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Dynamic Symmetry, October 7-Oct 30, 2011, featuring the work of Kimberly Convery, Patrick Corrigan, Karen Gelardi, Clint Fulkerson, Max Leon, Katie Schier-Potocki, Alex Rheault, and Shoshannah White. Featuring a musical performance by AWAAS (Zachary Howardand Eric Brackett). The show opens from 5-10 and there will be food from Tandoor of India, Brian Boru and beverages from D.L. Geary Brewing Co.

Hope to see you there for the opening Friday October 7, 5-10 @ 3 Fish Gallery, 377 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, Maine.

Scatterplot, 2011, 10" x 10", Graphite on Paper Mounted to Panel

Progress on my geometric blobby ink paintings

This first one I've been working on for awhile. I'm painting areas of the paper the same light ink wash over and over to make darker lines as they overlap, but the whole thing is pretty much the same gray from a distance. It's not quite what I had in mind, but since the progress is slow, I'll have time to readjust my technique as new ideas arise.

This next painting is made by dropping ink into lines of water. It's not quite done, but close enough for a picture. This is a new approach to making blobs out of geometric shapes, which are formed by long thin blobs.

I really enjoy using wet media, I feel like I'm working with the fluid dynamics that govern action in much of the cellular world.

closeup:
Three blobs, just finished:
In this next one I'm leaving white spaces, then filling them in, fractal-like. The pattern is something like a Sierpinski Triangle (also gasket, or sieve).

Here the paintings are laid out tile-like, as I think about a display method for showing some of them at Susan Maasch Fine Art in April, concurrent with my Division Series on display in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. This reminds me of Cassie Jones' display for the 2010 Center For Maine Contemporary Art Biennial. I want to make several more in this series in the next few weeks, so I can choose five to seven of them to show.

Another Commune

Commune for Rent

Features include:

-rooftop graden growing corn, peas, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic and turnips.

-greenhouse

-compost heap and worm bin

-tilapia tank fed and aerated by organic garden runoff. Fish caught as needed for food using worms as bait.

-two bathrooms, nowhere to bathe, maybe stand in the garden as it rains.

-14 bedrooms, one of which is reserved for the garden manager

-continuous market selling the crops grown in the rooftop garden

-telescope

-barrel of beer

-art gallery featuring the art of Mike McFalls, Clint Fulkerson, Kate Beck, Aaron T. Stephan, Jasper Johns, and a white porcelain dog from the Jeff Koons studio.

-art in common areas by Vincent vanGogh, Winslow Homer, Milton Avery, Francis Bacon, Clint Fulkerson, Frank Stella, Christopher Keister, and Sol Lewitt.

-triangular paned dome window

-3 wood fired stoves (still looking for a reliable wood supplier)

-amazing cookware including a 5 quart le creuset saucepan

-common dining room seats 15

-structure well-supported by rock pile

Entry to the commune is a $1000 down payment, then is free as long is you contribute labor to sustain the commune. To be considered for this opportunity, you must meet our strict criteria for admission (which we keep to ourselves). So, in four sentences or less, tell us how you would contribute to this community. We are particularly interested in people with practical skills of gardening, carpentry, plumbing, and masonry, but we could also use all around creatives, DIY makers and users of various steampunk contraptions, and engineers, scientists, and theorists (people smarter than us) who could debunk all this stuff as foundation-less, or make the whole idea better.

new cartoon detail

This is a new cartoon in progress. It's is a fun little detour from my more meditative drawings. It is a little self-contained fantasy community, inspired equally by Richard Scarry and Sim Tower.