As you may have read in my previous entry, there is a problem with the bees. Or rather, there’s a problem with us: we are killingthe bees. There is a marked lack of concern (or even awareness) about this issue, generally known as “colony collapse”--an event in which entire hives of bees simply die or disappear for no apparent reason, leaving behind their queen and a hive full of food (and sometimes a few nurse bees to care for the queen and immature bees). This is one of the major environmental problems of the last decade, for both ideological and practical reasons.
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Press release for "Afterglow" and concurrent exhibition
Invitation to Opening Reception: Afterglow
Update: It's finished!
Update on the older post (part of which is retained, below)....this unorthodox piece is finally finished! I’ve been totally certain I was only a day or two away from finishing since...perhaps...March? Kind of ridiculous, really, how much longer this incredibly time intensive piece has taken, even beyond my inital (and generous) estimate. But it is done, and it will be available for viewing and sale at Lora Schleshinger Gallery beginning July 18th, 2015 at the opening reception for my solo exhibition, Afterglow.
Read MoreSolo Exhibition: Afterglow
I’ll be showing a small but new and unusual body of work this summer--my first ever with very few purely monochromatic images. there’s at least a bit of color in just about everything that will be on display, in mediums ranging from my favored charcoal to pastel, graphite, gouache, ink, and encaustic.
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