Taking a painting apart (2)/EUC Installation

A couple possibilities:
1. a painting disassembled and strewn apart
2. a painting sinking into the wall, wall swallowing parts of it and allowing other parts to appear, surface, rest on top
3. painting turning into drawing turning into collage
4. line in painting in drawing in collage
5. line on the wall, pinned to the all, resting on the wall--actual and/or illusion
6. a painting--part here, and then part over there

Taking a painting apart (1)/EUC Installation

(The very first image shows a view of almost the entire show.)

Beginning with the second image--my portion.

Bryan Ellis 2/Shelf

In the final days of our work together, Bryan and I assessed an expanse of the gallery too big to leave empty and too small to overwhelm with large images/pieces. Running to the left of my large wall painting/drawing, the breadth of wall and proximity to my work seemed to call from something from Bryan. He mentioned some little sculptures in his studio and the next day brought this little shelf and the blue one below in...I love them--their oddness and awkwardness draw me in.

Bryan doesn't typically show these--hopefully seeing them up will change that tendency.

Bryan Ellis

The installation in the EUC Gallery is finished--I'll post more images soon, but for today...a sculpture of Bryan's I adore.

Edge and line, disassembled, cobbled together, ruptured grid (fragmented and painted on the wall--EUC)

Piecing/Building a painting, on the wall--painted and pressed against

Images of the day in the studio

Notes

"Letters"

think about letters you do not know, you have not learned
(Alex learning to write)

making letters

my old vs t-shirt--a favorite-now-decrepit, how could it be a painting

Barbara/EUC Installation/Beginning

By the end of the day some things began to come together--

Still in parts--but in dialogue

I think about what a painting would look like if it sank in and out of a wall--if parts of the painting were periodically buried IN the wall--only to reappear just a few feet over.

painting constructed
painting in proximity
painting on the wall

I listened to Krista Tippett's interview with John Kabat-Zinn two times through. He said, "The key to creativity is cultivating more spaciousness in the mind."

And then he read Derek Walcott's Love After Love--

Bryan/EUC Installation/Beginning

Three images of parts of Bryan's work--made within the first two days of our time in the gallery together.

Monday was Bryan's day of endless frustration/Tuesday was mine.