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Proceeding Inward


Proceeding Inward

March 4 – April 6, 2019

Sam Hall of Fine Arts
Kansas Wesleyan University
100 E Claflin Ave
Salina, KS 67401


A while back I was contacted by Kansas Wesleyan University about mounting a show in their gallery. Fast forward to the beginning of March, and Kyle and I (with help from our friend Chris Chapin) hung 28 pieces in The Gallery in Sams Hall of Fine Arts, in an exhibit titled Proceeding Inward.

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Imagine

I was lucky to spend last week in New Orleans dreaming about “What’s Next” with a talented group of fellow artists. My cup is full and I am excited about what is on the horizon. What have you imagined for 2019?

Everything you can imagine is real.”  -Pablo Picasso

Mile Marker 441, size 22″x 34″

Taken Away At Dusk


“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Mile Marker 569, size 22″x 34″


 

Art is a Living River


“Art is a living river that runs through our time and will run on as long as art is created and appreciated. To purchase [an artist’s work] is to take a dipper full of the river home to constantly be refreshed with the energy of life.”  -Stewart Turcotte

Mile Marker 604, sized 22″x 34″


 

Watching the Clouds Float


“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”    -John Lubbock

Mile Marker 665, size 16″x 22″


 

Warm Hearted


“An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”  –Vincent Van Gogh

Mile Marker 572, 22″x34″


 

My Sunset Sky


“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”  —  Rabindranath Tagore

dahlquist landscape photograph

Mile Marker 490, 16″x22″


 

Please contact me if you are interested in adding this or any other piece to your art collection.

Watching the Clouds


 

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” —  John Lubbock

Chris Dahlquist photograph of the prairie

“Mile Marker 513″, 35″x51”


 

Please contact me if you are interested in adding this or any other piece to your collection.

Plaza Art Fair #13 – Thank you Kansas City!

What a welcome home!

 

After 13 years of doing shows around the country, my hometown show, my 13th Plaza Art Fair, provided the best show of my career! It was great to see familiar faces as well as make new friends at the show, so my special thanks to all that came out and made it a fantastic time! It really is all about the people!

 

Here are some of the awesome things about this week that you didn’t get to see:

 

pleeeeease

  • Our street filling up with large vans signaling the arrival of our people!
  • An impromptu and delicious dinner party with a houseful of my favorite artists: Beth Bojarski, Mark Winter, Lynn and John Whipple, Jim Brown, and Gregory Story. (Ask them about the tamales!)
  • Helping Laura Robson orchestrate a surprise visit from Oregon. And despite the fact she hadn’t done a show with all of us in six years, it felt just like old times.
  • Laughs so hard on our car rides to and from the show that my side still hurt the next day!
  • Hosting a fantastic party for the artists after the show with the AMAZING help of our good friends from Pandolfi’s. I never want to host anything without these guys ever again!
  • Sitting back and thinking about the collected talent at the party, and the interesting lives they are leading traveling from all corners of the country (and Canada). A brain trust assembling in our house, overflowing onto the porch, driveway and yard!
  • Dozens of sleep deprived and staggering artists digging through the River Market Antiques the day after the show, and the show and tell that happens afterwards.
  • Card playing on Monday night that is so exuberant the house vibrates with the excitement. (Who knew that dime ante poker could get successful adults so wound up?)
  • Quiet porch conversations that begin to happen as the crowd starts to thin.
  • The energy created by having so many of our best friends gathered in one place to sustain us through the winter season until we all meet up again in Florida in March.
  • My new piece of artwork from Kina Crow that perfectly expresses how I feel when everyone leaves.

Somebody pleeeease come play with me!

 


 

The Absence

I love words.

I love to read. I love to write have written. I love word games, puzzles, poems.

So when my friend Jim told me about the short story writing contest in Esquire that required a story of 79 words, no more, no less, I was intrigued but not inspired. I’m not a writer, and when I am, it isn’t fiction. Continue reading »