Pepperwood + Art Surround is on view at Pepperwood Preserve, December 1, 2022 – early March 2023.
Still in the early, experimental stages of a new body of work I’m calling The In Between, I’m exhibiting an Artist's Proof print, a watercolor and ink drawing, and some preparatory watercolors and studies.
The In Between focuses on crepuscular animal species, those most active at dawn and dusk. I love twilight, the transfigurative borderland between light and dark, when the energy is, for some animals, electric with possibility. Creatively speaking, I'm one of them; my mind sparks in those transitions.
I’m pleased to have so much good company. Also on view in the Pepperwood gallery are handmade paper installations by Jane Ingram Allen and a mixed-media installation by Michelle Hirsch. During the exhibition’s opening reception, there was a poetry reading, Writing Eco-Grief into Resiliency, featuring Kelly Gray and seven Sonoma County writers Gray worked with over the last few months, as well as the premiere of an instrumental composition by Kenny Simeone and the unveiling of a Sonoma County landscape mural created by Magalli Larque and the Latino Service Providers Youth Promotores. Some of the work presented is partially funded by a grant through Creative Sonoma’s ArtSurround project, a new collaborative effort among the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to enhance Sonoma County’s creative vitality by supporting artists and infusing the arts into our public realm.
Many thanks to the Pepperwood team for inviting me to be an artist in residence this year. It’s a very special place, and one I’m pleased to be connected to.
