spiral fan

"#4 Meng Youthful Folly " 83" x 38" earth pigment/wheat paste/etc. on paper

a reassemblage with butcher block paper & tape used in preparing "spiral fan".

"#4 Meng Youthful Folly"

83" x 38"

spiral fan

am looking through the idea of leaving the paper over the spiral brick yogurt moss and wetting the paper down to stretch and mold to the desk/spiral forms below. would make an xacto cut of the yogurt/moss areas as the paper completes forming and begins to dry. the desk/spiral is slightly tinted in photo...

morning has broken

Morning Has Broken                                                 ©GregPatch

art tripped up to Greenville, NC 2/2/12

North Carolina's 10th largest city, pop. 84,554 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_North_Carolina


Yesterday was treated to a spontaneous/perfecto timing/full blast pre First Fri. nite Greenville Artwalk with Destry Sparks of Greenville, NC. Think southern, coastal country boy, gentle, hospitality with humor, grace and centered fine artist focus, he's the man. www.destrysparks.com/ Many thanks Destry!!, and to all the warm art folk he introduced me to!


We met up at the public library, hung a right, just next door, on Evans Street, (Greenville's main artsy street; arts, Dale's Indian restaurant and Americana restaurants, coffee/reading/rest spots, gifts and etc.)... 


...is the Greenville Museum of Art www.gmoa.org/ GMA houses a really sweet,,several rooms collection. There, are artstudiohold name artists and some I'd not met yet; Charles Burchfield, Minnie DesChamps, Claude Howell, Clarence Morgan, some Kenneth Nolan, a large Louise Nevelson, 19th c. Japanese woodcuts and a few Hudson River painters, Hobson Pittman, Donald Sexauer, Francis Speight, et y et... Upstairs was a large, well installed, group show of young people's art from the local Oakwood School.

Bayou Houseboat by William Henry Stevens, Pastel, 1945 (from the GMA collection)

Then to The Art Room Gallery & Studio with Nelle Lee Hayes; a collaborative IPad adventure between two artists in England and France;




Across the street; Pitt County Arts Council Emerge Gallery, http://www.emergegallery.com/
Two simultaneous juried shows, March 2 - 31.
               and                 

spinning a few blocks over to East Carolina University's Gray Gallery
https://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graygallery/exhibitions.cfm;

Exhibitions

March 1-31: ECU 2012 Undergraduate Exhibition
East Carolina University features the largest studio art program in North Carolina, which is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Curriculum areas represented in the show are: art foundations, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, illustration, interactive media, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture textile design, video, film and wood design. Area curriculum coordinators in the School of Art and Design select the outstanding works submitted from over 600 undergraduate students.

The awards ceremony will be Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 PM in Speight Auditorium of the Jenkins Fine Arts building on the ECU campus.

Students in Art History will have work in the Burroughs Wellcome Gallery adjacent to the Gray Gallery from March 4 through March 24. More details are on the Gray Gallery main page.

and over town to City Art Gallery http://www.cityartgreenville.com/feature.htm

with other artists represented and a group of young and old spread
on the floor playing art making with plastic doodads...

a special stop at Destry's home studio to chat over his latest piece;

no justice in this photo sketch to the potent, subtle, simple complexities
of another fine art piece of Destry Sparks...

a quick drive over to little Inkstone Gallery with a focus on quality ceramic work... 

and finally to the Pitt County Community College' Juried Exhibition where many of Coastal North Carolina's Fine Artists are represented.

for more on artsy Greenville http://greenvillenc.localguides.com/ypcyellowpg/art_galleries.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=yellowpages&gclid=CJ-t-sfzyq4CFQKf7QoddjqnDA

...Dang.

palm grid

was playing with some pieces that fell off a piece of fallen lower trunk frond spike of a North Carolina Palm spp. while waiting at Toyota of Wilmington today. the shop was trying to figure where a qt. of oil disappeared to. they didn't figure it out - no charge, thankyou Toyota of Wilmington. that's somehow relevant to my palm grid observing - thankyou palms. there are some waves in there... any way.
here's the cell phone camera shot...

palm grid                                  digital                             ©Greg Patch

spiral fan

2/28 as the yogurt/moss mix dries seismic/arid drying occurs that create interesting line  formations that further
describe spiral with a drawn patterning and its relation to line and form of frond fanning.

                             

2/29 (leap year/mathematical correction day is another mis-alignment with our natural process with dark and light) have taped/papered foundation in prep for application of pigment.