Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life

what is done and still to go. but (ha) my back is TIREd so I am done for the morning and headed to my expert’s casa (dad) with some scrap plumbing pipe to get lessons so I can solder on...

couple thousand pounds of tubes

load haul unload return for more another day. my poor little 4 cylinder Tacoma with 200,000+ miles on it.0

installing at texas state
for collaborative exhibition of BOX 13ers

06 Feb 2012

art, BOX 13 ArtSpace, exhibition, process

opens at0

barren plains of back turned could have beens (monsters in the attic)

this season’s faculty exhibition0

yay perfect weather for a 4 cylinder Tacoma and 16 trailer

03 Feb 2012

art, mundane ramblings, process, road trip

usually only stopping is a problem; wakeful alert driving required today and tomorrow. fortunately lighter load than usual.0

“If you didn’t get to Austin to see the Texas Biennial” Houston Press By Kelly Klaasmeyer “The show’s title pretty much says it all: It’s a group exhibition of Darke Gallery artists who were included in the 2011 Texas Biennial....

watch it happen with humans

20 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, exhibition, hermitage, microforest, mundane ramblings, process

when the woodpecker arrives clutching and swaying the entire feeder and dangling from the underneath side, all the other species that alight gently, fly off. pecking order? well they are bigger and appear, though balanced, clumsy in their landing, but...

just barely but the sky has opened up and is currently spitting down on my microforest

16 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, exhibition, hermitage, microforest, mundane ramblings, process

one big selfish amen! I went for a walk with no umbrella hoping to double dog dare it to pour. nope. didn't work, but even a drip drip splat is a good thing.0

set at least 2 of the 3 or 4 balls down for the weekend

11 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, exhibition, hermitage, microforest, mundane ramblings, process

hermitage

three nights in a row in one bed! amen. haven't done that since thinktank in early June and not for months on end even before that…maybe not since summer 2010 i-park residency. my brain and everything else within me needed...

strolling my hermitage hood

11 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, exhibition, hermitage, microforest, mundane ramblings, process

hermitage

awe-some!0

happy truck at the hermitage embedded

10 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, exhibition, hermitage, microforest, mundane ramblings, process

hermitage

in the microforest. happy truck.0

thank you Douglas Britt and the H-Chronicle

02 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, exhibition

Galleries debuting dynamic exhibits Art-viewing options, always plentiful in Houston, are about to explode. Soon museums and other nonprofits will roll out their fall exhibits, and two art fairs – one in mid-September, the other in late October –...

last piece
i think i am ready for
the edge of my unreadiness

01 Sep 2011

art, artist residency, exhibition, mundane ramblings, process

Opening reception Friday, Sept 2, 6-9 pm, Darke Gallery 320B Detering, Houston 77007 (valet parking available) (also tonight is last Thursday night as open studio 4-7, meaning it may still be a little messy) smallest piece ever and last one...

she promises to cleanup for friday, SEPT 2 (labor day weekend) opening at Darke gallery, 6-9

28 Aug 2011

art, artist residency, exhibition, process

but on Thursday you'll see here as is and enjoy some pizza (4-7 pm). she does clean up pretty well but wears her tire skid marks beautifully. but for now, today, she is done and time to review prep again...

The insanity of it
photos by art slave Dean Liscum

27 Aug 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, process

Freshly dragged to Darke Gallery. They look fabulous on Linda’s corner! Exhibition opening Friday, August 2, 6-9 pm Darke Gallery 320 B Detering @ Feagan, Houston, TX 77007 Regular gallery hours: Wed – Fri | noon to 5 PM |...

a work in progress:: open studio tonight at Darke Gallery, Jouston, TX

25 Aug 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, exhibition, process

in preparation for exhibition, the edge of my unreadiness, come and see works in progress as part of artist's residency each Thursday in August from 4-7pm. show opens Friday, Sept 2, 6-9 at Darke Gallery. early phase of current work...

somedays I say to myself

21 Aug 2011

art, artist residency, darke gallery, process

“why could I just not be a painter?” today I am thinking it as I set up a pseudo easel to work my tubes on and realize that i wont be able to put this on the wall until i...