Posted: August 1, 2011
This is a vertical panorama from photos taken during the winter of 2011 of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion. Standing between the house and the ocean one would typically see the house, then turn 180 degrees to see the view of water and the bridge looking toward the ocean. By combining a series of 20 photos taken while rotating the camera one can see the ocean view (upside down) at the same time as the mansion.
The snow covering most details of landscape around the building accentuates the mansion as out of time and space. The mansion and the objects and space within preserve the historic ambiance of the colonial period. Outside, the context surrounding the mansion is frozen in winter, yielding no clues about the passage of time. A featureless white middle ground separates the historic building from the view of the riverine bay at low tide. This piece is titled “middle ground,” because there isn’t any.
The digital photos that created “Middle Ground” are screen printed with ceramic materials, hand colored, fired in glaze and mounted on wood.
Middle Ground will be in exhibition (artencounterspreservation.org) July 30 through October 15, 2011 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This is the exhibition statement.
Middle Ground is a ceramic vertical panorama made from photos taken in the deep snow of January this year on the stone wall at the water’s edge. Displayed here in the council room of the Governor Benning Wentworth, the white void of the snow becomes a signifier of the inability of political entities to bridge differences, come together to find common ground and compromise. Governor Benning Wentworth would be forced from office as a loyalist who could find little middle ground with a pre-Revolutionary war constituency unhappy with his corruption and bent on a war of separation from England and its taxes. Tax policies are also responsible for the current lack of middle ground between our two political parties.
Posted: July 22, 2011
OK, Native Corn is not a tree, but it is an inward panorama of a plant just as all the trees in this category. I was not yet ready to create a new category for just one entry. I am working on a pine cone panorama that would give me two entries when it is finished toward another category.
Posted: July 22, 2011
Shiprock is in the East Branch of the Westport River just upstream from the Rt 88 bridge in Westport Point, Massachusetts. You can see our kayaks for transport. A great place for diving, swimming and observing ospreys.
Posted: June 26, 2011
I have several pieces in Ripple Effect, The Art of H2O at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts that just opened this week. You will be able to see the work there through May 2012. Sand Castle 2010.
Posted: June 26, 2011
I was just awarded a 2011 Finalist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. You can see the tree portraits that were chosen for the grant. http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/gallery/artistDetail.asp?App=20112834
Posted: April 8, 2011
If you are in the Louisville, Kentucky area you can see three pieces of my work at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in their exhibition “2011: Craft Meets Technology,” now open through July 16, 2011.
Posted: March 27, 2011
I see the backwash of technology in the traces of messages “posted” but now gone as evidenced by the staples and pushpins on this telephone pole. (on Main Road in Westport Point, Massachusetts) The pole supports wires for transmission of electric pulses to specific individuals while at the same time it supports paper notices as a visual broadcast to a local non specific audience.
Posted: January 30, 2011
Iceberg Point is on Lopez Island in Puget Sound near the Canadian border.
Posted: November 27, 2010
You have until January 23 to see my work at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. Read about the show in the Boston Globe.
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/11/16/artist_warren_mather_plays_with_perspective/
Posted: November 24, 2010
Dawn Redwood is one of over twenty pieces now on exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts through January 23, 2011. This piece and several like it is a natural abstraction developed from a series of photographs taken while walking around a Dawn Redwood tree this past winter
at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA.
This is a vertical panorama from photos taken during the winter of 2011 of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion. Standing between the house and the ocean one would typically see the house, then turn 180 degrees to see the view of water and the bridge looking toward the ocean. By combining a series of 20 photos taken while rotating the camera one can see the ocean view (upside down) at the same time as the mansion.
