A huge part of my oeuvre is works on paper. Oddly enough I haven't exhibited them much and the flat files are stuffed to the gills. Unless it's being held for an exhibit, most everything in the drawers is for sale. Don't be shy. The photos are all iPhone, so forgive the crappy resolution.
First of all, everything in my studio is on casters. I like to move things around. One day, maybe it will all be just so. Until then- casters. Currently the flat files are by my sink with an old dropcloth protecting a piece of white laminate I had cut to size. The white laminate makes a nice top for the files just in case I ever want a clean, unobstructed surface. After I wash my brushes, I lay them on the top to dry. I also have several bottles of water stored on top. Most of the water is flat and one bottle specifically serves as a place to hang my studio keys.
Part of my rock collection is in a tray on top of a small table on top of the flat files. I recently acquired a large paper cutter, so it lives on top of the flat files for now. There's also some crap I need to put away. My seller's permit is framed and displayed conspicuously on the wall above the files. I can't even remember the last time I wore those rubber gloves. Rubber gloves give me the creeps.
The 2009 paintings are small. Most of them are on linen and they live in the top drawer now. I think I can fit one more inside. The rest are on the wall or on a bench. They look gawdawful squished next to each other like that. Talk about a visual cacophony. Jeesh.
The second drawer used to be the first drawer. It contains the smaller watercolors and gouaches on museum board and paper. My scatological drawings on paper live here as well.
The third drawer is where the unframed Tornado Face Drawings hang out, along with miscellaneous works on paper.
The fourth drawer is where the large watercolors live including watercolors from the late 1980's. Some even larger ones live at my storage unit.
But wait there's more! Still in the fourth drawer, we have even more watercolors and works on paper of all sizes. It's a veritable watercolor bonanza in there.
The bottom drawer is where my stockpile of blank paper is. In case all hell breaks loose, my goal is to have enough paper to last through Armageddon so that I don't have to dash to the store in the middle of it. God, I would hate that. Traffic would be a bitch here in L.A. and I'm sure there would be a run on art supplies with people trying to record the end of time and all.
I bought my flat files from a second hand office supply store. I left the former owner's labels on them. By the looks of the handwriting and the contents, I'm guessing NOT a painter. I can't remember if the arrow magnets were already there or if they were an impulse buy I couldn't live without.And what recent post would be complete without my new obsession, a Brushes animation?
2 comments:
ooooh, loved seeing inside your drawers, Mary;)
I am wondering though, is your work mostly water based in there? It doesn't stick or get scuffed up just piled on top of each other like that? I swear that just my unused paper even sticks together without glassine in between the sheets. Maybe it's the humidity here.
And um, really, you might sell something there? Or trade? Cause I got my eye on something......
Why thank you Tracy!
With the exception of the oil on linen paintings, everything in the Flatfiles is water-based- mostly watercolor or gouache, with maybe some fluid acrylic and occasionally some spray paint and collage. Some of the watercolors on museum board are temporarily protected in archival page protectors to protect from people's grimy fingerprints but they don't stick together. I use glassine when I ship or deliver them. It may look like a mess, but they don't move around and nothing gets scuffed from being in the drawers. If there are footprints on them, it happened in the making and is part of the work. :) (Seriously).
Whatcha got your eye on? : ) email or message me. I have a couple of shows next year with the linen paintings, but let's chat!
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