Advanced Painting Group Show @ The Port Loggia Gallery

Ok ready..? Post number two!





My advanced painting class held an amazing group show November 18th at the Port Loggia Gallery. The show was of only site-specific work. Specific that is to the NSCAD Port campus. The result was some really interesting and provocative work.

My piece focused on the wood paneling that can be found throughout the building, as well as the light and shadows that are projected on them. I decided to replicate the strong light cast on the panels by the pot lights above them. I tried to make a painting that wasn't obviously a painting. I wanted the viewer to really have to look for it. I installed blue tape throughout the space to help conceal the painting itself and the result was successful. Many people needed to walk through the space several times before they spotted the large four by six foot panel. Others missed it entirely.

Check it out!














Talk to you soon!

At Long Last..!

Hello Everybody!

I have been awful... I have not updated this in over three months. Bad bad bad..! But I'm here now, and that's what counts. I think I'm going to put up a couple posts.. to make up for lost time.

The summer finished with a group show in the fourth floor studios at NSCAD, a heat wave and a hurricane! Altogether awesome! Below is the last painting I finished this summer..





Then school started.

The semester has been crazy, busy and exciting. Lots of painting and lots of trying to figure out what direction I'm going in. The first group of paintings I produced, (more explorations of the figure), I hated and still HATE. It was discouraging to say the least. I decided it was time to get focused. I put my portraits on the back burner and went head-first back into patterns. This is what I ended up with..





Afterward, I began work on a large abstract piece that has been challenging and is still a work in progress. I keep coming back to it and it's been refreshing been thrown so far out of my comfort zone.. pictures soon!

Ok. That's enough for this post!