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8.02.2013

A Peek Into My Studio


How I'm spending my summer
 
If you wonder why I've slacked off on the blogging, this is why: I'm getting ready for a solo show, Chromatic Geometries, at Arden Gallery in Boston. If you've followed my work, you know that I've been involved with the diamond shape for a couple years. In this new body of work, I started by fracturing the diamond into a planar crystalline structure, which you can make out in the four diamonds on the right wall in the panorama above. You may see the shapes as triangles, but I'm thinking of them as segmented diamonds. Tomato, tomahto.
 
Here's a peek with commentary:
 
Nothing is titled yet, but the two-tone red painting above, with its strong horizontal, inspired more bilateral color. I also wondered what would happened if I placed the same horizontal into a square, retaining the diamond-patterned surface and triangular segments.

The answer so far:

 

I hadn't intended to make so many small paintings, but as one palette leads to the next, a series is born. In the paintings in progress, foreground above and detail below, you can see the patterned field I've laid down



On the opposite wall are four finished diamonds and two squares in progress. I'm painting in encaustic, whose fluidity runs counter to the preciseness of hard-edge geometry. I love the duality and the challenge of making it work. These square paintings in progress are 24 x 24 inches; the two larger diamonds are 28 inches point to point
 
 
In the sketches I establish chromatic relationships
 

This panorama makes the studio look much large than it is, but you can see what's going on. There's no easel, as I work flat on a work table. Out of view: several larger works, squares and diamonds taped and ready for painting this week.
 
That's it for now. I'm going back into the studio.

5 comments:

Sue Marrazzo Fine Art said...

I love the post and all the photos...
Thx for sharing it all!

Ruth Hiller said...

thanks for posting pictures of your studio Joanne. I love seeing other artists' studios and the process and equipment. Good luck getting ready... the paintings look great!

annell4 said...

I like this post. It really shows your process! Thanks for sharing!

Julian Jackson said...

loving this new work! you are really cooking! thanks for the preview.

Ravenna Taylor said...

I love your new work!