I Need a Stamp

Every time I see a Weegee photograph, I think of his stamp and how much I want one. Imagining everything I could do with it, is half the fun. When Hannah designed this one a year and half ago for Echo of the Object, it made an appearance on all flat surfaces within our grasp.

Over the past three years of contemplating this purchase, I haven't thought of anything that I would like it to say. It is the tattoo I will never get for fear of its permanent branding (it isn't inked on my skin - yet it could be (!) - but it does stop me from crossing that bridge each and every time).

Perhaps if I announce this desire on this blog, it will be the impetus to design one for photographs, Postcard Collective submissions (better get on that task too) and so on. Yes... I need a stamp ... Ready, Set, Appear.

Press from "Echo of the Object" in Knoxville

Mathew Blanshei wrote a review of Echo of the Object at ArtKnoxville.com:

The article focuses on deconstructing Lara Kuykendall's essay and sadly, fails to mention Jennifer Halvorson's artwork. This month we are working on a catalog of the exhibition featuring an interview by Natalie Philllips. Hopefully this will redeem some of the oversights above. In the meantime, "press is press" and we are thankful for outside recognition as this exhibition comes to a close.

"Echo of the Object" Installation Photographs from the Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Poster courtesy of Hannah Barnes.

"Echo of the Object" Travels to Knoxville, Tennessee

Ken Josephson, Tennessee, 1979

Here are some random pictures of the road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to install Echo of the Object with David Hannon, Hannah Barnes, and Jennifer Halvorson. The professional (not iPhone) installation images will appear tomorrow.

The exhibition of many, many grids.

David making Hannah's drawings even more crooked.

Wall signage!

In progress installation panoramas.

One more name to add to my growing list (this one was a practical joke but I'm happy it included a "q").

Chairs congregating in the Painting classroom at University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee Art and Architecture Building reminded me Le Centre Georges Pompidou c. 1981.

We stopped at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky on the way back to Indiana (hello brown water).

Hannah's map of Daniel Boone National Forest and the Red River Gorge at Cumberland Falls.

Paper Bags by Jennifer Halvorson

Check out Jennifer Halvorson's new glass cast paper bags - two of which are featured in the Echo of the Object at the Downtown Gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jennifer Halvorson, Provision, 2013

Jennifer Halvorson, Bounty, 2013

 Jennifer Halvorson, Benevolence, 2013

Jennifer Halvorson, Disposition, 2013

This is my favorite new work (four jars cast in bronze and one in glass) included in the Knoxville exhibition. Installation images coming soon!

Images from "Echo of the Object" in Poland

I wish I knew who to give credit for these images. They were emailed to me earlier this week. 12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor: 2000-2007 is featured in addition to Jennifer Halvorson's sculptures.

The Wroclaw Academy of Art

I suspect that I will be reprinting these photographs this summer as serious warping is occurring in the presentation. Their next stop is the University of Tennessee in September and Oregon State University sometime in the 2013-2014 academic year. I never knew they would see this much of the world. 

"Echo of the Object" in Poland

Grateful for the exhibition and wish I could see it. Part of me also desires my name to be spelled correctly but that is minor in the grand scheme of things.

Poland Exhibition is on the Horizon

Echo of the Object is traveling to Wroclaw, Poland very soon!

Hannah's Tupperware watercolor painting & my 12 lunch bags rolled into two tubes.

I felt like I was building a cooler for 5 Objects Photographed Before Thrown Away (AKA the tight squeeze).

Due to the expense of shipping overseas and the sheer amount of work we made for the Echo exhibition, this is a smaller version of the show.  Each one of us pared down our selections and will only be showing 1/3 - 1/2 what was initially exhibited in the Atrium Gallery.

Thanks Texas Gallery for teaching me how to build boxes and ship artwork. Thanks Photo 2 students for putting up with me constructing these during lab last week (and the rest of the Photo Department tolerating the Finishing Room's transformation into a UPS store).

Now to see if Jennifer, Hannah, David and I can get our shipping estimate well under $10,000.

"Echo of the Object" Opening - Ball State University

Left to right: Hannah Barnes, David Hannon, Jennifer Halvorson, Jacinda Russell
Photo by Matt Compton

Stamped!

Thanks to Autumn, all the bags are stamped and ready to pass out at the Echo of the Object reception tomorrow afternoon.

Hannah took this photograph (and also designed) our lovely 2" stamp.

A plastic sack full of old lunch bags ready to photograph.

The pile.

The bleed.

We are saving one that will be framed and will travel to the next two locations. Now the hard part - choosing which one that will be.

"Echo of the Object" Installation Photographs

Sculpture by Jennifer Halvorson, Paintings by David Hannon, Watercolor Drawings by Hannah Barnes and Photographs by Jacinda Russell:

"Echo of the Object" Brochure & Essay

Thank you Lara for writing the essay! We are very excited about this exhibition. Remarkably, our artwork fits together quite seamlessly in the gallery. The opening is Friday at 4 PM in the Atrium Gallery at Ball State University. Come if you are in Muncie!