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Gallery install!

Completed oil painting portion of work!

Up next is adding the actual mirrors into the piece and installing

Instillation brainstorming and more painting completed

more progress. Planning on finishing the painting next week and expiring the addition of actual mirror shards

worked on some of the bigger pieces

I love the theme that my group came up with as fractured space and really think it played to all of our unique artistic practices.  For me, this really pushed me to break the frame of a canvas and also really forgo a canvas completely for one piece, which is some thing I haven’t done thus far.  I think that the way we collaborated for situating the work worked out really well with how they interacted with one another.

I already had the oil painting done that I used in this piece, but beac sue of everyone else’s more non-traditional canvas shape or material, I wanted to go outside my comfort zone and explore adhesives and using actual mirror shards.  I really enjoy the way that the shards make the audience also in the painting about self-reflection.  The one thing I think I would do different is better hide the command hooks that attach the mirrors to the canvas.  This method worked well for keeping the canvas in tact while also allowing me to move the pieces around, but it is more visible than I would have liked. I think the idea of having Spencer’s across from mind also really played into both of our concepts, his being invading others space, and mine being self reflection, since the pink triangle has the symbolic representation of homosexuality. I liked coming up with this idea because it involves more of the gallery.

progress on my big painting

set up gallery for fractured space exhibition

added mirrors to my already completed piece

I started painting a section of my large oil painting.

I added mirrors into and around this piece to explore how viewers can also be reflected.  This is going to be my contribution to the TBA exhibition.

finished a simple under painting for my big piece

This week I’m exploring using the shards of glass on canvas.  I am thinking of using this technique in combination to my painting of the shards in my big 3’x4’ painting I am starting hopefully this week .

for the group exhibition I’m planning on painting on fragments of glass while leaving some mirror untouched.  These are a few examples so far

I have a new 3’x4’ canvas that I want to use to explore identity and self reflection, so these are some digital images I have been playing around with to see what direction I want to move in.

I also did an observational painting from a big mirror shard I have. I left a lot unfinished due to time and just for a stylistic approach