Category Archives: Art
Ballou and Spear at Perlow-Stevens Gallery
David Spear and I will be having a joint exhibition entitled “Concerning Composing” from September 1 through September 28th at Perlow-Stevens Gallery here in Columbia, MO. I hope to see a ton of people there. You can search this blog for more examples from the works I am submitting. Here’s one of them.
We’ve put out a catalog for the show. You can take a look here. It features statements by both of us and a selection of the work. Check it out.
Lamentations 3
i’m going to be starting a series of prints devoted to the biblical book of lamentations, chapter 3, verses 1 through 20. i’ve wanted to make a specifically biblical body of work over the last few years. i wanted an unconventional text and this is it. check it out here.
the final project will be entirely prints, with a portion of the edition bound together as artist books.
Current Studio Shots
And a shot of the current stage of the Iconoclast painting in progress…
Iconoclast, Stage 7 or so…
well, i think i’m starting to get something here… still feels really staged and posed… will work on that this week.
Student Work, Summer 2009
Here is a selection of some student artworks from the drawing sessions I conducted at the University of Missouri this July…
Iconoclast, Stage 6
…still slogging through it.
Of Pots and Beards
Two people I greatly respect were in the local paper recently.
First, Ian Shelly, a grad student in ceramics here at the University of Missouri who has been a student of mine in the past (and whose studio I often stop into to see new work and chat with [or head out to Klik’s for a beer or two of an occasional evening]), was featured in the Niche column of the Columbia Tribune. Check it out here.
The author of the piece, Aarik Danielsen, is also a friend of mine. Aarik is a great writer (and music aficionado) and has crafted pieces for PopMatters, Ethics Daily, among others, and is a zealous advocate for beards. Good stuff.
I’m enjoying this synergy of people I like doing things that I like. Best line by Ian from Aarik’s piece:
“The pots I like are brown,” Shelly said. “Nobody likes brown pots.”
Ian enjoying a famous ceramic work, Spring 2009
Iconoclast, Stage 5
…coming along a bit.
International ExLibris 2009
I was one of 8 Americans included in the 2009 Small Print/ExLibris Biennial in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Below is a shot of the catalog from the show that I received today. My thanks are to Bert Menco and Chris Daniggelis, two amazing printmakers who have worked with me personally and helped me develop my own printmaking over the last few years.
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