Douglas Witmer
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
across the borderline update
Chris Ashley and I opened our collaborative exhibition this past Thursday.
Click here for a report and link to a web gallery of the installation and opening reception.
Labels: collaborations, exhibitions
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Friday, January 05, 2007
across the borderline
[Update 05 January...Here's the official evite for Across the Borderline (designed by yours truly).]
Collaborative drawings by Chris Ashley and Douglas Witmer, mixed media on paper, 2006.
Chris Ashley and I have been collaborating for the last several months on a variety of drawing. I say a "variety of drawing" because it that feels more accurate than talking about the products, or the "drawings," even though that's what we're ultimately producing. We're scheduled to exhibit our collaborative work at the University of Dayton in January (see details below).
Were documenting the process here, at: www.acrosstheborderline.com
[Update: I should mention we're posting new images to this site frequently as we head into the exhibition.]
We're doing simple back-and-forth exchanges of work. We're working on a variety of non-precious surfaces...cheap papers particularly. We're doing different things with size, and format. We're both experimenting a lot, allowing ourselves to go outside the "boundaries" we have each set for our individual work. For me, the working mindset is close to child-like. That said, it's not easy. Opening yourself and your processes up like this can bring out exciting possibilities, but it also has a way of revealing your basic visual assumptions to yourself. This can represent a real challenge.
The gallery at the University of Dayton is on the small side, essentially a U shape, but with shorter walls on each end and a long wall in the middle. At this point we're envisioning exhibiting a selection of our individual works on each end with the larger wall being hung in a free-form way, likely a hundred or more pieces, to be determined collaboratively on-site.
Labels: collaborations, drawing, exhibitions, my work
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