Façade III: Red Oxide
38 x 61 inches, ©2008

This piece and Façade IV: Chrome Oxide will be included in a show called Distinctive Directions at the Lux Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 4 – 26, 2008. The show is curated by Lisa Call and features artists Pam RuBert, Joanie San Chirico, and Jeanne Williamson, and will be shown in conjunction with a solo show by Lisa Call, Fencing in or Keeping Out.

As mentioned in my last post, this work is inspired by surfaces of exterior walls of old buildings. While the sources are many, and the final piece is a composite of many things, I do have one image that relates rather directly to this piece.

Rusty Building, ©2002

This is from the side of what may have once been a mill for processing ore, located in Central City, a former mining town and now gambling town, in the mountains west of Denver. Although I took this photo over five years ago, I never made any art directly related to it, and even now I only noticed the resemblance after I was done with the piece. I do think that everything I’ve ever found inspiring, and especially those things that I’ve taken photos of, has stayed with me somewhere deep in my mind and contributes somehow to the overall aesthetic of my work.