Arboretum Lecture Hall
Posted: April 17, 2012If you missed the talk on Wednesday, all is not lost. You can still see my work at the Arnold Arboretum through April 29.
If you missed the talk on Wednesday, all is not lost. You can still see my work at the Arnold Arboretum through April 29.
Birchface is be a rectangular format walk around portrait that will compliment my circular panorama portraits of trees of the Arnold Arboretum at my exhibition Tree Rings. http://arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/art-shows/ The exhibition will run March 17 through April 29 with a reception march 17 1-3 PM and an artist talk April 12 at 6:30 PM.
Wild Cherry is a walk around portrait in a rectangular format rather than circular. This piece was finished with a matt but fully saturated color surface to eliminate reflections in a glare situation in an upcoming exhibition at Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Boston.
During the first snowstorm at Anderson Ranch while I was a resident there in November I shot the photos for this piece in Yarrow Park behind the firehouse. This is the only night flash panorama I have done while snow was falling.
My first hike up Snowmass mountain I was startled by the wind, looked up and saw leaves from Aspen trees being blown into the air.
This piece was the first I made while a resident at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado. These leaves were neatly splayed in a single layer near grid in the appropriately named ditch trail.
After two years I finally completed this work. The photos were a circumambulatory portrait of a Sycamore tree that I found in a park in Shanghai, China. I later found that sycamores are native to North America.
For the next ten weeks I will be living and working at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado as an Artist in Residence. I feel honored to be chosen for the privilege of working and learning in this gorgeous part of the Rocky Mountains. I hope I can begin by working with Aspen trees in my circumambulatory portrait mode. At the same time I want new work be influenced by the environment I will be living in.
The photograph for the Sawtooth Oak was taken from a tree in the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The bark is figured to easily suggest its name.
Persimmon is an image of Persimmon tree trunk made from a variation on my hand colored, screen print on ceramic technique. Here I am making a vitreous engobe as my screened media rather than printing, bisque firing and glazing.