Have Sticks Will Travel@18Rabbit Gallery Opens Tomorrow

Hey if you are in the ft Lauderdale/Miami/greater broward area, come on out for the opening of Have Sticks Will Travel@18Rabbit Gallery

16 NW 1st St, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

in downtown Ft Lauderdale tomorrow night from 6-9. Otherwise the exhibition will remain on view through April 18.

The show was a great opportunity to not only build a new site-specific piece, but also provided an opportunity to hang some of the recent prints in context with the installation. I am very pleased with the overall rhythm this creates within the installation. As well I took this opportunity to bring forward some of the experience I gained with the Sticks Straws Sleeves and Lids installation in December by incorporating a meandering green straw line throughout the installation.

Fort lauderdale day 5 into 6

I started the meandering straw line through the piece yesterday, so far so good.




I have spent the last couple of days resolving the structure and tending to the installation of the new arkadelphia prints. I also gave an artist talk at Florida Atlantic University today and got a peak into the amazing Jaffe collection of artist books housed there. The collection was really spectacular and i hope to come back in the future and really spend sometime with their collection of work. Tomorrow I am hoping to finish mounting and hanging the variable coffee cup lid prints so that friday I can pay a visit to the museum before my opening, but for tonight I am going to sleep.

Fort lauderdale day 4

Today I started hanging the walls, but am still waiting on the last couple pieces from the arkadelphia prints to return from the framer here.
I started working on resolving the rest of the stick piece
I began seeing if the lighting conditions in the gallery will allow for the proper installation of the variable coffee cup lid print, which is printed in white making it very sensitive to light conditions. I hope between now and friday to resolve the lighting issues, but if I have to cut the prints between everything else I would like to do it will not be a total loss,as I can use them in a future installation.

Fort lauderdale day 3

Today was a good day I managed to resolve one area of the installation and begin work on the next section. I should get the works on paper back from the framer by tuesday or wednesday and begin installing those. I have now spent enough time in the space that I have an idea of the layout I want for the show. At this rate the work should resolve itself by wednesday or thursday.

Fort lauderdale day 2

day 2 was this day.

Fort lauderdale day 1

the end of day one. next stop day two.



being on more of a tight schedule also necessitates what will be the first of many pb and j artist treats consumed over the week.


after an easy drive down 95 I arrived at the gallery yesterday and started by unloading and un-packing the truck and setting up for the first day of work. I of course wove the first section before taking off for a lovely dinner of cuban food.

Ft Lauderdale day -1. or This is how it starts.

I returned from arkadelphia saturday night and am now prepped and ready for my trek down to ft lauderdale. This stop of the tour will be at The 18Rabbit Gallery in Ft Lauderdale, a brand spankin new exhibition venue run by a woman I met a few years ago at an installation residency. I managed to make a few woven panels to take down with me along with a couple framed prints and the sticks to build the "fort. Lauderdale piece". I am sort of excited and anxious about this one. I am excited about getting a little road trip in down there. The drive down will be especially helpful for letting my mind wander and devise a strategy for this piece and ease some of my anxiety. With my wounds barely healed from the arkadelphia piece at obu and the ink barely dry on the prints I made at Henderson State I am stepping off into this one already in work mode. I plan to hang several of the finished prints from Henderson with this installation and am kind of curious to see what a show with just the woven structure in the center and walls lined with prints will feel like. I usually enjoy the walls blank so as to draw attention to the space and the physical work within, but since I made all of the arkadelphia prints while working on a woven installation it only seems fitting to install them with similar work. Now to rest up and hit the highway early, good thing i have the npr station locator map for my drive

arkadelphia, day eight, a day no prints would die

With the sculpture out of the way today was earmarked for a printmaking bonanza.



per david warrens input, rather than let lighter litho proofs go to waste I did a little monotyping on top of the proofs, It was actually pretty nice and made me wish we had the time and the plates to do a multi-color lithograph, oh well maybe next time.




Tomorrow at 11am I will be giving my artist talk to the faculty and students of obu and henderson state, and anyone else who is in the area, then later that evening at 530pm we will have a reception in the gallery. At the reception we will have a table set up showing some of the finished prints, along with my rapidly dwindling inventory of glow-in-the-dark t shirts. After tomorrow the rest of the prints are being shipped home so I can take them to Ft Lauderdale for my show at 18Rabbit Gallery that opens on March 26.