Besides what follows below, I want to post the link to Tyson’s blog! He’s added some great new images recently: http://www.tysonwashburn.blogspot.de/
Currently I’m writing this update from the Vermont Studio Center. It’s been a while since my last one and even though a lot has happened, I’ll do my best to keep it short on words so the pictures can do the talking…
My studio as an artist in residence for the month
Lintel painting in progress
More or less what I was going for... A test for a larger wall installation with three doors.
Painting in progress. This one speaks to my primary goals while I'm in VT to explore working in multiple page/panel format, with the overall installation organized symmetrically and fitting together in a very intentional way.
It’s been amazing here at VSC so far, including the opportunity to have studio visits with Nari Ward, Bill Jensen, and Margrit Lewczuk. It's also provided me with the chance to evaluate where I've been and what I've made over that past year, and the new directions and priorities for the coming year. Here are a few works I made at my temporary studio at home in late spring while we were still in Berlin (more images can be viewed on my website: www.caetlynnbooth.com):
Architecture of Eclipses, 15" x 20"
Land Nightscaping, 12" x 16"
Night Scene with Alex Katz, 12" x 16"
Lidlaufgang 2, 10" x 20"
Lidlaufgang 3, 10" x 20"
Land Nightscaping 2, 12" x 16"
Land Nightscaping 3, 12" x 16"
Besides Elsheimer’s paintings and those that fill museums and galleries in Berlin, I have been increasingly influenced by the architecture, urban planning and the urban spaces of Berlin. Something I’ve noticed emerging in my work is a type of integration or reconciliation between these tangential influences.
Prior to VSC, Tyson and I visited CA. Our time there was waaaaaaay too short, especially with a storage unit move in the middle of it. Here are a few views from our visit:
The Napa Hat building on the left, on the right, a family feast/celebration in honor of Tyson's grandmother Theresa Maria Servente Livaugi Washburn in Santa Cruz
Tyson and I at James Cole Winery visiting Ben Cooper in the tasting room
The taste!
The following are a very edited selection of pictures from some of our experiences before leaving Berlin. More can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caetlynn/sets/72157631159467818/
June and the first part of July we were finishing up projects, feverishly watching the Euro Cup, saying our farewells to friends “across the pond” and preparing to come to the U.S. for the summer.
Animatronic Granny Robots in Neukölln!
More art from the 48 Stunden (48 hours) event in Neukölln.
"Top football, world-class beer... makes it all right!" (rychtyk is usually spelled richtig)
Imran, Tyson and Stephen at the end of an evening.... time to catch the train home.
Thai park near Fehrbelliner Platz...
The best soup in Berlin!
Watching the deciding semi-final match at an Irish pub with Mel and Greg... sadly decided in Italy's favor instead of Deutschland...
Tyson's new bike! Now getting around is a whole new experience.
It makes it easier to arrive at nice places to snooze...
Feeding the cygnets...
Although they look more like ugly ducklings...
Biking around at Tempelhof in between BBQ-ing...
You can ride on the runways at this amazing decommissioned airport turned park.
And we finally made it to the Bundestag while Marq was visiting!
The back side of the Eastside gallery...
This was a great show, but no photography allowed inside--check it out online, though!
One of my favorite rugs from the Pergamon museum--it looks like a repeated building city skyline
From the Bode museum carved sculpture exhibition
Amazing female jointed doll from Nürnberg, 1520!!!
The fingers and toes had all their joints! This doll was about 10" tall.
From the Neue Museum where the Egyptian collection is housed
This sculpture of Apollo is down a long corridor opposite to the bust of Nefertiti. So it's the Sun Queen facing the Sun King. No photos allowed of the Queen...
At the museum for musical instruments
And one of my favorites by Albrecht Altdorfer
It doesn't get much better that this!!!
Another fav from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin
Vermeer, The Glass of Wine (detail), 1661/62
Things I’ve read lately: Turps Banana #11, Art in Mind by van Alphen, The Marriage Plot, and The Go-Between. I highly recommend the first two for thinking about and analyzing painting as it exists today, and The Go-Between was a great read too. The first half of The Marriage Plot was quite good, but left something to be desired in how things came together in the end.
These were the inspiring curtains in our hotel room in Frankfurt right before flying home.
XO Caetlynn
