Thoughts on Change
Dustin Metz, Sky Lookers, 2023. watercolor and gouache on inkjet prints. 8 x 5.25in
Four friends with distinct painting practices are coming together for a residency united by a core pursuit - exploring change. Not just craving change, but committing to allowing it to permeate their work and lives. Change is central to the act of painting itself - from materials and techniques, to more metaphysical shifts in mood, balance, control and perhaps most significantly, place and perspective. This residency is fundamentally about sharing time together in a new environment, witnessing how each other's work has evolved, and being open to how their art can adapt through dialog and changed contexts. What binds this group is an openness in their approaches, a conversational studio attitude emphasizing learning, call-and-response and a spirit of play. Above all, it is an immersion in the catalyzing nature of change itself.
Participating Artists:
“...Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.”
-W.B. Yeats
Dustin Metz, Apartment Courtyard Sky Still Life, 2023. watercolor on ink jet print. 7x5in