{"id":1346,"date":"2023-10-18T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2023-10-18T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T01:05:07","slug":"from-the-archives-and-gowanus-open-studios-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2023\/10\/from-the-archives-and-gowanus-open-studios-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives (and Gowanus Open Studios this weekend!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Good evening everyone. I’m busy getting ready for Gowanus Open Studios<\/a>, which is happening this weekend! This year for Open Studios I’m doing something a little different — delving into the archives and pulling out some works from previous years to put on display in the studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will plant companionship thick as trees (Calamus I)<\/em>, acrylic on canvas, 30×20″, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The feature archive treasure for this year is a painting I did in early 2010 (amazing that it was that long ago): I will plant companionship thick as trees (Calamus I)<\/em> inspired by the a poem by Walt Whitman, “Calamus 5”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the \/rivers of America, and along the shores of the great \/lakes, and all over the prairies, \/I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about each other’s necks.”<\/p>\n-Walt Whitman, Calamus 5, 1860.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been thinking of this series of Calamus paintings I did in 2010 a lot lately. It’s in these paintings that I first started exploring the motif that is a key part of my big mural<\/a> on Nevins and DeGraw Streets, completed this past summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s nice to take this painting out of storage and give it a chance to breathe. It looks just as fresh as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be sure to visit me at Gowanus Open Studios<\/strong><\/a> this weekend. I’ll be a Trestle Art Space, 62 18th Street, on the first floor<\/strong>. I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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