I jumped at the chance to design an official McColl Center for Visual Art t-shirt. I came up with the design based on a charcoal and wash drawing I did as part of a series of daily drawings in the month of June. The image is printed on American Apparel shirts. Colors available are “Army” for the gentlemen and “Asphault” for the ladies.
The shirts are available in person at the center or online: http://mccollcenter.org/blog/view/136/center-t-shirt.
Photos by Ben Premeaux
I’m looking forward to attending the opening and seeing prints by Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Ed Ruscha, June Wayne, and Terry Winters as well as the other participating New Works artists. Full press release from IPCNY here.
Deliberate Acts: Prints, Drawings and Installations by Daniel Allegrucci opens this Friday, 11/19/10 at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte and occupies the 2nd floor of the building. The opening is from 6-9. The show features work created since I have been an 11-Month Affiliate Artist at the center.
I have departed from my typical color scheme to experiment with more a saturated and lively palette in the most recent installments of the explosion woodcut series. I also have 2 sets of drawings on display. The first is a comprised of 12 charcoal and wash drawings selected from 21 explosion drawings I created this past June and installed in a 4 X 3 grid. The second set includes 3 pastel explosion drawings on wood, cut out.
There are also 2 mixed media installations on display, as well as several unique (1/1) monochromatic woodcut prints created from small woodblocks depicting arrays of nails, staples and other everyday shrapnel.
Thanks to Mario Gallucci.
Here is the link in case you can’t see the slideshow below (Facebook, in particular): http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenhillcenter/sets/72157625289397664/
Here is a sneak preview of 3 new explosions that I’m working on…
Explosion 9
Explosion 10
Explosion 11
These were made for an upcoming exhibition, Drawing Revisited at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art. These are roughly 32″ x 22″.
Bright Blast 1
Bright Blast 2
Bright Blast 3
I recently had a print included in the current exhibition at IPCNY, New Prints 2010, Summer/Heat! I was happy to be able to attend the opening and spend a few days in New York. The IPCNY staff were very friendly, as were the the other artists.
Some other highlights while in New York were the Leon Golub show at The Drawing Center and tons of incredible prints on 2 floors at Pace Prints in Chelsea.
Below: Artists “pre-reception” before the crowd arrived…
And a Yankees game, of course…
Thanks to everyone that came out to Snug Harbor and had a shirt printed on 7/3/2010. Also, thanks to Snug Harbor for having me there and Drive By Press for the inspiration. See the woodcut I created for the event and below – blowing up a pirate ship…
Thanks to Ben Premeaux for putting this video together…
