Fallow Fields

Since my two shows have closed, I have done very little in the studio, except organizing, class prep and preparations for my upcoming trip to India.

I am relishing my time with my girls, Merry and Bridgit, pictured here with me on the beach examining a wonderful driftwood assemblage.

CoLaboratory

We had a magical opening reception at Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College. We, ED JR. (Edra Soto, myself, Jeroen Nelemans and Ryan Richey) and (f)utility projects (Paola Cabal, Mike Genge, and Chris Grieshaber), curator Annie Morse, and Glass Curtain's Director Neysa Paige Lieberman and Curator Mark Porter were content.

Wendy Jacob

My friend Wendy Jacob's exhibit opens September 17 at the MFA Boston.

http://www.mfa.org/programs/special-event/meet-2011-maud-morgan-prize-winner-wendy-jacob

She is a highly discerning and inventive artist and a great inspiration to me.

Here is her piece from 2007 with a tight rope walker at MIT

http://vimeo.com/19445559

Letting Paint do the Painting

I saw the movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams lately. The paintings felt so real, immediate and freshly executed, the painter's hand so present. I was very moved. One of the scientists working on imaging the cave related an anecdote about an aboriginal painter who was invited to restore some paleolithic paintings in another location. He was asked why he painted. He answered, I don't paint, the spirit paints through me.

Spring Studio Gouache

Working in the studio and preparing for two fall shows.

Leslie Baum at Devening Projects + Editions

New paintings by Leslie Baum's present intensely satisfying nuggets from modernist faves (Guston, Gottlieb, Dove, Baziotes to name a few) floating in fields of gestural brushwork.

ED JR. recent studio shoot

ED JR. in mourning for Yves Klein