Experimental Collaboration  and Interaction with fellow Albuquerque artists

Betsy Greenlee                 Leila Hall                             Gaye Garrison (& Dan too)

   Jaci Fisher                                             Fred Yost

Jeanine Allen               Elaine  Scott                                           Jeff Potter      

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Experimental Collaboration  and Interaction with fellow Albuquerque artists

Begun in the Spring of 2007, we (Betsy Greenlee, Fred Yost, Jaci Fisher, Leila Hall, Jeanine Allen, Elaine Scott, Gaye Garrison and Jeff Potter) were inspired by previous artist/ writer collaborations, most notably the "Scribes Eight" and we strive to explore artistic genres we generally have not thought about attempting.  Abstract art came to mind and we chose to meet every six weeks and share our individual efforts at "making" abstract art from a commonly agreed "project" scope discussed at the previous meeting.  Herein describes our journey.

Below is a chronological listing of web pages made from our past meetings.  Click on any meeting to see our efforts.

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April 26, 2008 meeting

Project - choose any human architecturally-designed  structure such as a building or bridge and create an abstraction

Elaine Scott Project     Elaine's notes (4-26-08):  "I chose the Google building complex partly because of the solar panels on the top of each of the various shaped buildings. Aerial photos are available on Google Images and were the basis for my abstracts.
I used oil pastels on Yupo paper using the colors from the Google logo."

 Elaine Scott images 1 -

Fred Yost Project 4-26-08  Fred's Notes " From 1963 to 1966 I lived in Brooklyn Heights right near the famous Brooklyn Bridge. Because I was in college at the time I didn't have time to explore the wonders and beauty of the Bridge so in 1983 I went back to Brooklyn on its 100th anniversary to photograph and enjoy. For this painting exercise I used a photo that was taken from the Manhattan side of the bridge right near where the FDR Drive crosses under. This Bridge has been the inspiration for many artists and writers so I am proud to have joined them. "

  Fred Yost image 1

Jaci Fisher Project 4-26-08  Jaci's notes: " "

Jaci Fisher images 1 - 3

Jaci Fisher images 4 - 6  

Leila Hall  project 4-26-08  Leila's Notes: "Guggenheim in Bilbao--collage of metallic papers, pastel.  Though I thought it would be easy, painting a building and taking it to abstraction was very difficult. I love the shimmering, silvery "skin" on the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, but struggled with light. The shapes
lend themselves to abstraction, nevertheless."

Leila Hall images 1 - 2 

Leila Hall images 3 - 4

Jeff Potter Project  Jeff's notes (4-26-08):  "I chose Sandia Casino and Resort mainly because I live nearby and see it's dominant form while driving or bicycling both in the day and at night.  It has an intriguing contrast of architectural lines and forms and also contrasting earth tome colors.  I discretely drove by up close and shot photos from my car.  I created a couple collages from torn photos and also used Photoshop to render the colors to a minimum of four gray tones.  Ultimately I chose a view of the east ediface (IMAGE1) and painted an oil 10" x 14" as a first stage of abstraction (IMAGE2).  I then wanted to further abstract the the shapes and push the colors and did a pastel on Wallis paper 9" x 12" (IMAGE 3).  I feel that another round of simplification and shape generalization could be done but it tends towards an interesting composition.  If seen as the only image without the prior stages it works to a certain degree.  Finally Image -4 is from a digital 'simplification' using the Adobe PS Cutout."

Jeff Potter IMAGE-1                                                               Jeff Potter IMAGE-2          

 Jeff Potter IMAGE-3                                                                                              Jeff Potter IMAGE-4

 Our next project is to return to another architecturally-designed  structure such as a building or bridge and create an abstraction.    Next meeting is Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 1 PM.

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