around the studio

busy busy busy days at the studio: Annelie and I are putting new focus into our collaboration practice with a much needed collab studio day last week, art supplies, I'm honored to be included in an important upcoming exhibition presented by Craft in America and the Maloof Foundation called California Handmade:State of the Arts which opens on June 7th, site visit for an installation project I'm doing coming up in July at the art exchange in Long Beach curated by Jordan Christian.

"each thing ripens its own space" installation preparation

My upcoming exhibition, "each thing ripens its own space" opens this Thursday December 4th at The Blue Cube at 5:57pm, so right now it is crunch time, as I scramble to get everything prepared for the installation process which begins tomorrow morning.  Here are a few snapshots of some of the preparations underway: Last month I visited the gallery space to see the site, take measurements and meet the gallery owner Mary who created The Blue Cube as an alternative art space/law office based in Ventura, California, A snap shot of the studio as I prepare components of the installation, Thanksgiving week fell right in the midst of my preparation time, so I prepared a basket of activities I could work on while sitting around and catching up with family so this is me working on some installation parts with some valuable help by my amazing niece Emma, What installation could be complete without flowers, glitter, and blue paint?, To loosely frame my ideas for the show, I am using a poem from my favorite poet Lisa Robertson, from her book Magenta Soul Whip. (If you happen to have a copy of the text, the poem I'm using is on page 29.)

"each thing ripens its own space" exhibition details here and here

check back on the blog next week for images of how this installation unfolds….

installation images of "Transform"

If you weren't able to visit the "Transform" exhibition before it closed last week, here are a few snapshots of the 3 person show featuring my work alongside Jaime Scholnick and JR Uretsky, curated by Jeff Rau, the new curator oft he Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery at the art department at Biola University.

through sculpture to studio

studio snapshots plus collaboration website is now live

a few quick snapshots today of the current state of the studio

and in other news....Annelie and I were excited to do an Visiting Artist Lecture on our Collaborative Art Practice in a course on collaboration at Biola University this past week co-taught by an artist and poet...using this event as an inspiration, we decided to finally get around to putting together a website of our collaborative work, something that can serve to both archive all the projects we've done since 2011 and be our internet home base for all future collaborative projects.

Check it out! www.linvilleandmckenzie.com