The Great Art Swap - New Encaustic Works Available
In which I spend a week moving art around and we take a quick reset before diving back into working on my show.
This week, I moved around a whole bunch of art, and I’m calling it the Great Art Swap of 2024. It’s like when someone decides to donate a kidney and it is the missing link in a long chain of kidney donations, which sets the whole wonderful donation bonanza off, except with art and not a living organ, of course.1 Don’t conflate my art to kidneys or anything, because donating a kidney is in fact a miracle and incredible, but one action set off a chain of activity and what flurry it was this week.
All of the galleries decided to swap, so I picked up works from one and took them to another and it kept going culminating in a family trip to Jackson, which just so happened to coincide with some beautiful fall colors. No one is ever upset by seeing the Tetons in their fall splendor.
Loading up the camper and playing tetris with art to get them all in is always quite the puzzle. The morning we left, we woke up early to take the dogs for their walk and then loaded up the paintings. This timelapse of Matt bringing the paintings out from the studio and handing them up to me in the truck makes me giggle.
If you’ve been looking for your painting, take a look at what Gallery Wild in Jackson and Gallery MAR in Park City now have available.
Also, a big shoutout to my parents who aided in one of the pickups and got a first hand lesson in art transport and delivery. They were really patient with me and were a great help. In the above photo, we tried to recreate the photo we took at the Sundance Resort 19 years before. We don’t look a day older.
Otherwise, we’re taking a break this week as we are on a road trip exploring the fall colors before making our way to a friend’s wedding. When we return, I’ll be diving back into working on my Solo Show for Gallery MAR, which opens on November 8th in Park City. We are closing in on the finish of my 100 Cold Wax Landscapes and I’m so very excited to share that project with you.
As a reminder for those who are interested in learning more about this project, it’s just $5 a month or $50 for the year, cancel anytime. What you get out of being a patron of this project:
First to see the finished works and knowledge that you’re supporting an artist experimenting and exploring.2
First dibs on the new works when they are available for sale in October.
Discount on the works when they are available for sale.
You get to help me decide which paintings are used in my 2025 art calendar. I need your help soon!!
PS. Donating a kidney is about the MOST selfless thing a person could do, besides diving in front of sometime to take a bullet. In awe of that sort of bravery and love.
Is this not reason enough?!