Corinne Wasmuht/Painting and Architecture

Corinne Wasmuht
Wandbild Rosenthaler Str.11, 2004
acrylic and gouache
ca. 312 x 1247 cm

Courtesy Meyer Riegger Gallery

Structure (ceiling of studio)

Structure (back of collage)

Look at this

image of Leonora Carrington's. 

Emily Noelle Lambert

Emily Noelle Lambert, Printemps, 2009, Mannequin heads, bottle, branch, wood, hat, netting, collage, paper, styrofoam, speaker, stool, acrylic paint, plaster, 68 in x 16 in x 11 in (173 cm x 41 cm x 28 cm). Courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.

Oh I Love!

(not the painitngs so much actually, but these cobbled together sculptures are just about right.)

Studio, Wednesday Afternoon

Just as the first few days at Hambidge were somewhat clumsy until I grabbed my studio pace, I must regain my home studio legs--slowly, surely.  I've had some good days and some not-so-good days.  Today seemed to be most assuredly a not-so-good day, but in the end I kept the momentum going, and now there are new problems to solve tomorrow.

Here are some rather vague pics--taken with the photo booth application on my computer so everything is backwards.

Timberline

(Emmylou Harris / Paul Kennerley)

Oh the stars they did shine
The night you swore that you'd be mine
And you promised always to be true
And to be kind
On that Shenandoah Hill
Where our love bloomed until
I went away and left those
Promises behind

But when I rise from the timberline
And call your name will you remember mine
And the sweetest kiss will be the tie that binds
Like the wild, wild rose and the columbine

To that place I will go
Where the wildwood flowers grow
With a ribbon in my hair
And a grown of calico
To those Shenandoah Hills
I'll go back I swear I will
To the sweetest kiss my lips will ever know

Every once in awhile, a song becomes a studio song--played over and over until somehow the words and music weave in and amidst the work being made; the reasons are not always transparent.  I'm stuck on this Emmylou Harris song this season--struck by the evocative, liminal place she sings of so hauntingly.  

Notes on Line

line
 1. mark, stroke; border
Synonyms: band, bar, borderline, boundary, channel, configuration, contour, crease, dash, delineation, demarcation, edge, figuration, figure, frontier, furrow, groove, limit, lineament, lineation, outline, profile, rule, score, scratch, silhouette, streak, stripe, tracing, underline, wrinkle
2. row, succession; course
Synonyms: arrangement, array, axis, band, block, border, catalogue, channel, column, concatenation, crack, direction, division, drain, echelon, file, fissure, formation, furrow, groove, group, lane, length, list, magazine, mark, order, path, progression, queue, rank, ridge, road, route, row, scar, seam, sequence, series, street, string, thread, tier, track, train, trajectory, trench, way
3. cord, rope
Synonyms: cable, filament, strand, string, thread, wire
4. belief, policy
Synonyms: approach, avenue, course, course of action, ideology, method, polity, position, practice, principle, procedure, program, route, scheme, system
5. border, mark
Synonyms: abut, adjoin, align, allineate, array, bound, butt against, communicate, crease, cut, delineate, draw, edge, fix, follow, fringe, furrow, group, inscribe, join, line up, march, marshal, neighbor, order, ordinate, outline, place, queue, range, rank, rim, rule, score, skirt, touch, trace, underline, verge
6. put covering inside object
Synonyms: bush, ceil, cover, encrust, face, fill, incrust, interline, overlay, panel, quilt, reinforce, sheath, stuff, wad, wainscot
7. channel
Synonyms: avenue, boulevard, canal, conduit, corridor, course, duct, highway, line, passage, pathway, road, route, sewer, thoroughfare, track, tube, way
Notes: arteries carry clean oxygenated blood from the heart, veins return impure blood back to the heart, and capillaries connect the ends of arteries to the beginnings of veins
8. something which encircles
Synonyms: bandage, bandeau, belt, binding, bond, braid, cable, chain, circle, circuit, copula, cord, fillet, harness, hoop, ligature, line, link, manacle, ribbon, ring, rope, sash, scarf, shackle, snood, stay, strap, string, strip, tape, tie, truss
9. row or tier of objects
Synonyms: array, dashboard, group, line, rank, row, sequence, series, succession
10. outermost edge, margin
Synonyms: bound, boundary, bounds, brim, brink, circumference, confine, end, extremity, fringe, hem, limit, line, lip, outskirt, perimeter, periphery, rim, selvage, skirt, trim, trimming, verge
11. boundary; frontier
Synonyms: beginning, borderline, door, edge, entrance, line, march, marchland, outpost, pale, perimeter, sideline, threshold

Jered Sprecher

My husband went to graduate school with Jered Sprecher--yet another really great abstract painter who lives in Tennessee.  Jered's got a show opening soon in New York at Jeff Bailey Gallery.  I'm excited because I'm actually going to be able to see this show in early December.

The above painting is called Natural Occurance; it's a 48"x36" oil on linen.

Today I Saw

I came across this blog today--and find the artist's (a woman named Jill Wignall) manner of combining drawing with everyday life and human connection utterly delightful and inspiring.   What a treasure it would be to receive one of these drawings in the mail!!!