At the end of March I traveled to my soon to be new home in Minneapolis, MN. I'm excited to say that I will be a Ceramic Graduate student at the University of Minnesota this coming fall! It was a great visit and proved to be a great program to become a part of. While I was there I was walking around campus and realized that one of the architects that I have admired for many years had built the University Art Museum. It was a pretty surprising and influential moment for me. Here's the museum that Frank Gehry built.
With not much of a break after that trip I was then off to Seattle for the NCECA conference! It was a great time meeting up with some friends and helping out at the artstream. It was a pretty great experience meeting some influential and established artists like Alleghany Meadows and Sam Harvey.
While there I also saw some pretty wonderful exhibits. It was definitely a stimulating experience seeing all of the magnificent work there in such a short period of time. Here are some of my favorite images from just a few of the shows I went to.
Mathew McConnell
Lee Somers
Andrew Casto
Richard Serra (close up)
At the end of Andrew Casto's statement about his recent body of work, he wrote in reference to some subtle gold luster details that it "suggests that additions of emotional weight in our lives can serve as creative opportunities for refinement and purification, rather than functioning as tools of our undoing."
I feel that that is a huge thing to remember about art making. Artists are in a lucky field to use that possible emotional stress to our advantage. That is probably a quote worth hanging in my studio to remind myself of the purification qualities of my practice.
I will hopefully post some new work in the coming weeks!
Thanks for reading!
