KATHRYNARNOLD

8th Street Studio

My 8th Street Studio and its day to day, or maybe it will be week to week digression on my studio issues, art thoughts, and the duality experience between conceptual/rational and nonconceptual/intuitive. Grid and ground contained all within.

Studio Log

2-20-05 (continue to 3-07-05)

Have been working on my new installation piece and have begun a set of corresponding smaller pieces. Literal idea of silver lining and how is that translated into the environmental issues of today. Will the silver lining disappear; will it no longer be remembered; is silver lining a privilege we need to take care of to insure it will last? I will be using the forests of the Sierras as images within this piece. The corresponding paper installation will perhaps relate to idea of infinity so that the play of the lining and infinity will create a disjunctive experience.

Please see the exhibition up right now through March 12/30:

45 Fremont and 425 Market in San Francisco

and the new exhibition going up on March 17:

March 17 inside of Ligne Rosette, 162 King St, SF

The studio has been busy preparing, choosing and moving these pieces around for these exhibitions. I also have updated my Premiere Portfolio at:

http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/k/kathrynarnold/

Tomorrow I will go back in again. The 5 paintings mentioned earlier are either completed or almost there. Works on paper are being worked on as well.

Tai Chi study has had to be set aside temporarily and I am recovering my katas from the Kenpo form. My friend Tami has loaned me the new Rothko book and I received a card, 2 months late from my friend Jane. She has moved into the country with her guy friend. It was most wonderful to hear from her yet I was surprised at my experience of sadness, nostalgic like sadness, that happens with change and especially with time passing. It seems like forever ago when we did our email poetic thing.

1-1-05

Had an insight today - was listening to a song something like 'Don't Forget to Dance' which is basically quite literal. But, I realized on another level it takes on a more interesting meaning, especially if one is the type of person who does not really integrate with experience, whatever it may be. The feeling that one is watching whatever it is happening to them, but always the sense of separation, as if one is just watching one's life played out in front of them and not really embracing it as one's own. This phrase, don't forget to dance, takes on meaning of integrating with one's own experience, embracing it as 'it is happening to me' and experiencing all of it, dancing with all of it, to the fullest, it will only happen once and it's one's own energy, karma or what ever it is called, that got you to the place you are at the moment, and so one dances.

Affected by the tsunami effect in serious way. The ability to possibly comprehend and empathize with the loss of life is beyond me and seemingly my abilities and I don't know why. My awareness of the idea of playful chaos is in stark contrast and denial of true chaos and nature out of man's control. Need to allow my theories to become altered and changed...theory can ignore human condition and experience.

Working in studio on the 5 4'x4' pieces and the 1 100 piece piece. Am experiencing lots of meaning, some literal.

4 of the 10 paintings left yesterday for the exhibition, and 6 will leave tomorrow. Large 7'x7' paintings.

http://www.8thstreetstudio.org/exhibb.html

12-26-04

Busy!! With what? 
http://www.8thstreetstudio.org/exhibb.html

11-15-04

Have been extra busy and realized it had been a month. In the studio I am working on 3 4'x4' pieces that are close but not there. How can I tell? I began the next 100" x 100" 100 10" x 10" pieces piece and am so interested to see its evolving or evolution would be the more correct word I suppose. Right now it is on the floor and filled with marks and color. The colors cause it to feel like it is a piece related to ecology or ecological concerns.

There is an area that has a sublayer of dark tone that should breathe through and create some division between the areas on white. Also it has silver gridded sections, that I feel may function as medallions or as a base for these medallions. The medallions or perhaps the central part will have images; the images are ones from photos I have taken in the Sierras. Let's see how it goes but at his moment it has a strong feeling in terms of energy. This is the modernist presence although some work I have recently seen seems to also convey this spirit element.

I had an opening on Saturday evening in San Ramon. It is a group show of 3 artists, one of which is me. It was great fun. I am putting the information and the pieces I am showing at ___________________, It is part of an ambitious project, to bring art into the suburbs and create a space for people to just be able to work. The mayor of San Ramon, Mayor Wilson, came as did his associate, Carol Lopez, a city councilwoman. They have great vision for the arts in San Ramon and the atmosphere the mayor wants to create is most insightful. They were warm and friendly.

More soon I hope!

10-15-04

Got back from NYC and landed into a whirlwind of activity. Maybe something will happen out of it; in the meantime meeting very neat/nice people.

Open Studios was a very good experience this time. A wide range of people dropping by, other fellow artists, a couple of dealers and art lovers. May have a couple of shows from this; exciting to be back.

NYC last weekend was most interesting, challenging and a very fun place to visit. There is so much to do and it made me realize how little I do in SF/Bay Area. This is going to change. There was a lot of new media work, animations, videos installations. Installation are becoming more conceptual and structural and combining many media under one roof and videos taking on deeper meaning, social and political commentary. Or so it seemed from what I saw. The Chelsea area is quite interesting, active and full of energy. The artists seem very aware they are making art in NYC

Before my open studios the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd of October, I completed the large 7x7 piece I had been working on. Last night I took slides of a set of smaller pieces that I hope to show in SF City Hall and at DVC.