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Five Artists Interpret ab-strak-shun: a noun

Louis Ocepek, Raul Dorn, Carey Crane

Myriam Lozada and JD Jarvis

Opening Reception Saturday, May 18, 5 to 7 PM
The Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
905 North Mesquite, Las Cruces

I’m looking forward to joining in the Wide Bay – High Desert exchange in the next week. The Las Cruces crew says “Hello Childers.” Details below.

About Wide Bay – High Desert

What happens when you bring artists from opposite sides of the planet together to create an exhibition? Let’s take 4 artists from Queensland, Australia and 4 from New Mexico, USA and find out!

After much work behind the scenes, the result is Wide Bay – High Desert, a collaborative exhibition project between artists from two regional areas, with very different geographical and cultural perspectives, and simply overflowing with creative people. The artworks resulting from this collaboration will be shown at two beautiful but quite different galleries; one in Las Cruces and the other in Childers.

We’re also entering the world of digital technology to see if we can successfully pull off this joint exhibition. The artists will be using this blog to get to know each other and share their ideas as they work towards the final exhibition. Which will give you the chance to find out where those amazing finished works of art come from; how artists think, how and why ideas change and most importantly, how we’ll celebrate the official opening’s’!
 We hope Wide Bay – High Desert will help grow a new audience for these talented artists and expand their international horizons, whilst at the same time allowing everyone a glimpse into their creative processes. Thanks for joining us on this adventure.

About Wide Bay – High Desert

December again . . . I have not posted new work since the Convergence show opened last March, but I have been at it. Posting one here, working title “Sparrows,” completed (?) a couple of weeks ago. It was not by intention, but winter vines in our side yard look very like “Sparrows.” Sparrows feast on winter vine seedpods.

November was a productive, style-diverse art month with collage/paintings ranging from spare to Sparrows. I also cradled works on panels over Thanksgiving break, which sounds more poetical (or strange?) than it is.

Looking forward to a show at the “Unsettled” Gallery in March. Thinking of titles to sum it all up. Or some it all up. I’ll let you know.

Greetings Friends, 

BOOK COVER

I am pleased to herald the release of  Robert B. Ray’s latest book, WALDEN x 40 Essays on Thoreau. Robert is a brilliant professor, writer, poet, and musician.    

Robert asked me to create a simple calligraphic brush and ink drawing of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond for the book cover, and I am thrilled that it was used. Here is a portion of the book description from Indiana University Press:

In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents’ house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin on land owned by his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. After 26 months he transformed his stay in the woods into one of the most famous events in American history.  . . .  Ray derives his 40 brief essays from the details of Walden itself, reading the book in the way that Thoreau proposed to explore his own life — deliberately. Ray demonstrates that however accustomed we have grown to its lessons, Walden continues to be as surprising as the November snowfall that, Thoreau reports, “covered the ground… and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter.”

PAINTING/COLLAGE UPDATE

I have completed or begun many works since the last posting in June. A selection of new paintings will be posted in early 2012. – Carey

November 21, 2011