading list from Amazon.com and I'm waiting for those to come in. (

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The past few months have been challenging at best. We had no heat in my studio for the months of October and November. The temperatures were getting down into the low 40's and on some days into the 30's. I had three space heaters running and I was lucky if I could get it up to the mid 50's. The working conditions were tough. The paint was coagulating and my fingers would go numb and I wasn't able

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I was supposed to go to NYC yesterday to meet with my mentor, but she had to postpone a couple of weeks due to illness. I was looking forward to checking out some specific artists in Chelsea and go to the Met. But instead, I headed in to the MFA in Boston to check out their contemporary art exhibits. Their main exhibit was: She Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Contemporary Craft, Selections

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I just wanted to comment on my "academic reading & writing" portion of this program. The last time I did any serious reading about art and/or art history was in undergrad school in the early 80's. Back then, art history stopped somewhere around the late 1800's/early 1900's and certainly never covered modern or abstract art. Of course back then abstract art was still pretty new, and given the

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Just a quick post while I have the time.I'm reading the book "Pictures of Nothing" by Kirk Varnedoe and I am really enjoying what he has to say. In 2003 he gave a series of "Mellon Lectures" at the National Gallery of Art about Abstraction. I just finished his chapter on Minimalism and how artists like Andre, Judd and Stella reduced their work to such a minimal form that in turn they forced the

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I departed a little bit from my usual subject matter last night. It was a result of my being completely tired and distracted and having a minor accident due to my scattered brain that I then turned into a visual opportunity. Not sure I want to share what the source is/was, as ultimately that's not important. The only thing that is important is that I broke yet another one of my unwritten rules

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Yeah, it’s been a while since my last entry. I’ve been making art and then not. “Time” has been my biggest antagonist. Not having enough of it, or not being able to spend it where I want to. Last Thanksgiving (2006) I was awarded an extremely large website project for my graphic design business that I accepted long before I even applied to graduate school. The site was supposed to be finished by

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I’m a little behind on studio time this week. Was completely slammed with client work. Made up for some of the lost time today. This past week I begrudgingly broke one of my unwritten rules. My frame of reference has been that if I'm trying to "free" the photograph from itself, that the only medium I use should be photo-based... so I've been reluctant to alter the image using any non-photographic

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Well, glad to say I met my 15-hour goal for this week (got in almost 16 actually). An interesting comment on the time -- I find that being at the studio for about five+ hours at a stint doesn't seem like enough time, yet I'm exhausted by the end. I'm also energized and frustrated by this process. However, I know that this is something I need to work my way through. That at some point it's all

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It seems I'm "slogging away" at just about everything in my life right now. Work continues to be nuts and I had several "head banging" days working out some web code...and time in the studio is a little bit the same (but much more fun). I continue to play with the layering concept (as part of the printing process). I didn't have as much luck with it yesterday, but the failures certainly provide

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Had an interesting session in the studio today. I finished indexing my old archive of images and I started on my next "test" print/image. I don't have it to post tonight (as it only exists as a print), but it was a really productive and exciting session. This time I picked four "like" images (they were all images of ice - from Walden Pond). Instead of layering them in Photoshop, I worked on each

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Well, it's Sunday and my intention for this week was to spend 12 hours in the studio. I logged in 12.75... so I met my goal! Next week I intend to put in 15 hours and will continue to work my way up week-by-week and develop the habit of going to the studio on a regular and consistent basis.Not sure I'll put a post in here every time that I go (like I have this week), but I'm finding that

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Working right on plan with day two in the studio this week.Today's image (below) is constructed from four images: 2 ice, 1 tree trunk with lichen, and 1 dandelion that had gone to seed (I don't consider this a flower...). One of the things I learned from my first attempt was that I want the colors to stay relatively true to the original, as on that first one I really turned the color on it's ear,

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Well, it's been [over] a month since the residency, and it has taken me all this time to finally get into the studio. At Sarah's recommendation (my artist mentor), I just need to start building up my studio time. Even though my own business is crazy busy, I realize that I need to treat my art like a job (not one of those jobs I hate, but the kind I can't wait to get to.) The point is to develop

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Reflections on my readings...I met with Sarah yesterday (August 10th) for our first meeting.I took the train down to NYC and that was luxurious. I had eight uninterrupted hours (4 hours x 2 train rides) to read! I finished Abstract Art by Mel Gooding and got deep into Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska (both on my reading list). I am loving these books. I'm absorbing the information like a sponge

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My initial intention for this semester is to further investigate the concept of abstraction in photography, and to manipulate the medium more from the painter’s mindset and approach. After absorbing and ruminating over all the information collected at the residency, considerations to my direction this semester are distilling into two distinct categories of thought: what is the content and what is

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Books:• Chromaphobia, by David Batchelor• Artist Land Nature, by Mel Gooding• Why Draw a Landscape, by Kathan Brown• Green Woods and Crystal Waters, by John Arthur • The Decisive Moment, by Henri Cartier Bresson• On Photography, by Susan Sontag• Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes• Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation, by Whitney Chadwick• Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the

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The following is a list of artists and photographers that were mentioned during the residency for me to take a look at:• James Wellings• Edward Weston• Robert Mapplethorpe• Frank Majore• Marilyn Minter• Audrey Flack• Bill Armstrong• Robert Smithson• Rosamond Purcell• Edward Burtynsky• Chris Drury• James Turrell• Dorothy Simpson Krause• Rebecca Morris• Laurel Sparks• Carrie Moyers• Paul Strand•

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Sarah Walker, an abstract painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY has agreed to work with me. We have our first meeting set for Friday, August 10, 2007. Since she lives in Brooklyn I am going to couple my session with her with a trip into the city and one of the museums.Here are some websites with Sarah's work:www.sarahwalker.orgwww.gregorylindgallery.comwww.pierogi2000.com

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Planned Coursework:In the field: photographic investigation of abstract forms found in nature that may include flowers, leaves, trees, bark, stone, water, etc.In the studio: formal, methodical, and organized exploration of imaging and printing techniques to assist in the further abstraction of the images taken in the field. Will explore color treatments, image layering, printing surfaces and

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Planned Coursework:My academic reading will include the following material:1. Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska2. Abstract Movements in Modern Art by Mel Gooding3. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting by Maurice Tuchman4. Paths to the Absolute by John Golding5. Pictures of Nothing by Kirk VarnedoeField trips to the following museums. The purpose of the trip will to support the information from

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Well, only three days left of the first residency and I'm already thinking about how I'm going to set up the next six months. I am in the process of developing a working plan for myself (that I will post in here) and am seeking ways to keep the conversation and interaction from the residency going. I just set up a Yahoo group for our class in hopes that we can have a "community dialogue." Since

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