The Morrison School
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Events, Prints
The Morrison School in Bristol, VA is having an auction! (I do not yet have the exact date and time of the auction, but will post a follow-up once that information becomes available). They will be auctioning off artwork to support their school whose mission is: “. . .prevent attention and learning disabilities from becoming lifelong handicaps that interfere with educational, job, and personal success.” For more information on the Morrison School go here. I have donated the two pieces of artwork you see below. If you are an artist and interested in donating artwork to the Morrison School auction, send an email to morrisonschool@bvunet.net, to the attention of Chandra Morse.
Charm Quark • Lithograph • 2008
Inprimitude • Etching (Intaglio) • 2007
Embrace Details
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings, Installations
As promised, a closer view of the graphite drawings in Embrace (thanks for the pics, Jessica!):
Axioms of Gesture
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Events, Installations, Shows
For those of you heading to New Mexico in the upcoming month — come check out my lenticular print drop-ceiling installation, Altruism w/-1/2 Spin at the Runnels Gallery at Eastern New Mexico University for the Axioms of Gesture juried exhibition. Axioms of Gesture is ‘a digital show devoted to the spirit of human movement. It will explore the artistic interpretation of human movement and how people move through time and space.’ Axioms of Gesture runs from the 3rd through the 29th of September. Pictured below is an image of Altruism w/-1/2 Spin as it appeared in my thesis exhibition Schema in 2009:
Shanghai Exchange
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Events, Shows
The next show I’ll be in is a collaborative effort between East Stroudsburg University and Shanghai Normal University. Check it out:
*postcard designed by fellow faculty member Assistant Professor of Art, Darlene Farris-LaBar
Figure Drawing Update
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Diagrams, Installations
I didn’t get a chance to attend too many more figure drawing sessions since the last time I posted some drawings, but I have updated my Figure Drawing 2010 Gallery (two of those images are pictured below) with some of the highlights from those sessions (the first ten images in the gallery are new). They are taken from sessions from both the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas in Asheville, NC and the William King Museum in Abingdon, VA and they are all pretty much either 10-minute or 20-minute drawings with no tweaking after the time was up.
I’m looking forward to experimenting with different media (other than just graphite) for my next figure drawing sessions.
Embrace Process Part 2
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Diagrams, Installations
And, now, continuing the story of the process of Embrace. . .
Moving beyond the whole ‘poop cloud’ concept, I decided to bring it back to being more representative of actual body parts embracing one another. This drawing is a mass conglomeration of those drawings. The final dimensions of this graphite drawing are approximately 4 1/2 feet x 3 feet (a work of art unto itself!):
An additional drawing to the one above:
And, since I cannot resist the idea of developing a good drawing — I proceeded to do some inks and markers over the graphite drawing to see what I would come up with. I really like how this came out (though I didn’t really use it for any of the final drafts of Embrace):
The next image is an example of what I like to call ‘dynamic linear mapping’ in which I use tracing paper (or a light box) to draw with a brush pen on top of my own graphite drawings to highlight the movement and forms in the drawing using only linear elements:
Then I decided to invert the ‘dynamic linear maps’ and use the negative spaces instead of the positive black lines to what it would look like — and I liked it!:
The purple color looked great in the concept stage, but, in reality, it would make the wall and that whole corner of the room too heavy. So, I decided to throw some white into the mix to make it lighter. Getting closer to the final piece, but still needs some tweaking:
The purple just wasn’t going to cut it, so I resorted to all white and decided to make the framed pieces glimpses into the original graphite drawings that were completed:
And, voila, the final piece! I hope to have some details of those graphite drawings soon (as they are barely discernable in this picture):
