I showed with Philip Lynam in a two-person show in DC back in 2001. He dropped a comment on one of my posts the other day. It was good to take a look and see what he has been up to. He layers using squeegees, but I can’t tell you much more about his process. Maybe he’ll tell us more in the comments of this post, yeah? Here’s a recent piece of his:

Fin
12″ x 12″
2007

True to form, I had my camera in my pocket for the entire opening the other night, and never remembered to pull it out and take a shot. There were people there. Really.

I stopped by the gallery yesterday to check in and take a few installation shots. Also, wanted to see how the bench worked out… Sam brought in a bench from home, and put it in the space. We left it in back for the reception, but now it is out on the floor. It’s a visual cue to pause and take some time with the work, though whether that will be effective is anyone’s guess.

It’s great to see all the pieces in the space I have been envisioning them in for two years as I put together this body of work:

I’ve posted selected works on the show page for Holding on to Nothing. The opening is tomorrow from 6-8, if you’re in Seattle.

After a little bit of varnishing last night and an early Home Depot run this morning to re-build the cross-braces for the big painting, I rented a U-Haul and loaded all the work down to the gallery today. Somehow, I managed to convince my friend Joel to help. He’s a professional (for real) at this sort of thing, as evidenced by the photo of him crawling under my painting in the truck to tie off the stretcher bar on the bottom. I can’t even tell you how much easier this was with Joel involved.

Now it’s just waiting for the opening on Thursday, and rambling around my very empty studio…