#rollupproject.com
Escaparates mios
Escaparates mios
until 2 January 2020
the Third Street window around the corner
from the 217 Harrison Street window
visible 24/7
installation photos by Styrous®
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
RollUp Project ~ Escaparates mios extended
Pleased to say that the #rollupproject.com
has extended my installation, Escapartes mios,
until 2 January 2020.
Hope people will drive by to see the work or find a quick parking space to do a stroll-by of the two windows.
The Third Street window visible 24/7
around the corner The 217 Harrison window
Mon - Fri 10 AM - 5 PM
until 2 January 2020.
Hope people will drive by to see the work or find a quick parking space to do a stroll-by of the two windows.
The Third Street window visible 24/7
around the corner The 217 Harrison window
Mon - Fri 10 AM - 5 PM
These pix, by Styrous®, are from 5:26 pm tonight,
the 26th of December, Boxing Day.
217 Harrison Street
around the corner of windows on Third Street near the train station and Jack London Square.
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bUtom
Tom White
Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts CCA
tomwhite94601@yahoo.com
http://www.butohdrawing.blogspot.com
tomwhite94601@yahoo.com
http://www.butohdrawing.blogspot.com
Friday, December 6, 2019
Ogee (the drawing)
Tom White ~
O Gee Curves
photo by Styrous®
I’m reminded of a cello’s heart.
— harp curves
— young body slopes
— architecture school, where I was introduced to this elegant, multi curved line, soft, and of Middle Eastern origin.
It’s visual significance indicates a message of fullness and double fullness as in a young human face from 3/4 rear view.
A single one of these lines appears to lie flat on the page. Two of them (not too far removed) create an impression of volume or fullness.
This drawing, informed by the cutouts on a violin, tends to be phallic if it weren’t for the sparse use of straight lines creating more chiseled 3d shapes dancing side by side.
Writing about a drawing is like writing about wine: very subjective and questionable . . .
In the drawing I like the way the lines kiss the soft paper. Poetry.
tw—— Jingletown, 6 December, 2019
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Escaparates mios
My solo exhibition, Escaparates mios (My Windows), has been installed at the RollUp Project near Jack London Square in Oakland.
The
exhibition is in the windows of the Project and resemble the display
windows of a department store, thus my title for the show.
The second part of the installation is on the Third Street side of the building. This window features my monotypes on nautical maps and watercolor drawings referencing my Life in Jingletown and its situation in the larger geographic of the World.
The exhibition is located at the intersection of Third Street and Harrison Street in Oakland and will be on view until December 18, 2019.
Part of the installation is on the Harrison Street side of the building and is a replication of my work studio in the Jingletown section of Oakland adjacent to the Oakland Estuary.
The second part of the installation is on the Third Street side of the building. This window features my monotypes on nautical maps and watercolor drawings referencing my Life in Jingletown and its situation in the larger geographic of the World.
Tom White ~ Escaparates mios
The RollUp Project
3rd Street
Oakland CA
photo by Styrous®
The exhibition is located at the intersection of Third Street and Harrison Street in Oakland and will be on view until December 18, 2019.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
RollUp Project intro
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Tom White ~ Journal 2
photo by Styrous®
We installed the RollUp Project windows today. It was super fun and looks great. I was able to have a couple of chats with Squeak, and Julia was an excellent assistant ( she did most of the actual work and I’m very happy she did since my age is making it difficult. Styrous® helped me with a rather tedious installation of BoogieWoogie, so both of us are very exhausted this evening at home with our cocktails and nibbles.
The RollUp Project has boosted me in numerous ways, motivating me to continue the work I started when a dear friend suggested that I go through my journals to see what I could throw away. This suggestion came about a year ago when I began going through the journals, page by page, to see what might be tossed. But instead of tossing I found that with the help of my phone cam and social media platforms I would look at a page as it was reduced in size in a photo, and if there was something wrong with the image, it was easier to see a formal solution and attempt to “fix” it by adding something, re-photographing, posting, re-posting the image on Facebook; then continuing the process and making further changes until the piece morphed itself into a satisfactory resolution.
What interested me in this process gave me an answer to the question: what does ‘my story’ mean on social media? Besides it being autobiographical, it became a game or process that interfaces real-time artistic editing process using the media — sustained motivation, cycling, recycling.
So we were interested to see that my blog site was getting more hits than ever before because I was using my process on social media, and it was interesting enough to people that they linked to my blog: a lot cheaper than “boosting” on FBook or promoting on Instigram.
Net link:
Squeak Carnwath
TW aka bUtom
Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts (CCA)
The RollUp Project has boosted me in numerous ways, motivating me to continue the work I started when a dear friend suggested that I go through my journals to see what I could throw away. This suggestion came about a year ago when I began going through the journals, page by page, to see what might be tossed. But instead of tossing I found that with the help of my phone cam and social media platforms I would look at a page as it was reduced in size in a photo, and if there was something wrong with the image, it was easier to see a formal solution and attempt to “fix” it by adding something, re-photographing, posting, re-posting the image on Facebook; then continuing the process and making further changes until the piece morphed itself into a satisfactory resolution.
What interested me in this process gave me an answer to the question: what does ‘my story’ mean on social media? Besides it being autobiographical, it became a game or process that interfaces real-time artistic editing process using the media — sustained motivation, cycling, recycling.
So we were interested to see that my blog site was getting more hits than ever before because I was using my process on social media, and it was interesting enough to people that they linked to my blog: a lot cheaper than “boosting” on FBook or promoting on Instigram.
Net link:
Squeak Carnwath
TW aka bUtom
Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts (CCA)
Thursday, March 7, 2019
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