Urgency and steadfastness mingle here, to stand still like a hummingbird. Some of my drawings spend time under spring snow, summer rain. Gold ink scripts are moved by the water. In some, oil is applied directly onto the unprepared surface. The page acquires a deeper black halo. Iridescent colors light many shadows. I’m going for a kind of accelerated patina, aged for embrace.
Over the years, the page edges slowly fade, we see even the oil of our hands.. You hardly notice the change except in photographs. There it is, hanging quietly in the background of an anniversary photo, so much darker than you remember. Perhaps the corners curl, keeping tabs on a fond passage. A bouquet that blooms over years.
Opening Friday, July 10, 2026, at Miscellany Greene,
219 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, New York.
By appointment with Wendy Van Lare,
miscellanygreene@gmail.com
Nine Poems, checklist available here.
In the Heart of Winter
21 Reed Street, 12051
February 15 – March 30, 2025
Featuring works by: Ann Agee, Sarah Butler, Owen Carter, Erika de Vries, Lauren Drescher, Emma Fujiko, Valerie Hammond, Luc Hammond Thomas, Jared Handelsman, Adelle Lutz, Portia Munson, Lothar Osterberg, India Sachi, Kiki Smith, and Tomas Vu.