Studio, Jan 15th When a painting needs a little maturation time, or I find myself between paintings, a studio tidy-up usually helps. When I’m working on a painting the surfaces get more and more chaotic as I rush to dive back into the work. Eventually my work slows down because the surfaces are unclear and,…
Abstract acrylic paintings
2011 Word of the Year
Release! by Destinys Agent, on Flickr Now announcing (drumroll please) the year of… Release and Reconnect Yes, I know. TWO words. That would be cheating if these things had rules. Up to yesterday I had just the one word, release, that seemed so right for the simplifying I need to continue. What happened? On impulse…
Playing with Color
Color mix swatches For Untitled #5 I set myself the challenge of working in a high intensity red range. Partly because I want to see what effect the color and intensity change has on the transparent veils I paint, but also because red is not my favorite color to use. It’s good to shake things…
Art League of Houston exhibition
Untitled #3 Acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 48″ ©2010 Caroline Roberts I am excited to announce that two of my paintings, Untitled #3 (shown above) and Untitled #2, have been accepted into the Art League of Houston show, “Gambol”, which opens this Friday. I’ll be there and I’d love to see you! The opening is…
The Odyssey explodes: Cai Guo-Qiang’s gunpowder drawing ignites
Last night I had the honor to assist Cai at the ignition ceremony, putting down cardboard, handing him bricks and putting out small embers. Each of us who had helped Cai felt some ownership of the success or failure and therefore some anxiousness and anticipation as the fuse was lit. After so much preparation the…
Tuesday at the warehouse
Cai Guo-Qiang explaining his Odyssey sketch Tuesday saw a live audience join the cameras in observing the Odyssey project. Luckily the audience do not pay to attend since the first two hours they were watching four museum art handlers lay out the panels. Those guys made the panels look so easy to manoeuvre, but I…
Counting down to Cai’s Odyssey
Odyssey warehouse location This morning I joined around 30 others to work on Cai Guo-Qiang’s Odyssey. They let us loose with X-acto knives, cutting around the brush marks that Cai made, to create a cardboard stencil. None of us volunteers knew each other before we started, but after you’ve worked on your knees, side by…
Cai Guo-Qiang at the MFAH
In an unassuming, newly built warehouse in Houston, artist Cai Guo-Qiang will be creating a gunpowder drawing, “Odyssey”, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and I will be one of his volunteer helpers. The location is fascinating – a new warehouse, temporary air-conditioning, baseball bleachers for the audience, a speaker system, and fire extinguishers…
SAO Select Exhibition Opening
Untitled #1 ©2010 Caroline Roberts Yesterday evening was the opening of the SAO Select exhibition at Tradition Bank in Houston. The bank is located on Montrose, right opposite the Glassell school of Art. The exhibition runs September 13-September 24, Monday – Saturday 10-2. A few photos from the opening: SAO Select opening At the SAO…
Untitled #2 – the finished painting
Untitled #2 ©2010 Caroline Roberts 24″x24″ acrylic on canvas Ta-dah! I managed to stop before I got perfectionist and started fussing about edges being smooth to the molecular scale. It’s a fine line (bad pun intended). I started the next painting, excitingly titled “Untitled #3″ – bet you didn’t see that one coming. I pretty…
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