Douglas Witmer
Sunday, November 02, 2008
reminder and sneak peek
Here's a studio view sneak peek at two new paintings, as yet untitled.
My new exhibition is coming right up.
Today is the Day | New Paintings
M55 Art, Long Island City, NYC
November 13 - December 7, 2008
Reception: Saturday, November 15, 6-8pm
M55 Art
44-02 23rd Street
Long Island City, NYC
Gallery Hours: Thurs-Sun 12-6pm
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And don't forget, I'm also included in the exhibition MINUS SPACE, an international survey of contemporary reductive art
at P.S.1/MoMA
That exhibition runs through January 19, 2008.
P.S.1 is located just a short walk around the corner from M55 Art in the
Long Island City Arts District.
P.S.1/MoMA
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NYC
SEE BOTH exhibitions on Saturday November 15. Start at P.S.1 in the late afternoon (open until 6pm). Then come over to the opening reception at M55 Art from 6-8pm. I hope to see you there!
Click here for a map.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
studio
Lots of new work underway!
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
down on the farm
I spent a long weekend painting at the retreat center that is on the farm of my high school art teacher. I'll expand on this post with more images later in the week, but for now, enjoy the above.
Quoting myself here, in an interview with Chris Ashley back in 2005, "To a degree, I have always been an observational painter in that things I see or fragments from things I see undergo a process of distillation in the studio."
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
studio
Big mess right now.
Heavy roation in the headphones:
Anything I have by Steve Reich
Johannes Ockeghem : Requiem
Soltero--"You're No Dream"
Various artists: Vocal Traditions of Bulgaria
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Friday, January 25, 2008
studio
Heavy rotation in the headphones: Colleen "Les Ondes Silencieuses."
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Monday, July 02, 2007
news : group show in australia
Untitled, 2006. Gesso and acrylic on unstretched linen, 13.5 x 11 inches (34 x 28 cm)
This piece is soon en route to Sydney, Australia as part of the group exhibition Escape from New York at Sydney Non-Objective. The exhibition is organized by Minus Space, and opens August 3. Each of the artists in the show will be represented by a recent work, and also by an open "letter" to the audience in Sydney. I believe Minus Space will catalogue the entire project on line soon. I'll post the that which made up my "letter" after the show is actually open.
Meanwhile, this unstretched linen piece is the only one that survives from a group I started in 2006 during my residency at St. Mary's College of Maryland. It's kind of a seed idea. I think about it a lot. See the group in progress here, here, and here. Why this one works for me and the others do not...well, that's the question that I've been mulling over for nearly a year and a half now!
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
(before and) after
Here is the group begun two days ago, now with color. I hung them in this grid just as a way to get them all in the same frame. It's fun to see the colors bumping into each other like this, but it's just a way of looking at them, and not necessarily in my thinking for how they might be exhibited or even considered in this weblog format.
It was hard work the past couple of days. I forced myself to work quickly...make decisions and move on. It was a good experience, but somewhat exhausting, too. I don't think I've ever completed as much work with this level of involvement in such a compressed time period.
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Friday, June 22, 2007
the first day of summer
After some months hiatus from painting, I'm beginning again. The "format" is one with which I still have interest. I call it "Cloud Cover" and it refers to the grey wash I create that interacts with other simple geometric elements and colors. I've made a bunch of paintings on canvas in this way. Now I'm seeing what translates to paper.
I already added color into the geometric elements since I took this photo. Stay tuned for a post later today or tomorrow.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
monday morning studio
Outside: sunny, snow-covered, crystalline
Inside: tabula rasa, with cloud-cover
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