Parallel Play, Andy Faith and Nina Frances Burke, McGuffey Art Center, October 2011

Blogging on Wednesday is a little close to Sunday, right?  A busy week at McGuffey preparing for my show in October, with the fabulous Andy Faith, called...

parallel play
Etymology: Gk, parallelos + AS, plegan, to play;  a form of play among a group, in which each engages in an independent activity that is similar to but not influenced by or shared with the others. 

Andy and I have been studiomates for two years and find a great deal of satisfaction in each others' work.   Our combined show will include my paintings on canvas, vintage fabric and glass, along with Andy's mixed media sculptures.  It is a sight to behold how two such different styles work so well together...chocolate and peanut butter?  Peas and carrots?  More on this later!

Here's the large ink study painting in the studio, finally finished.  Nearly gave up on this one and turned it to the wall, but...collaborating on an exciting Exquisite Corpse piece with Eileen French and Susan Northington ("A Body of Water") gave me a fresh new outlook; opened up some new pathways in the mixed up brain!  How fun and fabulous and unexpected!  Come see it!  First Friday, this friday.  There are lots of corpses to see!

Hmmmm...I am hard at work on the group of glass paintings for the October show, and will post photos soon!