Katherine Chwazik : In The Works

So many ideas... In Progress 3/17/16

3/17/2016

Busy week here and looking forward to some time this weekend to make work. Above are a few mid-thought sculpture experiments - I love the idea of making a dozen or so of these in cardboard and then in other materials as part of an installation. The little house-like block in the front is an extra from a series that I started a while back and hope to add to once I can replicate the blocks, maybe with a router bit...

At right is a small wood piece that I've been back and forth on for a while - is it done? I'm not sure that it's done but I'm a bit in love with the wood grain and afraid to cover it mistakenly! Good thing I have a 16" x 20" panel ready to start; now I need to decide which of the 87 ideas bouncing around to use it for.

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Early March Thoughts

3/5/2016

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Wow this was a busy week with not much actual painting going on, but lots of other artsy things! Yesterday I chaperoned the high school art trip to New York City and had some amazing experiences with our students at the Guggenheim and the Whitney's new location. Now I'm refining my proposal for the Breathing Lights Project, an ambitious light/architectural/art installation project about the Capital Region's struggle with vacancy and its social and economic effects.

Lastly, after setting this painting aside for a few days, it has really grown on me and it feels done. This one had several incarnations from still life to memory/space painting, to screen print experiment, and finally worked out with transparent layers of painting. I could get lost in the texture of the layers! The tough part was naming this one; for now I'll call it Bridge.

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So many ideas... In Progress 3/17/16

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