city gallery opens tonight runs through July 26th

Well it is back to applications, deadlines, real life, and other work, including moving the studio and our apartment in less than two weeks...yikes! I know many of my friends live too far to come to the opening(i guess that is the disadvantage of the west coast it is not in the south). I also know many locals cannot make it to the opening, but do not fret it will be on display until July 26th. I have posted an online album and will add to it if i get other shots of the piece. the online album is here.
http://www.jonathanbrilliant.com/citygallery

I am very excited to begin on the next work which will be for a group show at the redux contemporary art center at the end of July. I am planning to create some new objects and works on paper for that one so it should be an interesting project as it will be the first studio work I make in my new situation. I am very curious to see if having more outdoor working space affects what i make the way it did in the summer of 2007, although it probably won't since i tend to be a pretty even line. I almost forgot, the amazing curator erin glaze who over saw the contemporary charleston 2009:revelation of process exhibition also created a nice little full color catalog and dvd of this show(together only $15), they are available in person at the gallery, or you can email me and i will see if i can mail one out to you.

city gallery day 9 and 10...the end

these are some pics that brooke snapped when she was visting the site the other night.



i spent last night and today bringing this side to a satisfying resolution.

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my faithful lunch sack and the coffee consumed during this project

I have reached the terminous of this one. I will go back tomorrow to do the final lighting and take some more documentary photos. when I was finishing up working today I thought about something Shannon Wright always said about the pattern created from the tensile weaving method i use. No, not the thing about reminding her of hash browns, but the part about my systems of sculpture being studies of inefficient methods of storage. Where as the goal of storage is to make things take up as little space as possible and my methods are designed to expand the materials into as much space as possible with as simple means as possible. None the less I am looking forward to a long nights sleep tonight and a painless lighting session tomorrow.

city gallery day 7 and 8

it has been difficult to really photograph this on the fly as the light in the space changes constantly with the sun and the reflected light from the water outside. I should be setting the lights in the next couple of days.


it has been interesting for me to see this piece develop. in many ways it has become a lot like a torqued basket fed through some sort of photoshop filter. I like to think when i am working that it is a bit like a labor intensive version of the cloning tool inside the photoshop interface
one of the great things about this space is the opportunity to work both high and low.

this ended up being the best way to work on the under side of the piece.

I am feeling better about the prospect of resolving this piece shortly. with each installation like this i reach a point where i have to trust the direction that the work is driving itself in and just follow that. I managed to bring the downstairs to a resolution and now i am teasing out the upper portions but not for too much longer since the show opens on friday and i still need to clean up the space and light it and then rest a little bit myself. I have been finding with this piece that the lessons i learned on the previous installations have been put into play and i hope in the future to use what i learned here. It is really interesting to see the learning curve on these since it has been such a drawn out process. With work that is portable and studio based i can come and go from it and see the changes develop much faster. When doing these site-specific, site-responsive pieces i really only get to learn from them when i do them. So where in a year I might make several objects and works on paper in the last three years I have only seen a handful of these installations realized, but am hopeful that i will get to see more in the future...

city gallery day 6

so yeah this was today's task, tomorrow I will finish off this section and will for sure get back to the upper portions.

city gallery day 5

i have been enjoying how the stereo speakers are just sort of lost in the field of stir sticks.

this is the view from above

I began resolving the form today, and hopefully tomorrow I can finish building in the rest of the lower part before starting on the upper sections. That is all for now, Looking forward to getting back to it tomorrow.

city gallery day 4

here we are at the end of day 4 looking forward to day 5, one week left until the opening



the boxes in the bottom right are the empties for the sticks I have used on site. I really like these new sticks not only for their improved quality over previous sticks, but also for the great packaging that lends itself nicely to spiral stacking.

city gallery day 3

so I continue to make progress on this half, tonight I am going to start the other side of the room and hope they meet in the middle some time before next week. I am beginning to find my way with this one, no major derailments today.

city gallery day 2

so I accomplished two signifcant sections today. First was connecting the lower form to the upper railing and second was hoisting the first span into place.



that is all for now.