Last Wednesday when I delivered 20 paintings from my Odditerrarium series to Burnt Bridge Cellars 4 had already sold and before Friday 2 more sold via Caplan Art Designs! Many nice comments have been said about the exhibit too! Thank you all!
Here’s a photo of some of my art spread out on a table ready to be hung for display. A package of books is ready too.
Burnt Bridge Cellars is a large space and my 10 x 8 inch works filled it pretty well. There are more photos of the installation on my portfolio page here – below are a few pics to give you a sense.
There’s another area in the winery with more of my artwork and a basket holding copies of my book “Odditerrarium: a fine art album and nonsense poem”. (Copies are also available via mail here.)
Later this month the Caplan Art Designs Gallery will pickup the sold artwork and ship/deliver the artwork sold from this exhibit to the new owners. Between now and then I’ll make more art in this vein, beginning “Odditerrarium Too”, which will be exhibited in October at the Caplan Gallery!
I wrote in my last post about the Beat Generation and that I was expecting a book about the women of that era. The book came! It’s titled “Women of the Beat Generation” by Brenda Knight. The writings of Helen Adam and Diane di Prima are particularly fascinating; Adam’s use of rhythm and rhyme and di Prima’s ideas about the value of imagination. Diane di Prima’s “Rant” is wonderful and here’s a link so you can read it too. I am inspired by how the women of the 1960s and 1970s worked together, began their publishing their own and each other’s work, how they encouraged and supported each other, including the men, and generally persevered despite many obstacles. Working and sharing together is really potent stuff.
This cooperative encouraging spirit was in my mind when some of my friends told me that they want to be sure to get all of my posts – especially the ones with my sketchbook pages – and social media feels too random to them. So I’ve decided to send my sketchbook pages directly to people who want them via weekly emails using Substack. It will be nice to have a place focused on my sketchbooks. I’m thinking I’ll send these emails on Fridays. If you’d like to get my sketchbook pages via email please subscribe here https://sueclancy.substack.com/
This blog focuses on what’s behind the scenes in my creative life and I share my sketchbook here now and then to (hopefully) show how it fits into my work on the current project. The emails via Substack will be some of my sketchbook pages, a real-time looking over my shoulder, so to speak, at my developing ideas as they happen without a firm context. Perhaps weeks or months later you might see a sketchbook page, published earlier in Substack, pop up in this blog because it illustrates how I got to a place in the current project that I’m sharing about. For example if I had been on Substack months ago while working on my Odditerrarium project an email subscriber would have seen an email somewhat like this – even now this was a great way to share some of the sketchbook pages related to my current Odditerrarium series.
Anyway the Substack emails will be devoted to my sketchbook pages – which people seem to also enjoy and want a reliable source for! Isn’t that fun?
All of this sharing; this blog, my social media and now Substack is me attempting to follow this advice thumbtacked to my studio wall…
… and echo, at least a smidge, the cooperative spirit of the women I’m reading about in “Women Of The Beat Generation”.
Anyway, we’ll see how it goes with “Clancy’s Coffee with a Green Dragon” – perhaps it will also be a way to eventually do serials of my books? I hope you’ll consider joining me over there too – https://sueclancy.substack.com/
I hope your week is filled with lots of low-level ecstasy and an abundance of imagination. See you here next Monday.
Very exciting!! Thank you for sharing all the photos from the winery. I’m imaging visitors standing about enjoying the art, chatting about their favorites. Thank you also for sharing “Rant.” These lines in particular speak directly to our times: “the taste in all our mouths is the taste of power / and it is bitter as death.”
Yes! So much of “Rant” relates to our times…especially those lines you quoted. Thank you for seeing that with me!
I’m glad you enjoyed the photos too!! ❤
You’re welcome, Sue!
The Odditerrarium paintings look fabulous in that setting. I am sure it will be a successful exhibition.
Thank you!! ❤
The exhibit looks wonderful in the space. Thanks for sharing it with us. Congrats on your pre and early sales!! The cooperative spirit of the Beat generation definitely transformed America. As you said last week, it’s a shame how powers aside from them focused on the clothes and hair, or how bad situations with factions that were deeply into psychedelic drugs were attributed to the whole of the movement. I suppose it’s that way with any revolution of thought and/or heart that gains political sway. Those that want to control will find a way to discredit different ideas from their own, especially the organized and productive ones, or at least to pull attention elsewhere.
I’ve signed up for emails with your sketchbook pages, and also signed up for one you recommended with letters on history of current politics. It always helps understanding of the present to look back at movements prior, and is usually fascinating to learn the connections. Thanks!! Have a great week, Sue! 🙂
What a wonderful comment!! Thank you!! You put it so very well “those that want to control will find a way to discredit…or at least pull attention elsewhere”. Perhaps we could begin to view the comments made by a controller with a jaundiced eye? Begin to ask ” who benefits if I believe this negative blanket statement about an entire group of people?”
Anyway, thanks for subscribing to my emails! I hope you’ll enjoy them too! Thanks again for your thoughtful comment. I appreciate you.
Thanks, Sue! I was always taught to ‘consider the source.’ That bit of wisdom has helped me understand many things and people in life, both intellectually and emotionally. Cheers!
Love the way your artwork looks in this setting, Sue!
Thank you so much!!! I’m so glad and relieved that it turned out so well!