Organization is a thing of Beauty

Working as an IT Coordinator, making spreadsheets, filing, copying ... it's got me rethinking charts. The correlations between my paying job and my artwork were never so clear, and I think I need to make more spreadsheets. What should I document? What manual should I write next? This deserves more exploration. In the meantime, I'll be writing a tech manual for a small non-profit museum.

Propsal

http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_sp09/popups_sp09/npsp09_abshire.html

Next Up

A new work "Proposal" will be in the New Prints/2009 Spring exhibition at IPCNY, curated by Polly Apfelbaum.

Image coming soon ...

Long Time No See

I'm going to make a more concentrated effort here ... A few new shows have come and gone since last I posted (especially since I haven't posted about shows since 2007). Here's a list since Sense of Place and American Print!

2008
“GROUP SHOW” 222gallery with otto design group, Philadelphia, PA

(Projected Drawing Series, 2007)

(visitor interaction with "Telescope" 2008)

“New Prints 2007/08: A Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction” IPCNY, New York, NY
http://www.ipcny.org/fundraising/edit_auction2008page.html
*featuring "Map" 2006

“New Prints 2008/Autumn” International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York, NY
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_au08/Pop-up_AU08/npau08_abshire.html
*featuring "Spyglass" 2008

“The Green Exhibit” Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
*featuring "Blob City" 2007

“Tyler School of Art 1988 - 2008: 20 Years Fast Forward” Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
*featuring "Shift 1" and "Property 2" both 2007

“New Prints 2008/Spring” New York School of Interior Design with IPCNY, New York, NY Juror: Jane Hammond
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_sp08/np_exhib_sp08.html
*featuring "Borders" 2007

“You Are Here” Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.laurenabshire.com/cartography2008.html

“National Print Competition” Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
*featuring Untitled #3, 2007

“Irving Sandler Selects” Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
*featuring "Walking Path" 2007

“Salt City Dozen” Portfolio Exchange, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY
*featuring "Ode to Magellan" 2008

2007
“AMPsterdam” Fantasio, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jurors: Terri Anderson, AMP Executive Director, and Paul van Dijk
*featuring "Sprawl" 2006

“In the Mix” Visions Gallery Group Exhibition, Lafayette, LA

“Tyler School of Art: Works on Paper” University of Lincoln Group Exhibition, Lincoln, UK
*featuring "Phalanges" aka "Finger Islands" 2007

Systems

I say ...
there is no pendulum
there are points of convergence
like a choose your own adventure
it is a system that is not forever predetermined
it seems like forever because our sense of time is limited
see E.O. Wilson
there are more than two poles
it is the reproducing triangle
>-
(it is the BMW symbol, the propellor)
systems create systems in spite of themselves
and this is my system
perpetuating

everyone has a personal system
based on personal interests
sometimes overlapping like a Venn Diagram
or like a thicket

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Animation

CS2's "Render to Movie" where art thou? I had a choice between an animated gif or a flash file, as far as I could tell ...