shows

Well for the past couple of days I have been resting from having my wisdom teeth out and working on my reading. I spent some time scanning negatives in the other day and printed out some contact sheets. I like some of the images, I need to start making some larger prints. Yesterday I liked the light in my apartment so I set up my medium format camera to take some pictures. Here is a new image from the shooting I have been doing.
Last Friday I went to the Mills Gallery which I had not been to before and saw photographs by Oscar Palacio it was a small exhibit but I enjoyed his large landscape images. There was another show (un)building which had a mix of work I was most interested in the photographs and small scale sculptures by Sally Moore. This week I plan to see a lot of shows that are ending in August. The MFA, ICA, The Joseph Cornell show, The DeCordova and The Griffin Museum, it's going to be a busy week. Then I'm headed to northern Michigan for 10 days where I plan to do a lot of shooting and reading. I'm excited about my new work I think things will be even better when I make some prints. I'm working on getting a new printer for my studio space at the moment.

Joyce Tenneson Lecture 7/12

I went to the Joyce Tenneson lecture at the Griffin Museum last Thursday. I was a little late so I missed the very beginning of her talk or so I thought I had just missed some of the earlier slides to music of her work. The rest of the talk consisted of a PowerPoint to music and then a long and interesting question and answer period. I have always found her work to be interesting and looked at it in undergraduate when I was photographing the female form. This was the first time I have heard her talk and she spoke a lot about herself and what she had been through which was interesting. However, it made me think back to discussions in the residency about thesis and talking about "when I was 5...." Overall it was interesting I would like to go back to look at the work more thoroughly as some things had been moved for the lecture.

I am looking forward to visiting some more shows in the next week. I am currently working on my first paper and thinking a lot about my work. I have been photographing a lot and I look forward to printing some work out and beginning to make connections. Last night I had a dream about my work and it was very different, I was setting small scale images up in my studio. Interesting since I have thought about that but I'm not sure that's where my work is headed right now.

back to work

I'm back from Colorado it was a nice break did some rock climbing. Saw Patrick and went the the Cherry Creek Arts Festival and checked out the outside of the Denver Art museum, got there a little to late to get in.
Just trying to photograph now, I have some new film to be developed. Get through my first book and I need to start writing my first paper. My mind is still filled with so many ideas and questions, still searching for answers. Headed to the Joyce Tenneson lecture this evening.
I'm trying to get my new studio space organized, it's all coming together.

next on the check list

I'm so excited I just sent in my mentor paperwork today so there is one thing that is complete. I am working on compiling my thoughts and all the great information I got at the residency so I can type my first paper. I leave tonight for Colorado and I'm so excited to do some shooting out there. Now I'm moving on to starting some reading and looking for lectures and more shows to see. My advisor told me to see a show of Oscar Palacio's work at the BCA so I'm planning to do that when I return. I saw Coe had put a link to the Joyce Tenneson lecture at the Griffin museum on July 12th so I am also planning to attend that.
It's exciting to start getting things organized and making new work! I have so many thoughts filling my head about why I want to photograph people. I think I've decided to try photographing myself for now and continuing to photograph the landscape while I explore and answers questions for myself. I also want to explore my printing process papers and the type of prints I will be making this semester.
Why photograph people or myself?
Why the landscape and texture?
What am I trying to say with my series/diptychs?
Is there a narrative in my work? How can I explore and push that further through my work?
What is my sense of place/location?
I plan on trying to answer these questions this semester through my work.

Shows seen in June

Before the June Residency:
Richard Serra, Museum of Modern Art, New York

During the Residency:
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery
William Wegman, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Art on the Harbor Islands, Teri Rueb, Institute of Contemporary Art
Exposure: The 12th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition

Just getting started

Well after a few days of much needed sleep I finally feel ready to go back through everything I got out of this first residency. The experience was amazing and I'm so excited to begin reading and making new work. I also need to go through my ideas, answer questions for myself about my making and practice.
I want to continue photographing the landscape and thinking about texture and light. While incorporating a narrative or series. I would like to photograph people again or myself and I keep asking myself why the past couple of days. I haven't gotten to that answer but I hope some shooting will help sort that out.
I have been working on finding an artist mentor I emailed three artists on Saturday and heard back from Laura Blacklow first, she is interested in being my mentor. Which I'm very excited about!
I leave for Colorado on Thursday and I can't wait to photograph out there I just bought more film for my Holga camera. I will hopefully touch base with Patrick.